[Red Badger]

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Iconic Beatles anthem Hey Jude was almost never a hit after a US record shop merchandiser branded the vinyl’s apple logo 'pornographic', newly-unearthed letter reveals.................

[Mercat]

But it’s better than a naked woman in a dog coller sniffing a leather glove!!

[FatherofFive]

Sometimes an apple is just an apple.

[Blue House Sue]

That was the entire point of the Beatles Apple.

[Paladin2]

Of course pervs would think so....

[Snickering Hound]

You never really heard 'Hey Jude' until Yoko covered it...

[BenLurkin]

I don’t believe a word of this.

The Beatles hype was always full-blown plastic bananas.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

By the time Hey Jude came out the Beatles were more than just a force to be reckoned with. The idea that some record shop could have stopped it is ridiculous on the face of it.

[gundog]

[Hatteras]

Hey Jude is timeless. It sucked when it was new and it still sucks to this day...

[FrankR]

I was still working as a radio DJ when that record came out...I remember the label distinctly, but never, ever, did it occur to me that the half-apple side resembled a vagina.

It looked like an apple cut in half.

I guess this person has vaginas on his mind more than common, everyday, apples.

It’s a sick world.

[Larry Lucido]

Was the peach logo already taken?

[chajin]

I once heard that the practice of bobbing for apples as part of Halloween (aka Samhain) was related to this, but I haven’t been able to settle that either way, and it isn’t a top priority on my research list.

[sparklite2]

Georgia O’Keeffe’s stuff would have given them the vapors.

[Songcraft]

It's a good thing they didn't have one of those hats on there...

       

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Ya must have to squint or sumpthin.

[TexasRepublic]

In 1968 while eating lunch in a redneck Houston diner, I dropped a dime in the jukebox and played Hey Jude. The other patrons glared at me as though I was a Communist subversive. I’ll never forget that moment!

[P.O.E.]

And if you fold the Land o Lakes butter carton juuuust right.....

[newfreep]

As an aside, René Magritte married Georgette Berger and Paul Simon wrote the song “Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War” for his “Hearts & Bones” album.

A wonderful song with equally wonderful lyrics.

The video with photos of the couple and his paintings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vUk8L17A8Q