Anonymous Coward User ID: 530 United States 06/29/2006 04:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Paul McCartney Finds "Yesterday" In a Dream [ link to www.brilliantdreams.com] Paul McCartney is one of the most famous singer/ songwriters of all time. According to the Guinness Book of Records, his Beatles song "Yesterday" (1965) has the most cover versions of any song ever written and, according to record label BMI, was performed over seven million times in the 20th century. The tune for "Yesterday" came to Paul McCartney in a dream... The Beatles were in London in 1965 filming Help! and McCartney was staying in a small attic room of his family's house on Wimpole Street. One morning, in a dream he heard a classical string ensemble playing, and, as McCartney tells it: "I woke up with a lovely tune in my head. I thought, 'That's great, I wonder what that is?' There was an upright piano next to me, to the right of the bed by the window. I got out of bed, sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor 7th -- and that leads you through then to B to E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads forward logically. I liked the melody a lot, but because I'd dreamed it, I couldn't believe I'd written it. I thought, 'No, I've never written anything like this before.' But I had the tune, which was the most magic thing!" The U.S. single cover for the Beatles album Yesterday. Sources: Paul McCartney -- Many Years From Now, Barry Miles (NY, Henry Holt, 1997) The Committee of Sleep, D. Barrett, 2001 Wikipedia |
XXX
User ID: 78738 United States 06/29/2006 05:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Paul McCartney Finds "Yesterday" In a Dream It is clearly the work of the devil. Waist deep in the Big Muddy And the big fool says to push on |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 110176 Mexico 06/29/2006 05:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Paul McCartney Finds "Yesterday" In a Dream Yeah , in a dream after 100 |