What a year for music movies

Rating: 9/10 (27 June 2019)

Bohemian Rhapsody, A Star is Born, Rocketman and now Yesterday. I've died and gone to heaven. The great music acts of my time given sensitive and wonderful cinematic treatment.
This film is not so much a story of the Beatles music, but a romance film with the Beatles music featuring heavily in the plot line. Himesh Patel does a good job with the vocals. He doesn't try to be John, Paul or George, but does instead steady covers.
The staging begins slowly as an unknown also-ran from Suffolk, but rapidly ascends into the heavens when 'he' is discovered. The big delivery of the Wembley concert where is given the stage by a very generous Ed Sheeran (who happily plays a great second fiddle to Patel) was wonderful.
The music was a good selection of the original oldies to the more modern tracks as their music became more complex was comprehensive. Aficionados will recognise the crescendo from A Day In The Life as Patel is hit by the proverbial bus that makes all this happen.
An all round pleasing movie with a romance and the rapid 'stardom' of unassuming Patel culminating in a solid ending.
Well worth seeing. Highly recommended, at least to people from the era.