The Beatles Performed "Hey Jude" On Frost On Sunday On September 8, 1968

The Beatles performed "Hey Jude" on the UK television program Frost on Sunday on September 8th of 1968.

"Hey Jude" had been released as a single in late August (8/26 in the US & 8/30 in the UK) not long before this performance. It had just reached #1 on the UK charts the day before. It stayed at #1 in the UK for 2 weeks. It was #1 in the US for 9 weeks, the longest stay at #1 in the US for any Beatles single.

At over 7 minutes long, "Hey Jude" was an extremely long song for it's time. In fact it was the longest #1 song in the UK until 1993 when it was surpassed in length (but certainly not in any other way) by Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That.)"

The B-Side to the single was the fast version of "Revolution." Neither "Hey Jude" nor the fast version of "Revolution" were included on any Beatles albums (until later "Greatest Hits" and singles compilations.)

"Hey Jude" was ranked #8 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the top 500 songs of all time. It has also been included in countless other "best of" lists. It's currently the 5th most listened to Beatles song on Last.FM, where the Beatles are also the most listened to artist at this time, over 37 years since they broke up.

"Hey Jude" was written and sung by Paul McCartney. It was written for John Lennon's son, Julian Lennon, because of the divorce that his parents were going through at the time. The song was originally called "Hey Jules" and was later changed to "Hey Jude" because the sound worked better for the song.

Watch this September 8, 1968 performance of "Hey Jude" by The Beatles:



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