OBVIOUS: Hey Jude is definitely not a song about or for Julian Lennon and if you still can’t accept this after all these years, seriously come at me now and I’ll drop you in one shot.
2/ More seriously, McCartneys creation story for the song is so obviously bogus I’ve long wondered just why he came up with it. I think his first mention of it he is well past 40. So I’ve always assumed it’s midlife McCartney trying to domestic ideas and inspirations from his ...
3/ mid-20s. Now it’s conceivable that the the refrain originated as something tied to Lennon’s son, though I think this is actually pretty doubtful. If it is in any way about or for a 5 year old boy it is almost comically inappropriate since it’s main themes are adult love ...
4/ and lyric references and musical progression which seem clearly to reference an ecstatic drug experience. John Lennon thought the song was abt him and his then new relationship with Yoko Ono.
5/ I don’t know what the song is about. Like many great songs I don’t think it is ‘about’ any literal thing or any one thing. That’s not how songs work. Indeed Lennon and McCartney on more than one occasion combined shards of completely unrelated songs, entirely different ...
6/ origins, into a single composite song. In any case, I have my own ideas about it’s themes and lyric references. But it’s not a song about or for a 5 year old boy. And beyond its inherent implausibility McCartney’s explanation also doesn’t square with what he ...
7/ said at the time, or what close friends and his band mates understood it to be about or how it had originated at the time. My real curiosity is just why he came up with such a clearly phony explanation.
