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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

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 CONDITION:

THE VIRGIN VINYL ALBUM IS STILL ORIGINAL FACTORY SEALED.

 

COVER CONDITION:

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 cut-out (drill) holes
No cut-out corners
No saw-marks or indents
No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)
No yellowing from aging
No writing
No tape
No water damage
No warping
No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover
No glue traces or wax residue. 

  

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