“That was the worst thing for me, hearing my dad cry. “My mother’s death broke my dad up,” McCartney said. Some wonder whether McCartney’s living situation at the time had him subconsciously longing for a time when his mom was still around.

In fact, he was living with Asher and her family when he awoke from that now infamous dream. When McCartney wrote the song, which ended up on the band’s 1965 album, Help!, he was in a relationship with Jane Asher, who he would stay with until 1968. “Why she had to go / I don’t know, she wouldn’t say,” McCartney sings on the chorus of “Yesterday.” “I said something wrong / Now I long for yesterday.” While it’s always been believed this song was about an ex-girlfriend, fans have questioned whether the song was really about his late mother, Mary, who died in 1956 when he was just 14. It’s a love song, but one that’s about Paul’s mother.

While those words might not carry the same emotional depth as the lyrics we all know now, when McCartney (jokingly) performed “Scrambled Eggs” for the first time on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in 2013, it was still kind of a delicious bop. Now, McCartney calls it “the most complete song I have ever written.” The original lyrics really were about a breakfast food.īefore it was “Yesterday,” McCartney was singing “Scrambled eggs / Oh my baby, how I love your legs” instead. I thought if no one claimed it after a few weeks, then I could have it.”īecause of this, the song sat “around for months and months before we finally completed it,” John Lennon later confirmed per Rolling Stone. “Eventually, it became like handing something into the police. “For about a month, I went round to people in the music business and asked them whether they had ever heard it before,” McCartney said later. It was so fully formed that McCartney worried he had unconciously plagiarized it.

“I had a piano by my bedside, and I must have dreamed it because I tumbled out of bed and put my hands on the piano keys and I had a tune in my head. McCartney swears that while filming The Beatles’ movie Help! he woke up with a song in his head, which ended up being “Yesterday.” “It fell out of bed,” he once said. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play “Yesterday” was all a dream, quite literally.

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