'Yesterday' is a melancholy acoustic guitar ballad about the break-up of a relationship. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century alone. In 1997, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. 1 Pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the following year. 'Yesterday' was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. Consequently, whilst it topped the American chart in 1965 the song first hit the British top 10 three months after the release of Help! in a cover version by Matt Monro. At the time of its first appearance the song was released by the Beatles' record company as a single in the United States but not in the United Kingdom (for further details see below). It remains popular today with more than 2,200 cover versions, and is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music. Although credited to 'Lennon-McCartney', the song was written solely by Paul McCartney. 'Yesterday' is a song originally recorded by the Beatles for their 1965 album Help!. Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be Now it looks as though they're here to stay, Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away,

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