MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
Magical Mystery Tour EP - John Kelly |
The first meeting about Magical Mystery Tour took place at McCartney’s home, at the start of September 1967, with the beginning of the recordings a week later.
From the cover photo session. |
In England the songs were presented as a double EP (extended play) package. It contained two 3 track E.P.'s and was advertised as being complete with "A 32 page full colour book packed with exclusive pictures, a strip cartoon of the original story, plus the words to the songs in the show !"
Page from the booklet |
However the booklet contained only 28 pages. The photographs are taken by John Kelly. Some of the pictures represent scenes that were cut from the actual movie.
First pressings had a gate fold picture sleeve, with a full booklet, and a blue lyric sheet. For later repressings, the colour of the lyrics sheet was changed to yellow. The singles were housed in white inner sleeves, which fitted in pockets on the inside of the covers.
Magical Mystery Tour - back cover |
In the USA, the EP format no longer was used, so Capitol decided to upgrade the five songs with some recent non-album singles to a full LP. It was released eleven days earlier on 27th November 1967.
Magical Mystery Tour - album |
This article was written by Patrick Roefflaer and you can find it in it's older incarnation here.
Captions by me
Sources:
Books: 'Yesterday' by Robert Freeman, The Beatles Anthology book, 'Many Years From Now' by Miles, 'In My Life' by Pete Shotton, 'The complete EMI Recording Sessions' by Mark Lewisohn and 'The Beatles London' by Mark Lewisohn and Peter Schreuder. And countless websites.
5 comments:
So no Bootleg Recordings 1964 this year?? Really strange that nothing came out.
There's another variation of the MMT U.S. album cover. I believe initially it came with a purple stripe below the photo with the text saying something about the booklet inside.
What about the Bootleg Recordings 1964?
I have the world record club version which uses page 10 photo in the booklet as the cover. I believe it only came out in the US and Australia.
What about Bootleg LP?
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