On Wednesdays and Saturdays I attend a Zoom meeting, in which Gerry (an Irishman) plays musical requests from the attendees. Tonight, as usual, there were 40+ attendees. The theme for tonight’s meeting was songs from the 60s.
I chose Yesterday (1965). In the course of reading about the song, a riddle popped into my head. That’s never happened before. The riddle is this:
“Everyone believes Yesterday was performed by The Beatles. Everyone is wrong. How can that be?”
Pleasingly, nobody solved the riddle. I now cast it before all of you to solve. If nobody does, I’ll give it 24 hours then publish the answer.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Think I know the answer to this one. The song was written solely by Paul McCartney and performed as a solo.
He did much the same thing with ‘Fool On The Hill’. This time, he slipped it into Magical Mystery Tour as a fait accompli.
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Thanks cp, spot on. It wasn’t performed by THE Beatles, it was performed by A Beatle. Douglas got it too, as did my Irish son-in-law, 42, a HUGE Beatles fan.
Some debate about whether he was the solo writer. Like most Beatles song it was credited to Lennon/McCartney. In 2001 (after Lennon’s death) McCartney asked for permission to credit it to McCartney/Lennon and she refused. Women. eh?
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They end up owning the copyright on everything accomplished by men.
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