![]() It's strange to think someone has written a song about you. You think, where's the love in that? It surprises me whenever I hear the song. There was some very negative stuff - like when he said that I'd come out of a whisky bottle on a Saturday night. I've never really wanted to know the truth of how Dad was and how he was with me. There seem to be far more pictures of me and Paul playing at that age than me and Dad. Paul and I used to hang out quite a bit - more than Dad and I did. In Steve Turner's book The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song, Julian said: "Paul told me he'd been thinking about my circumstances, about what I was going through and what I'd have to go through. He admitted to Paul that growing up, he'd always felt closer to him than to his own father. ![]() In 1987 Julian ran into Paul in New York City when they were staying at the same hotel and he finally heard Paul tell him the story of the song firsthand. ![]() The change to "Jude" was inspired by the character "Jud" in the musical Oklahoma! (McCartney loves show tunes) Paul McCartney wrote this as "Hey Jules," a song meant to comfort John Lennon's 5-year-old son Julian as his parents were getting a divorce. ![]()
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