![]() ![]() Not counting musicals (most of which I loathe anyway), there aren’t too many movie soundtracks that make for great listening experiences when separated from the film. I’m now one of the few people outside of George Martin’s immediate family who has listened to Yellow Submarine in its entirety three times. ![]() However, I have compensated for that loss by earning membership in a more exclusive group. While I’ve retained my American citizenship, I can no longer ethically claim a membership in American society. My former compatriots will be heavily involved in the two great American sports of eating and shopping, so I thought I’d slip this one in while no one was looking to fix a hole in my Beatles catalog. Yeah.Since my audience is largely American, relatively few people will be reading The Alt Rock Chick over Thanksgiving weekend. And wasn’t the other bit something that I had already got going, and we put them together?” Paul agrees, “Right. “I seem to remember, like, the submarine,” John tells Paul. ‘Yellow Submarine’ - a children’s song with a touch of stoner influence, which Ringo still wows audiences with to this day.”īut it’s a case of John and Paul combining two imdividual fragments into a perfect whole, like “A Day in the Life” or “We Can Work It Out.” They discussed the song’s origin in a 1966 radio interview for the Ivor Novello Awards. As Paul recalls in a new Foreword he wrote for this edition, “One twilight evening, lying in bed before dozing off, I came up with a song that I thought would suit Ringo and at the same time incorporate the heady vibes of the time. The world knows it as a showcase for Ringo Starr, always the kiddie’s favorite. 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.” “I had no idea until I started going through the outtakes,” Martin says. But it’s a shock just to realize John was so deeply involved, since people tend to assume he looked down his nose at it. Paul McCartney wrote the classic sing-along chorus. ![]() ![]() He sings, “In the place where I was born / No one cared, no one cared / And the name that I was born / No one cared, no one cared.” It feels like he’s opening up to his painful childhood memories, the way he would in “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “Dear Prudence” or “Julia.” It could fit on the White Album or even Plastic Ono Band. John sings it in his melancholy confessional mode, over folkie guitar picking. The “Yellow Submarine” demo has never been bootlegged or even rumored, not even among the most hardcore Beatle geeks. (There’s also a four-track EP with “Paperback Writer” and “Rain.”) It all captures the freewheeling spirit of the Revolver sessions - four boys running wild in the clubhouse, inventing the future. But the Super Deluxe collection has 31 outtakes from the vaults, including three home demos. It kicks harder than ever, remixed by Martin and engineer Sam Okell in stereo and Dolby Atmos, using the “de-mixing” technology developed by Peter Jackson’s audio team for the the Get Back documentary. The new Revolver has plenty of surprises. “This was the nitroglyercine that blew everything up.” “The whole album is them saying, ‘Hey, let’s make it all completely different,’” says Giles Martin, producer of the new version and son of the original producer George Martin. It shows how far they were willing to experiment on Revolver, pushing out of their comfort zones. Taken from the new Super Deluxe Edition of Revolver, out October 28th, it’s one of the biggest surprises: who expected emotional depth from “Yellow Submarine”?īut like so many moments on the new edition, “Yellow Submarine” makes you rethink everything you thought you knew about the group. So it’s a real shock to hear John Lennon sing it, alone with his guitar, as a sad acoustic ballad. The world has always cherished this song as a cheerful kiddie novelty, something the lads whipped up fast for a laugh. Their 1966 masterpiece Revolver is full of moments where John, Paul, George and Ringo reach right for the heart. The Beatles could pack an emotional punch like no other band. ![]()
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