Beatles Magical Mystery Vinyl Record Lp USA 1967 Orig Mono Dome Logo
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Beatles Magical Mystery Sealed Vinyl Record Lp USA 1967 Orig Mono Dome Logo
Label: Capitol Records
Product Code: MAL-2835 Mono
Format: Virgin Vinyl LP
THE THICKNESS AND WEIGHT OF THE VINYL AND COVER, SPINE READS "MONO- MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR-THE BEATLES AND HAS CAPITOL DOME LOGO AND NUMBER 2835. BACK OF LP UPPER RIGHT CORNER READS MAL 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. INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL 24 PAGE BOOKLET STAPLED INSIDE . ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.
Discography About The Record:
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
Tracks:
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 is in good playing condition. 24 page book has detached from cover and the first page has detached from staple. Everything is original.
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