‘John wanted to be recorded underwater to simulate being in a submarine,’ Emerick recalled. John Lennon sang the backing vocals for Yellow Submarine through a condom, according to Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. But an art assistant in the animation studio misunderstood his colouring instructions. And the Blue Meanies are genocidal tyrants, though they were originally Red Meanies, an attack on communist forces. The flying glove is the heavy hand of oppression. ‘He had experienced Nazism and communism.’ So, the ‘Apple bonkers’ that fall from the sky are bombs. ‘My father was a refugee,’ says Valentine Edelmann. Yellow Submarine had political undertones. It’s a miracle that Yellow Submarine was made.’ Don’t start without an animation studio that is fully equipped for the job. If you want to write a book about how not to make a feature animation, Yellow Submarine ticks all the boxes. ‘It was produced under very chaotic circumstances. ‘My father had a very difficult relationship with this film,’ says the late artist’s daughter Valentine. Yellow Submarine was his first film – and his last. To make Yellow Submarine, the British animation studio TVC hired Heinz Edelmann, a Czech-German graphic designer, to art-direct the film. It’s also the guitarist’s dig at his lowly pecking order within The Beatles’ song publishing company, Northern Songs Only A Northern Song, one of four new songs featured in Yellow Submarine, isn’t just a minor psychedelic masterpiece from George Harrison.
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