Yellow Submarine (film) and Related Topics

The Beatles

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English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

Main entrance at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios, pictured 2007)

McCartney, Harrison, Swedish pop singer Lill-Babs and Lennon on the set of the Swedish television show Drop-In, 30 October 1963

The Beatles arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 7 February 1964

The Beatles performing on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 1964

McCartney, Harrison and Lennon performing on Dutch TV in 1964

The US trailer for Help! with (from the rear) Harrison, McCartney, Lennon and (largely obscured) Starr

The band at a press conference in Minnesota in August 1965, shortly after playing at Shea Stadium in New York

San Francisco's Candlestick Park (pictured in the early 1960s) was the venue for the Beatles' final concert before a paying audience.

Front cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "the most famous cover of any music album, and one of the most imitated images in the world"

The Beatles, known as "the White Album" for its minimalist cover, conceived by pop artist Richard Hamilton "in direct contrast to Sgt. Pepper", while also suggesting a "clean slate"

American soul musician Billy Preston (pictured in 1971) was, for a short time, considered a fifth Beatle during the Get Back sessions.

Apple Corps building at 3 Savile Row, site of the Let It Be rooftop concert

Starr and McCartney introduced the video game The Beatles: Rock Band at the 2009 E3 convention.

A Höfner "violin" bass guitar and Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar, models played by McCartney and Harrison, respectively; the Vox AC30 amplifier behind them is the model the Beatles used during performances in the early 1960s.

Martin (second from right) in the studio with the Beatles in the mid-1960s

The Beatles in 1967; clockwise from left: Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr

Two Beatles film projects were conceived within weeks of completing Sgt. Pepper: Magical Mystery Tour, a one-hour television film, and Yellow Submarine, an animated feature-length film produced by United Artists.

Paul McCartney

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English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame as co-lead vocalist, co-songwriter and bassist for the Beatles.

The home at 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton, into which the McCartney family moved in 1955

McCartney (centre) with the rest of the Beatles in 1964

McCartney performing with wife Linda in 1976

McCartney at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, January 1980

Starr and McCartney promoting The Beatles: Rock Band in 2009

McCartney live in São Paulo, Brazil, 2019

McCartney using a Höfner 500/1 bass in 2016

McCartney playing a Gibson Les Paul in concert, 2009

Paul McCartney performing in the East Room of the White House, 2010

Vladimir Putin, McCartney and his wife Heather Mills in Moscow, Russia, 2003

McCartney (right) with wife Linda in 1976

McCartney (right) with John Lennon in 1964.

Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder perform "Ebony and Ivory" at a concert at the White House in 2010.

McCartney receiving the 2010 Gershwin Prize from US President Barack Obama

The Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine, loosely based on the imaginary world evoked by McCartney's 1966 composition, premiered in July 1968.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.

The group, with disc jockey Jim Stagg, while on their final tour in August 1966

Abbey Road Studio Two, where nearly every track on Sgt. Pepper was recorded

Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Studios) in 2005

One of EMI's Studer J37 four-track tape recorders, the machines used to record Sgt. Pepper

The Pablo Fanque Circus Royal poster from 1843 that inspired Lennon's lyrics to "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"

Sgt. Pepper inner gatefold. McCartney (in blue) wears a badge on his left sleeve that bears the initials O.P.P. McCartney acquired the badge when the Beatles were on tour in Canada; the initials stand for "Ontario Provincial Police".

The Beatles at the Sgt. Pepper launch party, held at Brian Epstein's house on 19 May 1967

A hippie "flower power" bus (pictured in 2004). Sgt. Pepper conveyed the flower power ideology of 1967.

The album resonated with Vietnam War protestors at the 1967 "March on the Pentagon".

French horn players performing as "Sgt. Pepper's band" at Live 8 London in 2005

Sgt. Pepper 50th anniversary billboard in London

The Beatles overdubbed random sounds and instrumentation before submitting it as the first of four new songs they were contracted to supply to United Artists for inclusion in the animated film Yellow Submarine.

Harrison at the White House in December 1974

George Harrison

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English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

Harrison's place of birth and first home – 12 Arnold Grove

Harrison at a Beatles press conference in Amsterdam in 1964

Harrison (left) and Ringo Starr (right) performing at the King's Hall in Belfast, 1964

Trade ad for Harrison's "Bangla Desh" single

Harrison leaving the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, and signing an album for a fan, February 1977

Harrison and Eric Clapton performing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 1987 Prince's Trust Concert in London

The entrance and gatehouse at Harrison's Friar Park estate. In December 1999, he and his wife Olivia were the victims of a knife attack by an intruder.

Ravi Shankar, who taught Harrison the sitar (taken in 1969)

Harrison's Harptone L-6 acoustic guitar, which he played at the Concert for Bangladesh

George Harrison sculpture in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Harrison, with Hare Krishna devotees Shyamasundar Das and Mukunda Goswami, in Vrindavan, India, in 1996

Harrison and Pattie Boyd lived in Kinfauns in Surrey from 1964 to 1970

Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr on arrival in New York City at the height of Beatlemania, February 1964

Close-up of Harrison from the Beatles statue at Pier Head, Liverpool

"George Harrison" Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles

The following year, he was the most active of the former Beatles in promoting the reissue of their 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine.

Blue Meanies (Yellow Submarine)

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The Blue Meanies. Their Leader, recognizable by long rabbit-like ears, is caressing The Dreadful Flying Glove.

The Blue Meanies are a fictional army of fierce though buffoonish music-hating beings and the main antagonists in the surreal 1968 Beatles animated film Yellow Submarine.

All You Need Is Love

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Song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in July 1967.

Launched in 1965, Intelsat I was one of the four satellites used in Our World, the first live international satellite television production.

A colourised frame of McCartney and Lennon performing "All You Need Is Love" on Our World. Music journalist Peter Doggett has described the Beatles' performance as "one of the strongest visual impressions" from the Summer of Love.

The Aegean Sea, off the coast of Greece. In the weeks following the single's release, the Beatles holidayed on the Aegean in search of an island on which to establish a commune in the manner of Aldous Huxley.

A demonstrator offers a flower to military policemen during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in October 1967 (photo by Marc Riboud). "All You Need Is Love" provided an anthem for the flower power movement.

A demonstrator at the 2022 Kraków Equality March

"All You Need Is Love" was later included on the US Magical Mystery Tour album and served as the moral for the Beatles' 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine.

Cover of the Northern Songs sheet music (licensed to Sonora Musikförlag)

Only a Northern Song

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Song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 soundtrack album Yellow Submarine.

A Hammond B3 organ. Along with "Within You Without You", "It's All Too Much" and "Blue Jay Way", "Only a Northern Song" was one of several compositions that Harrison wrote on a keyboard instrument during a period when he was otherwise immersed in studying the Indian sitar.

Harrison (right), with music journalist Veljko Despot, outside EMI Studios in February 1967

A still from the sequence for "Only a Northern Song"

Written by George Harrison, it was the first of four songs the band provided for the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine, to meet their contractual obligations to United Artists.

Yellow Submarine (song)

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Song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver.

Capitol Records ad for the "Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby" single

Anti-Vietnam War protestors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The song resonated with the student protest movement in the US.

Tabs of the barbiturate Nembutal, nicknamed "yellow submarines"

The song inspired the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine and appeared as the opening track on the accompanying soundtrack album.

Jeremy Hillary Boob

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Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D. is a fictional character appearing in the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine, voiced by comedian Dick Emery.

Martin backstage at the Beatles' Love show, Las Vegas,

George Martin

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English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician.

The Beatles' first LP (produced by Martin)

Martin working with the Beatles in a studio during Beatles for Sale sessions, 1964

Abbey Road Studios, where Martin recorded Parlophone's artists

Martin composed and arranged the score for the Beatles' film Yellow Submarine and the James Bond film Live and Let Die, for which Paul McCartney wrote and sang the title song.

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