The Beatles’ “Hey Jude” charted at the same time as a song by an important shock-rock musician. Years later, the shock-rocker remembered “Hey Jude” blocking his signature song from reaching No. 1.

The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude” has some of the most famous lyrics in the Fab Four’s catalog. Paul McCartney felt he had to change one of the lyrics in the song. Subsequently, John Lennon convinced him to ...

Promotional portrait of the British rock band The Beatles, circa 1963. Paul McCartney holds a cigarette, others are (left to right) Ringo Starr, George Harrison (1943 - 2001) and John Lennon. The ...

Paul McCartney famously wrote “Hey Jude” as a way to cheer up a then-five-year-old Julian after his dad had left his mother, Cynthia, to begin a relationship with Yoko Ono. “It was ‘Hey Jules’ at ...

Julian Lennon, the subject of Beatles classic “Hey Jude,” said he had a “love-hate” relationship with the track. Paul McCartney wrote it for Lennon when the latter was 5 years old, hoping it would ...