Magical Mystery Tour
LP and Double EP by The Beatles
Released	November 27, 1967
Recorded	Abbey Road November 1966 - November 1967 (LP, CD) April - November 1967 (EP)
Genre	Rock
Length	36:52 (LP, CD) 19:12 (EP)
Label	Parlophone, Capitol, EMI
Producer(s)	George Martin
Professional reviews
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The Beatles chronology
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)	Magical Mystery Tour (1967)	The Beatles (1968)

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It is also a one-hour 1967 television film that originally aired in the UK. After critical and public response to the premiere proved negative, plans to air the show on ABC Television were cancelled, and Magical Mystery Tour didn't appear in the US until 1976, as a theatrical release on the midnight movies and college circuits. See also: 1966 in television, other events of 1967, 1968 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1967-68 American network television schedule. ... 2002 identity of the ABC Circle logo, designed by Paul Rand in 1962. ... Magical Mystery Tour, starring The Beatles, was a special that aired on BBC TV on Boxing Day in 1967. ... Midnight movies were popular in the 1970s and early 1980s, before VCRs became readily available. ...

History of the project

After Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Paul McCartney wanted to create a film based upon the Beatles and their music. This film was to be unscripted; various "ordinary" people (including John Lennon's uncle Charlie Lennon) were to travel on a charabanc bus and have unspecified "magical" adventures, in the manner of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. The Magical Mystery Tour movie was made, but it turned out that no interesting adventures actually occurred. (At least, none that would have suited the original concept; during the shoot, more and more cars followed the hand-lettered bus to see what its passengers were up to, until a running traffic jam had developed. The spectacle ended after John Lennon angrily tore the lettering off the sides of the bus.) Sgt. ... Paul McCartney, as photographed by John Kelley for the 1968 LP The Beatles (aka The White Album). Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born June 18, 1942) is a British singer, musician and songwriter, who first came to prominence as a member of The Beatles. ... John Winston Ono Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was best known as a singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist for the British rock band The Beatles. ... A charabanc (pronounced sha-ra-bang) is a kind of open-topped bus common in Britain during the early part of the 20th century. ... Ken Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and as a cultural icon whom some consider a link between the beat generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. ... The Merry Pranksters were a circle of people who collected around American novelist Ken Kesey and Beat literature figurehead Neal Cassady, as well as main cohort Ken Babbs. ... John Winston Ono Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was best known as a singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist for the British rock band The Beatles. ...

The film, originally appearing twice on BBC-TV over the 1967 Christmas holidays, was disparaged by critics on its release; however, it is often praised by filmakers like Steven Spielberg. The soundtrack itself was far more favorably received, released in December 1967 as a double EP in the UK. This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ... Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is a three time Academy Award winning American film director, and among the most successful filmmakers in history. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Template:DecemberCalendar2006 December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An extended play or EP, is the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to be called singles but too short to qualify as albums. ...

The American version was released in late November 1967 as a LP; its cover depicts the original EP in an orange border, with a list of song titles above it. The LP Magical Mystery Tour was divided into two halves; the first side being the actual movie soundtrack, and the second side being a collection of A and B-sides released in 1967. For other uses, see November (disambiguation). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The first side, identical to the British EP, was a prime example of music from the psychedelic era, with "Flying", one of two Beatles instrumentals (the first being the often forgotten and very early "Cry For a Shadow"); "Blue Jay Way", a George Harrison mood piece; and the title track itself. "I Am the Walrus", at the end of side one and full of crashing orchestras and dubbed vocals, was Lennon's response to learning that an English master at his alma mater Quarry Bank Grammar School was making his class analyze Beatles songs. The song, which appears very deep but in fact means nothing at all, was created to mock the fans who overanalysed the meanings of the Beatles' songs. Flying is an instrumental song by the Beatles which first appeared on the late-1967 Magical Mystery Tour release (two EP discs in the UK, an LP in the US). ... Blue Jay Way is a song written by George Harrison; it was first released by the Beatles on their Magical Mystery Tour album and EP. Harrison commented about this song: Derek Taylor got held up. ... George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was a popular British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film producer, best known as a member of The Beatles. ... I Am the Walrus is a 1967 Beatles song, written by John Lennon (though credited to both John Lennon and Paul McCartney). ... An English grammar school (equivalent to American middle- and high schools), located on Harthill Road in Allerton, England, a suburb of Liverpool, and founded in 1922. ...

The songs on the second side were the band's non-album singles from the period. To keep to its release schedule, Capitol Records used a stereo simulator on the monaural single master tapes, rather than wait for the stereo tapes to be sent from Britain. Even so, the seemingly random choice of songs shows the band at its creative peak. It included two starkly contrasting, semiautobiographical songs, Lennon's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and McCartney's "Penny Lane". Originally released as a double A-side single, Lennon's "Fields" was a dark and troubled account of a childhood memory, while "Penny Lane" was about the same subject, but light and poppy. Both songs were in fact recorded during the Sgt. Pepper sessions, but had been left off that album, a decision that producer George Martin later regretted. Capitol record by Wingy Manone Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, founded in 1942. ... Monaural (often shortened to mono) sound reproduction is single-channel. ... Strawberry Fields Forever is the title of a 1967 song recorded by The Beatles. ... Penny Lane is a street in the English city of Liverpool. ... For the author, see George R. R. Martin. ...

The remaining tracks on side two include McCartney's counter (and A-side) to "I Am the Walrus" with one of the brightest pop songs ever (despite its lyrical dismay), "Hello Goodbye". John also offers "Baby You're a Rich Man" (actually the first song recorded specifically for the Beatles' animated Yellow Submarine, which would be released to theatres one year later), and the anthem of the Our World program and psychedelia itself, "All You Need Is Love" finishes the LP. I Am the Walrus is a 1967 Beatles song, written by John Lennon (though credited to both John Lennon and Paul McCartney). ... Hello Goodbye is a 1967 song by the legendary 60s rock band The Beatles. ... Baby Youre a Rich Man is a song by the Beatles. ... Yellow Submarine can refer to: Yellow Submarine (song), Original song by The Beatles, released in 1966. ... Our World was the first live international satellite television production, which was broadcast on 25 June 1967. ... All You Need Is Love is a song written by John Lennon (although credited to Lennon-McCartney) and first performed by The Beatles on Our World, the first ever live global television link. ...

When standardizing the Beatles' releases for compact disc in the late 1980s, the American LP version (which had actually sold better in the UK as an import than the double EP, and was issued by Parlophone Records in Britain during 1977) was included with the British album lineups instead of the British EP, with true-stereo recordings replacing the earlier processed ones. (The true-stereo version of the Magical Mystery Tour LP was first issued in Germany in 1971, but the 1977 Parlophone issue used the Capitol masters with the fake stereo.) The remaining Beatles non-LP single sides were compiled as Past Masters, Volume One and Past Masters, Volume Two. Parlophone is a record label which was founded in Germany prior to World War I by the Carl Lindstrom Company. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Past Masters, Volume One was the title of a 1988 collection of singles and b-sides by The Beatles, originally released between 1962 and 1965. ... Past Masters, Volume Two is an album by the Beatles released in 1988. ...

Track listing (LP, CD)

• All songs written by Lennon-McCartney, except where noted.

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Side one

1. "Magical Mystery Tour" SAMPLE (122k)
2. "The Fool on the Hill"
3. "Flying" (Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey)
4. "Blue Jay Way" (Harrison)
5. "Your Mother Should Know"
6. "I Am the Walrus" SAMPLE (133k)

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Side two

1. "Hello Goodbye"
2. "Strawberry Fields Forever" SAMPLE (141k)
3. "Penny Lane" SAMPLE (192k)
4. "Baby You're a Rich Man"
5. "All You Need Is Love"

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Track listing (double EP)

Double EP cover

• All songs written by Lennon-McCartney, except where noted.

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Side one

1. "Magical Mystery Tour"
2. "Your Mother Should Know"

Side two

1. "I Am the Walrus"

Side three

1. "The Fool on the Hill"
2. "Flying" (Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey)

Side four

1. "Blue Jay Way" (Harrison)

Release history

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See also

• Magical Mystery Tour (film)

Magical Mystery Tour, starring The Beatles, was a special that aired on BBC TV on Boxing Day in 1967. ...

External link

• Album Lyrics