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Post by stephenconnett on May 18, 2021 8:29:28 GMT
A long while back I found a you tube clip of a film animation which accompanied The Beatles 'Eleanor Rigby' on the 08/09/1966 edition of Top of the Pops. It was a sort of collage of photos of buildings and a priest (?) but now it seems to have disappeared (copyright?) I think it may have been mentioned on here also but a search has shown nothing. Any info welcome
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Post by Nigel Lamb on May 18, 2021 22:50:13 GMT
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Post by petercheck on May 19, 2021 4:35:01 GMT
No Nigel, that is taken from the 1968 'Yellow Submarine' movie.
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Post by Kev Hunter on May 19, 2021 8:31:47 GMT
I have a vague recollection of seeing the film on TOTP at the time (I was only 9, so things are a little sketchy!) - I think it was put together like a series of slides, showing one image after another: buildings, flowers, a priest, inside a church, the graveyard etc.
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Post by Alan Turrell on May 19, 2021 10:47:05 GMT
I saw the episode with 'Eleanor Rigby' but unfortunately, I can't remember it visually.
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Post by petercheck on May 19, 2021 11:18:31 GMT
This is what I wrote in my book 'The Beatles: Tell Me What You See':
Made for ‘Top Of The Pops’, and broadcast just the once on 08-09-66, this features a montage of still images of an actor dressed as a priest while in a Manchester churchyard. Even at the time, viewers must’ve found this underwhelming, despite the undoubted high quality of the accompanying soundtrack.
I also listed as "Missing", and I certainly don't recall ever seeing it (well I might have done at the time, but as I was only 3 years old I don't remember it!).
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Post by tonyrees on May 19, 2021 14:57:06 GMT
According to (I think) Disc music paper the 'priest' was actually a scene shifter at BBC-TV's Manchester studio. While Yellow Subamrine's TOTP film was shot underwater at Crystal Palace swimming pool with members of the British Sub-Aqua club lighting candles and playing trumpets underwater.
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Post by Kev Hunter on May 19, 2021 17:42:15 GMT
I remember the Yellow Submarine TOTP film too, Tony.. I'm thinking that the musicians were dressed in Edwardian bathing suits? For some reason this image is in my mind for the brass instrumental section which follows the line "And the band begins to play", with a guy holding a tuba or french horn while miming the part and emitting air bubbles.
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Post by stephenconnett on May 20, 2021 17:33:02 GMT
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Post by SydV on May 21, 2021 17:03:19 GMT
According to (I think) Disc music paper the 'priest' was actually a scene shifter at BBC-TV's Manchester studio. While Yellow Subamrine's TOTP film was shot underwater at Crystal Palace swimming pool with members of the British Sub-Aqua club lighting candles and playing trumpets underwater. Yes, that info was in Disc & Music Echo. Seeing all the trouble they went to for "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" (three-four different promos/TV spots for each plus TOTP in person) it's odd they didn't bother at all for this single, the last such 45 for which the Beatles didn't produce or perform anything visually themselves (not counting the YS film sequences that came out two years later of course). Touring commitments probably had something to do with it, but they did return to the UK between the far east and US tours around that time. |
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Post by bobbooker on May 23, 2021 10:37:44 GMT
Seeing all the trouble they went to for "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" (three-four different promos/TV spots for each plus TOTP in person) it's odd they didn't bother at all for this single, the last such 45 for which the Beatles didn't produce or perform anything visually themselves (not counting the YS film sequences that came out two years later of course). I've always though that myself. Was the ER/YS single just pulled off Revolver by EMI and Capitol? I can't remember the story there. |
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Post by johnpoole on May 23, 2021 11:37:57 GMT
Seeing all the trouble they went to for "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" (three-four different promos/TV spots for each plus TOTP in person) it's odd they didn't bother at all for this single, the last such 45 for which the Beatles didn't produce or perform anything visually themselves (not counting the YS film sequences that came out two years later of course). I've always though that myself. Was the ER/YS single just pulled off Revolver by EMI and Capitol? I can't remember the story there. I seem to remember that it was a late decision to release the single off the album, a few days before they left for their final US tour. |
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Post by Colin Anderton on May 23, 2021 20:27:21 GMT
And even with the huge sales of "Revolver" LP, the single still topped the chart for four weeks.
This was in fact one of only two occasions when album tracks were pulled and released as singles by the Beatles. ("Something/Come Together" having appeared on Abbey Road.) I'm referring to Britain, of course; the Americans decimated their albums by mixing tracks in all sorts of terrible ways.
I love America - but they hadn't a clue where the Beatles were concerned!
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Post by Richard Marple on May 23, 2021 21:03:09 GMT
Some fans have assumed the butcher photo shoot was a statement about Capitol butchering their albums.
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Post by petercheck on May 24, 2021 7:09:06 GMT
Some fans have assumed the butcher photo shoot was a statement about Capitol butchering their albums. Probably the most butchered of all was the US version of 'Revolver'. As 'I’m Only Sleeping' 'Dr. Robert' and 'And Your Bird Can Sing' had already been released on 'Yesterday and Today', their 11 song version had just 2 songs with John Lennon lead vocals while George Harrison had 3! It was a similar situation with The Rolling Stones, Manfred Mann, The Searchers, The Animals and just about any other act who had moderate US success in the mid '60s (I spent the best part of a year researching these UK/US variations for my last book 'Having A Rave Up! and was shocked at just how different some of the albums were). |
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