Music
Musically, "Hey Jude" isn't complicated. There's no introduction; for the first eight bars, we hear only piano and voice. New instruments are added slowly, even methodically: the rhythm guitar an...
Speaker
Everybody pretty much agrees that McCartney is the speaker in "Hey Jude," and that there's an autobiographical quality to the song. The only disagreement is over to whom McCartney is speaking.McCa...