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Cookie_Monster's avatar

Me astonished me have never heard of this (and from snippets of soundtrack, it shame those cover versions got buried because some of them sound pretty good — certainly better than second time Bee Gees participated in ill-advised movie that involved Beatles covers).

But me also astonished that on two separate occasions, someone with no connection to Beatles said "what if me turned this hallucinatory idea me had into movie and got most popular band in history to contribute music" and that movie actually got made, and in case of Yellow Submarine was actually pretty good. Late 60s were different time, maaaan.

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That *ahem* ARCHIVAL site also came through for me recently in locating the long-lost workprint of another, more direct piece of Beatles arcana - the never released 'official documentary' The Long And Winding Road, which was initiated by road manager Neil Aspinall in 1968, was worked on periodically through the 70s, and was still a going concern at least up until Lennon's murder (in his deposition against the Beatlemania stage show only days before, he said that it infringed on the Beatles' own plan for a filmed reunion to conclude the documentary). I've only seen part of it, but it's basically a narrationless recap of the group's career in Michael Wadleigh-Woodstock split-screen juxtaposition style. NOt going to link to it directly for obvious reasons, but here's an overview from the Lost Media Wiki: https://lostmediawiki.com/The_Long_and_Winding_Road_(found_workprint_of_unfinished_Beatles_documentary;_1970s)

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