Yesterday, all Jack’s troubles seemed so today, but, from across the universe, those birds have flown, now he believes in tomorrow.

In Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle’s cosmic comic confection, YESTERDAY, Jack Malik is a struggling singer songwriter who survives a serious collision between his bicycle and a bus.

Suddenly, its not half the world it used to be, there’s a shadow hanging over the planet, for when he wakes up after the accident, it is to a world that is Beatles-less, as if the Fab Four had never existed.

Before his guitar has had time to weep, Malik has appropriated the Beatles canon, recording them and becoming a world wide music sensation, all at the behest and benevolence of Ed Sheeran.

Like with Rocket Man and Bohemian Rhapsody, if you dig the music, you’re more than half way there with YESTERDAY. It’s a charmer eschewing the challenge of getting in deep and meaningful about piracy, poaching and plagiarism.

Himesh Patel presents a likeable quality in Jack Malik, earnest and erstwhile troubadour initially coming to terms with his own failure at being a popular singer/songwriter then suddenly slung into the stratosphere of success and celebrity.

As his original manager and crush, Lily James exudes an abundance of hope springs eternal, a consummate wish for the consummation of her harboured ardour.

Ed Sheeran is happy to take the piss and there’s a genuinely startling cameo that’s truly a bit of a surprise.

Kate McKinnon has all the acerbic lines as Jack’s professional manager, acidly delivered with sardonic splendour and atomic bomb aplomb.

More Love, Actually than Slumdog Millionaire, YESTERDAY invites audiences to park their critical faculties, purchase their ticket ride, and become a day dream tripper in a film that has The Beatles catalogue carry the weight and reiterate the underlying message – all you need is love.