Who Wrote Yellow Submarine: John or Paul?

Everything you need to know about the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine." |

One night, when Paul was in bed, half-asleep, the sudden germ of an idea for a children's song came about. Paul remembers, 🗣️ "I was laying in bed in the Ashers' garret, and there’s a nice twilight zone just as you’re drifting into sleep and as you wake from it; I always find it quite a comfortable zone, you’re almost asleep, and there’s this little limbo-land just before you slip into sleep. I remember thinking that a children’s song would be quite a good idea and I thought of images, and the color yellow came to me, and a submarine came to me, and I thought, 'Well, that’s kind of nice, like a toy, very childish yellow submarine.'"

The song's authorship was discussed during a interview in March 20th, 1967, with Brian Matthew at EMI Studios. Matthew addressed John: 🗣️ "Earlier before we started recording, you said it was in effect written as two separate songs." John confirmed, "Yeah, I seem to remember, like, the submarine... the chorus bit, you coming in with it," to which Paul agreed "yeah." John then asked Paul, "And wasn't the other bit something that I had already going, and we put them together?" Paul answered, "Well, yeah. Right. Yeah." John then added, "And it made sense to make it into... with Ringo in mind."

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