The tunes recorded for the film are less consistent and less satisfying. The single sides include two John Lennon classics, the otherworldy “Strawberry Fields Forever” and the searing and vastly underappreciated “Baby, You’re a Rich Man,” as well as the hippie-dippy sing-along “All You Need Is Love.” For his part, Paul McCartney gives us one pop gem, “Hello, Goodbye,” and one of his less annoying romps through rose-colored nostalgia, “Penny Lane.” with recent singles as a more satisfying LP, and that set is now considered the “official” release in the remastered catalog.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band that June at the start of the fabled Summer of Love, the Beatles recorded six new songs for their nascent film project. In the second half of one of the busiest years in their career, following the release of Sgt. (Oh, where was Richard Lester when they needed him?)īefore we get to the movie, let us briefly look at the album, which is how most American fans know the project. No matter it does little to illuminate how the Fab Four went so horribly wrong with the first film they produced themselves. The documentary is featured on the new DVD, though it inexplicably is shortened to 19 minutes.
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The PBS series Great Performances finally aired the 52-minute film on American television for the first time a few weeks ago, preceded by a new hour-long documentary about its making. And make no mistake: a spectacular, disastrous, largely incomprehensible and nearly unwatchable mess it was and remains. Nearly half a century on, the fascinating thing about Magical Mystery Tour the film is the rare glimpse it offers into one of the best rock bands of all time at its unadulterated worst. but now available in a restored version on a spiffy new deluxe DVD-you’re in for a bumpy ride that might make you lose your lunch, or at least leave you with a sick headache. If you’ve never seen the Beatles’ notorious road movie-first screened by the BBC over the Christmas holidays in 1967, never televised in the U.S. In the United States, little was known about the film at the time of its release.Roll up, roll up for the magical mystery tour, step right this way… just be forewarned. “It’s no longer the ‘mad uncle in the attic’ that nobody wants to talk about. “‘Magical Mystery Tour’ has always been the black sheep of the Beatles family, but I think it’s been rehabilitated into the Beatles canon,” Clyde said. It first aired on BBC television the day after Christmas 1967.Īlthough it was initially panned by British critics, time has delivered some justice to the project, Jonathan Clyde, the producer of the documentary, told Reuters. The third film for The Fab Four, after a “A Hard Day’s Night” in 1964 and “Help!” a year later, “Magical Mystery Tour” is a shambolic trip through the English countryside on a bus filled with odd characters, but thin on plot. A restored version was released on DVD and blu-ray in October. Long a curiosity in the United States, the film will be accompanied by a new documentary about its making. broadcast television debut on Friday on PBS. The film will receive its long-awaited U.S. The Beatles perform "Your Mother Should Know" in this publicity photo from the filming of "Magical Mystery Tour" in this Septemphoto released to Reuters December 14, 2012.
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