Pepperland Laid Waste
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"Pepperland Laid Waste" is an instrumental orchestral piece conducted and composed by The Beatles' producer George Martin for the Yellow Submarine film and was the sixth track on the orchestral Side 2 of the film's soundtrack album by The Beatles, released in 1969. The song was recorded by a 41-piece orchestra at Abbey Road studios on 22–23 October 1968. In the film, Pepperland is a place inhabited by music lovers and beauty. The film's antagonists, the Blue Meanies, hate music and beauty. They attack Pepperland, destroying the land's beauty along with freezing the inhabitants. The song producer George Martin's musical illustration of the aftermath of these attacks. It features atmospheric orchestral swells, trills and climaxes to evoke the despondency afflicting the land.[1]
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