© All lyrics copyright 1967 for the world by Northern Songs Ltd. Magical Mystery Tour (1967) The Beatles White Album (1968) Yellow Submarine (1969) Abbey Road (1969) Let It Be (1970) AllMusic Review. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. Magical Mystery Tour is an double EP by The Beatles, produced by George Martin, both including the six-song soundtrack to the 1967 film of the same name. Tracks B3, B4 & B5 are in 'fake' stereo.įor similar 1967 Scranton pressing: The Beatles - Magical Mystery TourĪll selections are published by Maclen Music, Inc., BMI Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles released in 1967. NOTE: The matrix listed above- SM(T)AL -means that it appears the original prefix etched in was 'ST' but then the MAL was etched within those letters later. Pressed at Capitol's Jacksonville factory, as identified with 'O' etched in the run-outs. Some copies came with the red-pink-white inner sleeves that had come with Sgt Pepper. 'No You're Not!' text under 'I Am the Walrus' is in bold font, on inside cover. Magical Mystery Tour has the amateur, string-and-stickytape appeal of the early Gumby series, but with the bonus of Northern English sensibilities and great Beatle songs. Later covers credited ASCAP for side 1 tracks. Discover the music & lyrics, musicians & credits, artworks & packaging, stories & films and much more at the official John Lennon website. 'All selections are published by Maclen Music, Inc., BMI' on left inside gatefold. BMI credit appears after every song on label. Asked why he thought people didn’t like it, McCartney said he wasn’t sure-he liked it fine.1967 Jacksonville pressing with black rainbow labels.

“All You Need Is Love,” debuted to an estimated 400 million people in the world’s first live international satellite TV production (Our World), did receive wide acclaim, and while cynicism and embarrassment about 1967’s Summer of Love would set in as soon as a few years later, it probably deserves more.Īs for the movie that gave the album its name, press coverage of it was so uniformly hostile (not to mention viewer feedback to the BBC switchboard so sustained) that McCartney went on the BBC the day after it first aired to defuse the tension. Mr McCartney said he and the other Beatles had not regarded it as too far out. The primary audience for this event was the secretaries of the Beatles fan club. Magical Mystery Tour had been shown to members of Beatles’ fan clubs, who had thought it a lovely film. “Baby, You’re a Rich Man” probably doesn’t get the credit it deserves. On this day, December 17, 1967, a private screening of The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour was organized, ahead of its BBC1 premiere on December 26.

And if “I Am the Walrus” was Lennon’s dark foray into contradiction and surreality, McCartney’s “Hello, Goodbye” was its bright counterpart. The yin-yang of McCartney’s “Penny Lane” and Lennon’s “Strawberry Fields Forever” (originally released on the same 7-inch record) arguably says more about what ground the band covered in seven minutes than any other two songs in their catalogue-the former baroque, charming, and upbeat the latter dense and melancholy-variations on a theme of seemingly simple pasts refracted, dreamlike, through the present. Designed primarily as a consumer service, the second half of Magical Mystery Tour collected what they’d offered in 1967. While the band had helped rechristen the album format as an artistic statement unto itself, they were still releasing singles-as in tracks that weren’t associated with any album. There was a rare instrumental (“Flying”), a foggy Harrison drone (“Blue Jay Way”), and an invocation of the past by McCartney that blurred lines between sweet and eerie (“Your Mother Should Know”). What had started out as a string of acid playground rhymes turned into Lennon’s angriest song this side of 1970 (“I Am the Walrus”), while McCartney’s simple sentimentality had taken on a quality that felt stoic, almost abstract (“The Fool on the Hill”).

Still, this was The Beatles in 1967-momentum was strong. In truth, the Magical Mystery Tour song sessions took place months before Epstein’s death in September 1967, and filming for the movie was already underway when he died. The album was released as a companion to a meandering, band-directed movie, and its first half is probably one of the lowest-stakes sides in the band’s catalogue-a relief, in a way, from how high-stakes their music had become. Pepper’s and 1968’s White Album, Magical Mystery Tour nevertheless played a part in The Beatles' story, and put a cap on a year in which the band made yet more music nobody was totally prepared for them to make. Though wedged between the comparatively giant Sgt.

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