Hey Jude has formed part of pre and post-match signing sessions at Brentford for longer than many care to remember, with the club getting their first feel for the song back in the 1970s.
It has been part of the fabric in west London ever since, with former stadium announcer Peter Gilham the man that unwittingly started a long-running trend.
He told The Athletic when asked how a Beatles track became engrained in Bees folklore: “Hey Jude came out in 1968. In 1969, it was my first year on radio. In those days, I would sit in a box at the back of the stand (at Griffin Park), make an announcement and put the music on as well.
“During the 1970s, there was a group of us who would socialise and go to home and away games. One of them was a girl called Judy Kaufman. Judy was known as Jude and therefore I used to play the song for her.
“It’s just been adopted by Brentford fans listening to it and it evolved pretty quickly. It was an innocent start — it wasn’t launched to become a Brentford anthem!”
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