{"id":1154,"date":"2021-05-10T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:10:05","slug":"yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Yesterday by The Beatles &#8211; Key of F<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea48c81d3306061619656' value='69ea48c81d3306061619656'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea48c81d3306061619656' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea48c81d3306061619656' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea48c81d3306061619656' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea48c81d3306061619656' ><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">This is the most covered pop song of all time, with over 3,000 versions recorded according to The Guinness Book Of World Records. For years, it was also the song with the most radio plays, but in 1999 BMI music publishing reported that You&#8217;ve Lost That Lovin&#8217; Feelin&#8217; had passed it. Still, at any given time, some version of &#8220;Yesterday&#8221; is probably being broadcast somewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Paul McCartney wrote this song and was the only Beatle to play on it. It was the first time a Beatle recorded without the others, and marked a shift to more independent accomplishments among the group. While John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote The Beatles early songs together, by 1965 most of their songs were primarily written by one or the other, although they continued to credit all their songs Lennon\/McCartney.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">A string quartet was brought in to play on this track. In addition to the strings, this is notable as one of the first pop songs to use elements of classical music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">When producer George Martin first suggested adding a string quartet, Paul McCartney responded; &#8220;Oh no, George. We are a rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll band and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a good idea.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">This was the first Beatles song that could not be reproduced live without additional musicians. When they played it live, including at their famous Shea Stadium concert in 1965, it was just McCartney with an acoustic guitar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">This song caused a rift between McCartney and Yoko Ono. When The Beatles Anthology album was released, McCartney asked that the writing credit on this read &#8220;McCartney\/Lennon,&#8221; since he wrote it. Yoko refused, and it was listed as &#8220;Lennon\/McCartney,&#8221; which is how they usually credited songs written by either Beatle (between Please Please Me and With The Beatles, the song credits turned from McCartney\/Lennon to Lennon\/McCartney). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">In 2003, McCartney switched the writing credit for the first time when he listed 19 Beatles songs on his Back In The US album as &#8220;Paul McCartney and John Lennon.&#8221; Paul claims he and John made an informal agreement in 1962 regarding the credits, but he had every right to switch it if he chose. Yoko disagreed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Yesterday is the name of a 2019 film about a struggling musician (Himesh Patel}\u00a0who finds himself in an alternate universe where The Beatles never existed. He finds this out when he plays Yesterday to some friends, who think he wrote it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16pt\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[G] Yesterday, [F#m7] all my [B7] troubles seemed so [Em] far away.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[C] Now it [D7] looks as though they&#8217;re [G] here to stay.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Oh, I [Em] believe [A7] in yesterday [ C G ]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[G] Suddenly, [F#m7] I&#8217;m not [B7] half the man I [Em] used to be.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[C] There&#8217;s a [D7] shadow hanging [G] over me.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Oh, [Em] yester-[A]-day came suddenly [ C G ]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900; color: #ff0000;\">[THE QUESTION] &#8211; &#8211; [F#m] Why [B7] she [Em] had to [C] go I don&#8217;t [Am] know she [D] wouldn&#8217;t [G] say.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[F#m] I [B7] said [Em] something [C] wrong, now I [Am] long for [D] yesterday [G]<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[AN EASY GAME] &#8211; &#8211; [G] Yesterday, [F#m7] love was [B7] such an easy [Em] game to play.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[C] Now I [D7] need a place to [G] hide away.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; 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