Paul McCartney said the melody of Yesterday came to him in a dream when he was just 24. via Associated PressSir Paul McCartney has revealed he may have subconsciously drawn inspiration to write the Beatles’ 1965 hit Yesterday from the death of his mother from cancer almost a decade earlier. “Someone did suggest to me that this was a ‘losing my mother’ song, which I always sort of said, ‘No, I don’t think so,’” Sir Paul told Irish Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon in a new episode of their A Life In Lyrics podcast. Advertisement“But the more you think about it, [the line] ‘Why she had to go, I don’t know, she wouldn’t say.’ Losing your mother to cancer, no one said anything. I don’t know. Advertisement

Source: Huffington Post February 26, 2024 14:27 UTC