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My White Album
6:00 AM GMT 28/07/2008
Hey Jude
(Single, 1968 - Not on The White Album, but inextricably linked to The Beatles output in '68)
Macca writes song for Julian Lennon and beats MacArthur Park (by a second) to Longest Single So Far spot.
Guy Chambers: “I was 10, my mum had the double blue album and Hey Jude was always my favourite song from that. I was fascinated by its extraordinary length. It’s an epic, just over seven minutes. The song’s in two halves and I still think that’s amazing now, and I would still like to write a song like that. When I wrote Angels with Rob [Williams], Hey Jude was very much on my mind in terms of the piano part and trying to write an epic.
“We used to use the end of Hey Jude on the Robbie set, at the end of Lazy Days, go straight into the, ‘na, na, na, na, na, na, naaa’. That had a fantastic effect in a big gig because everyone would sing it. But it’s also a very intimate song, the way it starts with just the piano. I think it’s one of Paul’s best vocal performances in terms of warmth and sincerity and coolness. The shriek, that, ‘better, better, better’, that’s one of the greatest moments in all pop music. When he hits that high F, it’s ridiculously great. It’s beautiful and unusual because it hasn’t got a chorus. It’s verse, bridge, verse, bridge and then this ridiculous outro with the trombones, the brass and the long notes. It’s like a happening to me, an event.”
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 28/07/2008
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