‘Hey Jude’ had been on sale in America for a week before the band were able to record this video. ⁠ ⁠ To shoot it, they returned to Twickenham Film Studios, and used director Michael Lindsay-Hogg who had worked with them on ‘Paperback Writer’ and ‘Rain’.⁠ ⁠ An audience of around 300 local people were brought in for the song’s finale - as well as some of the fans that gathered regularly outside Abbey Road Studio. ⁠ ⁠ Their presence had an unlikely upside for The Beatles in their long-running saga