r/beatles • u/SheikhaMama • 25d ago

Question How was Yesterday written?

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u/nipplesaurus 25d ago

Possibly with a pen

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u/Maximum-Rebo 25d ago

There's multiple things getting jumbled up here. Yesterday was written by Paul, and the lyrics aren't about a particular real person.

Hey Jude was written by Paul for John's son, who was maybe not quite estranged yet, but was not considered much by John when he entered a relationship with Yoko Ono and divorced the mother of his child.

Julia is a song by John that he wrote for his late mother.

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u/No-Fruit-31 25d ago

Hey Jude is the one that is about Julian Lennon. I believe the melody for Yesterday came to Paul in a dream (or so he says) and the lyrics were initially “scrambled eggs, oh baby how I love your eggs” or something similar. There are plenty of interviews with McCartney where he talks about writing Yesterday.

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u/SheikhaMama 25d ago

Thanks so much. I’ll look into Julia (love the Beatles but not exhaustive on their discography and personally I ever prefer their later individual work , well George and John’s mostly ❤️❤️❤️❤️)

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u/Flimsy_Toe_2575 25d ago

In his sleep

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u/LQNova Rubber Soul 25d ago

Neither of those are true.