Website review: Hey Jude by The Beatles Songfacts
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KahlilaGibran discovered 9 months ago
Some trivia about "my" song, since everyone
says "Hey Jude -- sorry, I couldn't resist that."
Songfacts is the best site for this sort of thing,
though who can say how factual it really is.
Paul McCartney wrote it as "Hey Jules," a song meant to comfort John Lennon's son Julian as his parents were getting a divorce. The change to "Jude" was inspired by the character "Jud" in the musical Oklahoma!.
My father called me JUD too and I found it morbid, because "poor Jud is daid".
I think I could wear it when I'm a bit older though.
****
McCartney didn't like the initial lyrics, especially the line "The movement you need is on your shoulder." Lennon convinced him to keep them.
Presumably so we'd see down through history that McCartney wasn't all he was cracked up to be.
****
»» It is the most commercially successful Beatles song.
»» Lennon: "I always heard it as a song to me."
»» It was going to be the B-side to "Revolution," but it ended up the other way around.
»» George Harrison wanted to play a guitar riff after the vocal phrases, but Paul wouldn't let him. Things got tense between them around this time as McCartney got very particular about how Harrison played on songs he wrote.
»» Ringo was in the toilet when recording started. He made it to his drums just before his cue.
»» It starts with one instrument, ends with 50.
»» The "na na na" fadeout takes 4 minutes. The chorus is repeated 19 times.
»» Sesame Street did a parody called "Hey Food".
