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Paul Performing Yesterday 1965
"Yesterday" is a song originally recorded by The Beatles for their 1965 album Help!.
According to Guinness World Records, "Yesterday" has the most cover versions of any song ever written. The song remains popular today with more than 3,000 recorded cover versions, the first hitting the United Kingdom top 10 three months after the release of Help!. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century alone.
The song was not released as a single in the UK at the time of the US release, and thus never gained number 1 single status in that country. However, "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners. In 2000, "Yesterday" was voted the #1 Pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1997, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
"Yesterday" takes the form of a melancholic acoustic guitar ballad about a breakup. It was the first official recording by The Beatles that relied upon a performance by a single member of the band, namely, Paul McCartney. He was accompanied solely by a string quartet.
The final recording differed so greatly from other works by The Beatles that the other three members of the band vetoed the release of the song as a single in the United Kingdom (however, in 1976 it was eventually issued as a single there).
Although credited to "Lennon/McCartney", the song was written solely by McCartney. In 2002, McCartney asked Yoko Ono if she would consider reversing the songwriting credits on the song to read "McCartney/Lennon". Ono refused.
According 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. Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it.
McCartney's initial concern was that he had subconsciously plagiarised someone else's work (known as cryptomnesia). 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 his melody, McCartney began writing lyrics to suit it. As Lennon and McCartney were known to do at the time, a substitute working lyric, entitled "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, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, 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 finally staked my claim; stuck a little sign on it and said, 'Okay, it's mine!' It had no words. I used to call it 'Scrambled Eggs'." Less
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TheEvaPink Says:
May 27, 2012 - me encanta!!
lolaserratoasdfghjkl Says:
May 27, 2012 - Was Paul crying or that's sweat?
lolaserratoasdfghjkl Says:
May 27, 2012 - I identify with you...
anii18 Says:
May 26, 2012 - no he's sweating..
satankaripelu Says:
May 26, 2012 - me encanta esta cancion paul is great
icyvolcanocomics Says:
May 26, 2012 - Is Paul crying?
dongseong kweon Says:
May 26, 2012 - Good
marcos jimenez Says:
May 26, 2012 - *_______*
seTh7editai Says:
May 26, 2012 - Epic :D
Sushi4477 Says:
May 25, 2012 - I wish I was born yesterday...
TheMonkeesRock Says:
May 25, 2012 - I was reading a book about that xD
LovePeaceAndChronic Says:
May 25, 2012 - Greeting from Kenya Love Beatles!!!
sucksessfull Says:
May 25, 2012 - this is the song that made me fall in love with the Beatles<3
Kidanielo Says:
May 25, 2012 - DAS ist echte Musik ! THIS is Real Music !
naT2ureGift Says:
May 25, 2012 - Thank you, Thecoloon, i saw one yesterday already... i add it to my fav, i found it funny.' wishing you a nice weekend.
Thecoloon Says:
May 25, 2012 - I just heard it. I was performed on the Jimmy Fallon show. I think it was a joke. Here listen for yourself. /watch?v=xOSL2VDZAag
mikelowery92 Says:
May 25, 2012 - Hey everyone, my band made it through the first round of this Mello Yello original songwriting competition and I want to ask you all to please take a couple minutes of your time to vote for us to win 25,000 dollars!! This money could really change my life and give me the opportunity to actually pursue my dreams, and make something out of my life. The song is called "Every Thing Is The Way It's Supposed To Be". Here is the adress for voting: facebook.com/MelloYello?sk=app_184182418353621
XxBUSIDOxX Says:
May 25, 2012 - 47 years later but i just ony love this song !
seTh7editai Says:
May 24, 2012 - Total agree
naT2ureGift Says:
May 24, 2012 - since you'd mentioned Jimmy Fallon Show, i look and found one uploaded here in YouTube, its funny.. Thank you so much :)
NASA1POKEMON Says:
May 24, 2012 - Nice thought!!!
HDBeatles Says:
May 24, 2012 - Haha only the first verse is the original lyrics the rest was just the melody. The other lines are what Paul made up when he was on the Jimmy Fallon show a couple of years ago.
naT2ureGift Says:
May 24, 2012 - that is the original lyrics?!!! totally different from what we listening now. thank you for the response...have a nice day.
HDBeatles Says:
May 24, 2012 - There's a place I know where I go for kick-ass wings We could even get a side of onion rings Scrambled Eggs, oh my baby how I love your legs Not as much as I love Scrambled Eggs. Oh lets go get some Scrambled Eggs
HDBeatles Says:
May 24, 2012 - Scrambled Eggs, oh my baby how I love your legs. Not as much as I love scrambled Eggs. Oh we should eat some Scrambled Eggs Waffle Fries, oh my darling how I love your thighs Not as much as i love waffle fries. Oh have you tried the waffle fries They are so damn good that they should be illegal They are like regular fries but shaped like a waffle Tofu wings. Oh my baby when I hear you sing All I think about is Tofu wings. Oh did you bring the Tofu wings?