Yellow Submarine
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Key facts
- A side
- " Eleanor Rigby " (double A-side)
- Released
- 5 August 1966 ( 1966-08-05 )
- Recorded
- 26 May and 1 June 1966
- Studio
- EMI , London
- Genre
- Children's music pop psychedelia music hall
- Length
- 2 : 38
- Label
- Parlophone (UK) Capitol (US)
- Songwriter
- Lennon–McCartney
- Producer
- George Martin
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Revolver
- Genre
- folk rock
- Composer
- Paul McCartney
- Producer
- George Martin
- Duration
- 158
- Performer
- The Beatles
- Lyrics by
- Paul McCartney
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- Commons category
- Yellow Submarine (song)
- language of work or name
- English language
- different from
- Yellow Submarine
- title
- Yellow Submarine
- form of creative work
- song
- publication date
- 1966-08-05
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Encyclopedic overview
Music video "Yellow Submarine" on YouTube
"Yellow Submarine" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. It was also issued on a double A-side single, paired with "Eleanor Rigby". Written as a children's song by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, it was drummer Ringo Starr's vocal spot on the album. The single went to number one on charts in the United Kingdom and several other European countries, and in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. It won an Ivor Novello Award for the highest certified sales of any single written by a British songwriter and issued in the UK in 1966. In the US, the song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yellow Submarine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.