A hopeless songwriter wakes up to find he’s the only person who can remember the Fab Four’s hits in a wacky, winning comedy directed by Danny BoyleImagine no Beatles, it’s not easy even if you try.
No Yesterday, no Blackbird, no Sgt Pepper …
and then … no Imagine, no all-time best Bond theme (Live and Let Die), no all-time best comedy band name (Ringo Deathstarr), no Concert for Bangladesh to inspire Live Aid, no Withnail & I, no Life of Brian – but then again, no Charles Manson.
In a Beatle-less universe, Mike McGear could be Bono’s producer and best mate and Jeff Lynne is president of the world.
Screenwriter Richard Curtis’s goofy, wacky, exasperatingly enjoyable fantasy-comedy riffs on ideas like these with a story co-written with Jack Barth – although it turns out TV’s Goodnight Sweetheart got to the idea first.
It is directed with dash and gusto by Danny Boyle.
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