- UK release date:
- Mar 04, 1966
- Publisher:
- Parlophone
- Reference:
- GEP 8948
Related sessions
This album has been recorded during the following studio sessions
Feb 17, 1965
Feb 18, 1965
Jun 14, 1965
Jun 15, 1965
Jun 17, 1965
Jun 18, 1965
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Track list
Side 1
1.
2:09 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Guitar, Vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Tony Gilbert :
- Violin
- Sidney Sax :
- Violin
- Kenneth Essex :
- Viola
- Francesc Gabarró Solé :
- Cello
- Session Recording:
- Jun 14, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Jun 17, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
2.
Written by Johnny Russell, Voni Morrison
2:32 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Harmony vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Sticks, Vocals
- John Lennon :
- Acoustic rhythm guitar
- George Harrison :
- Lead guitar
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Jun 17, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Jun 18, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Side 2
1.
Written by George Harrison
2:39 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Piano
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Tambourine
- John Lennon :
- Acoustic rhythm guitar, Electric piano
- George Harrison :
- Lead guitar, Vocals
- George Martin :
- Piano, Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Feb 17, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Feb 18, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
2.
1:55 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Tambourine
- John Lennon :
- Acoustic rhythm guitar, Electric guitar, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- 12-string acoustic guitar, Lead guitar
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Jun 15, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Jun 18, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
About
From Wikipedia:
Yesterday is an EP by the Beatles released on 4 March 1966 by Parlophone in the UK (catalogue number GEP 8948). It was also released in Portugal and Spain. All four of the tracks also appeared on the Help! album.
In the United States, however, none of the tracks appeared on the American Help! soundtrack. Instead, “You Like Me Too Much” appears on Beatles VI, “It’s Only Love” appears on the US version of Rubber Soul, and “Yesterday,” and “Act Naturally” appear on Yesterday and Today. “Yesterday” and “Act Naturally” were also released as a single in the United States in September 1965.
The Beatles’ 11th EP was released in mono only, and the cover photograph was taken by Robert Whitaker. Each Beatle took lead vocal on a song – McCartney on “Yesterday“, Starr on “Act Naturally“, Harrison on “You Like Me Too Much” and Lennon on “It’s Only Love“.
Yesterday entered the UK EP chart on 12 March 1966, and from 26 March spent six weeks at number one. In all it remained on the hit parade for 13 weeks. The EP’s release happened to coincide with the first publication of John Lennon’s comments that the Beatles were “More popular than Jesus“.
The covers of the EPs “Yesterday”, “Million Sellers” and “Nowhere Man” are also by you. Do you remember something about those sessions?
“Nowhere Man” and “Yesterday” belong to a period of time when op art was just starting in England. And people like Peter Blake were coming to the fore… David Hockney, Brian Rise… and I worked with two people on that series of pictures. One girl was called Carol Russell, from the Royal College of Art and Stuart Bristley. We all worked together on that. It was a very difficult job because the studio was very small and it was full of many set-ups we had prepared for other jobs. And “Nowhere Man”, I don’t remember. Where was it taken? Ah yes, the ones in Chiswick Park. I think that was the day they did “Rain” and “Paperback Writer”. I think Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed the video promotions and I was there just making pictures. Good fun, yeah. Not too long ago, I just found more pictures of that session.
Robert Whitaker – Photographer – From Beatlefan #108, Sept-Oct 1997
Last updated on November 1, 2022
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