{"id":29070,"date":"2024-03-21T03:03:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/john-lennon-convinced-paul-mccartney-to-keep-an-important-lyric-in-hey-jude\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T03:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:03:58","slug":"john-lennon-convinced-paul-mccartney-to-keep-an-important-lyric-in-hey-jude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/john-lennon-convinced-paul-mccartney-to-keep-an-important-lyric-in-hey-jude\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon convinced Paul McCartney to keep an important lyric in \u201cHey Jude\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-20\/M_PaulMcCartney_ABC.png\" alt><figcaption>ABC\/Heidi Gutman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong> has revealed that if it wasn\u2019t for <strong>John Lennon<\/strong>,\u00a0he may have changed a key lyric in the\u00a0classic <strong>Beatles<\/strong> tune \u201cHey Jude.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During the latest episode of\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/podcasts\/mccartney-a-life-in-lyrics#episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>McCartney A Life in Lyrics<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"><strong> podcast<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, the rocker shared that the line, \u201cThe movement you need is on your shoulder\u201d wasn\u2019t initially supposed to be in the song.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McCartney explains that he originally put the line in as a placeholder but was convinced to keep it in after he performed the song for Lennon and <strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I turn around to John, &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry. I&#8217;ll change that,'&#8221; he shared. &#8220;And he looked at me and said, &#8216;You won&#8217;t, you know? It&#8217;s the best line, innit?'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Hey Jude&#8221; was inspired by McCartney\u2019s relationship with Lennon\u2019s son\u00a0<strong>Julian Lennon\u00a0<\/strong>and was written after John left his wife and Julian\u2019s mom,\u00a0<strong>Cynthia<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for <strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The song went on to be a Beatles classic, spending nine weeks at #1, which at that time tied a record for the most weeks in the top spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC\/Heidi Gutman Paul McCartney has revealed that if it wasn\u2019t for John Lennon,\u00a0he may have changed a key lyric in the\u00a0classic Beatles tune \u201cHey Jude.\u201d During the latest episode of\u00a0the\u00a0McCartney A Life in Lyrics podcast, the rocker shared that the line, \u201cThe movement you need is on your shoulder\u201d wasn\u2019t<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/john-lennon-convinced-paul-mccartney-to-keep-an-important-lyric-in-hey-jude\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}