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Everyone can name a Beatles song and that’s why Danny Boyle picked them for Yesterday


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In Danny Boyle’s new film Yesterday a worldwide power cut somehow erases The Beatles from the entire population conscious apart from one man, Jack Malik, a struggling singer-songwriter who realises he could use this to his advantage.

It’s a fascinating premise but why The Beatles and not The Rolling Stones or Elvis Presley?

‘I don’t think there is anyone who has quite had the impact the Beatles have had on our lives, and therefore would be an extraordinary loss to imagine they were gone,’ Danny told Metro.co.uk.

‘[They] also have such resonance in terms of memory because even young people sort of know a few of the songs. If you shout it out to any crowd “name a Beatles song” they can name one, and I don’t think there’s any other band that you get that with.

‘So it’s a wonderful place to set up that conceit of them being erased among the entire population except for one person who thinks he can remember them all.’

‘There is no one who has quite had the impact the Beatles have had on our lives’ (Picture: Getty)

Richard Curtis who wrote the film agrees, adding: ‘I think the soul of the Beatles is the inspiration foe everything I do.

‘Their music is full of joy and tends to be about love and even when they’re sad there’s a deliciousness to it. i have always wanted to make movies about the feeling I got when I heard And I Love Her or If I Fell.’

‘Their music is full of joy and tends to be about love’ (Picture: Redferns)

The British band have been in our lives for over seven decades but Danny and Richard also revealed their favourite folk stories about John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison which are still told and retold to this day.

One that Danny loves is that Paul – arguably one of the greatest songwriters ever – reportedly wrote two of the band’s most beautiful tracks in one day.

‘I heard that Paul wrote The Long And Winding Road and Let It Be on the same day,’ he told Metro.co.uk. ‘What? One in the morning and one in the afternoon!’

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Richard, who wrote the film – and is a surprise Love Island fan – also shared his own folk tale although this one came directly from Sir Paul himself.

‘I had a sweet moment when I wrote to Paul to ask if it was okay to call the movie Yesterday,’ he said, ‘and he wrote back and said “why don’t you call it Scrambled Eggs?” as that was famously the original title for Yesterday.

‘I told him if it turned out to be a mess we’d turn it to Scrambled Eggs!’

Yesterday is out in the UK on 28 June.

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