Tag: The Beatles
Yellow Submarine
A Hard Day’s Night (1964) positioned The Beatles as four wholly distinct characters, easily identifiable according to their simplified sets of individualized character traits. As Ray Morton discusses in the Introduction to his book, Music on Film: A Hard Day’s Night, the film “created the public face of the The Beatles. [...] Because of the [...]
Yellow Submarine DVD Giveaway
Congratulations to our Yellow Submarine Giveaway winner, Ron Oliver. We had a lot of great responses to our prompt (What’s your favorite Beatles album and why?), and it made us realize two things: 1) our readers are incredibly passionate about The Beatles, and 2) we should probably put a word cap on our responses! Here’s Ron’s winning [...]
A Hard Day’s Night: Music on Film Series
In 1963, the Beatles had an exclusive contract for the release of original singles and LPs with Parlophone and EMI. But motion picture studio United Artists discovered a loophole in the Fab Four’s contract, in which Parlophone neglected to secure the rights to any motion picture soundtracks released by the band. Thus, UA determined to [...]
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