This Day in Music - 28 September

28 September 1968 - The Beatles started a nine week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Hey Jude'. The Paul McCartney song written about Lennon's son Julian gave the group their 16th US No.1 and the biggest selling single of 1968. John Lennon later admitted that he though McCartney had written the song about him: 'I always heard it as a song to me. If you think about it... Yoko's just come into the picture. He's saying. "Hey, Jude--Hey, John." I know I'm sounding like one of those fans who reads things into it, but you can hear it as a song to me ... Subconsciously, he was saying, Go ahead, leave me. On a conscious level, he didn't want me to go ahead.'