By the time “Yellow Submarine” was introduced to Starr—the band recorded it on May 26 and June 1, 1966—it was already in “Ringo song” form.
Martin jokes that people think he spends all his time listening to quotes from The Beatles. But finding Lennon’s original version of the song was one of the happy accidents that often occurred when mining tapes.
“I had no idea it was there. It was a complete find and I was surprised,” says Martin. “One of the excitement I get when doing this is for people to experience the same thing I do. Going through cobwebs and finding gold – that’s what I want to convey to other people. ”