4 of the Best Beatles Songs About Real-Life Events
The best creative inspiration often comes from observing the world around us, and these Beatles songs about real-life events are certainly no exception. And indeed, the Fab Four had plenty going on in their respective realities, personally and globally, from which they could draw inspiration for lyrics, song titles, and more. From the changes happening in their own lives to the tumultuous air of change that permeated the 1960s, the Beatles took these events and transformed them into great music.
Here’s some of the best.
“Hey Jude”
For most of the Beatles’ tenure, John Lennon was with his first wife, Cynthia Lennon, with whom he had his first son, Julian. By the late 1960s, John divorced Cynthia, married Yoko Ono in March 1969, and had his second son, Sean. Paul McCartney, who had been like an uncle to Julian, wrote “Hey Jude” while driving to visit Julian and Cynthia.
“I thought, as a friend of the family, I would motor out to Weybridge. Tell them that everything was all right,” McCartney recalled in Anthology. “To try and cheer them up, basically, and see how they were. I would always turn the radio off and try and make up songs, just in case. I started singing: ‘Hey Jules, don’t make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.’ It was optimistic, a hopeful message for Julian. ‘Come on, man, your parents got divorced. I know you’re not happy, but you’ll be okay.’”
“A Day in the Life”
“A Day in the Life” is the sprawling closer to the Beatles’ 1967
Source: americansongwriter.com/Melanie Davis
