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Paul McCartney wrote “Hey Jude” for a young Julian Lennon who was caught in the middle of a divorce between his mother and his father, John Lennon. According to the song’s subject, he has a “love-hate” relationship with the music. “I’ve probably heard that song and heard renditions of it more than most people alive,” Lennon said in a new appearance on Club Random with Bill Maher. “And even my dear friends send me babies in nappies playing guitars singing ‘Hey Jude’–which I really don’t need

Standing silently behind Biden amounts to Obama being ‘MeFirst’ while #MeToo takes down his former loyal vice president According to today’s news headlines, “Barack Obama is “silently” standing behind former vice president Joe Biden in the middle of his groping scandal. What good is silently standing behind someone in trouble? Obama was anything but silent in his support for Hillary Clinton’s presidential run.

Hey Jude was the first release of newly-created Apple record company in 1968 It featured as its logo an image of an apple, inspired by a René Magritte painting Hit single featured a whole apple and a sliced apple on either side of the vinyl Some thought the sliced apple looked too much like a vagina for distribution ============================================================ The Beatles' smash-hit single 'Hey Jude' was almost never a hit - because the vinyl's apple label was dubbed pornographic, a newly-discovered letter has revealed. The iconic song by the Fab Four was their first release of their newly-created Apple record...

A Milwaukee man recalled for jurors Wednesday the "torture" he suffered at the hands of several off-duty police officers who allegedly beat him bloody because they believed he had stolen a police officer's badge. "I thought I was going to die," Frank Jude Jr. testified in the battery trial of three former Milwaukee police officers. "All I was thinking about was my little daughter, who was just born." With a scar on his nose still visible from the surgery he underwent as a result of the incident, Jude described the brief yet violent encounter on Oct. 24, 2004, outside a...

AT NINE o'clock on the morning of September 11th 2001, President George Bush sat in an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida, listening to seven-year-olds read stories about goats. “Night fell on a different world,” he said of that day. And on a different America. At first, America and the world seemed to change together. “We are all New Yorkers now,” ran an e-mail from Berlin that day, mirroring John F. Kennedy's declaration 40 years earlier, “Ich bin ein Berliner”, and predicting Le Monde's headline the next day, “Nous sommes tous Américains”. And America, for its part, seemed to become more...