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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@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.
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 ❤
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.
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.
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.
@@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.😏
You are correct. John didn't really know how to be a dad and marveled at Paul's ability to play with little Julian. And, Paul is still Uncle Paul to Julian. John's dad left when he was a toddler so John had no father figure.
No just Englishmen , nothing to do with made up gods , in fact its the opposite , we killed the god of the Arabs and no longer accept their dogma , we are free in body and mind , free to express ourselves with no capricious made up gods telling us how the world works , its millions of years of evolution that created Englishmen , these collections .of atoms created this English culture , not your god .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 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.
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 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!"
The Beatles were the first to print the lyrics to their songs in the liner notes on their albums. No one had ever done that before. Their album covers all broke new creative ground.
I saw this broadcast back in 1968 when I was 9 and Beatles crazy, Colour TV was barely introduced to the UK at that time so I would have seen it in black and white. The Beatles were performing on the David Frost Show, which was a chat show that went out on Sunday evenings. The first bit of music you hear The Beatles play is the theme to the David Frost Show, then a bit of It's Now Or Never by Elvis before the fade-out.
Yeah the ending is the same as the studio version but much shorter. This is about a live performance bringing people together and soaking in the fellowship and togetherness in the moment. If your there you never want it to end. You witnessed it. That's what live concerts are about. Not to keep entertained somebody watching a tape of it. Open your minds to what your witnessing my friends. I lived this Era.
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.
my mum Judi loves this lol , btw pauls singing is actually terrific. For well you know that it's a fool Who plays it cool By making his world a little colder so true.
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.
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.
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
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.
You NEED to listen to My While My Guitar Gently Weeps, an absolutely CLASSIC Beatles song written and sung by George Harrison with Eric Clapton on lead guitar! I guarantee y’all will dig it!
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. ☮☮☮
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.
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.
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!
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.
I was lucky enough to meet Paul & Linda as my boyfriend was his cousin. Paul is lovely & never has a guitar out of his hand, annoyingly when watching TV!
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
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.
All of the first reaction videos or Hey Jude use this version. I wish someone would use the remastered studio version. Paul does alot of screaming in that one and it is glorious.
this is a song of comfort and inspiration. the lyrics are giving comfort and support to a person who NEEDS HELP! which at that time, the late 60s, with police riots, anti-war and civil rights protests and 2 assisinations, the world definately needed help and inspiration. (it was originally written by mccartney as a song to lennon's son, julian, who's parents were headed for divorce.) "hey jude" was the 2nd biggest selling song of the 60s. 2nd to the novelty song "sugar, sugar" by the cartoon band the archies. "hey jude" (1968) was the beatles' best selling song outselling their previous best seller "i want to hold your hand" released 5 years earlier in 1963. the beatles had like 20 #1 songs in the 60s. they were quite simply MAGICAL. they ventured into every music genre imaginable; r&r, ballads, motown, jazz, hard rock, indian music, country and western, kids songs, protest songs, love songs, acid rock, psychedelia and even COMEDY songs! they wrote a song in french, recorded 2 songs in german and even wrote a song about the soviet union. and they made 4 really good movies, one animated and another made for tv movie that isn't so great. the beatles INVITED THE ENTIRE WORLD to join them on their musical journey. they were very special and MAGICAL indeed! thanks for the video.
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.
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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!
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!
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
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 ❤
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.
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.
I think it’s George Harrison that created the nanana it’s even referenced in his solo track Isn’t it a pity
@@whowantslasagna4894. No. Paul did it
The fade-out is already two minutes too long, ten minutes would make it unlistenable
Number one for nine weeks in America and one of the best selling songs of the 1960’s
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.😏
You are correct. John didn't really know how to be a dad and marveled at Paul's ability to play with little Julian. And, Paul is still Uncle Paul to Julian. John's dad left when he was a toddler so John had no father figure.
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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@@operationoverloard "The Beatles were not a band, they were a miracle" - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
No just Englishmen , nothing to do with made up gods , in fact its the opposite , we killed the god of the Arabs and no longer accept their dogma , we are free in body and mind , free to express ourselves with no capricious made up gods telling us how the world works , its millions of years of evolution that created Englishmen , these collections .of atoms created this English culture , not your god .
I've said this before and I'll say it again ...The Beatles !!!! GOAT and they f*****g knew it !!!!!!
Absolutely.
Most of the world doesn't think it's long enough.
Masterpiece. I grew up with the Beatles.
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!!
Back when things were nice and this GOAT of a band could bring everyone together. Pure magic. I wish things could be like this now🥺
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.
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.
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?
Add to that All Things Must Pass and Beware Of Darkness.
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.
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.
Wow...such a great song.
I am so happy that you all are doing this song. ❤️✌️.
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.
At a time when radio only played songs that were only 3.15 seconds long radio made the exception for this song.
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 was listening to the Beatles yesterday, they never get old for me!
If you know anything about pop music history then you know these guys are the goats !!
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
A piece of art, I love The Beatles, Paul, Jonh, George and Ringo you guys allways on my heart, great band ever!
A few minutes too long? Nah, this can go on forever
Never an end to this song. We need it forever.
I love how the audience was able to join them on stage, love them all 😊 RIP John and George 😢
Can’t go wrong reacting to The Beatles bro❤
Paul on the piano started to get crushed lol, Ringo on the drums was just rockin and having fun.
And some say they are singing to this day.
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.
Paul does this live and it's amazing, he really gets the audience involved. Saw him Auckland N.Z around 1992
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 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!"
I love John trying to make Paul laugh & Pauls’ eyes darting all over the place. These were great friends performing together.
John was supposed to be singing harmony at that point, but he didn't come in, and Paul was trying to make eye contact with him.
The most beautiful Beatles song and hauntingly melancholy is "She's Leaving Home"
First time you heard this song? Wow.
The Beatles were the first to print the lyrics to their songs in the liner notes on their albums. No one had ever done that before. Their album covers all broke new creative ground.
When the Beabroke up. None of them had even reached 30 yeats old yet....wow.
I saw this broadcast back in 1968 when I was 9 and Beatles crazy, Colour TV was barely introduced to the UK at that time so I would have seen it in black and white. The Beatles were performing on the David Frost Show, which was a chat show that went out on Sunday evenings. The first bit of music you hear The Beatles play is the theme to the David Frost Show, then a bit of It's Now Or Never by Elvis before the fade-out.
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.
This is one of my favorite songs by these Rock Legends! It's timeless!
Yeah the ending is the same as the studio version but much shorter. This is about a live performance bringing people together and soaking in the fellowship and togetherness in the moment. If your there you never want it to end. You witnessed it. That's what live concerts are about. Not to keep entertained somebody watching a tape of it. Open your minds to what your witnessing my friends. I lived this Era.
Revolution by the Beatles is another song song worth checking out. The song is pretty relevant for today.
Hey Jude was not on The White Album. It was only released as a single 7" 45rpm record
I still have my 45rpm❤️
Paul wrote it for John's son Julian. The original title was Hey Jules. Paul was giving Julian advice to help him try to get along with Yoko.
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.
my mum Judi loves this lol , btw pauls singing is actually terrific.
For well you know that it's a fool
Who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder
so true.
Written by Paul for Johns son Julian ( Jude) which is actually his middle name,his first name is also John.
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"
Still to this day one of the best songs ever written and performed
Both " Let It Be" and "Oh Darling " is both tow of Paul's best.
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.
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
This must have been made on film instead of video tape. Quality is great.
Always makes me emotional , the video is awesome. Makes me think of home
Hey Jude is the best song of the 60's in imho. Fab Four forever! Peace!☮
I fell in love hearing this song. And we are still together
This song was a massive hit in UK when i was a kid.
Everywhere, 8 weeks no1 in the states.
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.
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.
You NEED to listen to My While My Guitar Gently Weeps, an absolutely CLASSIC Beatles song written and sung by George Harrison with Eric Clapton on lead guitar! I guarantee y’all will dig it!
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. ☮☮☮
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.
The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down from the roof top concert, 488 million views, worth checking out!
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.
To have been their first tv performance, it was great! I love the tune!
The Beatles had the great Billy Preston playing with them on a few of their songs. He was real good friends with George.
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!
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.
Pretty much a timeless piece of music.
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.
Some astute observations there guys. Really enjoyed your commentary.
I was 11 when this came out and was always referred to as Jude there after, it’s my personal anthem ❤
Wow, dude knew the backstory. Impressive.
great review and i have loved Beatles since 64!
Love that guys honesty, someone told the truth.
Imagine standing that close to them 😭
I was lucky enough to meet Paul & Linda as my boyfriend was his cousin. Paul is lovely & never has a guitar out of his hand, annoyingly when watching TV!
One of the best videos ever created!
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
I love seeing the reaction to the best music ever from my era back in the day!😎
Is there any artist today that can perform a song this well live?
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.
i was only 4 yrs old then when i first heard this song . my mom loves this song so much
All of the first reaction videos or Hey Jude use this version. I wish someone would use the remastered studio version. Paul does alot of screaming in that one and it is glorious.
My son is named Jude after this song. Great advice in those lyrics.
Beautiful. Thank you.
Many great covers of this song out there.
this is a song of comfort and inspiration. the lyrics are giving comfort and support to a person who NEEDS HELP! which at that time, the late 60s, with police riots, anti-war and civil rights protests and 2 assisinations, the world definately needed help and inspiration. (it was originally written by mccartney as a song to lennon's son, julian, who's parents were headed for divorce.)
"hey jude" was the 2nd biggest selling song of the 60s. 2nd to the novelty song "sugar, sugar" by the cartoon band the archies. "hey jude" (1968) was the beatles' best selling song outselling their previous best seller "i want to hold your hand" released 5 years earlier in 1963. the beatles had like 20 #1 songs in the 60s. they were quite simply MAGICAL. they ventured into every music genre imaginable; r&r, ballads, motown, jazz, hard rock, indian music, country and western, kids songs, protest songs, love songs, acid rock, psychedelia and even COMEDY songs! they wrote a song in french, recorded 2 songs in german and even wrote a song about the soviet union. and they made 4 really good movies, one animated and another made for tv movie that isn't so great. the beatles INVITED THE ENTIRE WORLD to join them on their musical journey. they were very special and MAGICAL indeed! thanks for the video.
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.
The Beatles, "The Beatles" , AKA "The White album" because of its plain white cover, was an incredibly eclectic and diverse collection of songs.
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.