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On the latest episode of his A Life in Lyrics podcast, Sir Paul McCartney has looked back on one of his most famous songs with The Beatles.<\/p>\n
Released back in 1965, Yesterday has gone on to have over 2200 covers and was the\u00a0band\u2019s first solo performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Macca famously composed the melody in a dream, initially being concerned he had plagiarised someone else\u2019s work.<\/p>\n
He hadn\u2019t consciously intended \u201cMother Mary\u201d in the song to be about the death of his mother when he was 14, but later admitted: \u201cI didn\u2019t mean it to be, but\u2026 it could be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, the star now feels that the following lyrics were about when he regretfully embarrassed his mother before she died from cancer in 1956: \u201cI said something wrong\/ Now I long for yesterday\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
McCartney shared on the podcast that these lyrics were about when he made fun of his mother Mary for sounding posh. The 81-year-old confessed: \u201cSometimes it\u2019s only in retrospect you can appreciate it. I remember very clearly one day feeling very embarrassed because I embarrassed my mum.\u201d Mary McCartney had been a nurse of Irish origin who \u201ctalked posh\u201d compared with the rest of the Liverpudlian family and he mocked her for it.<\/p>\n
Macca recalled: \u201cI know that she said something like \u2018Paul, will you ask him if he\u2019s going \u2026 \u2019 I went \u2018Arsk! Arsk! It\u2019s\u00a0ask\u00a0mum.\u2019 And she got a little bit embarrassed. I remember later thinking \u2018God, I wish I\u2019d never said that\u2019. And it stuck with me. After she died I thought \u2018Oh f***, I really wish \u2026 \u2019 They\u2019re little things, but they\u2019re little things that I just think, \u2018If I could just take a rubber, just rub that moment out it would be better\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
On Yesterday being about Mary, McCartney said: \u201cI always said \u2018No, I don\u2019t think so\u2019, but the more you think about it\u2026\u201d It may be that there is so much tumbled into your youth and your formative years that you can\u2019t appreciate it all. Sometimes it\u2019s only in retrospect that you can appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd when she died, I wonder, \u2018I said something wrong\u2019, are we harking back to that crazy little thing. So I don\u2019t know. Does this happen? Do you find yourself unconsciously putting songs into girl lyrics [about a lost lover] that are really your dead mother? I suspect it might be true. It sort of fits, if you look at the lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n
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