* Bowater House, London, England.
* 8 July 1968 - UK, Bowater House Cinema in Knightsbridge
Nine days prior to its world première, three of The Beatles attended a press screening of Yellow Submarine at the 102-seat Bowater House Cinema in Knightsbridge, London.
Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all attended the screening. John Lennon's absence was compensated by a cardboard version of his cartoon incarnation, which the rest of the group posed alongside for photographers.
It was the first time any of the group had seen the finished film. Afterwards they gave interviews and were photographed, with footage being broadcast by BBC and ITV news.
* At 2.00pm on Monday, 8 July 1968, and nine days before the world premiere, three of the Beatles arrived at a press-screening of Yellow Submarine. It was at the 102-seat cinema situated inside Bowater House in Knightsbridge, a massive post-war office block that was distinctly ‘carbuncular’ in appearance. It had been built a decade before in 1958 by the developer Harold Samuel for the Bowater-Scott Corporation the world’s largest newsprint company, and the building completely dominated the adjacent Scotch Corner junction.
John Lennon was the Beatle missing at the film-screening, and he was almost certainly at home completely stoned, although Paul, George and Ringo jokingly posed for the photographers with a life-size cardboard cutout of John’s cartoon character. Harrison told reporters that because of the bad reviews of the Magical Mystery Tour the previous year, the Beatles from now on would only appear in animated form. He then tried to avoid answering a question about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi but McCartney interrupted and said that the episode was just ‘a phase’ and that ‘we don’t go out with him anymore’.
Three hours later the three Beatles were driven to the EMI studios at Abbey Road where they started another version of Ob La Di Ob La Da (there had already been three days of aborted sessions). At the studio, according to The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn, they were joined by Lennon:
“John Lennon came to the session really stoned, totally out of it on something or other, and he said ‘Alright, we’re gonna do Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’. He went straight to the piano and smashed keys with an almighty amount of volume, twice the speed of how they’d done it before, and said ‘This is it! Come on!’ He was really aggravated. That was the version they ended up using.”
* On July 8th 1968, The Beatles, minus John, attended a press preview of their forthcoming animated movie, Yellow Submarine. They were photographed posing with cardboard cutouts of the animated Beatles, as well as standing next to a life sized Blue Meanie. The film screening and press reception took place at the 102-seat theatre named Bowater House Cinema in Knightsbridge, London.
* Bowater House was demolished in 2006, and the site was redeveloped with four new blocks of luxury flats named One Hyde Park.
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