The Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" LP SMAL 2835 NM in shrink 1983 John Lennon
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The Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" Gatefold LP Capitol Records SMAL 2835 (1983) (US)
Vinyl is NM, Jacket is NM in shrink
Rainbow Capitol Labels
Out of Print!!
Gatefold cover. No Booklet. Colorband Label.
Track Listing:
A1 Magical Mystery Tour 2:48 A2 The Fool On The Hill 3:00 A3 Flying 2:16 A4 Blue Jay Way 3:50 A5 Your Mother Should Know 2:33 A6 I Am The Walrus 4:35 B1 Hello Goodbye 3:24 B2 Strawberry Fields Forever 4:05 B3 Penny Lane 2:57 B4 Baby You're A Rich Man 3:07 B5 All You Need Is Love 3:57Magical Mystery Tour is a record by the English rock group the Beatles that was released as a double EP in the United Kingdom and an LP in the United States. Produced by George Martin, both versions include the six-song soundtrack to the 1967 film of the same name. The record was released in the UK on 8 December 1967 as a six-track double EP on the Parlophone label, and in the US on 27 November 1967, as an eleven-track LP compiled by Capitol Records, adding the band's 1967 single releases. The EP was also released in Germany, France, Spain, Yugoslavia, Australia and Japan. The first official release as an eleven-track LP in the UK did not occur until 1976.
Despite widespread media criticism of the Magical Mystery Tour film, the soundtrack was a critical and commercial success and a number one Grammy-nominated album in the US. In 1987, when the Beatles updated its entire recorded canon for digital compact disc release, the track-listing of the 1967 US LP release was adopted as the official "core catalogue" version of the Magical Mystery Tour recordings rather than the six-track 1967 UK release which would not have been a practical configuration in the CD era. Along with the rest of the group's studio albums, Magical Mystery Tour was remastered and released on 9 September 2009 for the first time since its CD release.
Magical Mystery Tour film
Main article: Magical Mystery Tour (film)After recording 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 1964 Bedford VAL coach and have unspecified "magical" adventures. The Magical Mystery Tour film was made and included six new Beatles songs. 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 challenge 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 audio fidelity that was deemed unacceptable. The solution chosen was to issue an innovative format of two EPs 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 8 December, in time for the Christmas market, at the sub £1 price of 19s 6d (equivalent to £15 today).
EPs were not popular in the US at the time so (and against the Beatles' wishes) Capitol Records decided to release the soundtrack as an LP by adding tracks from that year's non-album singles. The first side of the LP contained the film soundtrack songs (like earlier British Beatles soundtrack albums), and the second side had the remaining A-side and B-sides released in 1967, with three of the five songs—"Penny Lane", "Baby, You're a Rich Man" and "All You Need Is Love"—presented in duophonic, fake "processed" stereo sound.
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