The Beatles Yellow Submarine (Vinyl and CD, Apple Records/ Parlophone , 1969) ***
Genre: Beatles pop/rock
Places I remember: Marbecks Records (YS); Real Groovy Records (MMT)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Strawberry Fields Forever remains peerless over 50 years later. That is extraordinary.
Gear costume: Penny Lane, All Together Now
Both are not really bone fide Beatle albums as such - in that MMT was a double EP before the Americans expanded it into an album and YS is a film soundtrack (with side two given over to George Martin's instrumental score).
So why 5 stars for MMT you ask? Apart from being the bloody Beatles, the songs are pretty much all great classics, and the packaging is excellent with the colour supplement of stills from the film inside the covers.
I mean, it has Strawberry Fields Forever, I Am The Walrus, Penny Lane, Hello Goodbye, and All You Need Is Love on it, for goodness sake! Ridiculous.
YS retreads All You Need Is Love and Yellow Submarine but also has the wonderful side of George Martin's innocent sounding film score, which I just love to bits!
In fact it gets better and better with time. Go listen! Just see if I'm not right!
Where do they all belong? Slotted in between The White Album (a.k.a. The Beatles) and Let It Be/Abbey Road.
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