Though the events of the movie Yesterday, where The Beatles have never existed and their music has never seen the light of day, are entirely fictional, one of the world's leading pop culture conspiracies actually claims that the Fab Four actually never worked together. The proof? Well, a load of 'photographic evidence', apparently...
Where did the conspiracy come from?
A website called The Beatles (as they were presented to us) Never Existed kickstarted the original conspiracy, though it appears to have been taken down entirely; someone's not been paying their server bills!
Still, the claims made on the site live on, with the following text lifted directly from the author:
"This is a serious subject, not a joke, and this site is here to expose the actions of those who exploited these young men and defrauded us their fans. It is to defend the honor of everyone involved who did not take part in it willingly. It has become apparent to us in this extensive and painstaking research that there were never just four individual people known as “John”, “Paul”, “George”, and “Ringo” who comprised one Rock & Roll band known as “The Beatles”, and rose to fame as the world’s first supergroup. For all intents and purposes as far as we can tell, no one such group ever existed.
"We are here to explore whether the original individuals themselves ever existed (and if so, what may have happened to them and by whom), but have not been able thus far to calculate how many of each persona were fraudulently presented to the world. Please join us at the forum if you care to and can be open-minded. This is a highly-emotional topic for many of us, and most of us have very strong feelings about it. We have started this work because we were once fans to varying degrees, and many of us still listen to and enjoy their music."
So, about this evidence...
Pictures, such as the ones used in the tweet above, are the main foundations for the 'evidence' offered up by those who believe The Beatles were never a real group. Delving into the facial features of each of the official group members, they say that anything from eyebrows, through to nose shape, and teeth layout, is proof enough that, when they were changing, impersonators were actually in place of the real people.
Of course, the pictures and 'evidence' offered up can be easily debunked. Conspiracists never look into angles, depth, and basic physics which would offer up explanations as to how and why certain aspects and features of each Beatles members' faces are different from one shot to the next.
It's certainly very 'showbusiness' to imagine a rotating cast of actors slotting in and out to make up The Beatles, but is it at all realistic? The gruelling schedule for the band and huge success that they saw would certainly back up a need for such scandalous goings-on, but I'm just not buying it...
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