In the first part of our season finale we're discussing 1968's Yellow Submarine, the Beatles' animated film and, as we outline, their only musical.
We talk about how the project came about and how much the Beatles were involved (spoiler alert: not much), as well as the choices made in their characterisations, and what that says about their public personas at the time. We also talk a lot about the new songs included in the film: Hey Bulldog, It's All Too Much, Only a Northern Song and All Together Now.
Videos
Watch the original trailer from 1968:
A longer clip of Liverpool fans singing She Loves You in 1964:
John's early version of Hey Bulldog:
Links
Looks like Ed was wrong about Teenage Fanclub having covered Hey Bulldog. He was probably thinking of their cover of The Ballad of John and Yoko
Here's the intro to the Ulysses 31 cartoon from the eighties that Matt mentions
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Yellow Submarine (Part 2)
Is this animated masterpiece a definitive work of British magic realism? We discuss its eastern European influences and the failed Robert Zemeckis remake.
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