Paul McCartney reveals the true meaning behind the lyrics of the hit Yesterday. The song featured on the album Help! by the Beatles, released in 1965.
To everyone's surprise, the nostalgia and sadness evoked in the song do not allude to a romantic breakup but to an exchange he had with his mother, Mary. The latter being “nurse, of Irish origin”. At the age of 24, almost ten years after the death of his mother from cancer, Paul McCartney decided to make a song out of this regret.