THE BEATLES - HEY JUDE
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The Beatles
Published on Dec 7, 2015
The Beatles 1 Video Collection is out
now. Available on: http://www.thebeatles.com/
Hey Jude topped the charts in Britain
for two weeks and for 9 weeks in America, where it became The Beatles
longest-running No.1 in the US singles chart as well as the single with the
longest running time.
The Beatles did not record their
promotional film until Hey Jude had been on sale in America for a week. They
returned to Twickenham Film Studio, using director Michael Lindsay-Hogg who had
worked with them on Paperback Writer and Rain. Earlier still, Lindsay-Hogg had
directed episodes of Ready Steady Go! And a few months after the film for Hey
Jude he made The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus TV special that featured
John and Yoko but wouldn’t be shown until 1996
To help with the filming an audience
of around 300 local people, as well as some of the fans that gathered regularly
outside Abbey Road Studios were brought in for the song’s finale. Their
presence had an unlikely upside for The Beatles in their long-running saga with
the Musicians’ Union in that the MU were fooled into believing the band were
playing live, when in fact they were miming for the vast majority of the song.
Paul, however, sang live throughout the song.
The video was first broadcast on David
Frost’s Frost On Sunday show, four days after it was filmed. At that point
transmission was in black and white although the promo was originally shot in
colour. It was first aired in America a month later on 6 October 1968, on The
Smotheres Brothers Comedy Hour.
Grateful thanks to THE BEATLES.COM and
YouTube.
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