'Yesterday'

 I have long practice at suspending disbelief - to any height required.

A gnostic pulse eliminates all memory and existence of the Beatles.  A struggling musician is the only one that remembers their songs and he is tempted to pass them off as his own.    This was in the film ‘Yesterday’ now out on Netflix with Himesh Patel as the singer.  As a device it lured me into the mind of hearing them for the first time and that’s a good trick for feeling the poignancy of the title song.  Why do the cliches affect us? ‘Half the man I used to be’, ‘shadow hanging  over me’ are true reports of a drowning man clinging to useless debris.  For the present we believe in yesterday but that too has gone down with all hands.