![]() I remember thinking that a children's song would be quite a good idea. I was laying in bed in the Asher's 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. And then we thought it would be good for Ringo to do. We virtually made the track come alive in the studio, but based on Paul's inspiration. And there's nothing more to be read into it than there is in the lyrics of any children's song. We were trying to write a children's song. They wanted another song I knocked off "Hey Bulldog." It's a good-sounding record that means nothing. And all things like that, they just took them and never credited. And I said that could be a monster that sucks. They said, have you got any monsters? I said, yeah, there's Horace the vacuum cleaner in the swimming pool which was a thing you could buy, and it went 'round the pool sucking up the things, you know. But they got all the ideas for the glove in the sky and the thing that sucks people up was my idea. It was the third movie that we owed these United Artists and Brian had set it up and we had nothing to do with it and we knew nothing about it. ![]() We had nothing to do with that movie and we sort of resented them and we didn't know what it was. The Yellow Submarine people, who were gross animals, apart from the guy who drew the painting, the actual yellow submarine, came and, apart from sort of lifting all the ideas for the movie out of our heads and not giving us any credit - like Eric Segal writing Lennonesque lines straight from In His Own Write style and the crew. " Strawberry Fields Forever" / " Penny Lane"
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