'Yesterday' pays tribute to The Beatles by imagining a world without them
It’s a notion that would leave Beatles fans Here, There and Everywhere crying out for Help!
A world without the transcendent songs of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr seems almost impossible to imagine more than 50 years after the Fab Four changed music forever.
But that’s the concept explored in “Yesterday,” a new movie where everybody except one man forgets about The Beatles.
“In reality, if they didn’t exist, the world would be an infinitely more different place, and it’s hard to really unravel that thread,” star Himesh Patel, 28, told the Daily News. “The aim of the movie is to use this conceit of them disappearing to kind of conversely celebrate how amazing their music is and how important it is in terms of its love. How the message of so many of the songs is love and friendship and celebration of what’s best in people.”
Source: MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO/gazettenet.com
