The action suddenly stops cold and we flash back further still, to the chaos and devastation of war. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is destroyed, but there is still hope.

Marked by the ending strings from "Glass Onion," the festivities are brought to a startling finish. Trip back, peel back the layers of time, back to The Beatles' youth to post-war Britain amidst the chaos, the rubble, and the devastation of WWII. The vibrancy and levity become shrouded by the grim realities of WWII. The big screens on the walls light up with airplanes, German bombers seen from below. Four guys on wire rigs trailing smoke nd wearing streamers on their costumes plummet toward the stage like bombs. When they disappear into the basement, performers on the ground blow up a set of fake chimneys, knocking them down and dumping the foam-rubber bricks into nets and tarps below. The bandstand and the nowhere men drop back into the basement, and other lifts emerge slowly, bringing to stage level a giant Deconstructed clock face. It is from these ashes that the lad's revolutionary attitudes and musical tastes begin to take form. Sgt Pepper's band is symbolically destroyed amid the chaos and devastation, and the grim landscape soon becomes a setting for change and renewal.

A much shorter song than the original version of "Glass Onion" (containing fewer vocals), the track also contains McCartney's falsetto "Oh!" and "Hello!" both from "Hello, Goodbye", guitar from "Things We Said Today", violin from "All You Need Is Love", brass from "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Penny Lane", and sound effects from "Only a Northern Song".