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.
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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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