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In a box overlooking the Royal Albert Hall, The Beatles, dressed in drag, are aiming a sniper rifle at the speaker below.

The Fab Four are in an alternate reality version of 1960s Britain where women occupy all the positions of power. The ruling matriarchy also happens to be crudely stereotyped as a bunch of catty, style-obsessed harpies.

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“We’re having the House of Commons redecorated in Chinese white lacquer and natural oak woodwork!” UK prime minister Lillian Corbett tells the tittering all-female crowd.

Then, a shot rings out, Corbett falls dead, and the cross-dressing Beatles drop their smoking rifle and begin to flee.

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And this wasn’t even the most shocking scene of Up Against It, the Beatles-commissioned 1967 screenplay that was to be the band’s third movie.

The Beatles would blow up a Great War cenotaph. They would serve in a brutal English civil war fought between male and female forces. Paul McCartney would spend 10 years in jail.