Story behind Yesterday
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Interesting story here behind 'Yesterday' http//www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/yesterday
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Please don't tell me you are just now discovering that old chestnut of a story! Paul tells that one in practically every interview he gives.
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Nancy R:
Please don't tell me you are just now discovering that old chestnut of a story! Paul tells that one in practically every interview he gives.
Not practically. In absolutely every interview he has ever given and ever will give from the beginning until the end of time.
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The strings on "Yesterday" were Sir George Martin's idea: [Since Paul] "...hated syrup or anything...MOR*, [he told the musicians hired to record it:] 'No vibrato, though, I don't want any vibrato!' "Although they did cut down on the vibrato they couldn't do it pure, because they would have sounded like schoolboys. I think Paul realised in later years that what he got was right. "There is one particular bit which is very much his, (and I wish I'd thought of it!) where the cello groans onto the seventh the second time around. The rest of the arrangement was pretty much mine..." *Middle Of the Road, radio parlance for the string orchestras popular with parents and elders in the 1960's. Example: 101 Strings.
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HauserPlenty:
The strings on "Yesterday" were Sir George Martin's idea: [Since Paul] "...hated syrup or anything...MOR*, [he told the musicians hired to record it:] 'No vibrato, though, I don't want any vibrato!' "Although they did cut down on the vibrato they couldn't do it pure, because they would have sounded like schoolboys. I think Paul realised in later years that what he got was right. "There is one particular bit which is very much his, (and I wish I'd thought of it!) where the cello groans onto the seventh the second time around. The rest of the arrangement was pretty much mine..." *Middle Of the Road, radio parlance for the string orchestras popular with parents and elders in the 1960's. Example: 101 Strings.
He actually name checked Mantovani as the sound he didn't want.
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He has said recently , it may have been about the loss of his Mother, which I always thought of .
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I get the feeling Paul re interprets the meanings of his songs every ten years or so. While a line here or there could have been about his mom, it really is a break up song. John's songs were always a bit heavier and more meaningful, so now Paul is really pushing for his songs to be too. They are, musically, but thematically, they rarely are.
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wingsdgm:
He has said recently , it may have been about the loss of his Mother, which I always thought of .
I think subconsciously he wrote it about his mother, although the strict interpretation would be the breakup of a relationship.
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Cryptomnesia? Now I know what to tell my Doctor.
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It is very hard to prove someone subconsciously wrote something, especially when such claims are made fifty years after the fact. Yesterday may, in fact, be about his mom. But I would be more accepting of that theory had he said that in 1966 or even 1970, as opposed to 1990 or 2000. To me, it has always been a break up song. It has also been interpreted as an old man looking back on his life. It can be all those things.
