YELLOW SUBMARINE/ELEANOR RIGBY
by BEATLES


Another double A-side release from The Beatles that went all the way to Number 1, Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby couldn't be more different. 

One (Yellow Submarine) is a saccharine children's song composed by McCartney and the other (Eleanor Rigby), with its famous double string quartet arrangement from George Martin, is a flag in the ground for The Beatles as the '60s entered their dying years, turning them away from pop idols and into more experimental, psychedelic rock innovators.

It toppled The Troggs' With A Girl Like You in August 1966 to land at Number 1 where it would stay for four consecutive weeks.

Yellow Submarine - Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

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Chart facts

  • Peak position1
  • LabelPARLOPHONE
  • Catalogue numberR5493
  • First Chart Date

Weeks on chart

  1. 4No1
  2. 8Top 10
  3. 9Top 20
  4. 12Top 40
  5. 13Top 75
  6. 13Top 100

Chart run

= Peak position = This week

13 weeks - 17/08/1966 to 09/11/1966

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