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The Blue Meanies launch an attack on Pepperland, a paradise where music and peace reign, in an attempt to crush its spirit. This prompts one of Pepperland's sailors, the former Commander, now the newly appointed Lord Admiral, known as "Old Fred" (or "Young Fred", according to the even older Lord Mayor), to escape in the Yellow Submarine to find help.
In Womack's description, in the sequence for the song, the Beatles "vanquish the evil Blue Meanies and celebrate as the colorful beauty of friendship and music have been restored to Pepperland". [ 91 ] [ nb 9 ] Author George Case describes the same victory scene as "a psychotropic cartoon dreamscape" and an example of the Beatles' more overt ...
Professional wrestler The Blue Meanie derived his name and persona from the villains of the film. [54] The 2001 episode of The Powerpuff Girls titled "Meet the Beat Alls", which contains numerous Beatles references, briefly features cameos of the band members' likenesses from Yellow Submarine. One character from the episode resembles Fred from ...
Heffron was noticed by Raven and Stevie Richards at a Steel City Wrestling show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was asked by Raven to become Richards' sidekick in ECW.He went on to become "The Blue Meanie", taking his name and persona from the villains of the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine, [3] in 1995 in ECW at the November To Remember event.
The Blue Meanies were formed in Carbondale, Illinois in 1989, where they emerged from the city's college party circuit in the early 1990s. [2] The band made their recording debut in 1991 with the release of their first single, "Grandma Shampoo" c/w "Dickory Dock".
Blue Meanies (Illinois band), an American ska-core band founded in Carbondale, Illinois; Blue Meanies (Canadian band), later known as New Meanies; Blue Meanies (Apple Computer), a former engineering group within Apple Computer; The Blue Meanie, real name Brian Heffron, a professional wrestler "Blue Meanie", a slang term for police officers
Jeremy is later kidnapped by the Blue Meanies in the Sea of Holes, and is eventually found in Pepperland, hanging by the leg to the branch of a tree. When Ringo cuts him down, he then helps The Beatles to defeat the Meanies by covering the Chief Blue Meanie with flowers, thereby proving that a Nobody can in fact, be somebody.
The U.S. cover contained a fictitious illustrated biography by Dan Davis of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in which the ensemble's battle with the Blue Meanies was compared to three other epic struggles in the history of the English-speaking world: Beowulf's struggle to save the Heorot mead hall, King John's signing of the Magna Carta ...