Dreams in History: Paul McCartney

    If you are familiar with recent pop culture in America, then you are most likely familiar with the hippie-era band,  The Beatles. Singer/songwriter of The Beatles, Paul McCartney, dreamt up one of the band's hit songs one night, while the band was staying in London filming Help!.  The song was later named "Yesterday", and according to the Guinness Book of World Records, it has the most cover versions of any song ever written. In a dream he heard a classical string ensemble playing, and, as McCartney tells it :

 "I woke up with a lovely tune in my head. I thought, 'That's great, I wonder what that is?' There was an upright piano next to me, to the right of the bed by the window. I got out of bed, sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor 7th -- and that leads you through then to B to E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads forward logically. I liked the melody a lot, but because I'd dreamed it, I couldn't believe I'd written it. I thought, 'No, I've never written anything like this before.' But I had the tune, which was the most magic thing!"

pretty cool!