Yellow Submarine Synopsis
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| THE STORY SO FAR (OUT) Yellow Submarine Synopsis |
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| "Once upon a time - or maybe twice - there was an unearthly paradise called Pepperland....." | ||||||||||||||||
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| On a balmy day in this happy land located 80,000 leagues beneath the sea, a concert by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is rudely interrupted by an anti-music missile attack from The Blue Meanies. | ||||||||||||||||
| Captain Fred flees the attack of missiles and splotch guns as the Blue Meanies turn Pepperland into a sad and grey wasteland. At the urging of the Lord Mayor, Capt. Fred makes a last-minute escape in the Yellow Submarine to get help. | ||||||||||||||||
| The Main Meanie, his assistant Max and their army of henchmen, Apple Bonkers, Butterfly Stompers, Snapping Turtle Turks, the Count Down Clown and the fearsome Flying Glove turn their wrath on the peaceful Pepperland People - determined to rid the world of music, happiness and love. | ||||||||||||||||
| The Yellow Submarine surfaces in Liverpool, where Ringo wanders aimlessly complaining that "nothing ever happens to me" The Yellow Submarine follows Ringo to his house and Capt. Fred enlists his aid. They round up the rest of the band - John emerging from a Frankenstein monster, George appearing out of a transcendental haze and Paul coming out of a classical concert. The Beatles board the Yellow Submarine and, at Capt. Fred's direction, sail over Britain, dive through the Thames and head to the rescue of Pepperland. | ||||||||||||||||
| En route, they are detoured through a variety of mind-bending existences; sailing through psychedelic seas including the Sea Of Time, the Sea Of Science, and the Sea Of Monsters - and singing all the way (All Together Now, When I'm Sixty Four, Only A Northern Song, Nowhere Man, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds). | ||||||||||||||||
| During their trip The Beatles grow young and old and are attacked by Kinky Boot Beasts and the Dreaded Vacuum Monster, which sucks them and all existence up itself andturns out the Yellow Submarine into Nowhere Land, where they meet and recruit the brilliant young physicist, classicist, botanist, essayist, satirist and artist Jeremy Hilary Boob PhD. At the end of their Modyssey, in The Foothills Of The Headlands, The Beatles are blown into The Sea Of Holes, through The Sea Of Green and out into occupied Pepperland - where they bring music and make the Meanies shrink at its very sound. The Beatles infiltrate the musical compound, don the uniforms of Sgt. Pepper bandsmen and, armed with Meanie-busting instruments, proceed to breathe life back into Pepperland through their music (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and A Little Help From My Friends). | ||||||||||||||||
| As a vast Beatles vs Meanies battle ensues to the tune of "All You Need Is Love," love overwhelms and musical joy returns to Pepperland, banishing the Meanies and proving that nothing is Beatleproof. | ||||||||||||||||
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