He’s saying, ‘Hey, Jude — hey, John.'” John felt the song was Paul giving him permission to leave the band. John was asked what he thought of Paul as a lyricist.

The pain in “Hey Jude” resonated in 1968, in a world reeling from wars, riots and assassinations. And it’s why it sounds timely in the summer of 2018, as our world keeps getting colder.

Yoko’s just come into the picture. He’s saying, ‘Hey, Jude — hey, John.’ I know I’m sounding like one of those fans who reads things into it, but you can hear it as a song to me.

This article originally appeared on Rolling Stone. “Hey Jude” sums up the Beatles ’ turbulent summer of 1968 — a tribute to their friendship, right at the moment it was starting to fracture.

But George remained unconvinced, given that “Hey Jude” had a substantial length, for a Beatles track at least, of seven minutes and eleven seconds. “It was a long song,” he later observed.

Hey [‘Insert Name Here’]… Turns out, getting AI to rewrite “Hey Jude” was more of a challenge than we expected.

In all likelihood, the Beatles didn't set out to challenge radio programmers' time constraints when they released the seven-minute-plus "Hey Jude" on Aug. 26, 1968.

On Aug. 26, 1968, the Beatles released "Hey Jude," Paul McCartney's attempt to comfort 5-year-old Julian Lennon upon the breakup of his parents, John and Cynthia. The song, which clocks in at a ...

“Hey Jude,” released as a non-album single by the Beatles in 1968, was written by Paul McCartney to comfort John Lennon’s son, Julian. The original title of the song was “Hey Jules,” for ...

A piece of Beatles memorabilia is going up for sale for $375,000 — lyrics handwritten by Paul McCartney for the 1968 classic “Hey Jude” at a recording session.