The Beatles couldn't (at that time) control what Capitol did with their songs in the U.S., so it was released as a single in America, but not anywhere else in the world. It was 55 years ago Sunday (June 14th, 1965) that the Beatles recorded “Yesterday” — the Paul McCartney-written classic, which stands as the most covered song of all time.“Yesterday” was taped at London’s Abbey Road Studios on a day that perhaps showed the truest account of McCartney’s songwriting and performing abilities. Rolling Stone and MTV both ranked “Yesterday” the top pop song of the 20th century and McCartney’s tune also holds the record as the most-covered song in … "Yesterday" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney), and first released on the album Help! These studio sessions produced The Beatles’ Grammy Award winning album Let It Be, with its Academy Award winning title song. Getty Images. "Yesterday" is a song originally recorded by the Beatles for their 1965 album Help!. Paul refused, and furthermore refused to have the song released as a "Beatles" single, since he felt that singles should be true group efforts (It was included on the Help! Also there is a site that lists more than 250 ALBUMS with their discography. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Yesterday...and Today - The Beatles on AllMusic - 1966 - Yesterday...and Today was the last Beatles album… M onths before shooting began on Yesterday, the director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) presented a wish list of Beatles songs to his star, … George Martin knew it was a “Paul song" and thought it should be released as such. Spending four weeks at No.1 (the song did not receive a UK single release until 8 March 1976, when it made No.8 in the charts), it would go on to be arguably The Beatles’ most famous song. John Lennon wrote 3 ballads during the same time period: It’s Only Love, Yes It Is and You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away that were all just as good or better than Yesterday, but they never get mentioned in the same breath. The new film will be based around 55 hours of never-released footage of The Beatles in the studio, shot between January 2nd and January 31st, 1969. "Yesterday", with the B-side "Act Naturally", was released as a single in the United States in September 1965. The Beatles - Singles (in Date Order) Standard re-issues NOT listed separately, they will be mentioned in the detail of the original release. Of course, there are many duplicates but there are also literally hundreds of songs that are not on this list.

Yesterday is always mentioned as the greatest Beatles song of all time, and that shows how much people really know about the Beatles. I agree, there are many more songs that the Beatles jammed to or recorded but not released.