Yesterday ----- Cover ---- The Beatles

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Yesterday" is a pop song originally recorded by The Beatles for their 1965 album Help!. According to the Guinness Book of 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.

"Yesterday" takes the form of a melancholic acoustic ballad about a break-up. It was the first official recording by The Beatles that relied upon a performance by a single member of the band — Paul McCartney 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. Although credited to "Lennon/McCartney", the song was written solely by McCartney.

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, turned on a tape recorder, and played the tune to avoid letting it slip into the recesses of his mind.[1]

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."[1]

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", was used for the song until something more suitable was written. In his biography, "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'."[2]

During the shooting of Help!, a piano was placed on one of the stages where filming was being conducted. McCartney would take advantage of this opportunity to perform "Scrambled Eggs" accompanied by the piano. Richard Lester, the director, was greatly annoyed by this, and eventually lost his temper, telling McCartney to finish writing the song, or he would have the piano removed.[1] McCartney's original lyrics were, "Scrambled eggs, Oh, baby how I love your legs."[citation needed]

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, Beatles for Sale and A Hard Day's Night, both of which could have included "Yesterday". Although McCartney has never elaborated his claims, it is likely that the reason for such a long delay, if it existed, was a disagreement between McCartney and George Martin regarding the song's arrangement, or, equally likely, the distaste of the other Beatles for the song.[1]

Lennon later indicated that the song had been around for a while before:

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[gibbo2864]

fantastic! (could you post the chord's)

[4846steven]

@gibbo2864 check out chordie.com you will find them there as i cant remeber thank you for your comment my friend

[gabi2105]

my God, thank you for being in this world. I love Beatles, I love your voice. 

[4846steven]

@gabi2105 hey gabi thank you so much for your kind words smiles to you

[teacherjoyceann]

100* Can listen to this incredible performance a hundred times and still want more...

Steven this has to be one of the BEST covers of any song on You Tube...have it in my favs and listen to it ALOT!

Hugs

Joyce

[4846steven]

thanks a million joyce that means alot thank you

[ivelinafilipova]

the emotion you put into singing this song made me cry, thank you for this performance

[alexandraxxxxxx]

such an outstanding cover....lovely hearing again.....

[Paramoreislife18]

This was incredible! Your voice is absolutely amazing. Love this and love the song. (:

[tatu3670]

mucho sentimiento en la cancion,es bellisima

[baxw03z]

Really Relly Good one!!!

And the Boy named sue cover is great too!!!

[LeonardandPaul]

We saw this video in the related section of our Yesterday Cover. Amazing job! Glad we found it.