The Beatls

Magical Mystery Tour

Studio album by The Beatles

Released 27 November 1967 (US)

Recorded 24 November – 7 November 1967, Abbey Road Studios and Olympic Sound Studios, London

Genre Rock, psychedelic rock

Length 36:49

Label Capitol

Producer George Martin

Professional reviews

* Allmusic 5/5 stars

* Blender 5/5 stars

* Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars

EP (Double EP) by The Beatles

Released 8 December 1967 (UK)

Recorded 25 April – 7 November 1967, Abbey Road Studios and Olympic Sound Studios, London

Length 19:08

Label Parlophone

Producer George Martin

Professional reviews

* Pitchfork Media (10.0/10.0)

Magical Mystery Tour is a record by the English rock band The Beatles. The record consists of the six-song soundtrack to a one-hour television film of the same name originally aired in 1967. The six-track double-extended play disk (EP) was released in the UK on 8 December 1967. In the U.S., the record was released 11 days earlier on 27 November 1967 as an 11-track LP which included the five of the six songs on the band's three 1967 singles on the B-side ("Hello, Goodbye"'s B-side, "I Am The Walrus", having also been on the film's soundtrack on the album's A-side).

The U.S. album was later adopted by Apple and EMI as the preferred version of the record when The Beatles' discography was being updated for the Compact Disc format; This was the only U.S. release chosen to be included with the other UK releases (other U.S. records were subsequently released as part of The Capitol Albums volumes 1 and 2 boxed sets, but not individually). 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.

History of the project

Magical Mystery Tour film

Main article: 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 (including John Lennon's uncle Charlie) 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 the hoped-for "magical" adventures never happened. During the filming, an ever greater number of cars followed the hand-lettered bus,

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