Over the years, Beatles have also been slammed and banned by radio stations for their lyrics that allegedly alluded to drugs, for example “Fixing a Hole” or, more popularly, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” But their massive audience of baby boomers, who may have also been experimenting with sex and drugs at the time, never seemed to mind the references. McCartney explained the innuendos in a recent interview with GQ magazine: “It’s kind of pathetic, but actually a great thing in its pathos because it’s something that makes you laugh. Take the song “Why don’t we do it in the road,” a song written after McCartney witnessed two monkeys causally procreate in the middle of a path in Raipur, India or consider the backing vocals for “Girl,” which the band deceitfully assured their producer were “dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit.”
The Beatles, who’s members were all around 20-years-old when Beatlemania exploded onto the pop music scene, had their fair share of schoolboy fun with their lyrics. “So, if I’m a young guy, looking around, eager for love, sex and attraction, it’s going to reflect in the language I use and the references I make.”
“The way we look at the world is reflected in our language,” says Jamie Pennebaker, an expert in linguistic psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away… So, he scribbled down some simple lyrics to help commit it to memory, until he later found the perfect words to pair with it: When he awoke, he hurried to the piano in his loft to play it, but the words didn’t come quite as easily. The melody of the song, which has been broadcasted on American radio more than 7 million times and holds the record for the most recorded song in history, came to him in a dream. Scrambled eggs, oh, my baby, how I love your legs… If Paul McCartney would have written “Yesterday” based on the first words that came to his mind, the song would sound like a concupiscent teen singing about breakfast:
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