Paul McCartney has discussed the meaning behind some of his most famous songs including ‘Yesterday’ in a candid interview.
The music legend told Mojo that the inspiration behind the melancholy ‘Yesterday’ came from the legend’s mum — even if he didn’t realise it at the time.
“With ‘Yesterday’, singing it now, I think without realising it I was singing about my mum,” McCartney admits to the magazine. “Because I think now, ‘Why she had to go, I don’t know, she wouldn’t say, I said something wrong…’ I think the psychiatrist would have a field day with that one…”