It’s safe to say that pretty much everybody can name at least one Beatles song, and can probably hum the tune to a few more.

The Fab Four will go down in history as one of the most iconic and influential outfits of all time, but what if they had never existed.

Or rather, what if only one person in the entire world remembered them?

That’s the premise of Yesterday, a new movie directed by Danny Boyle, which looks like it could be a bit of fun.

A quick write-up below from GQ:

Written by Richard Curtis, the British king of high-concept plots, Yesterday stars Himesh Patel as the singer-songwriter who stumbles into a new world in which John, Paul, George, and Ringo never…met? Existed? It’s unclear right now.

He decides to kick off a songwriting career, rejigging the Beatles repertoire and passing it off as his own work, becoming hugely famous (and friends with Ed Sheeran) in the process.

Yes, Ed Sheeran does feature, and your man Himesh has a pretty decent voice:

Let’s just be thankful that Himesh didn’t bust out Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.

Yesterday premieres in June of this year.

[source:gq]