“Yesterday” was, in effect, the first solo record from a Beatle. Paul McCartney famously wrote the song’s melody while asleep, hearing it in a dream. He held onto it for weeks, convinced that he’d ...

A world without The Beatles would be a little less exciting, if not totally confusing, as the movie Yesterday shows. The Fab Four are the soundtrack to most people’s lives. The band that pretty much ...

The Monkees‘ “I Wanna Be Free” is strikingly similar to The Beatles’ “Yesterday.” That was no accident. One song has a more universal meeting than the other but they’re both great. The Monkees’ ‘I ...

When Paul McCartney came up with the Beatles classic “Yesterday,” he played it for as many people as he could. It wasn't because he was looking for criticism, but because he wanted to know if people ...

Danny Boyle said he was concerned that his new movie, Yesterday, would leave the surviving members of the Beatles – or the late members’ widows – feeling “triggered or upset.” Richard Curtis’ story is ...

While rock isn’t as popular as it used to be, classic rock still influences modern singers. Case in point, Madison Beer revealed one of her songs was inspired by The Beatles’ “Yesterday” during a ...

No other music group has impacted modern pop music like The Beatles. The band has influenced countless artists and given the world a long list of hummable, memorable hit songs. But what would the ...

Coming to theaters on June 28, Yesterday is about a world in which the Beatles never existed — and one person capitalizes on it by passing their songs off as his own. It's a mystery as to why the ...

I'll say this much for the breezy but dispiriting musical romance Yesterday: It has a clever conceit that it doesn't make the mistake of trying to explain. What explanation could there be for how The ...

Reporting from New York — First things first: Himesh Patel wasn’t always a Beatles fan. Growing up, he preferred indie rock (the Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys) and Bollywood (especially A.R ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Himesh Patel, who stars in the new movie Yesterday, which imagines a world in which no one knows The Beatles, except one man. Jack Malik is a kind of sad-sack rock musician ...