has revealed he may have subconsciously drawn inspiration to write the Beatles’ 1965 hit “Yesterday” from the death of his mother from cancer almost a decade earlier.
The musician pondered, “’When she died, I wonder, ‘I said something wrong,’ Are we harking back to that crazy little thing? I don’t know. Does this happen? Do you find yourself unconsciously putting songs into girl lyrics that are really your dead mother? I suspect it might be true. It sort of fits if you look at the lyrics.”At HuffPost, we believe that everyone needs high-quality journalism, but we understand that not everyone can afford to pay for expensive news subscriptions.
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