Among best Beatles songs what rank does Rolling Stone place " Hey Jude " ?
The first slide - guitar break on the released recording , quite possibly overdubbed some time after the June sessions also , would adopt a near - identical melody to the one Harrison had vocalised when routining the song for the other Beatles on 26 January 1969 – reflecting a quality admired by Elton John in the latter 's 2002 tribute to Harrison : " All his solos are very melodic – you can almost sing his solos . "