Yellow Submarine/Fun Facts
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
< Yellow Submarine
- The Beatles had hated the 1965 animated series The Beatles and only agreed to make this film as a way to finish out their movie contract. They were so impressed by the film that they agreed to appear in a short live-action epilogue.
- During "All Together Now", the phrase is shown 27 times in 16 languages. The sequence: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Hebrew, Greek, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, English, Greek, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Farsi, Swahili, Sanskrit, French, Hebrew, Swedish, Chinese, German, Japanese, and English.
- In the film, "George Harrison" says, "I know something about motors." George Harrison had worked as an apprentice electrician as a teenager and considered going into business with his brother as a mechanic.
- "Only A Northern Song" was originally meant for their 1967 classic album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
- Born Brian Heffron, American professional wrestler The Blue Meanie was named for the villains of this film. He is billed from "Pepperland", the setting of this film. The gimmick debuted at ECW November to Remember 1995, ECW Arena, Philadelphia, PA, November 18, 1995.
