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To Yesterday!
Well, what an odd, oddly unsatisfying, and yet even more oddly unsettling film for any lover of the Beatles to watch. Albeit with a great Oasis joke, and an even better, blink-&-you-miss-it Revolution 9 joke. #Yesterday
It did serve to reassure me that the weight I have laid on the Beatles' shoulders in my chapter on the 60s in #Dominion is one that they are more than capable of bearing - because only the Beatles could have borne the weight that #Yesterday obliges them to bear.
What #Yesterday also illustrates - (in a sense it's the whole point of the film) is the degree to which the Beatles' music was woven into the fabric of their lives, and of the decade which they did so much to shape. It was so much more than just a collection of good tunes.
The thought of a world without the Beatles is indeed an awful one!
