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JOHN LENNON SINGING THROUGH A CONDOM. A BEATLE PLAYED BY A CORONATION STREET BINMAN. AND WHY THE BLUE MEANIES WERE REALLY... RED COMMIES. THE FAB FACTS BEHIND THE MAKING OF YELLOW SUBMARINE

THE BEATLES’ YELLOW SUBMARINE. July 17, 1968, saw the premiere of It was a PAUL McCARTNEY RINGO feature-length animation based on a novelty ditty sung by STARR. GEORGE HARRISON, unhappy at the time with his role in the group, wasn’t wholly JOHN LENNON, excited by the project. true to acerbic form, would be more dismissive: ‘The Yellow Submarine people… were gross animals,’ he said in 1980. ‘We had nothing to do with that movie and we sort of resented them. We didn’t know what it was.’ And yet this psychedelic BLUE MEANIES, adventure, in which the Fab Four battled the was a hit. Half a century on, a spruced-up version is back in cinemas. Ahead of that, More presents a shoal of things you never knew about it – including the fact that Lennon was fibbing…