August 24, 1968, I hear Hey Jude for the first time. It was on WABC -in New York and It was on a small transistor radio. I was a waiter at Kutsher’s CC in the Catskills and I was half asleep, in between breakfast and lunch work. It seemed to go on forever. I couldn’t get over what I had just heard! To me, it is the greatest song ever. In college that fall, I would not leave the car if it was on the radio until the song was over (and it was on every single hour, during its nine week run at Number One.) Needless to say, I was late for many classes in my senior year!!! All these years later it is still 7:11 of pure joy and magic. The final song that Liverpool performs at the FESTS is always Hey Jude. Go have a listen to it today. See what I mean.