<P> McCartney 's vocal and acoustic guitar , together with a string quartet , essentially made for the first solo performance of the band . It remains popular today and , with more than 2,200 cover versions , is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music . `` Yesterday '' was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. 1 pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the following year . In 1997 , the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame . Broadcast Music Incorporated ( BMI ) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century . </P>
<P> McCartney 's vocal and acoustic guitar , together with a string quartet , essentially made for the first solo performance of the band . It remains popular today and , with more than 2,200 cover versions , is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music . `` Yesterday '' was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. 1 pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the following year . In 1997 , the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame . Broadcast Music Incorporated ( BMI ) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century . </P>
who sang yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away
who sang yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away
McCartney
McCartney