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‘Magical Mystery Tour’: Inside Beatles’ Psychedelic Album Odyssey

By Douglas Wolk

Douglas Wolk

The year leading up to the release of the Magical Mystery Tour album in November 1967 was turbulent but fantastically fertile for the Beatles – they were working on its songs more or less simultaneously with the ones that ended up on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Yellow Submarine soundtrack. With touring no longer a question, they had the luxury of fine-tuning their songs at length in the studio; the same band that had recorded its first album in a single day was now tinkering with individual recordings for weeks on end. 

If Sgt. Pepper was a blueprint for the Beatles’ new utopianism – a culture of vivid sensory experience, for which they could be the entertainers and court jesters – the Magical Mystery Tour project was an attempt to literally take that idea into the world. Paul McCartney ‘s concept was that the Beatles would drive around the British countryside with their friends, film the result and shape that into a movie over which they would have total creative control. But like a lot of Sixties attempts to turn utopian theory into practice, the movie fell on its nose: The Beatles simply weren’t filmmakers.

“You gotta do everything with a point or an aim, but we tried this one without anything – with no point and no aim,” McCartney admitted the day after it premiered. The Magical Mystery Tour soundtrack, on the other hand, did what the movie was supposed to do – despite being a grab bag of the group’s 1967 singles and songs recorded specifically for the film, it holds together surprisingly well as an addendum to Pepper , giving us an image of the psychedelic Beatles refining their enhanced perceptions into individual pop songs so potent that they changed the whole landscape of music.

The songs that would end up on Magical Mystery Tour began taking shape in late 1966, well before McCartney was struck by his cinematic vision. From November 24th, 1966, to mid-January 1967, the Beatles worked extensively on a pair of new songs, intended for what would become Sgt. Pepper : John Lennon ‘s “Strawberry Fields Forever” and McCartney’s “Penny Lane,” both reminiscences of the Liverpool of their childhood. By the end of January, though, EMI was demanding a new Beatles single – there hadn’t been one since “Yellow Submarine” the previous August, an impossibly long gap in those days. George Martin wasn’t happy about pulling “Penny Lane” and “”Strawberry Fields Forever” off the album-in-progress, but there wasn’t much else in the can. Released on February 17th, the single was a worldwide hit, and a statement of purpose for the rest of the Beatles’ recordings that year: reflective, druggy, a little nostalgic, and more inventively orchestrated and arranged than anything else around.

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Why the Beatles’ ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ Was Scattered, but Essential

The Beatles  were on a roll in 1967.

They not only had released what many fans consider their best-ever album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , they also were writing and recording new songs at such a pace that those fans – not to mention radio and retailers – could hardly be expected to keep up with them.

In fact, six weeks after Sgt. Pepper's came out in late May 1967, the Beatles released a new single, "All You Need Is Love," backed with "Baby, You're a Rich Man." Those two songs, along with a pair of tracks recorded at the start of the Sgt. Pepper's sessions and other more recent tracks, ended up on the U.S. edition of Magical Mystery Tour , which was released on Nov. 27, 1967.

In the U.K., the 11-song LP was pared down to a six-track double EP that came out almost two weeks later, on Dec. 8, and included only the songs recorded specifically for the Magical Mystery Tour film project the group aired on British television that Christmas. The remaining five cuts, pushed to Side Two of the U.S. release, were released as singles between February 1967 and all the way up to just a few days before the album came out.

It's a tricky release history that suits the scattershot nature of Magical Mystery Tour in general.

Following the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on May 26, 1967, the Beatles – no doubt feeling invincible after the rapturous reception to the album – wanted to make a movie about themselves that included new music. The idea was to load a whole bunch of people onto a bus (including the four Beatles, John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ) and take them on a day-long trip. Along the way, they would stop so the group could perform, or rather lip-sync to, some of those new songs.

The movie, a 52-minute special that aired on the BBC on Dec. 26, 1967, was a notorious mess . There was no script, no director to speak of and no discernible point to the self-indulgence on display. There were new Beatles songs, however, and that was enough to salvage the project.

Still, as an album ,  Magical Mystery Tour  feels like a letdown after the recent creative landmarks Rubber Soul , Revolver and Sgt. Pepper – and the ones to come, like the White Album (their next proper LP released the following year) and Abbey Road . And that's mainly because it was never intended as an album, but an EP designed to tie in to a holiday TV special.

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So, while Side One of the album – which includes the title track, "The Fool on the Hill," "Flying," "Blue Jay Way," "Your Mother Should Know" and "I Am the Walrus" – flows as an occasionally spotty soundtrack, Side Two sounds like what it is: a hodgepodge of recordings the group assembled over the past year. They're all great songs, but within the LP's context, "Hello, Goodbye," "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Penny Lane," "Baby, You're a Rich Man" and "All You Need Is Love" come off like one of those sketchy Beatles albums Capitol Records put together in the States from leftover U.K. singles and album tracks.

Still, Magical Mystery Tour completed fans' collections by gathering some great songs that weren't previously available on any album – especially "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane," both of which were recorded for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band but released five months before the LP came out to satisfy record-company demands for new product.

And it is an essential collection of Beatles songs, even if the concept and context is occasionally flawed when measured alongside the band's other albums from the era. Not that it mattered much to fans.  Magical Mystery Tour  shot straight up the U.S. chart and stayed at No. 1 for two months. And these days it's considered a part of the Beatles' core catalog; the U.S. album has been remastered and reissued along with the group's 11 original U.K. albums.

It belongs there. Just don't expect it to fall together as seamlessly as the others.

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"It was like we were in another phase of our career you know we'd done all the live stuff and that was marvellous, now we were into being more artists. We got more freedom to be artists." PAUL
"If you think it was good, keep it, if you don't, scrap it." JOHN
"You have success with something that might have seemed like a far out idea, people had said wow this is great and so when we'd come back again George would be really quite keen to try, what other ideas have you got?" GEORGE
"And now we are going to play a track from Magical Mystery Tour which is one of my favourite albums because it was so weird I Am The Walrus, one of my favourite tracks because I did it of course but also cos it's one of those that has enough little bitties going to keep you interested even a hundred years later." JOHN
"The Beatles songs had started to sound more individual from Revolver onwards or even before then." GEORGE MARTIN

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The Beatles devised, wrote and directed a television film called Magical Mystery Tour which was broadcast on BBC Television at Christmas, 1967

Even before Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, had hit the shops, the idea of the programme had been born and work had commenced on the title track.

The Beatles in Magical Mystery Tour

It was decided that the soundtrack for the programme would be released on two seven inch discs which would be packaged with a booklet in a gatefold sleeve. The booklet contained stills from the show along with a comic strip telling the story. A lyric sheet was also stapled into the centrespread of the booklet. The EP was a runaway success and reached no. 2 in the UK singles chart, held off the top spot by their own single... "Hello, Goodbye".

In the US, the double-EP format was not considered viable so instead, Capitol Records created an album by placing the six songs from the EP on side one of an album and drawing side two from the titles that had appeared on singles in 1967. These titles were "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Penny Lane", "All You Need Is Love" - their anthem that had been broadcast around the world via Satellite in June. "Baby, You're A Rich Man" and their current single, "Hello, Goodbye". The US release made # 1 in early January 1968 and stayed there for eight weeks. Its initial chart run lasted 59 weeks.

The Beatles in Magical Mystery Tour

1967 had certainly been a year of great achievement but it was also tinged with sadness. Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager since 1961 passed away on 27th August, 1967 at the age of 32.

The US configuration for Magical Mystery Tour was later adopted by many other countries (including the UK in 1976). When the Beatles catalogue was first issued on Compact Disc in 1987, Magical Mystery Tour joined the core list of titles.

John Paul and Ringo in Magical Mystery Tour

If they aren't already planning so, the Beatles should start planning their next full-length film immediately. After watching a rough cut of their 'Magical Mystery Tour', which BBC viewers can see on Boxing Day. I am convinced they are extremely capable of writing and directing a major movie for release on one of the major cinema circuits. The film sequences for the musical numbers are extremely clever. For 'Blue Jay Way' George is seen sitting cross-legged in a sweating mist which materialises into a variety of shapes and patterns. It's a pity that most TV viewers will be able to see it only in black and white. 'I Am The Walrus' has four of them togged up in animal costumes switching at times to them bobbing across the screen as egg-men. A special word of praise for Ringo, who more than the others comes over very, very funnily. But praise to all of them for making a most entertaining film. I only wish they would now put out a sequel made up from the parts they left on the cutting-room floor. NME July 20, 1967

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In the UK The Beatles chose to issue the six songs from the Magical Mystery Tour film as a double gatefold EP with a 28-page booklet. EPs, however, were far less popular in America, and Capitol chose to turn it into a full LP, with added tracks from singles released in 1967.

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Magical Mystery Tour was issued on 27 November 1967 as Capitol MAL 2835 (mono) and SMAL 2835 (stereo). The package was a huge hit with the public, generating the highest level of initial sales of any album to date, and netting the label more than $8 million in just three weeks.

Realising the Capitol had created a product too popular to ignore, EMI imported a number of copies to the United Kingdom. It wasn’t officially released there, however, until 1976.

In 1987 the US format of Magical Mystery Tour became the standard issue worldwide, when The Beatles’ back catalogue was issued on compact disc.

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The 7 Most Valuable Beatles Albums

Are you in possession of a Beatles album that you think could potentially be worth a fair amount of money? Are you otherwi r ianse simply interested in valuable Beatles albums, what they are, and what they are worth? Are you a materialist with dollar signs for pupils?

Then come one and all, as we explore some of the most valuable Beatles albums, getting down to the nitty gritty of what they are worth and why they have come to fetch such a steep price point.

The 7 Most Valuable Beatles Albums

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1. please please me, 2. the beatles (white album), 3. ‘love me do’ / ‘p. s. i love you’, 4. ‘till there was you’ / ‘crying, waiting, hoping’, 5. yesterday and today, 6. ‘that’ll be the day’ / ‘in spite of all the danger’, 7. magical mystery tour, final tones, faqs valuable beatles albums.

As valuable Beatles albums go, this was always going to be a heavy hitter, being the Beatles debut album and the first released under the now iconic and all encompassing brand name.

This album was recorded, produced, mixed, mastered, and released at a time when stereo recording was still only released in very limited quantities. Released in 1963, there were at least a few years to go before such technology would take the world by storm and become the norm.

Please Please Me

Almost all of the copies of Please Please Me that were released in the UK were sent forth in mono, making the few copies that were released in stereo an extremely rare find. At the time, if anyone wanted one of these stereo recordings they would have to be specially ordered, and only if you had the right sound system, mind.

Needless to say, these stereo copies are now an extremely rare Beatles album indeed, especially since they sport the sought after black and gold label that singled these Parlophone recordings out from other Parlophone recordings at the time, such as those that would have been otherwise garbed with a label of black and yellow.

So, if you intend at all to sell your copy of Please Please Me , make sure you check whether it is mono or stereo first, for the latter will be worth about five times as much as the former.

Allegedly the most collectible album in the UK, this record was the first album that the Beatles recorded and decided to release as a self titled, perhaps as a way of placing importance on looking at them in retrospect, comparing them to their prior selves.

If we do so, we can easily see how fractured this latter version of the band is. This is exhibited in the inner sleeve, where there is a picture of each of the Beatles separately, all brought together in a four panel collage.

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This visual representation is highly representative of the state of the band, with each of the songs recorded with varying numbers of the band present and there often being individual Beatles in separate studios working on separate songs and often arriving at the studio in separate cars.

Still, this is one of the more valuable records you are going to find by the band, being the first they released on their own record label, the short lived Apple Records.

The first 10000 copies are especially sought after if they are in good enough condition, for they will include a poster, color prints, and black inner sleeves. There are, however, gradations to the amount that numbers within this bracket will go for.

  • 1001 – 10000: around $1000
  • 11 – 1000: around $1700
  • 1 – 10: anywhere between $8500 – $11900

So, make sure you check what kind of pressing you are working with before you go listing it on your favorite vinyl marketplace and learn how to ship vinyl records .

It did not take long for the Beatles’ music and self image to become a worldwide sensation, more of a worldwide sensation than any artist yet before them had ever been.

Something about them simply became a winning formula, the four British lads who were able to command attention wherever they went and play to ceaseless hordes of pubescent girls driven hormonally mad by the merchandise and propaganda.

Beatles First Single: Love Me Do / PS I Love You

Before all of that, the Beatles were just one amongst a whole roster of boy groups trying to hit the big time. They had a residency at the now famous Cavern Club in their home city of Liverpool, and it is thereabouts that they would have caught the attention of Capitol Records, after which they recorded their first album Please Please Me , from which the single ‘Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You’ comes.

The album was recorded in a single session, with one take for each song performed back to back more or less with one microphone trained on the entire band on a small sound stage.

It is certainly a miracle that the results still sound so good, though this was already a band that was well rehearsed to a fault. The rest is of course history, and this UK promotional copy of the Beatles’ first single now fetches an estimated value between $15,000 & $20,000, limited as it was to only 250 copies in a very limited run.

There exists a 10 inch acetate copy of this single which sold for an exemplary $207,600 in 2016, though it was only estimated to sell for $13000. What gives? How can a valuable record be an even more valuable record?

Well, funnily enough this first pressing was actually owned by Brian Epstein, none other than the manager of Gerry and the Pacemakers, but more importantly, an entrepreneur who managed the Beatles from the early 60s until his death from an accidental barbiturate overdose in 1967, after the Beatles second album and beyond.

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The UK album even featured alongside Paul McCartney and John Lennon singing the manager’s very own handwriting on the record labels, misspelling the title as ‘Hullo Little Girl’. This original single came well before the Beatles became the dominator of northern songs, credited as it was to ‘Paul McCartney and the Beatles, as though they were his backing band.

All this dollar was spent on a song that was not even written by the Beatles! It was actually written as a show tune by Meredith Wilson in 1950, recorded by Meredith and his orchestra alongside his wife and musical collaborator Eileen Wilson.

Fair enough, it was then called ‘Till I Met You’, so no doubt the new name would have thrown some people off the scent of plagiarism. Given the long and storied past of this release, any record collector or purveyor of collectible vinyl would be silly to turn such a release away.

This record is going to fetch a considerable price in any form, though there have been some stereo versions that have been completely sealed and in mint condition since its release in 1966.

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No matter the form it takes, however, this record will fetch a pretty penny at auction. And why, you might ask? Well, when this release was initially sent out into the world, the original cover stirred up quite a bit of controversy.

What is now referred to by fans as the infamous ‘butcher cover’ featured all four members of the band dressed in lab coats reminiscent of those worn by butchers, holding the heads of baby dolls, and all smeared with raw meat and ‘blood’.

So negative was the response to this album cover that they were all recalled, 750,000 of them being commercially destroyed. Of course, those that still remain would have been coveted by those who owned a copy at the time, for the backlash about the original album cover was widespread and virulent.

All this for something that was supposed to be a well meaning statement, allegedly about the violence of the contemporaneous Vietnam War. This was, however, all too far out for the listening public and was replaced with the now ubiquitous image of the four likely lads standing around a shipping trunk. They certainly knew how to clean vinyl records of their original intent.

Yesterday And Today (The U.S. Album)

This is about the only entry on this list that is not technically by the Beatles. Anyone who has expressed much of an interest in the Beatles up until this point, however, will know that before the very existence of the Beatles, some of the original members were in a slew of other bands.

Beatles Beginnings 8 (The Quarrymen Repertoire)

One of the most prominent was the Quarrymen, a band that wrote and performed songs in the contemporaneously popular skiffle style of the period.

The original pressing of this disc is a 10 inch acetate owned by none other than Paul McCartney and it is very unlikely that he or his estate are going to give up this precious disc anytime soon.

There are, however, a couple of pressings that have reproduced the original, each consisting of 25 copies. Seeing as they were produced and pressed in 1981, they are now worth around $20000 each, with the original owned by Paul McCartney being valued at approximately $170,000!

Considering this single was recorded in the front room of a random person’s house in Liverpool for the scant price of 17 shillings and 6 pence, I would say that is pretty good going, wouldn’t you? This shakes out to about $1.46 in dollars at the time, which is equivalent to $14.97 today if adjusted for the inflation between then and now.

Though it might not fetch as much as some of the other more extortionate offerings on this list, the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour is certainly worth a look if you have listened to Sgt Pepper too much but you are also after an album that still reeks of that same psychedelic spirit.

Magical Mystery Tour

‘The U.S. version of the soundtrack for the Beatles’ ill-fated British television special embellished the six songs that were found on the British Magical Mystery Tour double EP with five other cuts from their 1967 singles.

The psychedelic sound is very much in the vein of Sgt. Pepper’s, and even spacier in parts (especially the sound collages of “I Am the Walrus”). Unlike Sgt. Pepper’s, there’s no vague overall conceptual/thematic unity to the material, which has made Magical Mystery Tour suffer slightly in comparison. Still, the music is mostly great.’

This US version of the album is also that which many future pressings are based on, including the pressing that I myself own. Yes, even the UK version of the album has now come to rely upon the US for its inherent structure, the former doing away with the double EP format in favor of the ever so slightly more sensical single album format.

This album was released at an experimental time overall, not to mention a time when the Beatles themselves were at the peak of their own self experiments, so it is no wonder that they would have wanted to try something new.

So, there you have it! Hopefully, your curiosity about the most valuable Beatles albums has been satiated somewhat, and, if you believed you were in possession of one of these albums, that your cry has been answered.

Perhaps you have, all along, been sat on a veritable gold mine that has been lurking in the dark, garbed in thick coats of dust and awaiting a sell out auction where the red carpet is well and truly rolled out.

Otherwise, if you were simply interested than I hope that you have got everything you desired from this here article.

How do I know if my Beatles album is valuable?

If the Beatles album you own is a first pressing or thereabouts, then you can be pretty sure that it is at least worth something when sold off; if this first pressing or thereabouts is in good condition, then that will be even better for its eventual sale price – the better the condition, the higher the eventual price. If your Beatles record from yesteryear is an original pressing that is almost entirely unopened then you can be sure that you are sitting on a gold mine.

What is the rarest Beatle album?

Rarity is a quality that essentially signifies how special or unique something is. The rarer something is, the less likely you are to find another of it. In thinking about rarity this way, then surely the rarest Beatles album is one that is inimitable and singular. Clearly the prize would go to the original pressing of the Beatles self titled album (otherwise known as the White Album ). This was originally owned by Ringo Starr, though was eventually auctioned off for charity; it was expected to sell for around $60000 but ended up fetching around 3/4 of a million!

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I was interested until you said that Brian Epstein was ‘the keyboardist in Gerry and the Pacemakers’!!! To quote your overused phrase, what gives?? 😆 That’s hilariously untrue

Thanks for stopping by and I hope this finds you well. This error is my bad and has now been rectified. The truth of the matter is, instead, that Brian Epstein was the manager of Gerry and the Pacemakers. They were indeed the second band to sign with this entrepreneur in the early ’60s, so well spotted! What gives is that you have a keen eye for detail and clearly know your stuff. Other than this misdemeanor, I hope everything else was to your liking.

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  1. Magical Mystery Tour Reference & Price Guide

    The first release of songs from The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album was the Hello Goodbye / I Am The Walrus single, issued in the U.K. on November 24, 1967. Two days later the Hello Goodbye promo film was broadcast in the U.S. on the Ed Sullivan Show, followed the next day, November 27, by the album and single release in America.. The same week, the promo film was shown in several European ...

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    Magical Mystery Tour is a record by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a double EP in the United Kingdom and an LP in the United States. It includes the soundtrack to the 1967 television film of the same name.The EP was issued in the UK on 8 December 1967 on the Parlophone label, while the Capitol Records LP release in the US and Canada occurred on 27 November and features ...

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  5. Magical Mystery Tour (Vinyl, US, 1967) For Sale

    The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (LP, Album, Los) Label: Capitol Records, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Cat#: SMAL-2835, SMAL 2835, 2835 Media Condition: Media: Good (G) Can play without skipping. Significant scratches, surface noise, and groove wear. some writing on cover. all pages of the book appear to be there. some surface scratches on the vinyl.

  6. Is this Beatles 'Mystery' a magical record for a collector?

    Goldmine offers advice on a copy of The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" soundtrack plus pricing and identification information for records related to comic books. ... It is a 1967 Capitol SMAL-2835 release, and includes the 24-page full color picture book, also in good condition. ... Regarding value, the first pressing is by far the most ...

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    Apple Presents. The Beatles in Songs and Music from a Colour Television Film called "Magical Mystery Tour". ℗ 1967. E.M.I. Records. (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) Hayes · Middlesex. England. Made & Printed in Great Britian. Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.

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    Relive the magic of The Beatles with this vintage 1967 LP album titled Magical Mystery Tour. The album features classic hits from one of the most iconic bands in the world. Made of vinyl material, this record is a must-have for any music lover. -bottom:0;">The album comes with a record label of Magic and is in excellent condition.

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    The Magical Mystery Tour soundtrack, on the other hand, did what the movie was supposed to do - despite being a grab bag of the group's 1967 singles and songs recorded specifically for the ...

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    It's a tricky release history that suits the scattershot nature of Magical Mystery Tour in general. Following the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on May 26, 1967, the Beatles ...

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    Tracklisting. Released as a six-song double EP in the United Kingdom and an 11-song album in the US and elsewhere, Magical Mystery Tour was the soundtrack to the television film of the same name, which was first broadcast by the BBC on 26 December 1967. In the wake of the death of Brian Epstein on 27 August 1967, The Beatles found themselves ...

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    BUY THE ALBUM. The Beatles devised, wrote and directed a television film called Magical Mystery Tour which was broadcast on BBC Television at Christmas, 1967. Even before Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, had hit the shops, the idea of the programme had been born and work had commenced on the title track. It was decided that the soundtrack ...

  17. Magical Mystery Tour (1967, Gatefold, Vinyl)

    "Apple presents The Beatles in songs and music from a color television film called "Magical Mystery Tour." Differs from The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour in that the subtitle for track A6, "I Am the Walrus", ('"No you're not!" said Little Nicola'), on the inside left cover tracklisting, is in handwritten, instead of typeset.

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    On the whole, Magical Mystery Tour is quietly one of the most rewarding listens in the Beatles' career. Full Review. 10y. 100. AllMusic. Richie Unterberger. Unlike Sgt. Pepper's, there's no vague overall conceptual/thematic unity to the material, which has made Magical Mystery Tour suffer slightly in comparison.

  19. Magical Mystery Tour

    Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles released in 1967. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

  20. US album release: Magical Mystery Tour

    Magical Mystery Tour was issued on 27 November 1967 as Capitol MAL 2835 (mono) and SMAL 2835 (stereo). The package was a huge hit with the public, generating the highest level of initial sales of any album to date, and netting the label more than $8 million in just three weeks. Realising the Capitol had created a product too popular to ignore ...

  21. The 7 Most Valuable Beatles Albums

    6. 'That'll Be the Day' / 'In Spite of all the Danger'. 7. Magical Mystery Tour. Final Tones. FAQs Valuable Beatles Albums. 1. Please Please Me. As valuable Beatles albums go, this was always going to be a heavy hitter, being the Beatles debut album and the first released under the now iconic and all encompassing brand name.

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