The whole phrase ‘blue meanie’ which is now a general kind of term was a Heinz Edelmann creation.” The only confirmed contribution from Lennon was a suggestion during a drunken 3am phone call to Brodax that it might be funny to have the Yellow Submarine following Ringo down a narrow street.Īnimator Alan Ball recalled, “If I remember rightly, the vacuum cleaner monster was on Heinz’s original concept drawing before the film got underway. It is documented that The Beatles were not very involved at all with the production and tried to distance themselves from it until they finally saw a rough cut of the final film. There are the Blue Meanies… You can see that this was his style.” Lennon’s paramour, May Pang stated, “It was a sore point for him because a lot of those characters were based on things that he had drawn himself. They just took them and never credited it.” And I said that could be a monster that sucks. In an interview for Playboy magazine January 1981, Lennon said, “They said, have you got any monsters? I said, ‘Yeah, there’s Horace the vacuum cleaner in the swimming pool’ which was a thing you could buy and it went ‘round the pool sucking up things, you know. You gave me no credit.” Lennon felt that he was the one who came up with the idea for the vacuum cleaner monster and the Blue Meanies. This statement disputes all other evidence that originally the song was called Hey Bullfrog and only changed when Lennon laughed at Paul McCartney’s barking like a dog and so decided to change it during the recording session.īeatle John Lennon confronted Brodax and yelled, “You stole my ideas. He also said that Lennon wrote the song Hey Bulldog as a tribute to him since he was at the time a professor at Yale whose mascot was a bulldog. Scripter Erich Segal said he was the one who came up with the Blue Meanies. Animators on the film claim that the character more closely acted like Brodax. He also claimed the chief Blue Meanie was modelled after production coordinator Abe Goodman. However, in the case of the animated feature Yellow Submarine (1968), it really is a crazy quilt of different people taking credit for the same things.įor instance, in the case of the Blue Meanies, producer Al Brodax has insisted that the idea came from screenwriter Lee Minoff who “originally called them Monstrous Blues”. If you want to be a good animation historian, it is important to go to primary sources and also try to get comments from the people who were actually involved.
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