Hey Jude
(aka Beatles Again)





Hey Jude
Released: February 26, 1970
Produced by: George Martin
Engineered by: Norman Smith/Geoff Emerick
Label: Apple SO-385
Number of tracks: 10
Total time: 32:32
  compilation
LP: stereo

Album Notes

In early 1970 in the United States, Hey Jude was released even though Abbey Road was still doing very well in the charts. This new L.P. release was heavily advertised, and consequently had almost two million copies as advance orders, and peaked at No. 2 in the charts. It took one month to sell it's first million, and eventually sold 3,750,000. Sales were so good, that export copies were pressed in the U.K. and shipped abroad.

So, with sales so bouyant, what did E.M.I. do in the U.K. ? ... release it 11th May 1979 (PCS 7184) NINE years later. E.M.I. had been officially selling it as an import in the early 70's, and it was one of their biggest selling import albums. In 1979 with NO advertising, not surprisingly, it sold just a few thousand copies and it failed to chart.

What is also odd, is that the Rarities album was around at the same time, and only had "Rain" in mono, and yet here it is in stereo.



Side 1:

Can't Buy Me Love
I Should Have Known Better
Paperback Writer
Rain
Lady Madonna
Revolution
Side 2:

Hey Jude
Old Brown Shoe
Don't Let Me Down
The Ballad Of John and Yoko



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