Official album • Released in 1996
4:21 • Outtake • C • Stereo • Live-in-the-studio outtake. While the master version - issued at the end of August 1968 - was long and lavish, this studio run-through of Hey Jude, taped four days earlier, is comparatively abbreviated and purposely stripped-down: live piano and vocal from Paul, live drums, acoustic and electric guitars. The take begins in a jestful manner: John speaks of "the heart of the Black country", the name of the old smoke-stack industrial region in the middle of England, and Paul responds with a mention of Boston Place, a small London street where the Beatles' company Apple had just installed an electronics laboratory. (Also, the Beatles had been filmed running along Boston Place for the title sequence of A Hard Day's Night.)
Paul McCartney : Piano, Vocal Ringo Starr : Drums John Lennon : Acoustic guitar George Harrison : Electric guitar Ken Scott : Recording engineer
Session Recording: Jul 29, 1968 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
