10 Perfect Beatles Songs With No Flaws

For all of the experimentation that the Beatles would get into in their later years, they were still always a rock and roll band. As much as they may have stretched their muscles on some of the White Album and Abbey Road, it's not hard to see why those still fall under the category of rock and roll. Before we had even gone down the psychedelic rabbit hole though, Paul McCartney was looking beyond rock altogether when painting his masterpiece.

Around the time that they were still working on A Hard Day's Night, Paul had dreamed up a melody and had been fleshing it out on piano, thinking he had remembered an old jazz tune. It was all his though, and once the word Yesterday fell in his head, this song became a painful ode to a love gone sour, as our narrator tries to pick up the pieces of just why his love decided to go away.

You have to remember that this was one of the first times when the Beatles wrote something that was actually on the sour side of love. Even with the sad songs like I'll Cry Instead under their belt, there's a pure sense of melancholy surrounding this tune that the Lennon/McCartney partnership couldn't have made while starting out in Liverpool. This is what happens when you tap into something a lot stronger than your average rock and roll. This is the kind of beauty that can touch hearts all around the world.