Format: Virgin Vinyl LP. 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. 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. The EP was paired with three recent double-sided singles, ballooning Magical Mystery Tour into an album– the only instance in which a U. 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. THE ALBUM IS STILL ORIGINAL FACTORY SEALED. GATEFOLD COVER IS STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP W/ CORNER WEAR. NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER. No cut-out (drill) holes. No saw-marks or indents. No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers). No yellowing from aging. No mold or mildew spots. Please check all the pictures to help with the condition. If you have any questions, please ask! International Buyers Please Note. Sorry w e will not declare it as a gift, or at a lower value. Zombie Sounds & Movies. The item “The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour SEALED US ORIG 1967 LP With CAPITOL DOME LOGO” is in sale since Friday, July 08, 2016. This item is in the category “Music\Records”. The seller is “atl0325″ and is located in Flowery Branch, Georgia. This item can be shipped to United States, to all countries in Europe, to all countries in continental Asia, to Canada.
- Genre: Rock
- Style: British Invasion
- Record Size: 12″
- Duration: LP
- Record Grading: Mint (M)
- Sleeve Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)
- Special Attributes: 1st Edition?
- Record Label: Capitol Records
- Release Year: 1967?
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
- Speed: 33 RPM
