"In My Life"

A couple weeks ago, I figured out the bass register of the piano solo in "In My Life."  I thought I'd read somewhere that this was George Martin's "Bach-inspired" contribution to the song, but in referencing The Beatles Anthology book (p. 197) and The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (p. 65, the entry for 22 October), I found that it's referred to only generically as "baroque style."

In any case, I discovered a feature that the piano solo has in common with what is probably Bach's most famous piece - the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565.

Here are the third and fourth measures of the bass register of the piano solo (with - of course - the disclaimer that I might be wrong):

At the end of each of these measures, there's an alternating between notes of a static pitch (D in the third measure, C# in the fourth) and progressively lower notes (first C# B A and then B A G#).  This same sort of figure is in Bach's piece.  Here it is in the pedal part:

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I think a similar figure is also in the treble register of the piano solo (in the first and second beats of these same measures), but since I haven't figured out that half yet, I can't be sure.

"Yesterday"

Last night, I listened to this interview with Paul McCartney in which - among other things - he talks about writing "Yesterday."  I was thinking about the song this afternoon and realized a small thing about the line "There's a shadow hanging over me."  "Shadow" is sung to the pitches C Bb, and "me" is sung to an A, so musically the "shadow" really is "over me."