Yesterday This Yesterday That by Steve Bardwil Band

Album: Nothing But Time (2025)

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"Yesterday This Yesterday That" is what Steve Bardwil imagined John Lennon would write in response to Paul McCartney's classic Beatles song "Yesterday." In the Beatles song, McCartney longs for yesterday; Bardwil thinks Lennon would want to put it in the past, hence the lyric:

Yesterday this, yesterday that
Yesterday's not really where it's at
The past is passed and that's a fact
Cause yesterday's gone and it ain't coming back
The Beatles influence is apparent on this song, which is intentional. "I don't think there's a singer-songwriter around today that hasn't either consciously or subconsciously been influenced by the music that they wrote," Bardwil said on the Songfacts Podcast. "I love the song 'Yesterday' that Paul McCartney wrote. People say it's been covered by more artists than any other song ever written."
Steve Bardwil wrote the lyrics and composed the music with two members of his band: sax player Aaron Leibowitz and keyboard man Max Butler.
The song is part of the first Steve Bardwil Band album, Nothing But Time, released in 2025. The album was produced by Joe Chiccarelli, who was doing a lot of work with Morrissey around this time. "He has the best ears of anybody I know," Bardwil said.

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