![]() ![]() If there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest song writers since Schubert, then next Friday – with the publication of the new Beatles double LP – should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making, which only the ignorant will not hear and only the deaf will not acknowledge. Now Derek Taylor used to be the Beatles press agent and then, in America he became the former Beatles press agent (having left them) and now Derek Taylor is the press agent for the Beatles again so when he was asked to write the notes for “Yellow Submarine” he decided that not only had he nothing new to say about the Beatles whom he adores too much to apply any critical reasoning, and by whom he is paid too much to feel completely free, ad also he couldn’t be bothered, and also he wanted the people who bought the Yellow Submarine album to buy and enjoy the really wonderful “The Beatles” album out in the month of November ’68 so here and now, unbought, unsolicited, unexpurgated, unattached, pure and unmeasurably favourable review of “The Beatles” (the new Apple/EMI album) from the London Observer by Tony Palmer, a journalist and film-maker of some special distinction. My name is Derek but that is what mother called me so it’s no big thing, except that it is my name and I would like to say I was asked to write the notes for Yellow Submarine. Tracks 7 – 13 Original film score composed and Orchestrated by George Martin At a time when the guitarist struggled to have his compositions included on The Beatles’ albums, this shows how little regard the band, and John Lennon and Paul McCartney in particular, held the project.© 1968 King Features Syndicate - Subafilms, Ltd. Two of these – ‘Only A Northern Song’ and ‘It’s All Too Much’ – were by George Harrison. The Beatles supplied four new songs for the film. The Beatles additionally agreed to film a short sequence for the film’s end, and oversaw its creation. ![]() ![]() However, they were under contract by United Artists to make another film, and by way of compromise an animation featuring the voices of actors and the music of The Beatles was decided upon. They had recently completed Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and were more focused on the television special Magical Mystery Tour and its soundtrack. ![]() The film project had begun in 1967, at a time when The Beatles had little enthusiasm for making a full length film. It was released in early 1969, just weeks after the White Album. The soundtrack for Yellow Submarine, The Beatles’ fourth film, was the band’s tenth UK album. ‘Yellow Submarine’ ‘Only A Northern Song’ ‘All Together Now’ ‘Hey Bulldog’ ‘It’s All Too Much’ ‘All You Need Is Love’ ‘Pepperland’ ‘Sea Of Time’ ‘Sea Of Holes’ ‘Sea Of Monsters’ ‘March Of The Meanies’ ‘Pepperland Laid Waste’ ‘Yellow Submarine In Pepperland’ John Lennon: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, ukulele, harpsichord, banjo, harmonica, glockenspiel, handclaps, effects Paul McCartney: vocals, bass guitar, double bass, acoustic guitar, piano, trumpet, tambourine, handclaps, effects George Harrison: vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, violin, organ, tambourine, handclaps, effects Ringo Starr: vocals, drums, finger cymbals, tambourine, handclaps, effects George Martin: conductor, piano, backing vocals David Mason and three others: trumpets Paul Harvey: bass clarinet Sidney Sax, Patrick Halling, Eric Bowie, John Ronayne: violin Lionel Ross, Jack Holmes: cello Rex Morris, Don Honeywill: tenor saxophone Stanley Woods, David Mason: trumpet Evan Watkins, Harry Spain: trombone Jack Emblow: accordion Mal Evans: backing vocals, bass drum Neil Aspinall, Geoff Emerick, Pattie Harrison, Brian Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Alf Bicknell, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Jane Asher, Mike McCartney, Pattie Harrison, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, Keith Moon, Hunter Davies, Gary Leeds and more: backing vocals Mike Vickers: conductor Uncredited orchestral musicians Tracklisting Released: 13 January 1969 (US), 17 January 1969 (UK) Personnel Recorded: 26 May, 1 June 1966 13, 14 February 20 April 1967 12, 25, 2, 14, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26 June 1967 11 February 1968 22, 23 October 1968 Producers: George Martin, Paul McCartney, Ron Richards, John Burgess Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Dave Siddle, Eddie Kramer ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |