1. Yesterday
Written by : Paul McCartney, Help, 1965
1 Yesterday
2 All my troubles seemed so far away
Sir James Paul McCartney,
3 Now it looks as though they're here to stay
MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an
4 Oh, I believe in yesterday English rock singer, bass
guitarist, songwriter, composer,
multi-instrumentalist,
5 Suddenly
entrepreneur, record producer, film producer and
I'm not half the man I used to be animal-rights activist. He gained worldwide fame as a
6 member of The Beatles, with John Lennon, George
There's a shadow hanging over me
Harrison, and Ringo Starr. McCartney and Lennon
7 Oh, yesterday came suddenly formed one of the most influential and successful
songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most
8 popular music in rock and roll history".[1] After leaving
Why she
The Beatles, McCartney launched a successful solo
9 Had to go I don't know career and formed the band Wings with his first wife,
10 She wouldn't say Linda Eastman McCartney, and singer-songwriter
Denny Laine. He has worked on film scores, classical
11 I said
music, and ambient/electronic music; released a large
12 Something wrong now I long for yesterday catalogue of songs as a solo artist; and taken part in
projects to help international charities.
13 Yesterday
McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the
14 Love was such an easy game to play most successful musician and composer in popular
15 music history, with 60 gold discs and sales of 100
Now I need a place to hide away
million singles.[2] His song "Yesterday" is listed as the
16 Oh, I believe in yesterday most covered song in history - by over 3,700 artists so
far - and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on
17 American television and radio. Wings' 1977 single
Why she
"Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell more
18 Had to go I don't know than two million copies in the UK, and remains the
19 She wouldn't say UK's top selling non-charity single.[3] (Three charity
singles have since surpassed it in sales; the first to do
20 I said
so—in 1984—was Band Aid's "Do They Know It's
21 Something wrong now I long for yesterday Christmas?", whose participants included McCartney.)
His company MPL Communications owns the
22 Yesterday
copyrights to more than 3,000 songs,[4] including all of
23 Love was such an easy game to play the songs written by Buddy Holly, along with the
24 publishing rights to such musicals as Guys and Dolls, A
Now I need a place to hide away
Chorus Line, and Grease. McCartney is also an advocate
25 Oh, I believe in yesterday for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education;
he is active in campaigns against landmines, seal
hunting, and Third World debt.
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Text : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney