Why is hey jude so long

It gives you time to get into it. Lennon is often quoted as saying that "Hey Jude" is one of McCartney's "masterpieces. Though written for one person, it resonates broadly. Listen Hey Jude 50 Years Later. By Marilyn Schairer. Share Email Facebook Tweet. Fifty years ago this month, America was in turmoil and looking to make things better. Marilyn Schairer MarilynSchairer.

I love those words now, ' The movement you need is on your shoulder. The wherewithal is there, whatever you want to do Time lends a little credence to things. You can't knock it, it just did so well. But when I'm singing it, that is when I think of John, when I hear myself singing that line; it's an emotional point in the song. So, on the shop window we put 'Hey Jude' so that people going by on the buses would say, 'What's that? Well, I got this furious phone call from this guy, Mr.

Leon a nearby shop owner who was Jewish, and he said, 'What are you doing? How dare you do this' and so and so, 'Hey Jude!!! Anyway, he rings me up and he's furious! I swear to you, it's nothing like that. It's nothing to do with that. You'll hear when you hear the record, it's just a name in a song and it's all cool. Anyway, I calmed him down and he was cool.

And his son didn't come around to beat me up! It's got the song and then the whole ' na na na ' at the end. It wasn't intended to go on that long at the end but I was having such fun ad-libbing over the end when we put down the original track that I went on a long time.

So then we built it with the orchestra but it was mainly because I just wouldn't stop doing all that 'J udy judy judy — wooow! We put out 'Hey Jude,' which was worthy. If you think about it, Yoko's just come into the picture. He's saying: ' Hey, Jude — hey, John.

The words ' go out and get her ' — subconsciously he was saying, 'Go ahead, leave me. The angel inside him was saying, 'Bless you. I took it very personally. Whoever is going through a bit with us is going through it. That's the groove. The lyrics are universal; many readings are possible.

The original lyric sheet, which was duplicated in the 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe edition of the " White Album ," shows that "Hey Jude" was written on the back side of a sheet of paper that had the finished lyrics to George's " While My Guitar Gently Weeps " written on it.

The lyrics were essentially the same as what appeared on the finished recording exept for the line " she has found you " instead of " you have found her " and the final chorus being the same as the first with the line " let her into your heart " which was mistakenly sung as " let her under your skin " on the released version. Although the song can be interpreted in various ways, the message was clear enough to be embraced wholeheartedly worldwide.

One of these occasions was on June 30th, , when he went into a local pub in a village in Bedfordshire called Harrold to play the song to the patrons who happened to be there.

He was returning from a recording session with The Black Dyke Mills Band in Yorkshire when he and some friends decided to stop off in Harrold, simply because they liked the name of the village. Derek Taylor, as detailed in the "' White Album ' 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition" book, remembers: "In the pub, Paul got to a piano and a sing-song was started - he'd always been good at that sort of thing - and he said, 'Well, here's a new one,' and he played 'Hey Jude.

That was the premiere of 'Hey Jude. We didn't leave there until dawn was coming up. It was a 'Brigadoon' kind of a thing. It was almost as if it were a place that hadn't existed unless it was visited.

It was the visiting that made it exist. However, according to Mark Lewisohn's book "The Beatles Recording Sessions," The Beatles took a break from recording sessions on July 26th, , so that Paul and John could put "the finishing touches" on the writing and arranging of the song in preperation for their next session on July 29th, Recording History. John Lennon's memory may have been a little sketchy when he was asked in about when he first heard "Hey Jude.

However, Paul vividly remembers first playing it to John in person as indicated above. And since no home demo of "Hey Jude" has ever surfaced, it's most likely that Paul never made one and John was confusing this song with others around that time.

The first time the song was officially recorded was on July 29th, , which was the day after The Beatles' famous photo shoot in a variety of London locations, this photography session later referred to as their "Mad Day Out.

George Martin had the night off, engineers Ken Scott and new recruit John Smith manning the recording process in what actually only turned out to be a rehearsal session for this new song for which Paul had high hopes of becoming their new single. Nonetheless, six 'takes' of what they rehearsed were put to tape on this day, only three of which were complete versions. The instrumentation on these recordings was Paul on vocals track one and piano track two , John on acoustic guitar with George on electric guitar both on track three and Ringo on drums track four.

Interestingly, the first two 'takes' of "Hey Jude" as recorded on this day have been officially released in later years, 'take one' appearing on the "' White Album ' 50th Anniversay Super Deluxe" box set, and 'take two' appearing on "Anthology 3. Subtle lyrical differences from the released version are also heard on these early 'takes,' the line " she has found you, now go and get her " as seen in the original lyric sheet instead of " you have found her " being one example, as well as the final verse containing the line " remember to let her into your heart " as intended, instead of " under your skin " as the released single contains.

On both 'takes,' Paul sings with exaggerated vibrato during the " na, na, na " refrain, while encouraging John to sing along. According to the accompanying book with the "' White Album ' 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe" box set, 'take three' ends with a reference to Elvis Presley's song "Milkcow Blues Boogie," John stopping the take by exclaiming, "Hold it, Paul.

That don't move me! However it appears that, for various reasons, this session was not intended to officially capture the song to tape either. The next three days were already booked for London's Trident Studios with the intention of recording the song there with their eight-track recording capabilities, something that EMI Studios didn't have in place yet.

Since a decision was made to utilize a large orchestra for the final minutes of the song, George Martin had already lined up the musicians to arrive at Trident Studios for a session two days later. This documentary, including footage of The Beatles recording early 'takes' of "Hey Jude," was aired on American television on February 22nd, , while moviegoers in Britain saw it in October of as an accompanying film with the Mel Brooks movie "The Producers.

The first take of "Hey Jude" recorded on this day, 'take seven,' featured Ringo on drums track one , Paul on piano and John on acoustic guitar track two , George on electric guitar track three , and Paul's vocals track four.

It appears to be after this first 'take' of the day that Paul had an uncomfortable interchange with George Harrison about his guitar contribution to the song. And it was like, 'No, George. You're blowing the guy out. I said, 'No, no. You come in on the second chorus maybe, it's going to be a big build, this.

He didn't see it like that, and it was a bit of a number for me to have to 'dare' to tell George Harrison — who's one of the greats — not to play. It was like an insult. But that's how we did a lot of our stuff. You are not the director bossing around a dance company where they naturally expect you to boss them around. You're just a guy in a very democratic unit; which a group, at best, is.

We were all equal in voting, our status within the group was equal. We were joking when we made the ' Anthology ': I was saying, 'I realize I was a bossy git. But it was essential for me and looking back on it, I think, Okay. Well, it was bossy, but it was also ballsy of me, because I could have bowed to the pressure.

The guitarist was somewhat disgruntled about being told by Paul that his ideas for the song were unsuitable, so he decided to sit out the rest of the day, joinging the engineering team in the control room instead of picking up another instrument, such as a bass guitar, as he had done on earlier occasions when his guitarist services were not needed.

I mean, it can be, you know what I mean, just one bit of music can be pop, jazz, classic or whatever you're going to do to it, it is.

Incidentally, the snare drum and toms of Ringo's drum kit were draped with towels to dampen the sound, something that he would use more regularly in later sessions. By the time 'take 16' was recorded, and the three Beatles ran through an impromptu version of the Louis Armstrong classic "St.

Louis Blues," it appeared that George Harrison had lightened his mood. This is evidenced by his calling out on the talkback microphone, "And two crates of beer if you do ' Twist And Shout ," a reference to their experiences in Hamburg, Germany in the early 60's. John responded " Boys ," recalling the popularity of the Shirelles B-side that they habitually performed on stage during those early days.

After they ran through a version of the Ray Charles hit " Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying ," a tape reduction of the final take 'take 23' was made to combine Paul's piano with John's acoustic guitar and open up more room for overdubs. Apparently, they must have felt happy enough with this performance that they considered it acceptable for the finished product after all. Two attemps at this reduction mix were made, which took that recording to takes 24 and 25, 'take 25' then being mixed into stereo for the purpose of giving to George Martin for him to use in arranging a simple orchestra score for the studio musicians to play at a later session.

This session was complete by am the following morning. The next session for recording "Hey Jude" was on July 31st, , this occurring at London's Trident Studios, this session beginning at 2 pm. The first order of business on this day was to transfer 'take 25' from EMI's four-track tape to Trident's eight-track tape to allow for more overdubs.

A promotional video was shot about a week after the single release for a Sept. The group sang live to a backing track as selected audience members joined in for the closing sing-along. The Michael Lindsay-Hogg-directed clip also marked the return of Starr, who briefly left the band after McCartney criticized his playing during the tumultuous recording sessions.

There was some initial concern about the song's unaverage length preventing airplay, but as Lennon astutely noted when producer George Martin questioned whether radio would play a track that clocked in at more than seven minutes: " They will if it's us. For a while there, it looked like all the things crashing down and caving in on the Beatles — the arguments, the fame and the increasing expectations from fans to top themselves once more — could easily be pushed aside with a hopeful song that promised to "make it better.

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