This weekend is chock-full of livestream goodness, and The Beatles have just hopped on that train, or well, submarine, as they’re set to stream a sing-a-long of ‘Yellow Submarine’.

Get ready to don your galoshes, put on your yellow rain jacket, and maybe chuck on some psychedelic glasses because The Beatles are getting ready to stream a sing-a-long for their wonderfully retro, and chock-full of tunes, Yellow Submarine film.

This weekend, the iconic quartet will be streaming their restored sing-a-long version of their 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine on YouTube. We haven’t seen the likes of the original movie since it was released in theatres in 2018 with the celebration of it’s 50th anniversary, so it will be a lovely way to revisit it, and provide an escape from the world we’re currently navigating.

If you’ve never heard of the psychedelic film, it was first premiered on July 17th, 1968 in the U.K., and is set in the imaginary world of Pepperland – a musical paradise under the sea that is guarded by ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.

Although the legendary foursome is featured in the film as cartoon renditions of themselves, they actually are not sporting their own voices, but instead only participate in the closing scene of the movie.

The plot boils down to Pepperland, and it’s ‘Yellow Submarine’ falling under attack from the music-loathing Blue Meanies. Featuring multiple tracks from The Beatles like ‘All You Need Is Love’, ‘Eleanor Rigby’, and ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’.

Keen to get in on the action? All you have to do is head over to The Beatles YouTube channel and get lost in the magic of Yellow Submarine and it’s underground, magical, and under attack Pepperland, and the plight that its residents go through to defeat the Blue Meanies.

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