Details:Label: Capitol Records
Product Code: SMAL-2835
Format: Virgin Vinyl
LP - Original Factory Sealed
SPINE READS "STEREO- MAGICAL MYSTERY
TOUR-THE BEATLES AND HAS CAPITOL DOME LOGO AND NUMBER 2835. BACK OF LP
UPPER RIGHT CORNER READS SMAL 2835, LOWER LEFT CORNER ON BACK READS
"MANUFACTURED BY CAPITOL RECORDS INC., HOLLYWOOD AND VINE STREETS,
HOLLYWOOD CALIF, FACTORIES: SCRANTON,PA., LOS ANGELES,
CALIF.,JACKSONVILLE, ILL. FRONT LOWER RIGHT CORNER READS, c 1967, NEMS
Enterprises LTD.
W/ A 24 PAGE BOOKLET STAPLED INSIDE
After the death of manager Brian Epstein, the Beatles took a series of rather poor turns, the first of which was the Magical Mystery Tour
film. Conceived as a low-key art project, the Beatles were oddly
nonchalant about the challenges of putting together a movie. They'd
assembled records, they'd worked on A Hard Day's Night and Help!--
how hard could it be? Without Epstein to advise, however, things like
budgeting and time management became a challenge, and this understated
experimental film turned into a sapping distraction.
Musically, however, the accompanying EP was an overwhelming success.
The EP format apparently freed the band to experiment a bit, not having
to fill sides of a 45 with pop songs or make the grand statements of an
album. The title track is a rousing set piece, meant to introduce the
travelogue concept of the film. The remaining four songs released
exclusive to the EP are low-key marvels-- Paul McCartney's graceful "The
Fool on the Hill" and music-hall throwback "Your Mother Should Know",
George Harrison's droning "Blue Jay Way", and the percolating
instrumental "Flying". Few of them are anyone's all-time favorite
Beatles songs, only one had a prayer of being played on the radio, and
yet this run seems to achieve a majesty in part because of that: It's a
rare stretch of amazing Beatles music that can seem like a private
obsession rather than a permanent part of our shared culture.
As a more laid-back release, the EP suggested the direction the band
might have taken on the White Album had it remained a full band, happy
to shed the outsized conceptualism and big statements and craft
atmospheric, evocative pieces. In the U.S., the EP was paired with three
recent double-sided singles, ballooning Magical Mystery Tour
into an album-- the only instance in which a U.S. release, often mangled
by Capitol, became Beatles canon. With only the EP's title track
married specifically to the film's themes, the overall effect of a title
track/album sleeve as shell game was in line with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Of the three singles, the undisputed highlight is "Strawberry Fields
Forever"/ "Penny Lane", John Lennon and Paul McCartney's tributes to
their hometown, Liverpool. Slyly surreal, assisted by studio
experimentation but not in debt to it, full of brass, harmonium, and
strings, unmistakably English-- when critics call eccentric or baroque
UK pop bands "Beatlesesque," this is the closest there is to a root for
that adjective. There is no definitive Beatles sound, of course, but
with a band that now functions as much as a common, multi-generational
language as a group of musicians, it's no surprise that songs rooted in
childhood-- the one experience most likely to seem shared and have
common touchpoints-- are among their most universally beloved
Magical Mystery Tour
Fool on the Hill
Flying
Blue Jay Way
Your Mother Should Know
I Am the Walrus
Hello Goodbye
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Baby You're a Rich Man
All You Need Is Love
RECORD CONDITION:
THE
ALBUM IS STILL ORIGINAL FACTORY SEALED.
GATEFOLD COVER IS STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP W/ CORNER
WEAR AND STICKER AND STAIN SPOTS
NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER
No split seams
No
creases
No
ring wear
No
cut-out (drill) holes.
No
cut-out corners
No saw-marks or indents
No
yellowing from aging
No
writing
No
mold or mildew spots
No
water damage
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