Presenting a chronological list of Beatles-inspired movies that are built around the Fab Four phenomenon
Lily James and Himesh Patel in Yesterday. Photo: Jonathan Prime/Universal Pictures As you may have heard by now, Danny Boyle’s Yesterday imagines a world without the Beatles. It’s an extraordinary pitch, since there are plenty of films that exist only because of the Fab Four: Movies where characters are named after songs, narratives are steered by psychedelic lyrics, and productions are filled with Easter-egg details.
The joke was completed by the seriously great songwriting by Neil Innes, whose parodies of Beatles songs slyly kept the chord structures of real-life hits but tweaked the melodies, making the imitations recognizable but not illegal — “With a Girl Like You” is like “If I Fell” from another dimension. Sometimes the similarities were comically reckless: “Get Up and Go” is such a “Get Back” reference that John Lennon was worried Innes would get sued by Paul McCartney.
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This Beatlemania oeuvre has been mostly lost to obscurity, starting with the lawsuit that Weber lost to Apple Corps in 1986; the band’s members were not fans, with Weissman stating in a news interview that Ringo “doesn’t like [the show] one bit.
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