In all likelihood, the Beatles didn't set out to challenge radio programmers' time constraints when they released the seven-minute-plus "Hey Jude" on Aug. 26, 1968. They were, as was always the case, ...

Promotional portrait of the British rock band The Beatles, circa 1963. Paul McCartney holds a cigarette, others are (left to right) Ringo Starr, George Harrison (1943 - 2001) and John Lennon. The ...

It is a testament to the awesome power of “Hey Jude”—arguably the single best Beatles song, inarguably among the longest, proudly one of the most joyous Beatles songs, and quietly one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Martin and the Beatles, the studio was dark the next day, as Lennon and McCartney worked at the latter's Cavendish Avenue home ...

This article originally appeared on Rolling Stone. “Hey Jude” sums up the Beatles’ turbulent summer of 1968 — a tribute to their friendship, right at the moment it was starting to fracture. The single ...

"I actually said ‘You can’t make a single that long.’ I was shouted down by the boys — not for the first time in my life." “Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin — The Later Years ...