Hey Jude

It was written about John Lennon's son, Julian, I believe.

I find it quite a sad melody. It always reminds me too of a book I can never reread, Thomas Hardy’s ‘Jude the Obscure’, because of the little boy’s suicide and his note, “We are too many”.
I am sad now thinking about it.

I am a Beatles 'nut'. I have many memories of seeing them and even being on stage with them back in the day. I have also spoken on the radio about my experiences. Hey Jude has always been my favourite. It's my ringtone on my phone!

I was madly in teenage love and "Eight Days a Week" was "our song" - for the summer that the romance lasted

‘Hey Jude’ is one of my favourites to play on the piano and I sing along to it (when no-one is at home! It’s more the singing than the playing that tends to cause people to flee!). If I have an out and out favourite I think it’s ‘The Fool on the Hill’, but really who could choose just one?

Not really a Beatles fan but 'In my life', is a very poignant song.

Hey Jude really is such a singalong song, isn't it? Almost impossible not to sing with it, especially the 'na na na nanana naaaa' ending!

Impossible to choose just one of their songs as my favourite. Along with Hey Jude, it would be Here Comes The Sun, Something, Eleanor Rigby, I'm Looking Through You and so on and so on. Sorry, there are just so many good ones!

I fell for the trumpet player in the band at a holiday camp. I was 15, he was called Mike something (so much more sophisticated than Mick, I thought). He played Something one evening and I convinced myself he was playing it for me! Oh the joys and the angst of being 15!! So I would have to add that one to my 'favourites' list as well

I was on a train from Devon to Manchester when another young person produced a transistor radio on which Hey Jude was playing. We all sang along - glorious song, happy days indeed.