Yesterday

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ballad song

"Yesterday" is a 1965 Beatles ballad, primarily written by Paul McCartney, renowned for its melancholic melody and string quartet arrangement and considered one of the most covered songs in popular music history.

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Label Occurrences
Yesterday canonical 15

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ballad ⓘ
song ⓘ
album Help! (album) ⓘ
surface form: Help!
appearsOnAlbum Help! ⓘ
arranger George Martin ⓘ
artist The Beatles ⓘ
bandMemberOnRecording George Harrison ⓘ
John Lennon ⓘ
Paul McCartney ⓘ
Ringo Starr ⓘ
bSideOf Act Naturally ⓘ
composer Paul McCartney ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
creditedWriter Lennon–McCartney ⓘ
era 1960s ⓘ
featuresInstrument acoustic guitar ⓘ
string quartet ⓘ
genre baroque pop ⓘ
pop ⓘ
soft rock ⓘ
includedIn The Beatles Anthology 2 ⓘ
key F major ⓘ
language English ⓘ
leadArtist Paul McCartney ⓘ
leadVocal Paul McCartney ⓘ
length 2:05 ⓘ
lyricist Paul McCartney ⓘ
notableFor being one of the most covered songs in popular music history ⓘ
melancholic melody ⓘ
string quartet arrangement ⓘ
performer The Beatles ⓘ
performerNationality British ⓘ
producer George Martin ⓘ
rankedOn Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ⓘ
recordedAt Abbey Road Studios ⓘ
surface form: EMI Studios, London
recordedBy The Beatles ⓘ
recordingDate 1965-06-14 ⓘ
recordLabel Capitol Records ⓘ
Parlophone ⓘ
releaseDate 1965-08-06 ⓘ
releaseYear 1965 ⓘ
singleFrom Help! ⓘ
tempo slow ⓘ
theme lost love ⓘ
nostalgia ⓘ
timeSignature 4/4 ⓘ
vocalist Paul McCartney ⓘ
writer Paul McCartney ⓘ

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Beatles → notableSong → Yesterday ⓘ
Help! → followedBySingle → Yesterday ⓘ
Lennon–McCartney → notableWork → Yesterday ⓘ
Christopher Ross → workedOn → Yesterday ⓘ
Bernard Bellew → notableWork → Yesterday ⓘ
Feeling Is Believing → hasTrack → Yesterday ⓘ
Anthology 2 → includesSong → Yesterday ⓘ
The Beatles 1962–1966 → includesSingle → Yesterday ⓘ
The Beatles 1 compilation album → hasPart → Yesterday ⓘ
subject surface form: The Beatles 1
Yesterday (2019 film) → notableSongFeatured → Yesterday ⓘ
I Hear a Symphony → hasPart → Yesterday ⓘ
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder → notableWork → Yesterday ⓘ
subject surface form: Paul McCartney
Telefone → hasTrack → Yesterday ⓘ
critically acclaimed project "Telefone" → hasTrack → Yesterday ⓘ
subject surface form: Telefone
UKTV → ownsChannel → Yesterday ⓘ