The Beatles - 'Hey Jude' Reaction! A Classic Song That Was a Dedication to Lennon's Son, Julian!
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"Hey Jude" by The Beatles is a classic and iconic song that holds significance in the band's discography. Here's some in-depth information about the song:
Composition and Writing: Songwriters: Paul McCartney is credited with writing "Hey Jude." The song was inspired by the strained relationship between John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia, during their divorce. It was written to console Julian Lennon, John's son. Structure: The song has a unique structure, featuring a long, r outepetitive coda that builds up towards the end. This coda is one of the distinctive elements of "Hey Jude."
Recording and Production: Recording Date: The song was recorded in July 1968 at Trident Studios in London. The producer for the song was George Martin, The Beatles' longtime producer. "Hey Jude" includes a notable orchestral arrangement during the coda, which adds to the song's grandeur.
Release and Reception: "Hey Jude" was released as a single on August 26, 1968, with "Revolution" as its B-side. The song quickly became a commercial success, reaching number one on charts in multiple countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. "Hey Jude" spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it one of The Beatles' longest-running chart-toppers.
Legacy: Over the years, "Hey Jude" has maintained its popularity and is often regarded as one of The Beatles' signature songs.
Cultural Impact: The song has been covered by numerous artists and has been featured in various films, TV shows, and commercials.
Recognition: It has received critical acclaim and is frequently included in lists of the greatest songs of all time.
5. Notable Performances: The Beatles performed "Hey Jude" in various live shows, and it became a highlight of their concerts. A memorable performance of the song took place on "The David Frost Show" in 1968. "Hey Jude" remains a timeless classic, celebrated for its emotional depth, musical brilliance, and cultural impact. - Hudba
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You got it all wrong about John & his wife bruh. And Yoko didn't break them up. It may be a bit long, but it's also the Beatles best selling single ever!
You noted that there were "black folks, white folks, all kinds" in the audience singing away.
It is a little known fact that on their first tours of America the Beatles refused to play in front of segregated audiences in the southern states. They said that everyone should enjoy their music and that most of what they were singing at the time was influenced by black artists.
They, like the Stones, Zeppelin and others all were clear who influenced them. I got into and learned about early blues greats like Robert Johnson bcuz they were the heroes. Of my heroes.
Amen!
It was a concert venue in Jacksonville FL in 1964 in particular where they said nos egrated seating or we don't play...authorities caved...they didn;t want a total riot for claosing down a Beatles Concert [Bunch of racists assholes anyway and the Beatles shut them up and shut them down lol]
I will say, as a White Man, that Black-Folk in this video were waaay too under-represented.
I think I saw maybe one Black Dude and one East Indian Dude, and that was about it. But then again, this was 1968.
That’s right
Simply one of most beautiful pop/rock songs ever written. With the longest "fade-out" in history that you wouldn't care if it went on for another ten minutes. Who but Paul could write a gorgeous phrase like that (with no words) that everybody loves to sing over and over and over.
Ummm, no, ten more minutes would be horrible. Even two more minutes would've seriously detracted from the song. Paul stretched it to its artistic limit, anything more would've been bad.
Garbage song
I think it’s George Harrison that created the nanana it’s even referenced in his solo track Isn’t it a pity
The Beatles are a gift from God.❤
They were gifted by God, but not a gift to the world. Let us not pervert Godliness with nearly godlessness.....especially lennon
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This song changed everything. Sings went from 3 minutes to unlimited minutes. Once again, the Beatles changed how things were done.
Classic. Magnificent.
The Animals’ broke the industry rules about keeping under 3 minutes with House of the Rising Sun in 1964. It was 4:29 which messed with the radio schedules but they edited it down to 2:59 for radio channels that were stuck in the mud.
The Beatles pulverised it with Hey Jude at 7:12, and were told it wouldn’t get air play. Paul McCartney said “It will if it’s us.”
Three years later Don McLean recorded American Pie. It couldn’t fit onto a seven inch single record for technical reasons so they split it into two halves and used both sides of the disc. That was 8:42.
@@AlBarzUK wow, thank you so much for that fabulous information. I only knew of the Animals at 2:59. Interesting.
Don't forget Richard Harris's version of "MacArthur Park", which came out about four months before "Hey Jude". It was 7 minutes 21 seconds long, and was the longest single ever to be a top ten hit.
@@reddoxx4754 thanks for that reminder. I never liked that song (and didn’t much like Richard Harris either) so I’d forgotten how tediously long it was. 🤭
@@AlBarzUK He was a better actor than singer, definitely. I wonder if it would have been better if Jim Webb had succeeded in getting the Association to record it.
The ending became like a Mantra for peace and harmony. With the audience singing, it was a coming together ☮️
Untold millions of people worldwide know and sing the finale of this song. A global anthem of love!
Imagine... September 1968. I'm 12. I hear this song for the first time and it changes my life forever. Hey Jude, was the inspiration it took for me to teach myself how to play the piano. Hours upon hours I sat there, as I play by ear, don't read music, so had to find every damn key and get my rhythm down. That was 55 years ago. Now I can play anything. Granted, I'm alone on the farm now, but every animal out here from dogs to horses and chickens are very happy. lol
I was 12 also but had 4 years out of 7 of piano lessons and could pick out the chords very easily. I became a muisc teacher...
@thomastimlin1724 Awesome! I look back now and wish I would have considered that job. For grade schoolers. That seems like the best job to me. I drove school bus instead. I loved that too. When I drove out in the country.
I was 10. And my first listen was like a spiritual experience. I was mesmerized. There is something so pure about Paul's vocal, especially in the released studio version. No wonder he has used it as his show closer for the last several decades.
My first experience with music besides Country was also @ 10 and it was Elvis.
I was 12 in '68, too. I remember it so clearly when this came out! How beautiful the world felt growing up with music like this. Just feeling like that's the way life is ❤
I've said this before and I'll say it again ...The Beatles !!!! GOAT and they f*****g knew it !!!!!!
Most of the world doesn't think it's long enough.
Number one for nine weeks in America and one of the best selling songs of the 1960’s
You should see Paul do Hey Jude in front of 80,000 people all singing together ... Its an amazing feeling. Paul always does Hey Jude in concert ... Its truly magical. Keep digging into The Beatles. You will love them and they never, ever repeat being masters of every music genre.
This was a single and not on the White album, which was a double album, but came out the same year. It was their biggest hit and has often in years since topped polls of fans' favorite Beatles songs. It was at the time the longest chart topper at a little over 7 minutes. When I got to see Paul McCartney in 1990 he played this near the end of the show and even though I was in a crowd of around 20,000 people instead of whatever is in the video, it became a very surreal moment as I realized I was part of a crowd surrounding him playing this song. The breakup of John and Cynthia was cold and hard on John's part and Julian spent far more time with his mother as he grew up. The split was especially hard on him and even when you look at photos of the Beatles after the divorce, you'll see Julian with Paul more than John. I think he still refers to Paul as an uncle even to this day.
It should have been on the White Album in place of Revolution #9 lol...
@@thomastimlin1724A lot of fathers leave their wife & kids with, seemingly, not a thought about what they're leaving behind. For some woman who doesn't respect that they're married with kids. Pathetic.😏
Masterpiece. I grew up with the Beatles.
George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" and "Give Me Love, Give Me Peace on Earth", are two of his best songs. Also "What is Life."
"SOMETHING " was more than just good also.
George Harrison had the best songs. He’s also easy on the eyes. Have you seen anyone with a more beautiful smile than George’s?
On the album version Paul riffs so hard. Amazing how such a beautiful voice can scream so wonderfully. I’d have listened to the album version. He performed this at the closing ceremony of an Olympics & a stadium full of athletes went Bat S**t. This song brings people together.
There isn't an album version, only the single version.
Wow...such a great song.
That is David Frost - the British Johnny Carson - and he is hilariously accepting some funny treatment from the Beatles. If you were born in the 50's and knew David Frost you would understand the joke/banter. Jude instead of Julian as that would be a little too personal. McCartney asked Lennon if the line "the movement you need is on your shoulder" was not good.....Lennon said that was his favorite line. I think the line means that Julian has people that will help him.
This song is a Beatles anthem!!!! Great reaction guys!!
In those days we really thought we could change the world. Then they started shooting at us.
And still are and fucking with our minds...
@@Ideserve100I never understood how they could hate peace and love?!?!? Pre-Magats.
I love John trying to make Paul laugh & Pauls’ eyes darting all over the place. These were great friends performing together.
Please react to the video of Beatle's live performance of "Don't Let Me Down" which was an impromptu performance on the rooftop of their music studio's building. John Lennon sings lead, sounds great.
I love how the audience was able to join them on stage, love them all 😊 RIP John and George 😢
I saw Paul live in 2022 sing this live at Fenway Park in Boston, MA. I joke I sang Hey Jude with Paul but with 45,000 other people. He was 79 at the time and put on an amazing show. All 4 of the Beatles were and are great artists.
At a time when radio only played songs that were only 3.15 seconds long radio made the exception for this song.
Still to this day one of the best songs ever written and performed
I was listening to the Beatles yesterday, they never get old for me!
Can’t go wrong reacting to The Beatles bro❤
Paul wrote it about John's son Julian. It's that long on the single. In those days, they would edit longer songs, like Light my fire by the doors. But they couldn't do that here, the Beatles said no
I would say its inspiration was Paul thinking of Julian, but the song evolved into a song from Paul to himself. (By all accounts) He was just wrecked by Jane Asher leaving him (after years of Paul cheating) and falling in love with Linda.
I mean listen to the lyrics, "Hey Jules don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better," that makes sense for Julian, but the rest of the lyrics... he is not talking to a little kid. lol
First time I've heard that take. Paul had already met Linda the year before at the Sgt Pepper release, though they weren't an item then. I'll take Paul's take on it, definitely not John's
@@keithharris6442 I have no doubt the melody first came to Paul while thinking of Julian. But, like I said the lyrics of the rest of the song don't fit that story, as they are encouraging a person to be (romantically) vulnerable again. Paul met Linda in May 1967, got engaged to Jane Asher in Dec 1967, saw Linda again in May of 1968 (he and John were in the US promoting Apple), got dumped by Jane in the summer of 1968, recorded "Hey Jude" in the July 31- Aug 1, Sept 1968 Paul asked Linda (by phone) to visit him in London...she did. Paul is an emotionally guarded person and will rarely talk about his songs as having been inspired by his own personal vulnerabilities. In this way, he and John were very opposite.
@@brettholcomb3763 we are all guessing here. Only Paul knew, we can only take him at his word.
@@keithharris6442 Absolutely, I don't think their is any reason to question Paul's story about comforting Julian being the inspiration for the the song. But the majority of the songs lyrics are not written to a kid dealing with their parents divorce. They're to encourage someone who had their heartbroken to have the courage to try again with someone new.
I am so happy that you all are doing this song. ❤️✌️.
If you played this with "Piano Man" and "American Pie" in succession any bar would become a giant Karaoke show.
Throw in "Sweet Caroline" and "Sweet Home Alabama," plus maybe "Bohemian Rhapsody," and you'd bring the roof down on the bar.
@@oregonchick76 That would total about 45 minutes of pure greatness!
Close it with You Shook Me All Night Long
Close with You Shook Me All Night Long
The older guy with the flowers in his hair was a homeless guy that the band brought in from the street. They gave him a meal, a shower and a place to sleep. The Beatles hated their fame. They also refused to play shows for a segregated audience. They really were all about peace & love. P.S. the long fade-out broke the rule that songs on the radio had to be no more than 3 minutes long. For that alone I’m grateful. And if it means 3 more minutes of Beatles at their best - so be it.
When the Beabroke up. None of them had even reached 30 yeats old yet....wow.
Hey Jude was not on The White Album. It was only released as a single 7" 45rpm record
I still have my 45rpm❤️
I’ve had the opportunity to see Paul McCartney 3 times of the past 30 years and he’s performed “Hey Jude” each time and holds the entire arena in the palm of his hand as the audience sings along to every word. And to think these four lads created this massive catalog of timeless music and broke up before any of them had turned 30 (Ringo & John were 29 and George & Paul were 27) AMAZING.
If you know anything about pop music history then you know these guys are the goats !!
Enjoyed this reaction. One correction though: "Hey Jude" was not a track on the "White Album". In fact it was released in 1968 as a single only, with "REVOLUTION" on the B-side. ☮☮☮
The most beautiful Beatles song and hauntingly melancholy is "She's Leaving Home"
Ringo Star is left handed playing a right handed drum kit.
He doesn’t do showy, overly long drum solos, so he is never considered when a list of the best drummers is published. Ringo is great.
Ringo is always placed among the great drummers. Has inspired more people to become drummers than almost any other drummer.
When you are slow dancing with a special someone, a seven minute song is just fine.
Like "Stairway to Heaven"
Great song but once you couldn't get in hands length of these guys when they began & here everyone can touch them, be up close & personal, amazing. I envy that girl almost sitting on Paul's lap, she must have cherished that moment & Ringo looks wonderful here.
How fucking daggy are the English? Check that “hip” crowd out. OMG.
Paul wrote it but John helped in one important way. Paul didn't like the line, "the movement you need is on your shoulder, " and when he ran the song by John, he said it was just a placeholder that he intended to swap out for something better. John's response? "You won't, you know. It's the best line of the song." So they kept it in. That's what made them such a great team. Also, the studio version contains the long fade out. When a rep from the record company said no radio station would put a song that long on the air, John replied, "They will if it's us!"
First time you heard this song? Wow.
I didn't get to see the Beatles Live back in the day. They didn't com anywhere near the small town where I lived. I did, however, get to see Paul McCartney in 2022. Hey Jude was the last song(#31) before his 7 song encore. Hey Jude lasted around 9 minutes and it could have gone on for another 20 and we would have all still been singing. It was a moment, for sure.
This song was a massive hit in UK when i was a kid.
Everywhere, 8 weeks no1 in the states.
A popular theory, which I subscribe to, is that while Paul named the song after John's son, the song is actually a coded message from Paul to John, telling him that if he really loves Yoko, then go for it. You see, Fenom, it wasn't that Paul, George and Ringo missed John's first wife, Cynthia, it's that they had a big problem with Yoko, as she was coming into the studio with John every day, and even had a cot brought on so she could lay down in there. It was a huge distraction and pissed Paul, George and Ringo off. Well, Paul didn't have the courage (for lack of a better word) to give his blessing to John to continue his love affair with Yoko, so he wrote this song under the pretext that it was about John's son finding love and healing, when really it was about John finding love with Yoko and healing from that. The next Beatles video you should react to is a rooftop performance of a song John wrote called, *"Don't Let Me Down",* about his love of Yoko. It's a fabulous song, and a really cool setting atop a roof in London.
That was their last public performance and their last album.
GREAT reaction to a classic song! It's great that you commented after the song, rather than stop it numerous times throughout, and the three different perspectives is also a great component.
Yes, it was written by Paul to John Lennon's son Julian (Jude). Reportedly, Julian (son of John with his 1st wife Cynthia) and John shared a very difficult relationship. In that light, it's a much sadder song than it first appears.
Again, GREAT reaction!
Paul does this live and it's amazing, he really gets the audience involved. Saw him Auckland N.Z around 1992
I host Karaoke in Michigan & the whole crowd loves the na na na na's. LOL It does go on & on & on. LOl But it is a karaoke favorite. Paul had nick named Julian Jude. John just left Julian & his mom in the dust & went with Yoko & had his son Sean with her. Julian looks & sounds very much like his dad too If you guys have not checked out the new release that Paul & Ringo did, you really need to. They even got George in it before he passed away, because they took something like 10 years to actually put it together & finish the song John had started before he passed away. It has clips of all 4 young Beatles, mixed with them now & everywhere in between. The video is awesome & the song is called 'Then & now'. I was excited at how cool it is. I was 10 & sitting on the floor of our living room, watching our black & white TV when they debuted on the Ed Sullivan show in 1963. Beatlemania was real. LOL
Revolution by the Beatles is another song song worth checking out. The song is pretty relevant for today.
Hey Jude was released around the same time as the White Album, but wasn't on it. The Beatles often released singles that went to number one and never put them on their albums.
This is one of my favorite songs by these Rock Legends! It's timeless!
The greatest sing-a-long song ever written and sang. It was one of the first longest singles ever played on commercial radio breaking the short play time of most songs were at the time.
To have been their first tv performance, it was great! I love the tune!
PS-So we know John passed in 1980. George passed away from cancer in 2001. Only Paul and Ringo are left from the band today.
Always makes me emotional , the video is awesome. Makes me think of home
I fell in love hearing this song. And we are still together
Truly joyous performance of Hey Jude. Great that they got the whole studio audience, mostly young people, to sing along in the long outro. The na-na-na outro is just as long on the studio version! Long outros of various kinds were quite common in the late 60s. The Beatles had another long one the following year on their song "I Want You" from the Abbey Road album, but it was purely instrumental. When Paul McCartney performed "Hey Jude" in his concert in Warsaw, Poland, where I live, back in 2013, he asked the audience to join in on the na-na-na part, so 30,000 of us did! It was great!
I love seeing the reaction to the best music ever from my era back in the day!😎
i was only 4 yrs old then when i first heard this song . my mom loves this song so much
Love that guys honesty, someone told the truth.
Wow, dude knew the backstory. Impressive.
Some astute observations there guys. Really enjoyed your commentary.
One of the best videos ever created!
Beautiful. Thank you.
The background harmonies are spine-tingling
Hey my guys! You MUST react to Wilson Pickett’s cover of this very song. It’s the ULTIMATE version! Even Olly will like it! You can watch it LIVE after Wilson duets with Tom Jones on The Tom Jones Show. ( Midnight Hour, Barefootin’) A classic from the 60’s! ❤
Totally agree, the wicked Picketts version is soooooo good, one of those rare Beatles covers that are better than the original
One hundred percent agree wilson knocked it out Park Killer guitar rip at the end.
By Dwayne Allman
I love Wilson Picketts voice but don't like that version at all..
I was 11 when this came out and was always referred to as Jude there after, it’s my personal anthem ❤
Hey Man, back in the day, the radio stations wouldn't play a track longer than 3 minutes, this was The Beatles response - they said, "they'll play this one" and another glass ceiling was smashed. You know when they came to America , making them the biggest act in the World, they refused to play to segregated audiences.
Worlds greatest band..
To Ollie's point. . .when the studio version of this song was recorded, it came in at just over 7 minutes. The Beatles' producer George Martin noted to the Beatles that in the 60's NO ONE EVER would play a song that was more than 4 minutes long. "They will if it's us!"was John Lennon's quick reply.
The song is over 7 minutes and was released as a single. They said, "We can't release this as a single, it's too long. No one will play it". John said, "Yes they will, we're the Beatles". And he was right. They did. It was the #1 song of 1968.
Most songs were under three minutes or just over. Radio wanted 2-3 minute songs. But this one definitely broke the mold.
Paul wrote the song for Julian. John didn't leave much money for Cynthia and Julian. At one point, Cyn had to sell all of her Beatles memorabilia. Paul bought it all, and then sent it back to her. He said, there are some things you just shouldn't part with.
You should listen to Come Together and I Want You/She's So Heavy. I think you'll like those.
John once said that he thought Paul wrote Hey Jude for him and Yoko. I believe that part of that is true. If you listen to the lyrics, some of it describes a romantic partnership. "Let her under your skin. Then you can begin to make it better." "You're looking for someone to perform with." Its a twofold message. To Julian its a message of comfort and solidarity to him as his forever "Uncle Paul" and a call to allow Yoko into his life as his father's new wife. To John its a cautionary message of friendly advice to not make the same mistake with Yoko that he did with Cynthia. "Let down your guard. Don't be so terrified of rejection that you end up blocking Yoko out of your heart." One of the things that I found so healthy and beautiful about Paul's relationships with people like Linda and even his stepdaughter, Heather, was his total unabashed devotion to them. You can see it in the photos and footage from the Get Back sessions. Heather wasn't even his own child but he loves her as if she was his own. Completely opened up his heart to her. I have a stepfather who did that for me and I am forever grateful to him for that. It affected the trajectory of the rest of my life. So Hey Jude is a twofold powerful message to both Julian and John Lennon. Opening your heart is the only way to heal.
My son is named Jude after this song. Great advice in those lyrics.
How cool would it be to have video evidence that you once sang with the Beatles.
The instrumental they were playing was the theme song of the show they were on.
Yes, the David Frost Show.
And it was written by George Martin.
Just four guys and their instruments and their significance is such that all popular music can be divided between being before or after The Beatles.
Imagine standing that close to them 😭
That, my friends, is perfection!
It's was fun being young !
just the best.
Many great covers of this song out there.
Beatles athem. This is my favorite song next to let it be❤
Pretty much a timeless piece of music.
They just got the staff from their studios to dive round the area asking people they thought looked funky if they wanted to be in a Beatles live recording. The band were the most famous people on earth by a country mile so it must have been an astonishingly surreal experience
Don't you wish you could have been there to share that fabulous vibe? I love the shot of George at 7:54! He looks so damn happy. This video premiered on the Smothers Brothers Show in 1968.
Paul wasn't sure about the ON YOUR SHOULDER line and John said is was good.
Why did John Lennon tell Paul McCartney that the line in Hey Jude that goes, "the movement you need is on your shoulder"? Paul said it was a filler line, but John said to keep it, it was the best line in the song.
A Day In The Life is considered to be the Beatles' masterpiece
Love forever Beatles❤❤❤❤
I'd like to see one of these reaction videos to "I Want You...She's so Heavy". That song has stood the test of time as much as any Beatles tune...it could have been released yesterday.
Song was written by Paul and it was wrote with John’s oldest son Julian in mind.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love this live version, but sometimes I wish the first time someone hears this song would be the studio version, because of McCartneys screams at the end are better and so much more pronounced.
Best sing along song ever
I always crack up when I see the old man with the flowers
I was in high school when this song came out, living in New York where the number one song HAD to be played every hour on AM radio. Prior to this it was highly unusual to hear anything longer than three minutes, so this wasn't just a breakthrough, it was played hourly for weeks on end. At the time, before the Julian information, some people thought the song was about heroin. (let her under your skin, make it better etc.) and, as other posters have mentioned, this song was not on the white album.
Another Beatles song with a hard taste of blues " Oh Darling" Paul is amazing on vocals
I think they extended it just because the audience liked being up there with them and singing their hearts out. So they went on with it.
Fyi this was a worldwide live broadcast on Sunday night that's why there were so many people on stage and it kept going on.
Seriously guys, how can you be this age and never have heard this song??? I find that impossible unless you were living in a cave for the last 50 years. I just didn’t make sense.
It was not on the White Album. It was released as a single in 1968, then put on a Post-Beatles album called "Hey Jude" with other non-album singles in the 1970's. The Beatles revived a sagging rock music scene (major music studio turned them down stating guitar music was dead-lol) in the early 60's, by jump-starting 50's pop/R&B and rock creating Beatle Mania. By 1966-1968, they mixed folk and world music with psychedelic rock and changing the culture of music for the new hippie movement. From 1969-1970, they mixed modern rock with brand new sub-rock genres like heavy-metal, rock blues, New Wave, punk and even avant-garde experimental music. They were the 'Perfect Storm' in rock music history with dozens of Top Ten hits.
That live performance was part of the first worldwide satellite tv transmission. Very fitting that The Beatles were chosen for the occasion. Once again trailblazers of the first order and not the last time.