FOR YOU, JOHN, BLUE

‘John came to Soho to watch some early rushes,’ says animator Malcolm Draper. ‘He had very long hair and granny glasses and he sat in the front row. We’d made about the first 25 minutes of the film, and the opening sequences were all in colour, but then the animation went black and white. John exploded: “Where’s the f ****** colour?” We explained that these were the line tests, before we painted them. And John said, “I didn’t come all this f ****** way to watch f ****** black and white”, and he left!’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ will be shown in selected cinemas in Ireland on July 8. beatles.com