YELLOW SUBMARINE
1 ON THE CHARTS
1 on all the UK charts, with
four weeks as the Record Retailer 1 (August 18-September 8 1966) and 13 weeks in
the Top 50
RECORDED
May 26 1966 in Studio 3 at Abbey Road,
completed in Studio 2 on June 1; the master was Take 5.
RELEASED AS A
SINGLE
In the UK on August 5 1966 - Parlophone R5493
In the USA
on August 8 1966 - Capitol 5715
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PERFORMED LIVE
Not performed in concert by The Beatles
and
'Yellow Submarine' was issued with 'Eleanor Rigby' as a double A-side
single simultaneously with the album Revolver
'Yellow Submarine' was
written especially for Ringo to sing - most Beatles albums included a song
featuring Ringo on lead vocal
The song inspired the creation of the
extremely successful Yellow Submarine movie, released in 1968 and reissued in
upgraded form in 1999
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