![]() ![]() Hey Jude is a crowd-pleaser in another sense. So they walked into the building, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, wearing gowns and mortarboards and belted out the Beatles classic. “I felt tempted to sing them.” At Oxford in 2016, the matriculation ceremony that welcomes every undergraduate was enlivened by a group of students deciding that what the Sheldonian Theatre needed, on a Saturday morning, was a drunken rendition of Hey Jude. “Their Hey Jude stopped after the first verse because I don’t think they knew any more of the words,” Stephen Spurr said. Contacted by the London Evening Standard, the headteacher kept his cool. At Westminster School, at which fees cost more than £23,000 a year, the boys and girls went into Latin prayers one day in 2012 and pulled a stunt planned on Facebook, singing Hey Jude as the organist launched into Deus Misereatur. Those nahh-nahs know no class boundaries. Hey Jude at 50: four things you may not know about the Beatles hit – video “The only good thing that came out of ,” said Shane Warne, commentating on Sky, “was the crowd’s wonderful rendition of Hey Jude.” And it has been sung for the rain – at Edgbaston last year, when a shower sent England and Australia off the field. England supporters sing it for Joe Root, the team’s boyish captain. The song has also become a cricket chant. Into the gap after “Nahh, na, na, nahh-na-na, nahhh”, you can slot almost any pair of syllables – Giroud, City, Geordie. Any decent song needs to be singable, but Hey Jude goes further: it’s yellable and flexible. At Arsenal, Gooners used it to serenade Olivier Giroud, the team’s sleek French striker, who said of the track before he left for Chelsea : “It gives me goosebumps.” It also rings out at Newcastle and Cardiff, thus spanning the four points of the Premier League compass. At Manchester City, fans sang it after the team won their first Premier League title in 2012. Hey Jude, which turns 50 on 30 August, is the Beatles song most likely to be bellowed by a choir of thousands. ![]()
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