How John Lennon Convinced Paul McCartney to Keep a Famous Line in 'Hey Jude'
"It's the best one, innit?" McCartney said Lennon told him of lyrics he considered changing in the 1968 hit song
Paul McCartney is opening up about how he and John Lennon took a sad song and made it better.
On Wednesday's episode of The Beatles member's podcast from iHeartPodcasts and Pushkin, Paul McCartney: A Life in Lyrics, the music legend, 81, spoke about crafting the 1968 classic "Hey Jude." In addition to reflecting on how the song was inspired by his close relationship with Lennon's first-born son Julian and the time his bandmate left his first wife, Cynthia, and son to pursue a relationship with Yoko Ono, he shared that Lennon inspired him to keep a lyric he considered changing.
"'The movement you need is on your shoulder.' Now, I thought that was just me blocking in," McCartney admitted on the podcast.
The rock star revealed that the late icon convinced him not to alter a line in the song when he played it for him and Ono, 91, for the first time.
Source: Sadie Bell/ca.news.yahoo.com
