Yesterday

(Working title: "Scrambled Eggs")

"For Paul McCartney of Liverpool, England, opportunity knocks!" jeers George mockingly in the Anthology 2 intro to a live version of this song. It's been noted that this is the first Beatles recording to use strings and to not use the other Beatles in performance, as though that's a virtue. As with most of Paul's bathos, it's unassuming when served in small doses, but strange that the man who complained about strings gone haywire on the final version of "The Long and Winding Road" was so string-quartet-happy here. Of course, to millions of orgiastic females and a few old-time singers who finally "got" The Beatles, all of this mattered little.

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