<P> The single went to number 1 on every major British chart, remained at number 1 for four weeks and charted for 13 weeks . It won an Ivor Novello Award for the highest certified sales of any single issued in the UK in 1966 . </P> <P> In the United States, the single reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 1 in Record World, and number 2 in Cashbox, where it was held off number 1 by the Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love". The single was released during the controversies about the "Butcher Cover" (the Yesterday and Today album cover) and Lennon's remarks about Christianity, which are cited as part of the reason the song failed to reach number 1 on all US charts . It sold 1,200,000 copies in four weeks and earned the Beatles their twenty - first US Gold Record award, beating the record set by Elvis Presley . </P> <P> Although intended as a nonsense song for children, "Yellow Submarine" received various social and political interpretations at the time; music journalist Peter Doggett wrote that the "culturally empty" song "became a kind of Rorschach test for radical minds ." The song's chorus was reappropriated by schoolchildren, sports fans, and striking workers in their own chants . At a Mobe protest in San Francisco, a yellow papier - mâché submarine made its way through the crowd, which Time magazine interpreted as a "symbol of the psychedelic set's desire for escape". A reviewer for the P.O. Frisco wrote in 1966, "the Yellow Submarine may suggest, in the context of the Beatles' anti-Vietnam War statement in Tokyo this year, that the society over which Old Glory floats is as isolated and morally irresponsible as a nuclear submarine ." Writing for Esquire, Robert Christgau felt that the Beatles "want their meanings to be absorbed on an instinctual level" and wrote of the interpretations, "I can't believe that the Beatles indulge in the simplistic kind of symbolism that turns a yellow submarine into a Nembutal or a banana--it is just a yellow submarine, damn it, an obvious elaboration of John (Lennon)'s submarine fixation, first revealed in A Hard Day's Night ." </P> <Ul> <Li> Ringo Starr--drums, lead vocals </Li> <Li> Paul McCartney--bass, backing vocals </Li> <Li> John Lennon--acoustic guitar, backing vocals, sound effects (bubbles) </Li> <Li> George Harrison--acoustic guitar, tambourine, backing vocals </Li> <Li> Mal Evans--bass drum, backing vocals </Li> <Li> George Martin--backing vocals, producer </Li> <Li> Geoff Emerick--backing vocals, tape loops, engineer </Li> <Li> Neil Aspinall--backing vocals </Li> <Li> Alf Bicknell--sound effects (rattling chains) </Li> <Li> Pattie Boyd--backing vocals </Li> <Li> Marianne Faithfull--backing vocals </Li> <Li> Brian Jones--backing vocals, sound effects (clinking glasses) </Li> <Li> Brian Epstein--backing vocals </Li> </Ul>

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