In “Hey Jude,” it sounds warm and inviting, like the tune as a whole. In contrast, the piano riffs in “Bohemian Rhapsody” sound nervous, desperate, and sad. They fit with the song’s ...

The band spent 31 July and 1 August 1968 recording Hey Jude at Trident. The piano played by McCartney on those sessions was ...

The pain in “Hey Jude” resonated in 1968, in a world reeling from wars, riots and assassinations. And it’s why it sounds timely in the summer of 2018, as our world keeps getting colder.

The band spent 31 July and 1 August 1968 recording Hey Jude at Trident. The piano played by McCartney on those sessions was the Trident house piano, a handmade 1898 C. Bechstein grand, installed in ...

Musically, “Hey Jude” has a particularly disparate beginning and end. Starting off as a harmless piano ballad, it soon becomes a rock tune, and finishes with a glorious clamor of “nah nah ...

After all these years, Julian Lennon admits "Hey Jude," the song Paul McCartney wrote for him, got under his skin. Lennon, the son of the late John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia, who passed ...