While living in his girlfriend's home on Wimpole Street, Paul McCartneyawoke from a dream with a melody in his head. He rushed to a piano to write it down in order to not forget it. For several weeks after the fact, McCartney was convinced he must have inadvertently plagiarized another melody saying: "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."
After coming to the conclusion that he had not plagiarized the tune, McCartney began working on fully composing the song with John Lennon. Lennon and McCartney would often use placeholder lyrics, and did so with this song and it became somewhat of a joke within the band. The "original" lyrics being "Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby how I love your legs/Not as much as I love scrambled eggs")."
In May of 1965, McCartney had a breakthrough on the lyrics and ended up completing the song. The song would end up being the acoustic ballad, "Yesterday."
Compared to other songs in the discography for The Beatles, "Yesterday" is shockingly simple. Featuring only McCartney on guitar and vocals with a simple string quartet behind him, the song lasts less than two minutes in run time.
"Yesterday" has gone on to be one of the most recorded songs in music history, and holds the Guinness World Record for most covers of a single song, with there being over 4,000 on record. The simple track was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1997. According to the BBC, "Yesterday" is fourth-most-successful song of all time in terms of royalties paid, having amassed a total of over 20 million pounds over time.
On the list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time,"Rolling Stone ranked "Yesterday" at number 13. While most people interpret the song as something of a breakup anthem, when asked if it could have been related to the loss of his mother, McCartney said, "I didn't mean it to be, but it could be."
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