As Lennon and McCartney were known to do at the time, a substitute working lyric, titled "Scrambled Eggs" (the working opening verse was "Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby how I love your legs/Not as much as I love scrambled eggs"), was used for the song until something more suitable was written. Upon being convinced that he had not copied the melody, McCartney began writing lyrics to suit it. I thought if no one claimed it after a few weeks then I could have it." Eventually it became like handing something in to the police. As he put it, "For about a month I went round to people in the music business and asked them whether they had ever heard it before.
McCartney's initial concern was that he had subconsciously plagiarised someone else's work. Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it. The Beatles recording was issued as a single there in 1976 and peaked at number 8.Īccording to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family. The final recording was so different from other works by the Beatles that the band members vetoed the release of the song as a single in the United Kingdom, although other artists were quick to record versions of it for single release. McCartney is the only member of the Beatles to appear on the track. The singer nostalgically laments for yesterday when he and his love were together, before she left because of something he said. "Yesterday" is a melancholy ballad about the break-up of a relationship. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century. In 1997, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. 1 pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the following year. "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. It remains popular today and, with more than 2,200 cover versions, is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music. McCartney's vocal and acoustic guitar, together with a string quartet, essentially made for the first solo performance of the band. It subsequently appeared on the UK EP Yesterday in March 1966 and made its US album debut on Yesterday and Today, in June 1966. The song reached number one on the US charts.
It was first released on the album Help! in August 1965, except in the United States, where it was issued as a single in September.
" Yesterday" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.
0 kommentar(er)
