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Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 14, 17 June 1965
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith
Released: 6 August 1965 (UK), 13 September 1965 (US)
: vocals, guitar
Tony Gilbert: violin
Sidney Sax: violin
Kenneth Essex: viola
Francisco Gabarro: cello
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Written by Paul McCartney, Yesterday holds the record as the most covered song in history, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
Well, we all know about Yesterday. I have had so much accolade for Yesterday. That's Paul's song and Paul's baby. Well done. Beautiful - and I never wished I'd written it.
John Lennon, 1980
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
Paul McCartney is said to have composed the melody in a dream while staying at the family home of
in Wimpole Street, London.
The melody came to McCartney fully-formed, although he was initially unsure of its originality.
I was living in a little flat at the top of a house and i had a piano by my bed. I woke up one morning with a tune in my head and I thought, 'Hey, I don't know this tune - or do I?' It was like a jazz melody. My dad used to know a l I thought maybe I'd just remembered it from the past. I went to the piano and found the chords to it, made sure I remembered it and then hawked it round to all my friends, asking what it was: 'Do you know this? It's a good little tune, but I couldn't have written it because I dreamt it.'
Paul McCartney
The song's working title was Scrambled E its second line was "Oh my baby how I love your legs.
claims to have first heard the song at the George V hotel in Paris in January 1964.
Paul said he wanted a one-word title and was considering Yesterday, except that he thought it was perhaps too corny. I persuaded him that it was all right.
George Martin
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn
If McCartney did compose Yesterday in early 1964, it would have been left off two Beatles albums before they recorded it. McCartney's authorised biographer Barry Miles put the date of composition at May 1965, during the filming of Help!, when he was known to have been experimenting with the song's lyrics.
We were shooting Help! in the studio for about four weeks. At some point during that period, we had a piano on one of the stages and he was playing this 'Scrambled Eggs' all the time. It got to the point where I said to him, 'If you play that bloody song any longer have the piano taken off stage. Either finish it or give up!'
Richard Lester
A Hard Day's Write, Steve Turner
The Shadows' guitarist Bruce Welch recalled McCartney completing the lyrics in June 1965. McCartney took a holiday at Welch's Portuguese villa, where he is said to have settled on the title Yesterday.
I was packing to leave and Paul asked me if I had a guitar. He'd apparently been working on the lyrics as he drove to Albufeira from the airport at Lisbon. He borrowed my guitar and started playing the song we all now know as Yesterday.
Bruce Welch
A Hard Day's Write, Steve Turner
Although famously arranged for guitar and string quartet, McCartney considered having the BBC Radiophonic Workshop do a futuristic electronic version of Yesterday.
It occurred to me to have the BBC Radiophonic Workshop do the backing track to it and me just sing over an electronic quartet. I went down to see them... The woman who ran it was very nice and they had a little shed at the bottom of the garden where most of the work was done. I said, 'I'm into this sort of stuff.' I'd heard a lot about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, we'd all heard a lot about it. It would have been very interesting to do, but I never followed it up.
Paul McCartney
Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
In the studio
Initial recording for Yesterday took place on 14 June 1965, after the band completed
recorded his guitar and vocals simultaneously in just two takes.
After attempting an unrecorded arrangement of Yesterday with
on Hammond organ,
suggested to McCartney that they use a string quartet - a first for The Beatles.
McCartney was initially skeptical, and insisted the musicians perform without vibrato. McCartney and Martin worked on the score together, with the majority written by Martin.
Writing a song out with George Martin was nearly always the same process. For Yesterday he had said, 'Look, why don't you come round to my house tomorrow? I've got a piano, and I've got the manuscript paper. We'll sit down for an hour or so, and you can let me know what you're looking for'...
He would say, 'This is the way to do the harmony, technically.' And I'd often try to go against that. I'd think, 'Well, why should there be a proper way to do it?'
Yesterday was typical. I remember suggesting the 7th that appears on the cello. George said, 'You definitely wouldn't have that in there. That would be very un-string-quartet. I said, 'Well? Whack it in, George. I've got to have it.'
Paul McCartney
The strings were overdubbed on 17 June, and Paul attempted the vocals again. He didn't use headphones, and the original vocal track leaked from the studio speakers to the second recording, giving the impression of double-tracked singing.
The string players went uncredited on Help!, the album Yesterday first appeared on. Rather than being a regular quartet, the other players were recruited by violinist Tony Gilbert especially for the session.
Yesterday's legacy
The Beatles never allowed Yesterday to be released as a single in the UK, fearing that it would affect their image. The song did, however, become a part of the band's full live set during their 1966 world tour.
I wouldn't have put it out as a solo Paul McCartney record. We never entertained those ideas. It wa people would flatter us: 'Oh, you know you should get out front,' or, 'You should put a solo record out. But we always said no. In fact, we didn't release Yesterday as a single in England at all, because we were a little embarrassed about it - we were a rock 'n' roll band.
Paul McCartney
In 1980 John Lennon explained how he was often mistakenly credited with having written the song.
I go to restaurants and the groups always play Yesterday.
and I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us Yesterday. He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing .
John Lennon, 1980
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
In the same interview Lennon spoke of McCartney's skills as a lyricist.
A couple of lines he's come up with show indications he's a good lyricist, but he just never took it anywhere. He wrote the lyrics to Yesterday. Although the lyrics don't resolve into any sense, they're good lines. They certainly work. You know what I mean? They're good - but if you read the whole song, it doesn't say you don't know what happened. She left and he wishes it was yesterday - that much you get - but it doesn't really resolve. So, mine didn't use to resolve, either...
John Lennon
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
Yesterday was issued as a US single in September 1966. Newspapers at the time commentated that "Paul McCartney is number one without the other Beatles". It swiftly became the most-played song on American radio, a position it held for eight consecutive years.
Since its release there have been over 3,000 cover versions of Yesterday.
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"Yesterday"
"Yesterday" is a song by English rock band
written by
(credited to ) first issued for their
released August, 1965. Yesterday with B-side
was released as a
single September, 1965. While it topped the American chart in 1965 the song first hit the British top 10 three months after the release of Help! in a cover version by . The song also appeared on the U.S. album
released June, 1966.
McCartney's vocal and
together with a
essentially made for the first solo performance of the band. It remains popular today with more than 2,200
and is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music."Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999
poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. 1 pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the following year. In 1997, the song was inducted into the .
(BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century alone.
"Yesterday" is a melancholy
about the break-up of a relationship. McCartney is the only member of the Beatles to appear on the recording. 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. However, it was issued as a
single in 1965 and reissued there in 1976. In 2000 McCartney asked
if she would agree to change the credit on the song to read "McCartney–Lennon" in , but she refused.
According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire
in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend
and her family. Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it.
McCartney's initial concern was that he had subconsciously
someone else's work (known as ). 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. Eventually it became like handing something in to the police. I thought if no one claimed it after a few weeks then I could have it."
Upon being convinced that he had not robbed anyone of their melody, McCartney began writing
to suit it. 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"), was used for the song until something more suitable was written. In his biography, , McCartney recalled: "So first of all I checked this melody out, and people said to me, 'No, it's lovely, and I'm sure it's all yours.' It took me a little while to allow myself to claim it, but then like a prospector I fin stuck a little sign on it and said, 'Okay, it's mine!' It had no words. I used to call it 'Scrambled Eggs'."
During the shooting of , a piano was placed on one of the stages where filming was being conducted and McCartney took advantage of this opportunity to tinker with the song. , the director, was eventually greatly annoyed by this and lost his temper, telling McCartney to finish writing the song or he would have the piano removed. The patience of the other Beatles was also tested by McCartney's work in progress, George Harrison summing this up when he said: "Blimey, he's always talking about that song. You'd think he was Beethoven or somebody!"
McCartney originally claimed he had written "Yesterday" during the Beatles' tour of France in 1964; however, the song was not released until the summer of 1965. During the intervening time, the Beatles released two albums,
and , both of which could have included "Yesterday". Although McCartney has never elaborated on his claims, a delay may have been due to a disagreement between McCartney and
regarding the song's , or the opinion of the other Beatles who felt it did not suit their image.
Lennon later indicated that the song had been around for a while before:
"The song was around for months and months before we finally completed it. Every time we got together to write songs for a recording session, this one would come up. We almost had it finished. Paul wrote nearly all of it, but we just couldn't find the right title. We called it 'Scrambled Eggs' and it became a joke between us. We made up our minds that only a one-word title would suit, we just couldn't find the right one. Then one morning Paul woke up and the song and the title were both there, completed. I was sorry in a way, we'd had so many laughs about it."
McCartney said the breakthrough with the lyrics came during a trip to
in May 1965:
"I remember mulling over the tune 'Yesterday', and suddenly getting these little one-word openings to the verse. I started to develop the idea ... da-da da, yes-ter-day, sud-den-ly, fun-il-ly, mer-il-ly and Yes-ter-day, that's good. All my troubles seemed so far away. It's easy to rhyme those a's: say, nay, today, away, play, stay, there's a lot of rhymes and those fall in quite easily, so I gradually pieced it together from that journey. Sud-den-ly, and 'b' again, another easy rhyme: e, me, tree, flea, we, and I had the basis of it."
On 27 May 1965, McCartney and Asher flew to
for a holiday in , , and he borrowed an acoustic guitar from , in whose house they were staying, and completed the work on "Yesterday". The song was offered as a demo to
before the Beatles recorded it, but he turned it down as he considered it "too soft".
In a March 1967 interview with , McCartney claimed that Lennon came up with the song's title:
Brian: "Give us the inside story on the song 'Yesterday.'"
John: "Ah well, this is John saying I don't know anything about that one. I'll hand you over to Paul."
Paul: "[laughs] This is Paul, taking up the story in a holiday villa in . Strumming away on a medieval guitar, I thought [sings] 'Scrambled Egg.' But I never could finish it, and eventually I took it back in. With the ancient wisdom of the east, John came out with [sings] 'Yesterday'."
The track was recorded at
on 14 June 1965, immediately following the taping of "", and four days before McCartney's 23rd birthday. There are conflicting accounts of how the song was recorded, the most quoted one being that McCartney recorded the song by himself, without bothering to involve the other band members. Alternative sources, however, state that McCartney and the other Beatles tried a variety of instruments, including drums and an , and that
later persuaded them to allow McCartney to play his
, later on editing-in a string quartet for backup. Regardless, none of the other band members was included in the final recording. However, the song was played with the other members of the band in concert during 1966, in
instead of .
McCartney performed two
of "Yesterday" on 14 June 1965. Take 2 was deemed better and used as the
take. On 17 June, an additional vocal track by McCartney and a string quartet were
on take 2 and that version was released.
Take 1, without the string overdub, was later released on the
compilation. On take 1, McCartney can be heard giving chord changes to
before starting, but George does not appear to actually play. Take 2 had two lines transposed from the first take: "There's a shadow hanging over me"/"I'm not half the man I used to be", though it seems clear that their order in take 2 was the correct one, because McCartney can be heard, in take 1, suppressing a laugh at his mistake.
In 2006, just before the album
was released, George Martin elaborated on the recording set-up of the song:
"Paul played his guitar and sang it live, a mic on the guitar and mic on the voice. But, of course, the voice comes on to the guitar mic and the guitar comes on to the voice mic. So there's leakage there. Then I said I'd do a string quartet. The musicians objected to playing with headphones, so I gave them Paul's voice and guitar on two speakers either side of their microphones. So there's leakage of Paul's guitar and voice on the string tracks."
Personnel as given by
– lead vocal and
Tony Gilbert – violin
Kenneth Essex –
Peter Halling/Francisco Gabarro – cello
George Martin – producer
– engineer
Concerning the debate on how the song should be released, Martin later said:
[Yesterday] wasn't really a Beatles record and I discussed this with : 'You know this is Paul's song ... shall we call it Paul McCartney?' He said 'No, whatever we do we are not splitting up the Beatles.'
The leakage of sound from one track to another was a concern later, when the surround version of the song was mixed for the album , but it was decided to include it nevertheless. As Martin explained in the liner notes of Love:
We agonised over the inclusion of "Yesterday" in the show. It is such a famous song, the icon of an era, but had it been heard too much? The story of the addition of the original string quartet is well known, however, few people know how limited the recording was technically, and so the case for not including it was strong, but how could we ignore such a marvellous work? We introduced it with some of Paul's guitar work from "", and hearing it now, I know it was right to include it. Its sim it tugs at the heartstrings.
Chart (1965)
U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Norwegian Singles Chart
Dutch Top 40
Australia Singles Chart
German Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
Austrian Top 40
Spanish Singles Chart
Chart (1976)
Chart (2010)
Ostensibly simple, featuring only McCartney playing an
backed by a
in one of the Beatles' first use of session musicians, "Yesterday" has two contrasting sections, differing in melody and rhythm, producing a sense of disjunction.
The first section ("Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away ...") opens with an F
(the 3rd of the chord is omitted), then moving to Em7 before proceeding to A7 and then to D-minor. In this sense, the open as musicologist
points out, the home key (F-major) has little time to establish itself before "heading towards the relative D-minor." He points out that this diversion is a compositional device commonly used by Lennon and McCartney, which he describes as "delayed gratification".
The second section ("Why she had to go I don't know ...") is, according to Pollack, less musically surprising on paper than it sounds. Starting with Em7, the harmonic progression quickly moves through the A-major, D-minor, and (closer to F-major) B?, before resolving back to F-major, and at the end of this, McCartney holds F while the strings descend to resolve to the home key to introduce the restatement of the first section, before a brief hummed closing phrase.
Pollack described the scoring as "truly inspired", citing it as an example of "[Lennon & McCartney's] flair for creating stylistic hybrids"; in particular, he praises the "ironic tension drawn between the schmaltzy content of what is played by the quartet and the restrained, spare nature of the medium in which it is played."
of the song is F major (although, since McCartney tuned his guitar down a whole step, he was playing the chords as if it were in G), where the song begins before veering off into the key of D minor. It is this frequent use of the minor, and the ii-V7
(Em and A7 chords in this case) leading into it, that gives the song its melancholy aura. The A7 chord is an example of a , specifically a V/vi chord. The G7 chord in the bridge is another secondary dominant, in this case a V/V chord, but rather than
it to the expected chord, as with the A7 to Dm in the verse, McCartney instead follows it with the IV chord, a B?. This motion creates a descending
line of C–B–B?–A to accompany the title lyric.
The string arrangement reinforces the song's air of sadness, in the groaning cello line that connects the two halves of the , notably the "" seventh in the second bridge pass (the E? played after the vocal line, "I don't know / she wouldn't say") and in the descending run by the
that segues the bridge back into the verses, mimicked by McCartney's vocal on the second pass of the bridge. This viola line, the "blue" cello phrase, the high A sustained by the violin over the final verse and the minimal use of vibrato are elements of the string arrangement attributable to McCartney rather than George Martin.
When the song was performed on , it was done in the above-mentioned key of F, with McCartney as the only Beatle to perform, and the studio orchestra providing the string accompaniment. However, all of the Beatles played in a G-major version which was used in the Tokyo concerts during their 1966 tours.
When McCartney appeared on , he stated that he owns the original lyrics to "Yesterday" written on the back of an . McCartney later performed the original "Scrambled Eggs" version of the song, plus additional new lyrics, with
In 2001, Ian Hammond speculated that McCartney subconsciously based "Yesterday" on ' version of "", but closed his article by saying that despite the similarities "Yesterday" is a "completely original and individual [work]."
In July 2003, British
stumbled upon superficial similarities between the lyric and rhyming schemes of "Yesterday" and 's and 's "" (originally a German song by Gerhard Winkler and Fred Rauch called Mütterlein, it was a No.1 hit for Laine on the UK charts in 1953 as "Answer Me, O Lord"), leading to speculation that McCartney had been influenced by the song. McCartney's publicists denied any resemblance between "Answer Me, My Love" and "Yesterday". "Yesterday" begins with the lines: "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here to stay." In its second stanza, "Answer Me, My Love" has the lines: "You were mine yesterday. I believed that love was here to stay. Won't you tell me where I've gone astray".
Eleven years after the US release, EMI released "Yesterday" on a single in the UK
Since "Yesterday" was unlike the Beatles' previous work and did not fit in with their image, and was essentially a solo recording, the Beatles refused to permit the release of a single in the United Kingdom. This did not prevent
from recording the first of many cover versions of "Yesterday". His version made it into the top ten in the UK charts soon after its release in the autumn of 1965.
The Beatles' influence over their US record label, , was not as strong as it was over 's
in Britain. A single was released in the US, pairing "Yesterday" with "", a track which featured vocals by Starr. The single was released on 13 September 1965 and topped the
chart for four weeks, beginning on 9 October. The song spent a total of 11 weeks on the chart, selling a million copies within five weeks. The single was also number one for three weeks on the U.S. Cashbox pop singles chart the same year.
"Yesterday" was the fifth of six number one singles in a row on the American charts, a record at the time. The other singles were "", "", "", "", and "". "Yesterday" also marked a turning point in who wrote number one singles for the group. Lennon wrote five through "Help!", whereas afterwards McCartney wrote eight starting with "Yesterday". On 4 March 1966, "Yesterday" was released as an
in the UK, joined by "" on the
with "" and "" on the . By 12 March, it had begun its run on the charts. On 26 March 1966, the EP went to number one, a position it held for two months. Later that same year, "Yesterday" was included as the title track for the US-only
album, which was originally packaged in the "butcher sleeve".
Ten years later on 8 March 1976, "Yesterday" was released by
as a single in the UK, featuring "" on the B-side. Entering the charts on 13 March, the single stayed there for seven weeks, but it never rose higher than number 8 (however, by this time the song had been featured on no less than three top 5 albums and an EP which topped the charts). The release came about due to the expiration of the Beatles' contract with , Parlophone's parent. EMI released as many singles by the Beatles as they could on the same day, leading to 23 of them hitting the top 100 in the UK charts, including six in the top 50.
In 2006, a version of the song was included on the album . The version begins with the
intro from the song "" only with "Blackbird" transposed down a whole step to F major from its original key G to transition smoothly into "Yesterday".
"Yesterday" is one of the most recorded songs in the hist its entry in Guinness World Records states that, by January
cover versions had been made. The song has been covered by an eclectic mix of artists including , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
(1967), , ,
(1965), , , , , , , , , , , , and . In 1976,
did a cover version of the song for the ephemeral musical documentary . After
switched in the 1990s to programs based on commercial recordings, Muzak's inventory grew to include about 500 "Yesterday" covers. At the 2006 Grammy Awards, McCartney performed the song live as a mash-up with
and 's "".
"Yesterday" won the
for 'Outstanding Song of 1965', and came second for 'Most Performed Work of the Year', losing out to the Lennon/McCartney composition, "". The song has received its fair share of acclaim in recent times as well, ranking 13th on 's 2004 list "" and fourth on the magazine's list "The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs" (compiled in 2010). In 1999,
(BMI) placed "Yesterday" third on their list of songs of the 20th century most performed on American radio and television, with approximately seven million performances. "Yesterday" was surpassed only by 's "" and the ' "". "Yesterday" was voted Best Song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll.
The song was inducted into the
in 1997. Although the song was nominated for
at the , it ultimately lost to 's "."
In an interview with one of McCartney's influences,
said that "Yesterday" was the song that he wished that he had written.
"Yesterday", however, has also been criticised for being
had a marked dislike for the song, stating that "If you go into the , you can find a lot better than that. There are millions of songs like 'Michelle' and 'Yesterday' written in ". Ironically, Dylan ultimately recorded his own version of "Yesterday" four years later, but it was never released.
Shortly before his death in 1980, Lennon explained that he thought the lyrics did not "resolve into any sense ... They're good – but if you read the whole song, it doesn' you don't know what happened. She left and he wishes it were yesterday – that much you get – but it doesn't really resolve. ... Beautiful – and I never wished I'd written it." "Paul wrote this great song, 'Yesterday.' It's a beautiful song. I never wished I'd written it, and I don't believe in yesterday ... Life begins at 40, so they promise and I believe it. What's going to come?" Lennon made reference to the song on his album
with the song "". The song appears to attack McCartney with the line "The only thing you done was Yesterday, but since you've gone you're just ". Lennon later said to Playboy that the song reflected a struggle with his own feelings rather than an attack on the apparent target, McCartney.
Preceded by
9 October 1965
(four weeks)
Succeeded by
At one time,
cited "Yesterday" with the most
of any song ever written – 2,200. However, "", an aria composed by
for the 1935 opera
has been claimed to have well over 30,000 recorded performances, far more than the 1,600 claimed for "Yesterday".
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