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Music legend George Harrison didn’t maintain back his opinion on one of The Beatles‘ most cherished albums, stating it wasn’t “any good,” regardless of its recognition.

The Beatles launched their first and solely animated movie, Yellow Submarine, in 1968.

The accompanying soundtrack featured hits from earlier albums, such because the eponymous monitor, Lucy within the Sky with Diamonds, Hey Bulldog, All You Need Is Love, and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

However, in a 1977 interview with Crawdaddy, Harrison expressed his distaste for the document. He revealed that it wasn’t an album he returned to after The Beatles had cut up up.

When requested which Beatles albums he nonetheless listened to, he responded: “I liked when we got into Rubber Soul, Revolver. Each album had something good about it and progressed. There were albums which weren’t any good as far as I was concerned, like Yellow Submarine.”

Despite Harrison’s personal views, Yellow Submarine carried out nicely commercially. The title monitor reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining on the chart for 9 weeks.

The album additionally peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, staying on the chart for a complete of 25 weeks.

The Beatles’ tune Yellow Submarine was a hit not solely within the United States but in addition of their home nation, the United Kingdom.

The Official Charts Company studies that a double A-side of Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby climbed to No. 1 on the U.Ok. charts, the place it remained for 13 weeks. The album itself reached No. 3 and stayed on the chart for 10 weeks.

In a 1999 particular on VH1, Harrison revealed that the best half about The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine movie was that the band didn’t need to contribute a lot to its creation.

“Actually, the thing that I like most about the movie was we didn’t really have to do anything to it,” he stated.

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“They just took the music, we met with them, and they talked about basically what they were going to do.” The filmmakers then took over from there.

Harrison expressed shock at how nicely the remastered songs from the movie sounded. He particularly talked about the sound of the cellos in Eleanor Rigby, “The sound of the cellos in Eleanor Rigby, it’s just amazing when you think it’s- I mean, I said the cellos, there’s only one. It’s a string quartet, but it sounds like… It was recorded so well.”

According to Harrison, the remastering course of had introduced out sounds that even the band members hadn’t seen earlier than. The readability was distinctive.

In a 2000 interview with Billboard, Harrison shared his ideas on why the 1999 home video release of the movie was profitable. “I think because it’s the same when people were 9 or 16 back in the ’60s,” he defined.

“They liked it then, and they like it now for the same basic reasons: The songs are catchy, they’re fun, and they still have whatever it was then.”

He additional commented, “It’s in those grooves, and it’s boom. Also they’re a bit of light relief after all this drum machine stuff that we’ve been having for the last 15 or 20 years.”

Harrison’s son, Dhani, was a large fan of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine as a little one. Even although Harrison by no means deliberately sat him down to say, “Listen, here’s the old Beatle records,” Dhani discovered them on his own.

In an interview with Anthony DeCurtis in 1987 (as cited in George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters), Harrison revealed: “He’s picked up on them because when he was about four or five, Yellow Submarine- there’s an age group that like Yellow Submarine.

“The children watch, they usually watch it each night time for like three months, after which they overlook about it. And so he is aware of, then, songs like [Hey] Bulldog.”

So, whereas Harrison could not have been the most important fan, his son cherished Yellow Submarine. Its soundtrack launched The Beatles to a new technology.