The Beatles' 'Hey Jude': John Lennon Convinced Paul McCartney Not to 'Fix' a Line From the Song

Paul McCartney disliked a lyric from The Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” John Lennon convinced Paul to keep the line. “Hey Jude” became a hit single twice in the United Kingdom.

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 keep it.

In a 2021 Rolling Stone article, Paul said John discouraged him from changing a line in “Hey Jude.”

“I know exactly where I was,” Paul said. “I was in London, my music room at the top of the house, playing my little painted magic piano. John and Yoko were standing right behind me, on my shoulder, in fact.”

Paul was still experimenting with the song’s lyrics.

“They’re standing right behind me as I’m playing, ‘Hey Jude, da-da-da-da, da-da-da,’ and I get to, ‘The movement you need is on your shoulder,’ and I just looked by and I said, ‘I’ll fix that one,'” Paul recalled.

Source: cheatsheet.com

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