Sir Paul Mc Cartney Memories

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The Beatles Yesterday is one of the most persistent songs in their entire catalog.  Over 3000 different versions of this track have been recorded by a huge variety of artists.  The song had humble beginnings inside the mind of Paul McCartney – more specifically, inside a dream he had one night.  With a fair number of McCartney’s musical compositions resulting from dreams, this shouldn’t be much of a surprise.  Perhaps due to the otherworldly manner in which the song had appeared to him, after his initial demo recording of the song he became paranoid that it was actually the property of some other songwriter.  He feared that he had merely heard it somewhere else and had the suggestion of its tune planted in his subconscious.  Gradually, over a period of several weeks, and through the assurances of everyone he played it for that it was indeed original, McCartney set out to complete the song and lyric.