Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'

Subject: Mikey Clarke, UK journalist
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jul 19 - 05:35 PM

Mikey Clarke, a journalist from the UK, reviewed the
recently released film Yesterday
by writing a parody lyric for the Beatles tune.
I think it's charming.

VERSE
Yesterday
Is the film that I'll review today;
And I've got a lot I want to say,
So, I thought, I'd do it this way.

VERSE
Trust in me,
This is quite the triumph musically,
The story justifies the ticket fee.
Yes, Yesterday . . . won over me.

BRIDGE
It ... is ... set in a world,
Where the Beatles don't exist.
Just ... one ... guy remembers their songs:
That's the gist ... of Yesterday.

VERSE
Himesh Patel,
Quite the actor and singer as well;
He's the guy from EastEnders . . . you couldn't tell.
The perfect lead, in Yesterday.

BRIDGE
Now ... I ... have to say what is wrong:
It's a tad too long.
There's nothing ground-breaking here,
But I'll still cheer, for Yesterday.   

FINAL VERSE
Finally,
Curtis writing us more comedy.
Yeah, you'll walk away so merrily,
Once you have seen . . . Yesterday.


Again, the words are by one Mikey Clarke,
"colleague" of Jeremy Ransome
who writes for the
Spalding syndicate at Iliffe Media.

Here's the link.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 02:47 PM

Have you all heard, though,
the SPOILER -- won't put it here --
about an actor
who comes on at the very end
playing a SURPRISE! character?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 03:02 PM

I believe the Beatles should have got into their own English folk music (there was a revival at the time), instead of putting their skills into American pop.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 06:10 PM

There was another one way back, also posted on this forum, from where I harvested it: sing it with lots of pauses

Yesterday                                                        (parody)

Yesterday.......seemed like it was.......Wed..nes..day,
But as today is......Saturday
It must have been ........Friday.......yesterday.


Suddenly...there's no entry in my di..ary
For the Thursday or the ....Fri-i-day
This Saturday came suddenly.

Where two days could go, I don't know, I couldn't say,
I remember............bugger-all since yesterday.......
Which seemed like..............
Wednesday........still there's nothing else to say,
At least I don't think so anyway.......
Today was tomorrow................yesterday

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 05 Jul 19 - 04:18 AM

I enjoyed this film, and whilst it’s very good overall, it’s not nearly as brilliant as all the hype suggests (why do they do that, because you just end up disappointed?) Essentially it’s a one joke premise that I would have thought they could have got more laughs out of, but instead it descends into the well-worn rom-com formula (will they, won’t they?) Or maybe it’s just me...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jul 19 - 03:33 PM

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Then I went & joined the IRA
Oh I believe in yesterday
Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be
Since they chopped me off at the knee...

   (Dublin, 1960s)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Jul 19 - 03:37 PM

Oh FFS Walkaboutverse, give it a rest.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 22 Oct 19 - 12:35 PM

This link, if it works, will
SPOIL
the big surprise from the film.

photo from a special-effects specialist -- "Yesterday"

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 20 - 06:24 PM

Opinions that have leaked out since:

Yoko Ono was unhappy about SPOILER.

"... she didn't want people to see SPOILER growing old."


But Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were thumbs-up,
both sending messages of approval to
director Danny Boyle.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: My guru always said
Date: 08 Sep 23 - 07:13 AM

Refreshing for Richard Bridge

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Sep 23 - 08:02 AM

Thanks, My guru and Tattie Bogle. With that to prompt my elderly memory I THINK I can reconstruct the words as Dave might have sung them. But not confident enough to put them up here. Would anyone like to ask Essex Girl?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 08 Sep 23 - 10:24 AM

Anyone got the words for the "Vasectomy" parody of "Yesterday"?

"Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be" is all I can remeber.

Robin

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 03:29 PM

And it's not the "Lepracy" one in the other thread...

Robin

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Sep 23 - 08:02 AM

Thanks, My guru and Tattie Bogle. With that to prompt my elderly memory I THINK I can reconstruct the words as Dave might have sung them. But not confident enough to put them up here. Would anyone like to ask Essex Girl?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: My guru always said
Date: 08 Sep 23 - 07:13 AM

Refreshing for Richard Bridge

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 08 Sep 23 - 10:24 AM

Anyone got the words for the "Vasectomy" parody of "Yesterday"?

"Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be" is all I can remeber.

Robin

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of 'Yesterday'
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 03:29 PM

And it's not the "Lepracy" one in the other thread...

Robin