"Yesterday" was a problem for The Beatles at first, but producer George Martin found a way to fix it and keep the Fab Four ...

“Yesterday” was, in effect, the first solo record from a Beatle. Paul McCartney famously wrote the song’s melody while asleep, hearing it in a dream. He held onto it for weeks, convinced that he’d ...

While many rank “Yesterday” among the greatest songs ever written, Paul McCartney didn’t want to release it as a Beatles single in 1965. Paul pointed to the arrangement, which featured a string ...

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Indeed, Macca remains haunted by a regretful remark he made to his late mother Mary — a lament that lives on in a legendary line from The Beatles’ 1965 No. 1 single. While “Yesterday” — which was ...

When Paul McCartney came up with the Beatles classic “Yesterday,” he played it for as many people as he could. It wasn't because he was looking for criticism, but because he wanted to know if people ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. "Yesterday" was, ...