Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1968
Pass it on
Capitol · Universal Music Group
Hey Jude
70Worth an evening.
Capitol, under Universal. It tells a hurting person to take the sad song and make it better.
The review
Capitol is the imprint on the American shelf. Universal holds it now. The song was written for a child watching a marriage come apart, and it refused to be clever about that.
This is one a house can sing. The na-na-na at the end is not nothing. It is a room deciding to stay with the person who is hurt.
Journal
Keep Hey Jude in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
A Love Supreme
81 instead of 70
A Love Supreme is still a music song, and it scores 81 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: Gratitude, named, and then played until the band is spent.
The eight
- 8Industry
A melody this simple is harder than it looks.
- 8Household
It is sung toward someone who is not all right, and it stays.
- 6Piety
Comfort, not a creed, but it does not sneer at comfort.
- 6Courage
It asks the listener to begin again.
- 5Republic
A private mercy. The town is not the subject.
- 7Temperance
No binge. A long refrain that holds, instead of escalating.
- 7Truth
The pain is admitted. The answer is not a lie.
- 9Stewardship
People still sing it when someone is down. That is a handing-on.
Where to listen
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Hey Jude · 70IMDb
