The Beatles Singles: "Hey Jude"

It's the most popular Beatles song of all time, perhaps even the most popular oldie of all time (if my readers can be believed, and they can). Yet the monster that is "Hey Jude" took only two days to actually lay down, and only one take to grab both the band's historic performance and Paul's astonishing series of ad-libs. Who is the song really about, anyway? What's all that background chatter? And how did this, their crowning pop achievement, plant the seeds of disharmony that would eventually dissolve the band? Read a detailed breakdown of "Hey Jude" in my latest Beatles fact sheet.