![]() Fleming claims these songs alone would be one of the greatest EP’s ever made, but I think he is blinded by the excellence of ‘Hey Bulldog.’ I hear two gems and basically middling to less quality Beatles material. Here is the Goodreads link: There are six Beatles songs on side A of Yellow Submarine. This all ties in with an excellent book I’ve been reading: Sound Pictures: The Life Of Beatles Producer George Martin - The Later Years 1966-2016 by Kenneth Womack. Check it out What I get from the article is an appreciation for The Beatles more ‘out-there’ music, and a love for the song ‘Hey Bulldog’ in particular with a great appreciation for George Martin’s orchestrated soundtrack on side B of the LP. It is informed by a Daily Beast article by the excellent writer Colin Fleming. “They made a conscious decision to take off the Beatles suits and not have the haircuts and become individuals.This blog is about The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine movie soundtrack, released in 1969. “They were punching through the walls of Abbey Road (Studios),” Martin says. ![]() Robert” to the elegant strings in “Eleanor Rigby” to the understated tenderness in “Here, There and Everywhere,” the songs on “Revolver” epitomized The Beatles’ sonic expansion. “The Beatles were relentless in their creativity.”įrom the beefy, staccato guitars in “Taxman” and “Dr. “Just the way the drums open the song, you can sense they turned their back on the past in a way,” Martin says. Martin cites “Tomorrow Never Knows,” the first track recorded for “Revolver,” as the immediate indicator in the band’s enlightened musical approach. “It’s like they’re leaving Liverpool on ‘Revolver.' " “There’s still an aim to please on ‘Rubber Soul,’ ” he says. But by “Revolver,” the band had found its “swagger.” In Martin’s view, 1965’s “Rubber Soul” is stocked with the Merseybeat sound, the British music genre that developed in Liverpool in the early ‘60s and blended rock, pop, skiffle and R&B. “They were punching through the walls of Abbey Road” with their creative evolution, producer Giles Martin says. ![]() John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr working on "Revolver" in Abbey Road Studios. 'Love' in Las Vegas: Catch The Beatles' Cirque du Soleil show while you can How The Beatles evolved from 'Rubber Soul' to 'Revolver' But at this stage, they were delighted by the way they were creatively pushing each other." “Which, of course, was their downfall in the end. “It wouldn’t have been as commercial in that original form, and you can hear them working together and pushing each other in different directions,” Martin says. Martin says he understood why The Beatles opted to steer the tune in a perkier direction. Part 2 of the working version of “Yellow Submarine” retains Lennon’s acoustic guitar backdrop, but it also includes Lennon and McCartney discussing how to march forward with a robust folk-style version of the song, which by that point included the famously recognizable chorus. Going through the cobwebs and finding the gold – that’s what I want to transfer to other people.” “One of the thrills I get when doing this is for people to experience the same thing I experience. It was a complete discovery and I was surprised,” Martin says. But finding Lennon’s original version of the song was one of the happy accidents that often occur when mining tapes. Martin jokes that people think he spends all his time listening to outtakes of The Beatles. The Beatles (John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Paul McCartney) in Abbey Road Studios during filming of the "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" promotional films on May 19, 1966. Previously unseen photos of The Beatles: See a young Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison John Lennon’s demo of ‘Yellow Submarine’ was a ‘complete discovery’ Or a deep purple submarine, that would have been like, ‘What are they talking about now?’ But, yeah, it was a Ringo song, like ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’ was a Ringo song.” It could have been in a green submarine, but a yellow submarine is much better. ![]() “I think Paul thought of (a yellow submarine). They had this song and they decided to liven it up,” he says. “The boys used to write a song for me and they’d present whatever they thought would be good for me. ![]() Lennon’s working version of the song – just more than a minute long – finds him quietly repeating the lyric “In the place where I was born, no one cared, no one cared” as he works in other modifications such as “and the name that I was born, no one cared” and “in the town where I come from, no one cared.”īy the time “Yellow Submarine” was presented to Starr – the band recorded it on May 26 and J– it was already in “Ringo song” form. The drummer maintained a reputation as the quirky, funny guy in the band, which might be why Lennon and Paul McCartney earmarked certain tunes as “Ringo songs.” The cover art for The Beatles' 1966 album, "Revolver," designed by Klaus Voormann. ![]()
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