![]() ![]() I said to Paul, ‘I always thought this was a song that you wrote and gave to Ringo and that John was like, ‘Oh, bloody ‘Yellow Submarine.’ Not at all." Martin recently told Rolling Stone magazine he had no clue there was a vault of unused demos from the album: "I had no idea until I started going through the outtakes." The pair made use of the "de-mixing" technology developed by Peter Jackson’s audio team for the 2021 documentary Get Back. Giles Martin, the son of The Beatles' original producer George Martin has produced the new version, working together with engineer Sam Okell in stereo and Dolby Atmos. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images). John Lennon's demo shows how the song could've been very different. You can listen to the outtake to 'Yellow Submarine' below. Revolver: Special Edition features 31 outtakes and three home demos from the Beatles’ recording archive as well as a four-track EP with ‘Paperback Writer’ and ‘Rain’. ![]() It's sold more than a million copies.The demo has been bootlegged - or even rumoured for that matter - making the album's reissue all the more enticing to die-hard Beatles fans when it hits shelves on 28th October 2022. 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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