‘Pop Music English’

“Hey Jude” came out in 1968. Paul McCartney wrote it for John Lennon’s son Julian when Julian was five years old to cheer him up during his parents separation and divorce. The song was originally called “Hey Julian,” then “Hey Jules,” then, finally, “Hey Jude” because they thought “Jude” sounded better in the […]

It’s easy to learn English if you sing along with your favorite songs.
In this next series of Easy English lessons, I’ve picked three pop (abbreviation for “popular”) songs from each decade since the 1960s to teach you the words (also called “lyrics”) to them and to explain the phrases that might confuse people […]