BEATLES - MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR UK FIRST PRESSING 1967

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BEATLES - MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR ORIGINAL UK FIRST PRESSING 1967 PARLOPHONE SILVER & BLACK LABEL

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BEATLES - MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
ORIGINAL UK FIRST PRESSING 1967
PARLOPHONE SILVER & BLACK LABEL
BOXED EMI
CAT NUMBER STEREO PCTC 255

WIDESPINE GATEFOLD COVER MADE BY GARROD & LOFTHOUSE

MATRIX NUMBERS
SIDE1 XEX959-1 HTM at 3 oclock and the No 1 at 9 oclock
SIDE2 YEX 960-1 HTM at 3 oclock and the No 2 at 9 oclock

ORIGINAL UK FIRST PRESSING 1967
MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

SIDE1
THE VINYL IS IN ABSOLUELY OUTSTANDING CONDITION WITH JUST SOME VERY LIGHT INNER SLEEVE WITHDRAWAL MARKS WHICH ARE ONLY VISIBLE UNDER STRONG LIGHT THE VINYL REALLY DOES LOOK VIRTUALLY UNPLAYED NO SIGNS OF WARPING

SIDE2
THE VINYL IS IN ABSOLUELY OUTSTANDING CONDITION WITH JUST SOME VERY LIGHT INNER SLEEVE WITHDRAWAL MARKS WHICH ARE ONLY VISIBLE UNDER STRONG LIGHT THE VINYL REALLY DOES LOOK VIRTUALLY UNPLAYED NO SIGNS OF WARPING

THE LABELS ARE IN OUTSTANDING PLUS CONDITION


THE WIDESPINE GATEFOLD COVER IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION VERY LIGHT WORN EDGES ONLY FROM STORAGE SOME CORNER WEAR, FIRM SPINE NO STICKERS NO TEARS NO SPLIT SEAMS NO WRITING, THE. INSIDE OF THE COVER IS COMPLETE NO TEARS OR RIPS

THE 24 PAGE STAPLED BOOKLET IN EXCELLENT NR/MINT CONDITION AND INTACT AND NOT SEPARTED, NO TEARS OR RIPS/ NO TURNED UP PAGES, ALL PAGES ARE COMPLETE NO LOOSE PAGES


Magical Mystery Tour is the title of two different 1967 record releases, an LP and a double EP, by the English rock band The Beatles, both of which include the six-song soundtrack to the television movie of the same name. The version released in the United Kingdom (on 8 December 1967) was a six-track double EP, whilst in the United States, the record (released 11 days earlier on 27 November 1967) was an 11-track LP, created by adding songs from the band's 1967 singles. The 11-track LP was later adopted as the official version of the record when The Beatles' catalogue was updated for the CD format.

The soundtrack was a critical and commercial success, being Grammy-nominated and a number-one album in the US, despite the relative critical and commercial failure of the Magical Mystery Tour film.


After Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Paul McCartney wanted to create a film based upon The Beatles and their music. The film was to be unscripted: various "ordinary" people were to travel on a coach and have unspecified "magical" adventures. The Magical Mystery Tour movie was made and included six new Beatles songs, but the hoped-for "magical" adventures didn't happen. The film originally screened on BBC-TV over the 1967 Christmas holidays but was savaged by critics.

Initial release formats

The number of songs used in the film posed a problem for The Beatles and their UK record company EMI, as there were too few for an LP album but too many for an EP. One idea considered was to issue an EP which played at 33? rpm but this would have caused a loss of fidelity that was deemed unacceptable. The solution chosen was to issue an innovative format of two EP's packaged in a gatefold sleeve with a 28-page booklet containing the lyrics and colour pictures. Of the package, Bob Neaverson wrote "While it certainly solved the song quota problem, one suspects that it was also partly born of the Beatles' pioneering desire to experiment with conventional formats and packaging". The package was released in the UK on the 8th of December, in time for the Christmas market, at the sub £1 price of 19s 6d (equivalent to £13 today), which made the package much cheaper than an LP.

In the US, EPs were not popular at the time so (and against the Beatles' wishes) Capitol Records decided to release the soundtrack as an LP by adding some recent non-album singles.The LP package included, until 1980s pressings of the albums, the EP set's 24-page photo/comic booklet blown up to LP-sizeThe first side of the LP was the film soundtrack (like earlier British Beatles soundtrack albums), and the second side was a collection of A-side and B-sides released in 1967, with the songs "Penny Lane", "Baby, You're a Rich Man" and "All You Need Is Love" presented in duophonic, fake "processed" stereo, sound.


Due to public demand for the LP in the UK—as an American import, it had peaked on the British album charts at number 31 in January 1968 in 1976, EMI released it in the UK but reusing the Capitol masters with the fake-stereo.

When standardising The Beatles' releases for the worldwide Compact Disc release in 1987, the LP version of Magical Mystery Tour (in true-stereo) was included with the otherwise British album line-up.

The inclusion of the 1967 singles on CD with this album meant both that the Magical Mystery Tour CD would be of comparable length to the band's other album CDs, and that those three singles would not need to be included on Past Masters, a two-volume compilation designed to accompany the initial CD album releases and provide all non-album tracks (mostly singles) on CD format.

The album (along with the Beatles' entire UK studio album catalogue) was remastered and reissued on CD in 2009. In homage to the album's conception and first release, the CD incorporates the original Capitol LP label design. The remastered CD features a mini-

The soundtrack was far more favourably received than the film. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for best album in 1968[14] and reached number 1 in the US for eight weeks.


All songs written and composed by Lennon/McCartney except where noted.
Side one

1. "Magical Mystery Tour" McCartney with Lennon 2:51
2. "The Fool on the Hill" McCartney 3:00
3. "Flying" (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey) (Instrumental) 2:16
4. "Blue Jay Way" (Harrison) Harrison 3:56
5. "Your Mother Should Know" McCartney 2:29
6. "I Am the Walrus" Lennon 4:36

Side two

1. "Hello, Goodbye" McCartney 3:30
2. "Strawberry Fields Forever" Lennon 4:10
3. "Penny Lane" McCartney 3:03
4. "Baby, You're a Rich Man" Lennon 3:03
5. "All You Need Is Love" Lennon 3:48

Total length:
36:48

Personnel

The Beatles

* George Harrison – guitar, vocals, harmonica on "The Fool on the Hill"
* John Lennon – guitar, electric piano, mellotron, vocals, harmonica on "The Fool on the Hill"
* Paul McCartney – bass guitar, piano, mellotron, vocals, recorder on "The Fool on the Hill"
* Ringo Starr – drums, vocals

Engineers

* Geoff Emerick & Ken Scott

Additional musicians

* "Magical Mystery Tour" – Mal Evans and Neil Aspinall on percussion, David Mason, Elgar Howarth, Roy Copestake and John Wilbraham on trumpets
* "The Fool on the Hill" – Christoper Taylor, Richard Taylor and Jack Ellory on flute[15]
* "I Am the Walrus" – Sidney Sax, Jack Rothstein, Ralph Elman, Andrew McGee, Jack Greene, Louis Stevens, John Jezzard and Jack Richards on violins, Lionel Ross, Eldon Fox, Brian Martin and Terry Weil on cellos and Neill Sanders, Tony Tunstall and Morris Miller on horns, Peggie Allen, Wendy Horan, Pat Whitmore, Jill Utting, June Day, Sylvia King, Irene King, G. Mallen, Fred Lucas, Mike Redway, John O'Neill, F. Dachtler, Allan Grant, D. Griffiths, J. Smith and J. Fraser on backing vocals
* "Hello, Goodbye" – Ken Essex, Leo Birnbaum on violas.
* "Strawberry Fields Forever" – Mal Evans on percussion, Tony Fisher, Greg Bowen, Derek Watkins and Stanley Roderick on trumpets and John Hall, Derek Simpson, Norman Jones on cellos.
* "Penny Lane" – Ray Swinfield, P. Goody, Manny Winters and Dennis Walton on flutes, Leon Calvert, Freddy Clayton, Bert Courtley and Duncan Campbell on trumpets, Dick Morgan and Mike Winfield on English horns, Frank Clarke on double bass and David Mason on piccolo trumpet
* "Baby, You're a Rich Man" – Eddie Kramer on vibraphone
* "All You Need Is Love" – George Martin on piano, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Moon, Eric Clapton, Pattie Boyd Harrison, Jane Asher, Mike McCartney, Maureen Starkey, Graham Nash and wife, Gary Leeds and Hunter Davies on backing vocals, Sidney Sax, Patrick Halling, Eric Bowie and Jack Holmes on violins, Rex Morris and Don Honeywill on sax, David Mason and Stanley Woods on trumpets, Evan Watkins and Henry Spain on horns, Jack Emblow on accordion and Brian Martin on cello

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