Details
- Filming date: Feb 11, 1968
Location
Filming location: EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London, UK
Timeline
Previous film Nov 21, 1967 • Shooting of "Hello, Goodbye (Version 4)" promo film
Article Feb 10, 1968 • Paul McCartney attends a Scaffold concert
Session Feb 11, 1968 • Recording and mixing "Hey Bulldog"
Film Feb 11, 1968 • Shooting of "Hey Bulldog" promo film
Film Feb 11, 1968 • Shooting of "Lady Madonna (Version 1)" promo film
Film Feb 11, 1968 • Shooting of "Lady Madonna (Version 2)" promo film
Related song
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Officially appears on Yellow Submarine (Mono)
With “Lady Madonna” already completed, the plan was to film the group miming to it, but when they got to the studio, an unusually assertive Lennon had second thoughts. “Oh, the hell with ‘Lady Madonna)’” he said. “I’ve got a new song for us to do — let’s film that instead.” Paul was a bit annoyed, but John was like a bulldozer that day, and the decision stuck. The sounds of “Lady Madonna” would therefore accompany footage of the Beatles’ recording the new Lennon song “Hey Bulldog,” and nobody seemed too bothered about that. They knew that most viewers wouldn’t even notice that they were in fact playing a completely different song, and they were right.
Geoff Emerick – From “Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles“, 2006
