question: Which music group sang the song Yellow Submarine which is a part of the History of British animation?
answer: The Beatles
context: Title: Yellow Submarine (sculpture)
  Passage: The Yellow Submarine in Liverpool is a large model representation of the submarine featured in the animated film "Yellow Submarine", inspired by the song of the same name on the Beatles album "Revolver".  It was built by a group of about 80 apprentices from Cammell Laird's shipyard, designed in part by Mr L Pinch, a draughtsman at the yard, for exhibition at the International Garden Festival in Liverpool in 1984.  The Submarine was in a garden themed around the Beatles, one of 60 such themed gardens, and was highly popular.  The garden took the form of an apple-shaped labyrinth, containing symbolic references to the group, and included a bronze statue of John Lennon, which now stands at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
  Title: Yellow Submarine (film)
  Passage: Yellow Submarine (also known as The Beatles: Yellow Submarine) is a 1968 British animated musical fantasy comedy film inspired by the music of the Beatles, directed by animation producer George Dunning, and produced by United Artists and King Features Syndicate.  Initial press reports stated that the Beatles themselves would provide their own character voices; however, aside from composing and performing the songs, the real Beatles participated only in the closing scene of the film, while their cartoon counterparts were voiced by other actors.
  Title: Bee Gees
  Passage: were a pop music group formed in 1958.  Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.  The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s.  The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies; Robin's clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s.  The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists.
  Title: Only a Northern Song
  Passage: "Only a Northern Song" is a song by English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album "Yellow Submarine".  Written by George Harrison, it was recorded mainly in February 1967 during the sessions for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" but the Beatles chose not to include it on that album.  Instead, it was one of the four new songs that the band provided for the 1968 animated film "Yellow Submarine", to meet their contractual obligations to United Artists.
  Title: Jack Stokes (director)
  Passage: John Albert "Jack" Stokes (2 April 1920 - 20 March 2013) was a British animation director best known for his work on the 1968 Beatles film "Yellow Submarine".
  Title: Special Generation (band)
  Passage: Special Generation was an American new jack swing/urban R&B quintet that was the brainchild of M.C. Hammer.  The group members are Lead singer Maquet Robinson, Kendrick Washington, Fernando Carter, Charles Salter and Maurice Dowdell.  The group sang heart felt harmonic background vocals on several MC Hammers hit releases from the 90's (such as "U Can't Touch This", "Help the Children" and "Have You Seen Her"), before becoming major recording artists in their own right in early 1990.  That same year, their debut album, "Take It To The Floor" which was released off of Hammer's Bust it / Capitol Records label, debuted their first song "Love me just for me " which climbed the charts with a bullet for 21 weeks and finally went gold, their debut album was released and did well in the music/recording industry due in part to the popular ballad "Love Me Just For Me" (peaked at #04 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in December 1990) and a follow up mid-tempo R&B Top Ten Hit "Spark of Love".  Special Generation went on in 1992 to release there sophomore album entitled "Butterflies" in which the group recorded hit singles with Troop member Steven Russell whom produced and sang on the album,
  Title: Putting the Damage On
  Passage: "Putting The Damage On" is a ballad by American singer and songwriter Tori Amos, and is featured as the 17th track on her 1996 album, "Boys For Pele".  The song may have been initially considered as a single for the album, because copies of the album were accompanied by a sticker listing this song, along with "Caught a Lite Sneeze" and "Talula," as feature songs, but of all five singles released from the album, "Putting the Damage On" was not one of them.  In the song, Amos is accompanied by her own piano playing, and by the Black Dyke Band (which decades earlier had provided the brass band segments in The Beatles song Yellow Submarine).
  Title: It's All Too Much
  Passage: "It's All Too Much" is a song by the English rock group the Beatles from their 1969 album "Yellow Submarine".  Written by George Harrison in 1967, it reflects the ideological themes of that year's Summer of Love.  The Beatles recorded the track in May 1967, shortly after completing their album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".  It was one of four new songs they then supplied for the 1968 animated film "Yellow Submarine", to meet their contractual obligations to United Artists.
  Title: The Beatles discography
  Passage: In their native United Kingdom, during 1962–1970, the Beatles released 12 studio albums, 13 extended plays (EPs) and 22 singles.  However, the band's international discography is complicated, due to different versions of their albums sometimes being released in other countries, particularly during their early years on Capitol Records in North America.  The Beatles' discography was originally released on the vinyl format, with full-length long plays (LPs), shorter EPs and singles.  Over the years, the collection has also been released on cassette, 8-track, compact disc (CD), and on a USB flash drive in MP3 and 24-bit FLAC format.  Although their output has come to include vault items and remixed mash-ups, the Beatles' "core catalogue", recorded in 1962–1970, is 217 songs totalling approximately 10 hours of music.  Additionally, they released five tracks that are different versions of previously released songs: "Love Me Do", "Revolution", "Get Back", "Across the Universe" and "Let It Be"; two tracks in German: "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" and "Sie Liebt Dich"; and two tracks that are duplicates of songs included on previous albums but also included on the album "Yellow Submarine": "Yellow Submarine" and "All You Need Is Love".
  Title: History of British animation
  Passage: The history of animation in the United Kingdom began at the very origins of the artform in the late 19th century.  British animation has been strengthened by an influx of émigrés to the UK, renowned animators such as Lotte Reiniger (Germany), John Halas (Hungary), George Dunning and Richard Williams (Canada), Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton (USA) have all worked in the UK at various stages of their careers.  Notable full-length animated features to be produced in the UK include Animal Farm (1954), Yellow Submarine (1968), Watership Down (1978), and (2005).
citations: Yellow Submarine (film) History of British animation