And here’s a guy who thinks that he is the only person to have ever thought of this.
One more note–the Otherworld episode is on YouTube. (They started with I Want to Hold Your Hand, not Yesterday.)
I love the concept, I’m a huge Beatles fan, and the trailer makes it look like a lot of fun, so I’ll definitely be seeing it.
In the first of which, Marty McFly plays some Chuck Berry music from the (near) future at the prom.
In the Stephen King novel, 11/22/63, the time traveler Jake Epping was constantly singing or whistling songs from later than November, 1963, to the bafflement of his girlfriend, although he didn’t try to pass therm of as his own.
I suspect this movie is going to be a bitter disappointment, because all of the signs say it should be great; Beatles songs, written by Richard Curtis (of Love, Actually and Notting Hill fame) and directed by Danny Boyle (of Millions, 24 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire fame). So all indications are that I should love it. I’m just afraid that despite that, I’m not going to like it.
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Thanks, Chronos.
Just hope what happens in the movie doesn’t turn out to “just be a dream.”
In Peggy Sue got Married, Peggy Sue gets transported back to her past and tries to teach her do-wopping boyfrined to sing ‘She Love You’.
I am remembering that right, right?
Don’t forget Marty McFly playingJohnny B. Goode at a high school dance and Marvin Berry excitedly calls his cousin Chuck to have a listen.
Also a plot arc in John Allison’s webcomic Scary-Go-Round, where a couple characters from the modern world end up in Elizabethan England, and one makes a name for herself singing as much as she can remember of old Beatles songs.
I didn’t forget. See post 23.
“I changed all the yeah-yeah-yeahs to Ohh-ohh-ohhs…”
I am curious to how the movie addresses how the music landscape is when the Beatles didn’t exist. Considering their influence and innovation I would think it would be pretty different, but it might be hard to go into all that but still show a recognizable world. Coldplay is referenced and Ed Sheeran is in the trailer so I’m wondering if all other music is the same or if some other band filled the space that the Beatles had.
I’m kind of intrigued. On the one hand, I’m generally a fan of stories involving parallel universes and alternate timelines and such. But I’m not a huge fan of the Beatles. I may just let the reviews guide me on this one.
I would think the smart approach would be not to address it at all; the musical world would be totally different without the Beatles. Even if the general development of music was the same, the personalities would be different. If you have no Beatles, you might not have David Bowie becoming famous, as all British music, and Bowie, were influenced by the Beatles. If you don’t have David Bowie you may lose twenty, fifty more artists; a quick Google search of people influenced and inspired by Bowie includes basically everyone in the last 45 years. Who knows? Fighting that would require the movie confuse the audience for no good reason; it’s easier to just anchor the audience in a world where Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and James Corden and other famous people are who you understand them to be.
If you wanted a hard science fiction movie that’s a different matter, but “Yesterday” is clearly not that.
Sort of like The Invention of Lying, where the world is far, far, far too similar to our own.
Maybe it was a world where the Rolling Stones competed with… The Kinks?
Eh. Not the same, but not too bad either.
I’m assuming the end will be “It was all a dream.” Let’s face it, in a world where all of the current music is the same it’s just that no one heard of the Beatles, no one is going to get famous singing “I want to hold your hand.”
Well, the scenario presented in the trailer is the main character tumbles over the handlebars of his bicycle and wakes up in the hospital to the news that while he was unconscious, there was a blackout, simultaneously all over the world. Oh, and all of a sudden no one ever heard of the Beatles. “It was all just a dream” does sound like the most likely explanation but I really hope that Richard Curtis came up with something more clever. As I said, I’m looking forward to it but we’ll see.
I’m looking forward to seeing this movie. I love the Beatles.
It is a clever idea that one guy would know previously famous songs that the rest of the world has never heard.
I’m not convinced one guy singing Beatles songs would ever become as famous.
He’d certainly have some success, but part of the Beatles phenomenon were the four lads from Liverpool. Their unique way of performing and the time period that it occurred helped establish The Beatles. McCartney and Lennon had something special that an imposter would never be able to recreate.
Could be interesting to have some songs become hits and others flop. The world in 2019 might not like I Am The Walrus. 