Billie Eilish preforms a beautiful cover of the Beatles ‘Yesterday’ at the Oscars
By Saige Miller on February 10, 2020
By: Saige Miller
Rising alternative pop-star Billie Eilish performed a somber rendition of The Beatles ‘Yesterday’ at the 2020 Oscars. Eilish sang the iconic song during the “In Memoriam” segment of the Academy Awards, remembering all the iconic Hollywood figures who passed away in 2019/2020.
The five-time Grammy winner kept the integrity of the original 1965 hit while ditching the acoustic guitar for a grand piano. Accompanied by a string orchestra, her brother and producer Finneas O’Connell striking every piano key with such melancholy. Eilish’s version radiated respect–not just for the Beatles, but for all those, she was honoring. She didn’t attempt to hit high notes, or change the tune to make it her own–she let the song and lyrics speak for itself.
Watch Eilish’s full performance here:
Here are all the legacies the Oscars were honoring:
Julie Adams – Actors Branch
Danny Aiello – Actors Branch
Jim R. Alexander – Sound Branch
Carmen Argenziano – Actors Branch
Rene M. Auberjonois – Actors Branch
Kaye Ballard – Actors Branch
Kenneth E. Belville II – Sound Branch
Frank J. Biondi, Jr. – Executives Branch
Patricia Blau – Members-at-Large
Verna Bloom – Actors Branch
Zev Braun – Producers Branch
Neil Burrow – Sound Branch
Diahann Carroll – Actors Branch
Seymour Cassel – Actors Branch
Larry Cohen – Writers Branch
Tim Conway – Actors Branch
John W. Corso – Production Design Branch
William J. Creber – Production Design Branch
Stanley Donen – Directors Branch
Billy Drago – Actors Branch
Robert Evans – Producers Branch
Wayne Fitzgerald – Members-at-Large
Peter Fonda – Actors Branch
Michael Forman – Associates
Robert Forster – Actors Branch
James Frawley – Directors
Robert L. Friedman – Executives
Samuel W. Gelfman – Producers Branch
Jack L. Gilardi – Associates
Leonard Goldberg – Producers Branch
Steve Golin – Producers Branch
Michael A. Gray – Marketing and Public Relations Branch
Salah M. Hassanein – Associates
David Hedison – Actors Branch
Katherine Helmond – Actors Branch
Norman Hollyn – Music Branch
Petko D. Kadiev – Production Design Branch
Igo Kantor – Music Branch
Noah Keen – Actors Branch
Edith F. Keller – Marketing and Public Relations Branch
Christopher Knopf – Writers Branch
Jeremy S. Koch – Sound Branch
Donald M. Kranze – Members-at-Large
Ann Lambert – Costume Designers Branch
Peter Larkin – Production Design Branch
John V. Leahy – Associates
Paul Le Blanc – Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch
1984 (57th) *Makeup – “Amadeus”
Michael Legrand – Music Branch
Gary LeMel – Members-at-Large
Edward Lewis – Producers Branch
Mildred Lewis – Producers Branch
George Litto – Executives Branch
Branko Lustig – Producers Branch
Michael Lynne – Executives Branch
Bill Macy – Actors Branch
Barry Malkin – Film Editors Branch
William L. Manger – Sound Branch
Godfrey K. Marks – Sound Branch
John McMahon – Executives Branch
Jim McMullan – Actors Branch
Mark Medoff – Writers Branch
Jonas Mekas – Documentary Branch
Richard Miller – Actors Branch
Toni Myers – Documentary Branch
Kurt Neumann – Members-at-Large
Lawrence G. Paull – Production Design Branch
D.A. Pennebaker – Documentary Branch
Barbara Perry – Actors Branch
Ed Phillips – Associates
Jack L. Phillips – Associates
David V. Picker – Producers Branch
Suzan Pitt – Short Films and Feature Animation
Eric Pleskow – Executives Branch
Bernie Pollack – Costume Designers Branch
Nik Powell – Members-at-Large
Andre Previn – Music Branch
Sid Ramin – Music Branch
Terry Rawlings – Film Editors Branch
Gregg Rudloff – Sound Branch
Alvin Sargent – Writers Branch
Sidney J. Sheinberg – Executives Branch
John Singleton – Directors Branch
Bernard Slade – Writers Branch
Robert M. Smith – Associates
Dan Striepeke – Makeup Artists and Hairstylists
John Swallow – Visual Effects Branch
Dan Taylor – Visual Effects Branch
Rip Torn – Actors Branch
Natalie Trundy – Actors Branch
Anna Udvardy – Short Films and Feature Animation
Mark A. Urman – Marketing and Public Relations Branch
Zaza Urushadze – Directors Branch
Andrew G. Vajna – Executives Branch
Agnès Varda – Documentary Branch
Stephen F. Verona – Directors Branch
Joss Williams – Visual Effects Branch
Richard Williams – Short Films and Feature Animation Branch
William Wintersole – Actors Branch
William D. Wittliff – Writers Branch
Morgan Woodward – Actors Branch
Alan Zaslove – Short Films and Feature Animation Branch
Franco Zeffirelli – Directors Branch
