Isn't it a lovely song, Henry? Hey Jude? It has a lovely story that goes with it. The song was written by one of my favorite Jewish artists, Paul McCartney.
He wrote it for John Lennon's son and the reason he wrote it is because he felt a deep pain for the neglect Lennon showed to the young boy. Paul was like a surrogate father throughout the boys life. As for Lennons neglect - It broke Pauls heart so he wrote the song for him. I learned that from a dear friend and since then Paul has become one of my favorite people for his kind heart. He truly is a lovely person.
The Jews are such talented people!!!
I found this about the song -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Jude
In 1968, John Lennon and his wife Cynthia Lennon separated due to John's affair with Yoko Ono. Soon afterwards, Paul McCartney drove out to visit Cynthia and Lennon's son, Julian. "We'd been very good friends for millions of years and I thought it was a bit much for them suddenly to be personae non gratae and out of my life," McCartney said.[5] Cynthia Lennon recalled, "I was truly surprised when, one afternoon, Paul arrived on his own. I was touched by his obvious concern for our welfare ... On the journey down he composed 'Hey Jude' in the car. I will never forget Paul's gesture of care and concern in coming to see us."[6]
The song's original title was "Hey Jules," and it was intended to comfort Julian Lennon from the stress of his parents' divorce. McCartney said, "I started with the idea 'Hey Jules,' which was Julian, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better. Hey, try and deal with this terrible thing. I knew it was not going to be easy for him. I always feel sorry for kids in divorces ... I had the idea [for the song] by the time I got there. I changed it to 'Jude' because I thought that sounded a bit better."[5] Julian Lennon discovered the song had been written for him almost twenty years later. He remembered being closer to McCartney than to his father: "Paul and I used to hang about quite a bit—more than Dad and I did. We had a great friendship going and there seems to be far more pictures of me and Paul playing together at that age than there are pictures of me and my dad."[7]
Although McCartney originally wrote the song for Julian Lennon, John Lennon thought it had actually been written for him:[8]
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It is quite amazing to me that Lennon thought the song was written for him. It speaks of his blindness towards his own first born son. Sad.
