"weeks during its 34-week run in the top 40. Author Howard Sounes writes that, amid the fine summer weather and England's win in the World Cup, ""Revolver"" provided the ""soundtrack ... of the season"". In America, Capitol were wary of the religious references in ""Eleanor Rigby"", given the ongoing controversy, and instead pushed ""Yellow Submarine"". The latter peaked at number 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, making it, in Gould's description, ""the first 'designated' Beatles single since 1963"" not to top that chart. On the ""Billboard"" Top LPs chart, ""Revolver"" hit number 1 on 10 September, a week after the"
"and on a double A-side single with ""Yellow Submarine"" on Parlophone in the United Kingdom and Capitol in the United States, ""Eleanor Rigby"" spent four weeks at number one on the British charts, but in America it only reached #11, with ""Yellow Submarine"" charting separately at #2. The song was nominated for three Grammys and won the 1966 Grammy for ""Best Contemporary (R&R) Vocal Performance, Male or Female"" for McCartney. Thirty years later, a stereo remix of George Martin's isolated string arrangement was released on the Beatles' ""Anthology 2"". A decade after that, a remixed version of the track was"
"included in the 2006 album ""Love"". It is the second song to appear in the Beatles' 1968 animated film ""Yellow Submarine"". The first is ""Yellow Submarine""; it and ""Eleanor Rigby"" are the only songs in the film which the animated Beatles are not seen to be singing. ""Eleanor Rigby"" is introduced just before the Liverpool sequence of the film; its poignancy ties in quite well with Ringo Starr (the first member of the group to encounter the submarine), who is represented as quietly bored and depressed. """"Compared with my life, Eleanor Rigby's was a gay, mad world."""" In 1984, a"
"a recording of Georges Krier and Charles Helmer's composition, ""Le Rêve Passe"" (1906). The original recording had a spoken intro by Starr, but the idea was abandoned on 3 June. When the overdubs were finished, Mal Evans strapped on a marching bass drum and led everybody in a line around the studio doing the conga dance whilst banging on the drum. The ""Yellow Submarine"" single was the Beatles' 13th single release in the United Kingdom. It was released in the UK on 5 August 1966 as a 'double A side' with ""Eleanor Rigby"", and in the United States on 8"
"to allow the keyboard parts to be heard distinctly. When a new Beatles single was requested by manager Brian Epstein, due to pressure from EMI, Martin told him that the band had recorded ""Penny Lane"" and ""Strawberry Fields Forever"", which Martin considered to be the band's best songs up to that point. The two songs were released as a double A-side single, in a fashion identical to that of the Beatles' previous single, ""Eleanor Rigby"" / ""Yellow Submarine"". The release took place in the United States on 13 February 1967 and in the United Kingdom on 17 February. It was"
"Yellow Submarine (album) Yellow Submarine is the tenth studio album by English rock band the Beatles, released on 13 January 1969 in the United States and on 17 January 1969 in the United Kingdom. It was issued as the soundtrack to the animated film of the same name, which premiered in London in July 1968. The album contains six songs by the Beatles, including four new songs and the previously released ""Yellow Submarine"" and ""All You Need Is Love"". The remainder of the album is a re-recording of the film's orchestral soundtrack by the band's producer, George Martin. The project"
"new cover art and several bonus tracks - a radio interview with Berberian recorded by Radio France in February 1975, and three newer live versions of Beatles tracks, one recorded at the Festival de Divonne-les-Bains in 1980, and two at the Festival d'Avignon in 1982. These live recordings feature Bruno Canino on piano and harpsichord, with arrangements by noted Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. A review in the June 2, 1967 issue of ""Time"" said of this album: ""There may be comic incongruity in her highfalutin version of 'Yellow Submarine', and Paul McCartney, surprisingly enough, sings 'Eleanor Rigby' a great deal"
"a delightful album, even if it's still a less-than-acceptable inclusion in the Beatles canon"", though he criticised the inclusion of Martin's score, which he felt should have been sold as a separate release. The Beatles Citations Sources Yellow Submarine (album) Yellow Submarine is the tenth studio album by English rock band the Beatles, released on 13 January 1969 in the United States and on 17 January 1969 in the United Kingdom. It was issued as the soundtrack to the animated film of the same name, which premiered in London in July 1968. The album contains six songs by the Beatles,"
"the Beatles' ""Eleanor Rigby"" (August 1966) and Procol Harum's ""A Whiter Shade of Pale"" (1967). Gendron's ""baroque rock"" examples include ""Walk Away Renée"" with Spanky and Our Gang's ""Sunday Will Never Be the Same"" (1967), and the Stone Poneys' ""Different Drum"" (1967) – all of which used harpsichord and strings. Stanley highlighted a strand of baroque pop he calls ""English baroque"", it being a combined simulacrum of the Zombies' album ""Odessey and Oracle"" (1968), Paul McCartney's contributions to ""The White Album"" (1968), Honeybus' single ""I Can't Let Maggie Go"" (1968), Scott Walker's chamber pop, and Crosby, Stills & Nash vocal"
"re-interpretation of the song was included in the film and album ""Give My Regards to Broad Street"", written by and starring McCartney. It segues into a symphonic extension, ""Eleanor's Dream."" A fully remixed stereo version of the original ""Eleanor Rigby"" song was issued in 1999 on the Yellow Submarine Songtrack, with some minor fixes to the vocals. ""Eleanor Rigby"" was important in the Beatles' evolution from a pop, live-performance band to a more experimental, studio-orientated band, though the track contains little studio trickery. In a 1967 interview, Pete Townshend of The Who commented, ""I think 'Eleanor Rigby' was a very"
"there coincided with the Beatles' final concert tour, which was marred by the controversy surrounding John Lennon's remark that the band had become ""more popular than Jesus"". The record topped the UK Albums Chart for seven weeks and America's ""Billboard"" Top LPs list for six weeks. Together with the children's novelty song ""Yellow Submarine"", ""Eleanor Rigby"" became an international hit when issued as a double A-side single. The album cover was designed by Klaus Voormann, whose work combined Aubrey Beardsley-inspired line drawing with photo collage and went on to win the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts."
"Yellow Submarine Songtrack Yellow Submarine Songtrack is a compilation/soundtrack album by the Beatles for the 1999 re-release of the 1968 film ""Yellow Submarine"". The film was re-released on 13 September 1999 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States. In sharp contrast with other Beatles remasters available, the songs were fully remixed by Peter Cobbin at Abbey Road from the original multitrack tapes, something not done for the original CD release of the Beatles catalogue in the late 1980s (except for ""Help!"" and ""Rubber Soul""), nor the 2009 remastered albums. This album contains all but one"
"initial sales than any other Capitol LP up to that point. The Beatles' animated film ""Yellow Submarine"", loosely based on the imaginary world evoked by McCartney's 1966 composition, premiered in July 1968. Though critics admired the film for its visual style, humour and music, the soundtrack album issued six months later received a less enthusiastic response. By late 1968, relations within the band were deteriorating. The tension grew during the recording of their eponymous double album, also known as the ""White Album"". Matters worsened the following year during the ""Let It Be"" sessions, when a camera crew filmed McCartney lecturing"
"Yellow Submarine (film) Yellow Submarine (also known as The Beatles: Yellow Submarine) is a 1968 British animated musical fantasy comedy film inspired by the music of the Beatles, directed by animation producer George Dunning, and produced by United Artists and King Features Syndicate. Initial press reports stated that the Beatles themselves would provide their own character voices; however, aside from composing and performing the songs, the real Beatles participated only in the closing scene of the film, while their cartoon counterparts were voiced by other actors. The film received widespread acclaim from critics and audiences alike, in contrast to some"
"and became the most successful Beatles song to feature Starr as lead vocalist. It became the title song of the animated United Artists film, also called ""Yellow Submarine"" (1968), and the soundtrack album to the film, released as part of the Beatles' music catalogue. An orchestral reprise to the song arranged by George Martin titled ""Yellow Submarine in Pepperland"" is featured at the end of the film and its soundtrack. Although intended as a nonsense song for children, ""Yellow Submarine"" received various social and political interpretations at the time. In a joint interview in March 1967, McCartney and Lennon recalled"
"of rock music into territory that often did not require his accompaniment; during recording sessions he spent hours playing cards with their road manager Neil Aspinall and roadie Mal Evans while the other Beatles perfected tracks without him. In a letter published in ""Melody Maker"", a fan asked the Beatles to let Starr sing more; he replied: ""[I am] quite happy with my one little track on each album"". In August 1966, the Beatles released ""Revolver"", their seventh UK LP. It included the song ""Yellow Submarine"", the only British number-one single with Starr as the lead singer. Later that month,"
"animations for ""Do Not Adjust Your Set"" and ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" (particularly the ""Eleanor Rigby"" sequence), as well as the ""Schoolhouse Rock"" vignettes for ABC and similar-looking animation in early seasons of ""Sesame Street"" and ""The Electric Company"". (As such, only one of the animation staff of ""Yellow Submarine"" did indeed contribute subsequent animation to Children's Television Workshop: Ron Campbell.) In addition to the 1966-released title song ""Yellow Submarine"", several complete or excerpted songs, four previously unreleased, were used in the film. The songs included ""All Together Now""; ""It's All Too Much"", written by Harrison; ""Baby, You're a Rich"
"a secondary release beside the band's recently issued double LP, ""The Beatles"", the ""Yellow Submarine"" album appeared in January 1969, six months after the film's London premiere. In January 1996, ""It's All Too Much"" (backed by ""Only a Northern Song"") was issued on a jukebox-only single, pressed on blue vinyl. This release was part of a series of Beatles jukebox singles issued by Capitol Records' CEMA Special Markets division. Recalling the release of ""Yellow Submarine"" in his 1977 book ""The Beatles Forever"", Nicholas Schaffner described ""It's All Too Much"" as the only one of the new songs that appeared ""to"
"would not clash with the release of ""The Beatles"", and to allow for the re-recording of Martin's contributions, ""Yellow Submarine"" was issued by Apple Records on 13 January 1969 in the US and on 17 January in the UK. The album was issued in stereo only in the US, while the UK album was available in both stereo and mono, although the mono version is simply a fold-down (a combination of two stereo channels into one mono) rather than a specific mix. Since ""All You Need Is Love"" had been rush-released a single, it did not have an official stereo"
"and the review of the White Album with Taylor's introduction is included inside the CD insert. A new ""Yellow Submarine"" album appeared on 13 September 1999, coinciding with the remastered re-release of the film. Titled ""Yellow Submarine Songtrack"", it dispenses with the George Martin orchestrations, and includes the six Beatles songs from the original album, along with an additional nine songs heard in the film, all completely remixed for this disc. The original album remained available and was remastered and reissued, along with the rest of the Beatles' catalogue, on 9 September 2009. This release included both the UK and"
"first released in this version on the Regal Starline SRS 5013 album ""No One's Gonna Change Our World"" in December 1969. This version was issued, in its stereo form, on four Beatles compilation albums: the British version of ""Rarities"", the different American version of ""Rarities"", ""The Beatles Ballads"", and the second disc of the two-CD ""Past Masters"" album, released in 1988. The January 1969 mono mix, which had been considered for an aborted ""Yellow Submarine"" EP, was finally released on ""Mono Masters"", part of ""The Beatles in Mono"" box set, in 2009. The Beatles took the song up again during"
"brought to Manson's attention. Manson himself invoked ""Yellow Submarine"", a Beatles song that was released in 1966 and that inspired an animated movie of the same title. The movie was released in the United States in November 1968, within a week or so of the White Album. In the first months of 1969, after he had delivered the Helter Skelter prophecy around the New Year's Eve campfire near Death Valley, Manson applied the name ""Yellow Submarine"" to a canary-yellow, Canoga Park house to which the Family repaired at his instruction. There, as they would prepare for Helter Skelter, they would"
"""The [band's] two main songwriting forces were no longer on the same page, but neither were George and Ringo"", yet ""Lennon turns in two of his best ballads"", McCartney's songs are ""stunning"", Harrison had become ""a songwriter who deserved wider exposure"", and Starr's composition was ""a delight"". The ""Yellow Submarine"" LP, issued in January 1969, contained only the four previously unreleased songs that had debuted in the film, along with the title track (already issued on ""Revolver""), ""All You Need Is Love"" (already issued as a single and on the US ""Magical Mystery Tour"" LP) and seven instrumental pieces composed"
"the top 5 in the UK and the US, and has been reissued on compact disc several times. The album arose from contractual obligations for the Beatles to supply new songs to the soundtrack to United Artists' animated film ""Yellow Submarine"". Having recently completed their album ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" in April 1967, the group showed minimal enthusiasm for the project. Along with the music for their ""Magical Mystery Tour"" TV film, the ""Yellow Submarine"" soundtrack was part of a period that author Ian MacDonald later described as the band's ""regime of continuous low-intensity recording ... it had"
"restored ""Yellow Submarine"" film in 1999, a new mix of the song was issued on the Beatles' ""Yellow Submarine Songtrack"" album. Among Beatles biographers, Tim Riley considers the track to be ""a step beyond"" Harrison's two contributions on ""Help!"", with the fuzz bass providing ""just the right guttural cynicism"", yet he says the song lacks the ""melodic sonorities and layered texture"" that distinguishes the guitarist's other ""Rubber Soul"" composition, ""If I Needed Someone"". Riley adds that ""Think for Yourself"" merely serves to provide contrast with the Lennon songs either side of it on the album. Conversely, Ian MacDonald finds the"
"Pepperland Laid Waste ""Pepperland Laid Waste"" is an instrumental orchestral piece conducted and composed by The Beatles' producer George Martin for the ""Yellow Submarine"" film and was the sixth track on the orchestral Side 2 of the film's soundtrack album by The Beatles, released in 1969. The song was recorded by a 41-piece orchestra at Abbey Road Studios on 22–23 October 1968. In the film, Pepperland is a place inhabited by music lovers and beauty. The film's antagonists, the Blue Meanies, hate music and beauty. They attack Pepperland, destroying the land's beauty along with freezing the inhabitants. Martin's musical illustration"
"LP) collection contains the remastered mono versions of every Beatles album released in true mono. The original 1965 stereo mixes of ""Help!"" and ""Rubber Soul"" are included on the CD version as bonuses on their respective albums. (In 1986 both albums had been remixed by George Martin for their CD release in 1987.) The box contains a new two-disc compilation album titled ""Mono Masters"", which compiles all the mono mixes of singles, B-sides and EP tracks that did not originally appear on any of the UK albums or ""Magical Mystery Tour"". The albums ""Yellow Submarine"", ""Abbey Road"" and ""Let It"
"to be issued in February 1969 with the 'Yellow Submarine' (803) from the animated Beatles film of the same name. This model featured two hatches that lifted at the touch of buttons on the side of the craft to allow models of the Fab Four John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr to pop into view. Early examples featured a white hatch to the front and a yellow hatch to the rear in keeping with the colour scheme of the original, before both hatches were coloured red on later models. The 'Yellow Submarine' commands high prices today amongst"
"film ""Yellow Submarine"", where the Beatles sing it about the character Jeremy Hillary Boob after meeting him in the ""nowhere land"". Lennon wrote the song about himself after racking his brain in desperation for five hours trying to come up with another song for ""Rubber Soul"". Lennon told ""Playboy"" magazine: McCartney said of the song: The song begins with the chord of E (I tonic) on ""He's a real"" and then involves a 5–4–3–2–1 pitch descent between the B (V dominant) chord on ""nowhere man"" and A (IV subdominant) chord on ""sitting in""; a twist comes where Am (iv minor)"
"UK, such as ""Eight Days a Week"" and ""Yesterday""). The UK version of the album comprised all 19 tracks from the 17 Beatles singles to top the UK Singles Chart (including both sides of the double A-sides ""Day Tripper""/""We Can Work It Out"" and ""Yellow Submarine""/""Eleanor Rigby"") plus the Beatles' first chart hit ""Love Me Do"", which peaked at number 17 in the UK. The versions of ""Love Me Do"" and ""She Loves You"" on the album were produced in ""simulated stereo"", leaving ""From Me to You"" as the only mono track on the compilation. Although many documentaries state that"
"pieces were also used in the short NASA Apollo 9 mission films, which NASA made for every mission. Another soundtrack was released in 1999, which contained all of the Beatles' songs from the film except ""A Day in the Life"". ""Yellow Submarine"" received widespread critical acclaim. Released in the midst of the psychedelic pop culture of the 1960s, the film was a box-office hit, drawing in crowds both for its lush, wildly creative images, and its soundtrack of Beatles songs. The film was distributed worldwide by United Artists in two versions. The version shown in Europe included an extra musical"
"the basic track for ""All You Need Is Love"". ""Baby, You're a Rich Man"" was initially submitted for inclusion in ""Yellow Submarine"". While the song was used in the film, its initial release was as the B-side of ""All You Need Is Love"", which the Beatles performed on the ""Our World"" satellite broadcast on 25 June 1967 and then rush-released as a single.<ref name=""Edwards/RS""></ref> The release took place on 7 July in the United Kingdom and on 17 July in the United States. ""All You Need Is Love"" topped singles charts in many countries around the world. In the United"
"who covered it during jams in their live shows with the Beatles' vocals replaced by rapping from their MCs. It also was performed by Dave Grohl and Jeff Lynne on February 9, 2014 at """". James Bay performs it in episode 24a of ""Beat Bugs"". Hey Bulldog ""Hey Bulldog"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles released on their 1969 soundtrack album ""Yellow Submarine"". Credited to Lennon–McCartney but written primarily by John Lennon, it was finished in the studio by Lennon and McCartney. The song was recorded during the filming of the ""Lady Madonna"" promotional video, and,"