Yellow Submarine

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The only minor album in the Beatles' catalogue is this soundtrack to a feature-length cartoon, a project with which the Beatles had little involvement.

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It'll do for the film, was John Lennon's wry summation of every subgenius Beatles session around the time the band was working on the music for Yellow Submarine, a project designed to fulfill a contractual obligation. When the lads realized that they didn't have enough songs for a respectable album side, even after recycling "Yellow […]