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"Yesterday" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was first released on the album Help! in August 1965, except in the United States, where it was issued as a single in September. The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
On his A Life in Lyrics podcast, in which the legendary Beatles musician regales listeners with the stories behind some of his most famous songs, McCartney, 81, said he believes the lyric was ...
"I've Just Seen a Face" is in the key of A major and is in 2/2 (). [20] [21] [note 3] The song begins with a ten measure intro. [20]Split into three phrases, [20] the intro uses triplets that are slower than the rest of the song to create a sense of acceleration, [23] reinforced by a shortened third phrase which quickens the first verse's arrival. [20]
Helter Skelter" was voted the fourth worst song in one of the first polls to rank the Beatles' songs, conducted in 1971 by WPLJ and The Village Voice. [75] According to Walter Everett, it is typically among the five most-disliked Beatles songs for members of the baby boomer generation, who made up the band's contemporary audience during the 1960s.
Paul McCartney wrote the melody to "When I'm Sixty-Four" around the age of 14, [7] probably at 20 Forthlin Road in April or May 1956. [8] In 1987, McCartney recalled, "Rock and roll was about to happen that year, it was about to break, [so] I was still a little bit cabaret minded", [8] and in 1974, "I wrote a lot of stuff thinking I was going to end up in the cabaret, not realizing that rock ...
The Beatles regularly played the song live throughout 1964 and 1965. During his 2016 One on One tour, Paul McCartney played the song for the first time as a solo artist and for the first time by a Beatle in half a century. The Beatles played it for the last time on 31 August 1965 at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California. [42]
Since the three new songs on Yesterday and Today were all his, Capitol's version of Revolver included just two songs for which he was the principal writer. [51] The Beatles did not perform any of the songs from Revolver during their August 1966 US tour. [52]
"Doctor Robert" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released in 1966 on their album Revolver, apart from in North America, where it instead appeared on their Yesterday and Today album. The song was written by John Lennon (and credited to Lennon–McCartney), [3] [4] although Paul McCartney has said that he co-wrote it. [5]