By The Beatles
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, Now it looks as though they're here to stay, Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, I'm not half to man I used to be, There's a shadow hanging over me. Oh yesterday came suddenly. Why she had to go? I don't know she woldn't say. I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday. Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play, Now I need a place to hide away, Oh I believe in yesterday.
Ieri Ieri, tutti i miei problemi sembravano allontanarsi Adesso sembrano quasi che stiano di casa qui Oh io credo in ieri Improvvisamente, non sono l'uomo che ero C'è un'ombra che sta sopra di me Oh ieri è venuto improvvisamente Perchè lei se ne dovuta andare? Non so, non l'ha voluto dire Ho detto qualcosa di sbagliato Ora vorrei che fosse ieri Ieri, l'amore era un gioco così facile da giocare Ho bisogno di un posto dove nascondermi Oh, io credo in ieri.
Published in 1965 on the album Help!, according to the Guinness Book of Records has the largest number of covers, with more than 1,600 recorded versions. According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream, in his room in the house of his girlfriend Jane Asher and his family, in Wimpole Street, London. In the morning, he ran to a piano and played the part, to avoid slipping into the recesses of his mind. Yesterday McCartney claimed to have written during the Beatles tour in France in 1964, but the song was not published until the summer of Meanwhile, the Beatles released two albums: Beatles for Sale and A Hard Day's Night, in which the song was not included. The delay may have been due to disagreements between McCartney and George Martin regarding the arrangement of the song, or the opinions of others who thought the Beatles did not correspond to their image. On May 27, 1965 McCartney and Asher flew to Lisbon for a holiday in Albufeira, Algarve, at the home of Bruce Welsh, lead singer of Shadows. He borrowed a guitar McCartney and completed his work on "Yesterday.