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The lyrics espouse a positive outlook on a sad situation, while also encouraging "Jude" to pursue his opportunities to find love. After the fourth verse, the song shifts to a coda featuring a "Na-na-na na" refrain that lasts for over four minutes. "Hey Jude" was the first Beatles song to be recorded on eight-track recording equipment.
“Hey Jude” was written by Paul McCartney about Julian and Cynthia; a friend of mine, Chadwick Stokes of the band Dispatch, had recently written a song about me and my family and some hard ...
After 55 years, Julian Lennon has made peace with “Hey Jude.” Julian, 60, recently spoke about the song that Paul McCartney wrote to console him while his parents, John Lennon and Cynthia ...
Richie Unterberger of AllMusic called it "one of the Beatles' most powerful love songs", [16] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described the song as "heart-wrenching soul" [3] and Roy Carr and Tony Tyler called it "a superb sobber from misery-expert J. W. O. Lennon, MBE. And still one of the most highly underrated Beatle underbellies."
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"The Ballad of John and Yoko" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in May 1969. It was written by John Lennon [3] and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership, and chronicles the events surrounding the wedding of Lennon and Yoko Ono.
It was the second single to be released on the Apple label; the first, "Hey Jude" by the Beatles, had retained the catalogue numbers used by Parlophone in the UK and Capitol in the US. Hopkin's version was released following her success on the UK television talent show Opportunity Knocks.
The notebook, which belonged to the Fab Four’s bodyguard and PA Mal Evans, was compiled between 1967 and 1968.