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Danny Boyle’s Yesterday depicts a world in which The Beatles never existed. However, the musical romantic comedy does spotlight one of The Fab Four’s original members: John Lennon. The surprise cameo comes at just the right time for the film’s protagonist Jack Malik, who becomes an international superstar after a strange blackout changes the course of history.

In Yesterday, Hamish Patel stars as Jack, a struggling musician who’s reached a crossroads in his life. His manager, Ellie Appleton (Lily James), provides support, but the general public doesn’t seem to appreciate Jack’s music. During a worldwide power outage, Jack gets hit by a bus and wakes up to find that he’s living in a Beatles-less world. He scrambles to remember the band’s song lyrics, and reinvents himself by performing classics from The Beatles’ catalogue. Since the entire world has never heard the music before, Jack is praised as a creative genius, who travels the world with tourmate Ed Sheeran and has huge crowds of adoring fans.

Source: Yesterday’s John Lennon Cameo Proves What The Movie Is Really About