BACK IN THE USSR...
Yellow Submarine had political undertones. ‘My father [Heinz Edelmann, the film’s art director] was a refugee,’ says Valentine Edelmann. ‘He had experienced Nazism and communism.’ So, the ‘Apple bonkers’ that fall from the sky are bombs. The flying glove is the heavy hand of oppression. And the Blue Meanies are genocidal tyrants, though they were originally Red Meanies, an attack on communist forces. But an art assistant in the animation studio misunderstood his colouring