The Beatles, album "Extended Versions"

Concert albums - Studio BMG - 2003
stereo: 01.06.2003

Extended Versions

1. 02:57 Yellow Submarine (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 01.06.1966

   PAUL 1966: 'It's a happy place, that's all.
   You know, it was just… We were trying to write a children's song.
   That was the basic idea.
   And there's nothing more to be read into it than there is in the lyrics of any children's song.'

   JOHN 1972: 'Paul wrote the catchy chorus.
   I helped with the blunderbuss bit.'

   JOHN 1980: ''Yellow Submarine' is Paul's baby.
   Donovan helped with the lyrics.
   I helped with the lyrics too.
   We virtually made the track come alive in the studio, but based on Paul's inspiration.
   Paul's idea.
   Paul's title… written for Ringo.'

   PAUL 1984: 'I wrote that in bed one night.
   As a kid's story.
   And then we thought it would be good for Ringo to do.'

   PAUL circa-1994: 'I was laying in bed in the Asher's garret, and there's a nice twilight zone just as you're drifting into sleep and as you wake from it – I always find it quite a comfortable zone.
   I remember thinking that a children's song would be quite a good idea… I was thinking of it as a song for Ringo, which it eventually turned out to be, so I wrote it as not too rangey in the vocal.
   I just made up a little tune in my head, then started making a story – sort of an ancient mariner, telling the young kids where he'd lived.
   It was pretty much my song as I recall… I think John helped out.
   The lyrics got more and more obscure as it goes on, but the chorus, melody and verses are mine.'

   GEORGE 1999: 'Paul came up with the concept of 'Yellow Submarine.' All I know is just that every time we'd all get around the piano with guitars and start listening to it and arranging it into a record, we'd all fool about.
   As I said, John's doing the voice that sounds like someone talking down a tube or ship's funnel as they do in the merchant marine.
   (laughs) And on the final track there's actually that very small party happening! As I seem to remember, there's a few screams and what sounds like small crowd noises in the background.'

2. 05:30 Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part II) (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) - Performed by Greg Lake.

3. 02:56 It Don't Come Easy (Richard Starkey)

4. 04:35 I Still Love Rock N' Roll (Richard Starkey and Ian Hunter) - Performed by Ian Hunter.

5. 02:29 Act Naturally (Voni Morrison and Johnny Russell) - 17.06.1965

6. 03:41 Photograph (Richard Starkey and George Harrison) - 24.09.1973

7. 04:05 A Love Bizarre (Pete Escovedo) - Performed by Sheila E.

8. 04:59 With a Little Help from My Friends (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 30.03.1967

   JOHN 1970: 'Paul had the line about 'a little help from my friends.' He had some kind of structure for it, and we wrote it pretty well fifty-fifty from his original idea.'

   JOHN 1980: 'That's Paul, with a little help from me.
   'What do you see when you turn out the light/ I can't tell you but I know it's mine' is mine.'

   PAUL circa-1994: 'This was written out at John's house in Weybridge for Ringo… I think that was probably the best of our songs that we wrote for Ringo actually.
   I remember giggling with John as we wrote the lines, 'What do you see when you turn out the light/ I can't tell you but I know it's mine.' It could have been him playing with his willie under the covers, or it could have been taken on a deeper level.
   This is what it meant but it was a nice way to say it – a very non-specific way to say it.
   I always liked that.'

9. 05:13 Everlasting Love (Quincy Jones) - Performed by Howard Jones.

10. 05:09 Glamorous Life (Prince) - Performed by Sheila E.