![]() Pepper really captured it but here we have: Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun / If the sun don't come, you get a tan / From standing in the English rainĪnd finally, there's the song's outro. It's got that strange nostalgic and very British element that was key to the Beatles' brand of psychedelia - the title track of Sgt. Massive buzzkill cop Norman Pilcher is considered the inspiration for: Semolina Pilchard / Climbing up the Eiffel Tower It's got a veiled reference to contemporary drug culture and the persecution of rock musicians for possessing illicit substances. It's got disturbing, brown-acid imagery: Yellow-matter custard / Dripping from a dead dog's eye It's got silly, good- LSD-trip imagery: Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come It's got bizarre characters: They are the eggmen, I am the Walrus It's got circular statements you can neither agree nor disagree with: I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together But most significantly, Magical Mystery Tour gives us "I Am The Walrus," which is arguably the epitome of Beatles-style psychedelia. "Fool On The Hill" is lovely, and "Magical Mystery Tour" is a rousing advertisement that gets your hopes up. The TV special was dreadful - critics and the public agreed. (In the UK, Magical Mystery Tour was released as a double EP, which made it to #2 on the EP chart.) Today, the film is much more appreciated for its unorthodox approach, colorful imagery, and for the transition it represented in The Beatles music career. ![]() However, they remained undisputed kings of the charts, as the soundtrack album Magical Mystery Tour topped the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States. For the first time, the Beatles were not living up to their godlike status and were unable to get away with everything. ![]() People utterly hated the film because of its nonsensical storyline and the confusion it caused them. The complete disaster was broadcast again in color a few days later, but only about 200,000 color televisions existed in the UK, so the majority of viewers still didn't get the full intended effect. What was supposed to set the film apart was its vivid imagery and colors, but alas the BBC aired the film in black and white and it looked absolutely terrible. When Magical Mystery Tour debuted on Boxing Day (December 26) 1967, it was a shocking catastrophe and proved to be The Beatles first, and arguably only, flop. The plan was: ‘We start here, and we’ve got to do something here.’” Ringo Starr stated, “Paul had a great piece of paper – just a blank piece of white paper with a circle on it. McCartney had some thoughts about the script, but that would about it. Since the group was no longer performing live, it made sense to give their fans another movie. ![]() McCartney was inspired by Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranskters and their bus Furthur and the popularity of coach (bus) trips throughout England, which led to a free-spirited plot based on the same ideas. It seemed that any route The Beatles took was accepted by the world with enthusiasm, which gave them the courage to explore new avenues. From that moment on, The Beatles had left behind their pop appeal and were fully headed towards a psychedelic direction with new and unique elements. Magical Mystery Tour was an idea conceived in the mind of Paul McCartney who had recently gifted the world his experimental concepts with the groundbreaking album Sgt. ![]()
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