When BEATLE PAUL McCARTNEY scrawled "Hey Jude" on a storefront window, he was accused of being an anti-Semite!
While the Beatles were finishing up their single "Hey Jude" backed by "Revolution' in 1968 their Apple retail store in London had been shuttered. In an attempt in failed publicity, Paul defaced it with a PR blurb and set off a furor!
On 7 August 1968, McCartney took his then- GF, Francie Schwartz, and the Beatles' personal assistant Alistair Taylor to the Apple Boutique, which had closed only a week before.
He promptly scarwled "Hey Jude" on its large plate glass window facing the street. Within a day, the hand-made promo was mistaken for an anti-Semitic graffiti and the window was promptly smashed.
Clueless Paul recalled the troubling incident in 1996 upon the release of "The Beatles' Anthology".