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‘I said something wrong’: Paul McCartney reveals origin of Yesterday lyric


Beatles singer says the line harks back to time he embarrassed his mother for ‘talking posh’

Yesterday was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1997 and voted the number one pop song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine and MTV in 2000. Do you find yourself unconsciously putting songs into girl lyrics [about a lost lover] that are really your dead mother? McCartney’s podcast explores the inspiration behind the singer’s songwriting with the poet Paul Muldoon over two seasons and 24 episodes.

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