How YesterdayMovie breathes new life into the Beatles’ music
Along the way, Jack meets and performs with Ed Sheeran, who plays himself in the film . Jack also falls in love with the childhood friend who is now his manager, Ellie . Curtis admits that bobbing back and forth between Jack’s career and love life was “a juggling act,” but feels both themes work together. “One is the idea that we’re all imposters,” he says. “But I also wanted to write a love story. No matter what becomes of you, love is the most important thing in the end.
All you need is cash. Curtis was told early on that including Beatles material in a movie would be feasible, since the recordings would be covers and not the more expensive and harder-to-license original recordings. “I’m not sure I would have written a whole film if I hadn’t been reassured that we had permission,” says Curtis, whose script called on Jack to sing 15 Beatles tunes, from “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to “Let It Be.
Simply to ram home the premise of the movie. “It’s such a huge catalog, and the joke of the film is that the songs are so famous and no one knows them,” says Curtis. “I adore ‘This Boy’ and the lesser ones, but the whole point is that he plays ‘Yesterday’ or ‘The Long and Winding Road’ and no one knows it. We were always going to go for the top 25 in the catalog, the songs on the blue and red [compilation] albums.
Led Zeppelin and David Bowie albums were part of his record collection first, but eventually the young Boyle bought, and the medley on side two still blows his mind. “They put those songs together side by side, and in a symphonic way, and there’s such a variation between playful and soulful,” he says. “They were doing all that before what we’ve done since with remixes and mixes. It’s astonishing.”As with so many things, it’s Chris Martin’s fault.
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