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“Yesterday” by the Beatles: Nostalgic-Wehmütige Dream Melody
Paul McCartney’s most famous ballad “Yesterday” stands in the Guinness Book of Records than the most frequently covered song ever. There were 1,186 versions as early as 1972. From such different interpreters as Frank Sinatra, Otis Redding or Willie Nelson. Everyone, really everyone knows the song. They play it at weddings such as funerals.
George Martin’s melancholic string arrangement covers the lower register. And Paul’s almost whispered vocals halls longingly through the large, dark rooms, where otherwise drums and electric guitars would have been.
A very undisguised poem by nostalgic melancholy, sung and implemented with enchanting elegance
But McCartney’s original – taken on June 14, 1965 in the Abbey Road Studios in London – remains the most beautiful and brave. A very undisguised poem by nostalgic melancholy. Sung and implemented with enchanting elegance.
No other beatle participated. It didn’t need any. George Martin’s melancholic string arrangement covers the lower registers, and Paul’s almost whispered vocals halls longingly through the large, dark rooms, where otherwise drums and electric guitars would have been.
Dream melody
The melody, said McCartney, came in his dream: “My dad knew a lot of old jazz songs, and I thought at first I just remembered something past.” And yet, according to McCartney, “Yesterday” is his “complete song ever”
He played it in a Paris hotel room Martin in early 1964 (working title: “Scrambled Eggs”), but there was a year and a half before he took it up. “Somehow it was embarrassed to us.
Paul McCartney stops this on the Beatles album “Help!” (1965) “Yesterday” published for his perfect song ever
We were a rock’n’roll band. ” And yet: Paul McCartney stops this on the Beatles album “Help!” (1965) “Yesterday” published for his perfect song ever.