Simply an excellent addition to any prog rock music collection. version of Magical Mystery Tour is another great release in a steak where the Beatles just could do no wrong, at least if we talk about the music. Yes it's repetitive, but so is Fool On The Hill and no one seems to overlook that performance. The only exception comes with the song Your Mother Should Know which, in my opinion, is the easily the most underrated composition that Paul McCartney have written over the years. Most of the soundtrack songs are fun but aren't really anything I would have considered essential from the band. It is in fact this material that makes the Magical Mystery Tour album a great experience, while the original 6 track soundtrack falls short in comparison.
The added material consisted of many excellent tracks like Hello Goodbye, the previously released single Strawberry Fields Forever/ Penny Lane and All You Need Is Love. version of the album that became a much bigger hit with the audience and was therefore adopted as the official version once it was time for a CD reissue. release and additional material was therefore added to fill out the LP space. The album was released as a double EP in the UK, which only contained the songs in the film. Its first side contains most songs from the movie such as 'I am the Walrus', and 'The Fool on the Hill'. This strategy was considered unfavorable for a U.S. Magical Mystery Tour is an album by The Beatles, recorded between 25 April 3 May and 22 August 7 November 1967, which was made to correspond to the film, Magical Mystery Tour. Since the less than an hour long Magical Mystery Tour movie didn't have enough songs to turn it into an LP it was released as a double EP in the United Kingdom. I personally think that the difference between the good and bad the Beatles movies have become less apparent over the years since, in the end, it's all about the music anyway. Released by Apple Movies, part of the Beatles' new multi-media company. almost improvised, lots of juxtaposed ideas. This problem becomes much more apparent when the film is completely improvised or too satirical for its own good (like Help!). Magical Mystery Tour (Movie) -Written and produced directly by the Beatles. Let's be honest, the Beatles were never about the feature films and even their better moments like A Hard Day's Night and Yellow Submarine had the music as their main plot devices. I'm sure that most of you are already familiar with the unscripted mess of a movie that was Magical Mystery Tour and the whole back-story behind the ordeal. An exercise in producing a successful soundtrack to a criticized feature film.