McCartney Times

Some of the best songs tend to fall out of the sky, and that’s exactly what happened to Paul McCartney. As The Beatles were on the upswing in the early 1960s, Macca had a tune working around in his head that came to him in a dream, which would soon become ‘Yesterday’. Although the writing might have taken some time to turn into the melancholy ballad, McCartney had reservations about committing it to The Beatles.When McCartney originally dreamed the idea, he thought he remembered it from one of his father’s old jazz records, thinking that nothing that brilliant could have come into his brain that quickly. As he fleshed it out during the production of the movie Help!, McCartney started to take the song more seriously, painting a vivid picture of a romantic relationship in its bitter end stages.

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