Review: 'Yesterday' imagines a world without the Beatles — and doesn't make you want to visit
How does a great piece of popular music come into being? The movies have never been especially good at answering that question, though lately there have been significant efforts to prove otherwise. Last year's "Bohemian Rhapsody" gave us a predictable, crowd-pleasing number in which Queen foot-stomps its way through "We Will Rock You" for the first time. "Rocketman" dreamed up a scene of a lovesick Elton John sitting down at his piano and breathing "Your Song" into existence.
The latest and most fanciful of these rock 'n' roll origin stories can be found in "Yesterday," a thinly imagined comic fantasy in which people are continually asking about the inspiration behind the Beatles' songs, from "Hey Jude" to "The Long and Winding Road" to "Eleanor Rigby" and all the
