Hey Jude

So many.. Such insight into life for such young men.

When I see teenagers who don't want to get out of bed, I think of..

When I wake up early in the morning,
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Lay in bed float upstrteam.
Please don't wake me, no don't shake me
Leave me where I am I'm only sleeping

"She's leaving home."
" Eleanor Rigby"---always feel so sorry for Father McKenzie, sitting writing that sermon that nobody would hear, and for Eleanor, that nobody went to her funeral.

Norwegian Wood.

Strawberry Fields plus too many more favorites. The Beatles were absolutely the best and even more popular than Elvis in the US. They did take America by storm. I remember watching them on "The Ed Sullivan Show" - the very first time they came to the US.

Strawberry Fields.
Let it be.

They landed at Speke airport after the first trip to America, and the streets were lined with fans. They were in a black cab and passed very close to me, smiling and waving, all four of them. Didn't even take a photo, but the image is engraved on my brain. Oh the excitement of those heady days. They took America by storm - nobody had the impact they had. Beatlemania!!

Glammanana, I used to go to the lunch sessions at the cavern - the bands were practicing - we paid 1/- and never wanted to go back to work- used to hang on as long as possible, then run back to the office in the Cunard building on the Pier Head.

When I'm 64.

We didn't catch him. He was on a coach and we were running behind it.

Whoa, KatyK! I would have joined you chasing Paul!
Too hard to choose a favourite Beatles song, but among them are Things we Said Today, A Day in The Life, Because, Michelle (DD2’s middle name), Golden Slumbers etc.
Hey Jude is my FaceTime ringtone and Come Together my message tone.

No glamma I never went to the Cavern as I was in Birmingham but I saw them most times they came here. George came to speak to a group of us once! I won a competition to sit on stage with them once, chased Paul around the town hall and many more memories.

KatyK that should read With the Beatles (memory loss)

Oh KatyK do you remember going down to the Cavern at lunchtime and getting in to see them for the lunch time show at 1pm the price was 1/6d.
I love all their songs but my favourite is Mr Postman from their Please Please Me LP,not written by them but I just love it.

They wrote so many amazing songs. I was madly in love with George. I loved him in A Hard Days Night singing Happy Just To Dance With You. Sigh.

I think Hey Jude is my favourite too.
Last year was the 50th anniversary of the Sergeant Pepper album, and I came across one I hadn't heard before -" I'm fixing a hole". I couldn't get it out of my mind.
I like "Something" too - one of George's. Lovely guitar solo.

My front door bell is "Hey Jude".

One of my favourites is "The Long and Winding Road" but it's really hard to pick just one as there are so many great tunes and great words. They were brilliant.

I was doing nurse training and my memories of Hey Jude (can it really be 50 years, gulp!) was when I was on call at night and learning to "scrub" for ops and the team all sang along to this.

Till there was you.

But I also liked Taxman.
“If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.”

I liked the refrain, Taxman! Mr Wilson.
Taxman! Mr Heath.

So nicely politically balanced

I don't know much more than just the hits of the Beatles, but of them, I think, Eleanor Rigby is my favourite.
I love sad songs.

Hey Jude for personal reasons

Last week I was woken at 5am by the refuse collectors below my apartment singing “Hey Jude.” It made me smile! My favourite Beatles song is “I wanna hold your hand.” I think it is a distillation of what it’s like to be a teenager and experiencing your first love affair. I saw them twice in Birmingham in the 60s. The second time they were taken under cover to the police station where my father worked, but his office wasn’t near where they were given a cup of tea and posed for pictures in policemen’s helmets, so he didn’t know they were there! My next door neighbour was one of the officers who escorted them, and was full of it the next day. I was so disappointed my dad didn’t meet them and get their autographs!

12-13 yrs old at a summer fair with my first "boyfriend" we'd only known each other about a month 'I wanna hold your hand" came on over the sound system. We looked at each other and shyly held out our hands. We didn't let go for about an hour
Not exactly my favourite but the most memorable.

Oh gosh just the opening bars of that song bring back so many memories - teenage parties, first taste of cider, falling in love for the first time and then breaking my heart (at work in the pub where I served meals) when he left boarding school and went home to Leeds!! It's such an iconic song and came out just at the time I started to grow up!!

Oh lucky you KatyK. I love Hey Jude too. In fact I love all of them. They bring back lovely youthful memories.

The Beatles songs were all ones you could join in with- we'd be on the dance floor singing our heads off. John was not much of a dad to Julian, he took no interest in him and then ran off with blinking Yoko.?
Still love their music as it doesn't seem dated at all. And I know all the words!