Psychedelia in eight colours

Thanks to the vivid cartoon style of artist Heinz Edelmann and a team of cutting-edge animators, The Beatles’ 1968 film Yellow Submarine provided a joyous visual representation of psychedelia.

A fantastical voyage in which the four wise-cracking Beatles restored music and colour to a land tyrannised by the evil blue meanies, Yellow Submarine typified how the advent of psychedelia allowed musicians to experiment with other media and wrest control of their artistic vision from record company bosses.

By the end of 1967, straight-up rock bands like The Moody Blues and The Pretty Things were making symphonic concept albums. Even former manufactured moptops The Monkees got to make their own bewildering psychedelic movie called Head.

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