![]() ![]() But that's true of all movies." All of that was many, many years ago, and now here is a restored version of "Yellow Submarine," arriving like a time capsule from the flower power era, with a graphic look that fuses Peter Max, Rene Magritte and M.C. ![]() "Yellow Submarine" was also embraced as a "head movie," leading to an observation attributed to Ken Kesey: "They say it looks better when you're stoned. That was the year "2001: A Space Odyssey" was released in reserved-ticket engagements with an intermission, and hippies would mingle with the ticket holders on the sidewalk outside the theater, and sneak back into the theater for the film's second half, to lay, or lie, flat on their backs on the floor in front of the screen, observing Kubrick's time-space journey from a skewed perspective-while, as the saying went, they were stoned out of their gourds. "Yellow Submarine" was released in 1968, after the Summer of Love but before Woodstock, when the Beatles stood astride the world of pop music, and "psychedelic art" had such an influence that people actually read underground newspapers printed in orange on yellow paper. Eighty thousand leagues beneath the sea it lay, or lie (I'm not too sure). It's sold more than a million copies.Once upon a time, or maybe twice, there was a land called Pepperland. The Yellow Submarine album hit Number Two on the Billboard 200 and Number Three on the British chart. Revolver was the last Beatles album until Magical Mystery Tour to have different track listings between the two countries. and has sold more than five million copies. The Revolver album hit Number One in both the U.S. So all of that 'Full steam ahead' you hear was done live while the main vocal was going on, and we all had a giggle."īeatles manager Brian Epstein was so taken by "Yellow Submarine" that he made a deal for a Yellow Submarine animated film - an idea that did not particularly please the Beatles, though they warmed to it after the film, which was released in 1969, became a success. ![]() John got one of those little hand mikes, which he put into his Vox amp and was able to talk through. Martin noted, "You can hear the noise of bubbles being blown into tanks, chains rattling and that kind of thing. To record the song, the Beatles and producer George Martin employed a number of special effects, including Lennon blowing bubbles and buckets full of water that George Harrison swirled on the recording. Many people have interpreted it to be a war song, that eventually all the world would be living in yellow submarines. Starr, who sang lead on the song, agreed: "It's simply a children's song with no hidden meanings. Kids will understand it easier than adults." With 'Yellow Submarine,' the whole idea was, 'If someday I came across some kids singing it, that would be it,' so it's got to be very easy. And then we thought it would be good for Ringo ( Starr) to do…I just loved the idea of kids singing it. Though some found "drug connotations" in the song, McCartney contended that "it really was a children's song…I wrote it in bed one night, as a kid's story. We virtually made the track come alive in the studio, but based on Paul's inspiration, Paul's idea, Paul's title." I helped with the blunderbuss bit… Donovanhelped with the lyrics. John Lennon gave most of the credit for "Yellow Submarine" to Paul McCartney - "'Yellow Submarine' is Paul's baby…Paul wrote the catchy chorus. It hit Number One three years later, when the Yellow Submarineanimated film came out. ![]() in August 1966, "Yellow Submarine" reached Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. George Harrison - tambourine, vocals, water bucketĬhorus vocals - Mal Evans, Neil Aspinall, George Martin, Alf, Geoff Emerick, Patti Harrison, and others Recorded: May 26th, 1966, at EMI (aka Abbey Road) Studios in London ![]()
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