While just about every iconic songwriter has likely struggled with some form of writer's block at one point or another, there's no question that inspiration sometimes strikes in unlikely and unexpected ways...just ask Paul McCartney.
Released as a single in the U.S. in September 1965, "Yesterday" went on to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains one of the Beatles' most beloved songs of all time. It was ranked as the top pop song of the 20th century by both Rolling Stone and MTV, and it's one of the most-covered songs in music history.
But it all started with a dream McCartney had, as he told author Barry Miles for the 1998 biography Many Years From Now (per Biography).
“I woke up with a lovely tune in my head,” he recalled. “I thought, ‘That’s great, I wonder what that is?’ There was an upright piano next to me, to the right of the bed by the window. I got out of bed, sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor 7th — and that leads you through then to B to E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads forward logically. I liked the melody a lot but because I’d dreamed it I couldn’t believe I’d written it.”
While the melody to "Yesterday" came quickly, the lyrics took a bit more effort. In fact, for a time, McCartney's placeholder lyrics involved a popular breakfast food, as Far Out reported: "Scrambled eggs, Oh you’ve got such lovely legs, Scrambled eggs. Oh, my baby, how I love your legs.”
Finally, the real lyrics came to McCartney while on vacation in Portugal with then-girlfriend Jane Asher on a "long, hot, dusty drive."
“Jane was sleeping but I couldn’t, and when I’m sitting that long in a car I either manage to get to sleep or my brain starts going. I remember mulling over the tune ‘Yesterday,’ and suddenly getting these little one-word openings to the verse.”
To the delight of fans everywhere, the original "Yesterday" lyrics resurfaced in a hilarious performance on The Tonight Show in 2010, when McCartney teamed up with Jimmy Fallon for a performance of "Scrambled Eggs" (which was later released on Fallon's 2012 album Blow Your Pants Off, also featuring appearances by the likes of Eddie Vedder and Bruce Springsteen).
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