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“Paul Is Dead” Clues on Magical Mystery Tour

The Beatles’ movie Magical Mystery Tour, originally broadcast on the BBC in 1967, opens with the line, “When a man buys a ticket for a Magical Mystery Tour he knows what to expect. We guarantee him the trip of a lifetime.” Perhaps the Beatles presumed that those who were “turned on” would understand what was going on, but the film was a poorly conceived and hard to follow. More than anything, this film showed that the Beatles were struggling to find their direction in their first major project after the death of their manager, Brian Epstein. Still, the record that accompanied the film, also called Magical Mystery Tour (1967), had plenty of good music to keep fans happy. With all of the nonsense and surreal imagery it was understandable that fans would be looking for clues about Paul McCartney’s rumored death and replacement by a lookalike on this album, particularly when the title song announced, “the magical mystery tour is dying to take you away”. Magical Mystery Tour was packaged as double 7″ EP in the UK with a 24-page booklet that mixes cartoon images of the Beatles with stills from the film. In the United States, however, Capitol packaged the songs from the film with non-LP singles for a full LP. The 24-page booklet was resized accordingly, making the “Paul is dead” clues larger and more numerous on the American release. In Strawberry Fields Forever #51 , Joel Glazier is quick to point out that the cartoon image of Paul on the inside cover establishes a theme that runs throughout the booklet: that Paul is often portrayed differently from the rest of the Beatles and in ways that hint at something dark. The image inside the cover shows the Beatles dressed as wizards, but only Paul’s wizard hat features black flowers.

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Joel Glazier draws attention to a strange image appears in the booklet of Magical Mystery Tour . On the left is the image as it appears in the booklet, but on the right is the image rotated 90 degrees clockwise and blurred slightly.

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With a little imagination you can see a skull in this picture. It occupies the left side of the picture, with the beret of the person seated at the table forming the eye and the hair of the woman seated next to him the mouth. Once you’ve accepted that this is a skull, it’s easy to see the damage to the top of the head. This grisly image suggests the damage to Paul’s head as a result of his car crash. The puzzling thing about this picture is that, unlike the other images in the booklet, this one does not appear in the movie.

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One of the best known “Paul is dead” audio clues comes at the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever”. As the song is fading out for the second time, John apparently says “I buried Paul.”

This “clue” is more apparent when the record is played at 45 rpm (using the terms of outdated technology, of course), as John’s voice sounds as if it has been slowed down. Actually, John was saying “cranberry sauce,” which is much more apparent on the “take 7 and edit piece” version of the song that appeared on Anthology II .

Paul explained “That’s John’s humor. John would say something totally out of sync, like ‘cranberry sauce.’ If you don’t realize that John’s apt to say something like ‘cranberry sauce’ when he feels like it, then you start to hear a funny little word there, and you think aha!”

Another interesting audio clue on Magical Mystery Tour is in the opening verse of “Blue Jay Way”. Andru Reeve reports that the “ghostly background vocalizations” are as follows:

There’s a fog upon LA (“…Paul…”) And my friends have lost their way (“…died…”) We’ll be over soon they said (“…Paul is buried…”)

Perhaps the richest source of “Paul is dead” clues on Magical Mystery Tour is “ I Am the Walrus ” but that’s for a later post .

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I still offer the above clues. Mostly for those that remember the hoax/rumor by page turning through the original LP. BTW the audio towards the very end of Strawberry Fields, “I buried Paul” was also corrected or re interpreted as “I’m very bored” but the source eludes me. .

I’m sure John is saying “I’m very poor”.

I’m sure John is saying “BOLLOCKS!!!”.

I’ve listened to the original version in high quality years ago, and in this one he definitely said “I buried Paul”. Maybe we’ll have to questioned the authenticity of the antologies. in fact, this song is the first recorded after Paul’s death and quite clearly refers to it. “Strawberry fields” is supposed to be the name of his semetary, and “forever” relates to an everlasting rest. When John sings “nothing is real”, there is a close-up on Faul’s head. There is also a close-up on his mustache (“it was a fake mustache”). At the beginning, the Beatles walk backwards, maybe telling us how to listen the song. Then, we see Paul’s eye inside Ringo’s beret. George wears a black hood, reminiscent of the walrus. Also the last word of each verse’s beginning is very telling (“down” = moarning, “eyes closed” = dead, ‘tree’ = three (beatles).

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the symbolism is not an accident.Beatles were big buds with jimmy saville(notorious pedophile and occult figure).they are seennusing the same hand signals as alister crowley as well.creepy .

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You’ve forgotten the “!” at the beginning, as the last “miss him!” is clearly accentuated, and in fact very crrepy to hear.

Fool on the Hill, is the first of my songs the Beatles plagiarized. I wrote Fool on the Hill in 1963. Other songs I wrote that the Beatles plagiarized are Yesterday, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Lovely Rita Metermaid, Michelle, Ob la di Ob la da, Birthday, Imagine, Rocky Racoon, Bungalo Bill and more.

Neat. Hit the crack rock a little harder next time–I think you might have missed a song or two.

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Includes 24 page color picture book.  Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles was released as a double EP in the United Kingdom and a single LP in the United States. Produced by George Martin, both versions include the six-song soundtrack to the 1967 film of the same name. The EP was issued in the UK on 8 December 1967 on the Parlophone label, while the US release took place on 27 November, after Capitol Records had compiled an eleven-track LP through the addition of songs from the band's 1967 singles.

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Released November 27th, 1967

The Beatles had raised the bar to new heights with the release of their June 1967 album masterpiece “ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band .” The music, artwork, album packaging, and even the look of the group themselves had changed so dramatically with that release that no one would be surprised by anything else the group might have up their sleeves for the future.

Meanwhile, The Beatles were hard at work on a brand new project designed to further "turn on" their world audience, although a major portion of this audience would never experience it until many years later. The project was a new film entitled “Magical Mystery Tour,” which was debuted on British Television on December 26th, 1967. Plans to release it for American audiences were cancelled because of the overall critical slamming it received in the UK. Since American television didn't acquire the rights for broadcast, as far as the US market was concerned, there was no such thing as a “Magical Mystery Tour” movie. Most American fans didn’t know it existed until about a decade later.

What they did know, however, was the music. They knew that very well! With the echoes of “ Sgt. Pepper ” still ringing through the EMI studios, The Beatles took great pains to record six amazing psychedelic songs as the soundtrack to the film. The production values were still very high as they took their time to perfect these new audio creations.

According to the November 25th, 1967 issue of Billboard magazine, Capitol Records made a “decision to issue the six soundtrack recordings from The Beatles’ forthcoming TV fantasy spectacular, ‘Magical Mystery Tour,’ on an album in the US” These six songs would comprise side one, and the five tracks the group released as singles that year would make up side two. This decision was deemed a wise one since, on the coat-tails of the incredible success of “ Sgt. Pepper ,” American audiences were sure to jump on with both feet.

And jump they did. With an elaborately packaged fold-out album cover, complete with a 24-page booklet featuring costumed Beatles in a variety of ‘far-out’ poses as well as storyboard cartoon comics that tell the story of their "mystery" journey, the album was viewed as an incredibly imaginative follow-up to “ Sgt. Pepper ” that seemed to take the “summer of love” to yet another level. While the liner notes explained that the music was “from a color television film,” this apparently went unnoticed for most American fans. The music, along with the vivid imagery of the elaborate packaging, was more than enough for what the senses could handle. What better follow-up to “ Pepper ” could there possibly be?  

Origin Of The Album

To explain the origin of the album is to actually explain the origin of the film, which was the primary objective of what was to be their next project. “Privately, I’d got a camera and I would go out in the park and make films,” explains Paul McCartney. “We’d show our little home movies to each other, and we’d put crazy soundtracks on them. I used to do a bit of editing at home – I had a little machine and I was getting very into it. So for the next Beatles project, I thought: ‘Let’s go and make a film – what a great thing to do.’ It was all done on whims.”

Album Packaging

All in all, the artwork was colorful and the packaging much more elaborate than that of the usual '60s pop album. As with their music, The Beatles raised the bar very high when it came to album covers which made the competition think of ways to top what they were offering their fans. As for The Beatles, after the “ Pepper ” and “Magical Mystery Tour” sleeves, how could they possibly top it? Maybe just a plain white jacket with nothing on it at all!

The idea of converting the film’s soundtrack into a full album was copied throughout the world, even Britain succumbing to the concept in December of 1976. Nine years later, the era of EP’s was dying out in the UK so Parlophone had to recognize that the album format for “Magical Mystery Tour” was a good one after all.

Success Of The Album

“Magical Mystery Tour” eventually went on to sell over six million copies in America alone, which showed Capitol to have made a very smart move in packaging the film’s music as an album instead of an EP. While their recently renegotiated contract with The Beatles stipulated that future released albums were to contain the same amount of material in the US as in Britain, American fans didn’t feel "ripped off" by the album only containing eleven songs. Most of the Capitol Beatles albums up to this point only featured eleven anyways, and most fans in the states were not aware that this was a makeshift album. Having fewer tracks than “ Sgt. Pepper ” surely didn’t affect album sales.

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The Beatles recorded six original tracks for the soundtrack of their “Magical Mystery Tour” TV special . This number of songs posed a unique challenge; it was too many to accommodate on a standard 7-inch Extended Play (EP) disc, yet insufficient to occupy a full-length 12-inch Long Play (LP) record. This predicament led to an innovative solution at the dawn of November 1967: a double EP set, housed in an elegant gatefold sleeve, supplemented with a 24-page booklet.

The album cover was a departure from tradition, presenting The Beatles hidden behind animal costumes, a photograph captured during the filming of “ I Am the Walrus “. This marked the first instance where the band members’ faces were obscured on any of their EP or LP releases, a daring and unique step for the group.

Included within the packaging was a comprehensive booklet, offering readers a deeper dive into the “ Magical Mystery Tour “. The contents ranged from song lyrics to colour stills from the television special, captured by esteemed photographer John Kelly. In addition, it featured vibrant story illustrations drawn in the style of a comic strip by Bob Gibson, known for his work as a cartoonist for The Beatles Monthly Book. The compilation of these materials was overseen by Tony Barrow, with key contributions from Paul McCartney.

Bob Gibson also designed a full-page advertisement for “ Magical Mystery Tour “, which was published in the music press.

Great. Go ahead and do what you like. Let yourself rip on it. Paul McCartney to illustrator Bob Gibson who was showing him some rough drawings for “Magical Mystery Tour”‘. From Kensington Post – December 22, 1967

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BOB GIBSON IMPRESSES THE BEATLES – AND THEY GIVE HIM HIS HEAD “Let yourself rip” says Paul McCartney. “That’s it” says Lennon The hungry-looking young artist you see in a self-portrait on this page is as modern as the latest psychedelic pop pressing and as traditional as the most crumbling Old Master. He is a friend of Rolling Stones and of gyrating poppets. His art can be as way-out and freaky as a Lennon lyric. His caricatures have gone beyond the sting of the satirists and the bite of the anti-war brigade to a cutting style of rebellious haymaking all his own. Yet he lives and works in a Kensington bed-sit. He has gone hungry. He has laboured menially by night to be able to draw and hawk his drawings by day. Bob Gibson is an individualist. An uncompromising Scot, he is largely but brilliantly self-taught. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); His distillation of the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour on the front page of this newspaper was drawn exclusively for us. It will be treasured by many readers. It is representative of the art work be has created for the unique album of the same title issued a few days ago by E.M.I. and containing the latest two records by the famous foursome. Nothing like this album has ever been put out by a disc company. It contains a zany, 32-page, all-colour booklet which includes a four-page, pull-out section with words of songs. In addition to many pages of colour pictures the Beatles’ own TV colour film, Magical Mystery Tour, the booklet incorporates six pages of pictures in full colour, loosely based on the story of the film. There are up to six brilliant individual drawings on each of the six pages and these — together with a hubbly-bubbly grouping of the brilliant four as magicians on the inside front cover — are all the work of Bob Gibson. It happened this way. About four years ago an official Beatles Monthly magazine was launched by Beat Publications Ltd. This firm was run by Sean O’Mahony, for whom Bob Gibson had been doing casual artwork for some time. O’Mahony asked Gibson to do feature headings, portraits, caricatures and cartoons of the Beatles for the new magazine and also illustrations for a book on the Beatles. These were very successful and when Paul McCartney thought up the idea for the Magical Mystery Tour booklet, he thought of Gibson’s work and considered him exactly right for the job. “ROYAL” The was by way of a “Royal” commission. “There was no royalty – only a flat fee – but the job was so important I would have done it for nothing. I don’t believe any modern artist in the world would have turned it down,” says Bob Gibson. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The first move, seven or eight weeks ago, was a meeting with Paul McCartney in the Wardour Preview Theatre where Bob Gibson was shown incomplete clips of the Magical Mystery Tour film the group were making for television. Within a few days the young Kensington artist had shown some rough drawings to Paul McCartney who immediately said: “Great. Go ahead and do what you like. Let yourself rip on it.” “I’m blessed” says Gibson, “with a photographic memory (I explain to people that there’s a wee man in my head taking pictures and storing them away for use) so I was able to recall in detail the style and treatment used in the film clips and the songs that are featured in the film. But I did not copy the film in any way. I used my own ideas entirely in my interpretations. For instance, at one point in the film there’s a delicious goon-like race in which vicars on bikes, rugby players and others compete but the Beatles win because Ringo belts ahead in the bus which is a central feature of the film. “I saw this as a rat race and depicted it accordingly. They may not have intended it this way but that was how I saw it. “If there is a thread at all in my strip I suppose it is anarchy – pro-Beatles and a-political — with no real allegiance to anyone or anything. I simply tumbled ideas into each box, filling every scene with confusion and — I hope – maximum interest value for children of all ages. “In the second frame of the strip, for example, everybody is in the bus and, led by the Courier, is in a jolly Butlinish mood but I have added a greenish de Gaulle, sprawled across the floor, as a sort of perennial kill-joy. “Anyway, the boys were so pleased they asked me to design a full-page for an advertisement in the music weeklies. I did so. Hollywood-style, and they paid me nearly as much as they did for the thirty drawings in the strip. BREAK “This has been a very big break for me, of course,” Bob Gibson concluded. “It’s marvellous to know that my drawings will be seen — in Beatles context — throughout the world. But this marvellous “royal” commission does not make me a courtier. I’m not trying to climb to success on their backs. I’m proudest of the fact that I was chosen – where thousands of artists would have jumped at it — not because I was cheapest or because I drew in a special way, but because mine is a style of the times; a mirror of the sort of things the Beatles are saying.” What makes a young artist hit the hottest scene in the world of pop art in the way Bob Gibson has done? Brought up in Glasgow, he has drawn since he can remember. Taken to see the Pinnochio film at the age of four he returned home in a trance and proceeded to draw little figures all over the walls in indelible pencil. He was “the kiddie” at art in Woodside Secondary School – the star pupil. But because his parents were divorced and he was the only child to be with his mother he was not able to take even his “Highers” (the Scottish equivalent of the G.C.E) let alone go to Art School. When he got to 16 he had to earn a living. He began asking people how he could become an artist. Everyone was discouraging. His mother wisely reasoned that they should move to London “where the prospects are,” which they did. Bob’s first job was cleaning out paint pots and making interminable cups of tea for artists at an exhibition-display firm. He moved to another similar firm to do the same thing but for slightly more money. Eventually, after two years, he got fed up and decided to go back to Glasgow where he was lucky enough to get a job in the advertisement department of House of Fraser, where he did lettering and was taught layouts. He came back to London after a year — “a much more valuable year than I could have had at any art school” — and returned to the drawing once at the second display firm to design exhibition stands. After a year of this, he thought his creative impulses were being blunted so he left and walked London trying to get a job in an advertising agency. No influence, so no joy! HAWKING Then for two years Bob Gibson tried to hawk his drawings around studios and agencies. He worked at office cleaning at nights and laboured on building sites at Marble Arch and Millbank so that he could chase work in office hours. Eventually, it was a classified advertisement that led him back into regular work. It was for a cartoonist and he got the job. Legal difficulties held this up and Gibson switched to “Pop Weekly,” so called, launched by the same firm (Robert Stigwood)… as a freelance. He had to set up photomontages and do occasional illustrations. It was pretty much a breadline existence again. But Sean O’Mahony, one of the staff of “Pop Weekly” started his own magazine, “Beat Monthly” (still doing well as “Beat Instrumental”) and gave Bob regular work on it which kept his head above water. This was 1962 and the group scene was just beginning to happen. The Beatles were coming to the fore and O’Mahony began to produce their fan magazine also and involved Gibson from the start. He also became Bob’s agent. As this freelancing could be done from anywhere, Bob Gibson went back to Glasgow for a time, for the good of his would, and again worked for House of Fraser. On the recommendation of their advertisement manager 18 months ago he became chief layout artist for the Barker Group of stores in Kensington High Street, which position he still holds. He has also been doing special illustrations for this group of newspapers for some time and much appreciation has been expressed by readers at the imaginative creative quality of this work. Bob Gibson is obviously going places. At 29, he has stormed one of the highest contemporary mountains. But he intends to follow in the footsteps of the artists he admires most – Ronald Searle, Steinberg and the late Vicky – and become a political cartoonist and social caricaturist… in an anarchistic way of his own, of course. From Kensington Post – December 22, 1967

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55 Years Later: Revisiting The Beatles Magnetic ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ LP

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While there is more than a little debate about the validity of the Beatles’  Magical Mystery Tour (released 11/27/67) as a bonafide long-player, the practical fact of the matter is that the ‘album’ was originally a release cobbled together by the group’s American label, Capitol Records, as a means of maximizing holiday record sales back in late 1967.

As originally issued in the Beatles’ native country on Parlophone Records,  Magical Mystery Tour  consisted of six cuts split between two extended play records. In the United States, those half-dozen tracks were combined with singles released subsequent to  Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band , plus the magnificent double-A side from the previous February “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever”.

The US organization had gone to similar lengths in the past in its formulation of  Beatles ‘65  and  Something New , likewise composites of tracks released as singles, EPs, and LPs issued in Great Britain. As integrated with the content on the English package–which also included a 24-page booklet containing song lyrics, color photos from film production, and color story illustrations by cartoonist Bob Gibson–this handful of titles contributes to what became the only Capitol-generated LP to supersede the band’s intended format and form part of their core discography. 

Semantics though it may be to argue, the debate regarding the validity of that designation centers on the work of the Fab Four as they originally conceived it. With over half-century hindsight, that perspective may seem purist to a fault, but to otherwise consider MMT a legitimate Beatles album requires ranking it the weakest of all their long-players (with the exception of those domestic titles tied to the movies  A Hard Days Night  and  Help!  both of which featured orchestral pieces taking up roughly half the playing time of each). 

Even a re-sequencing of the eleven tracks is a dead end. The highly infectious “Hello Goodbye” might make an effective, if over-obvious, opening cut while its flip side as a single, “I Am the Walrus,” would certainly constitute an even more dramatic album finale than it is as a side closer. In its continuation of Lennon’s Joyean wordplay with sound effects and production, it’s a fine match with “Baby You’re A Rich Man:” where strains of Indian music become ever more prominent through the exotic keyboard sounds of the Clavioline. As such, it’s a likely candidate for the mid-point of an LP, but its own flip side as a 45-rpm record, “All You Need Is Love,” is as slight a tune as the Lennon/McCartney composing team ever wrote (to be fair, it was a commissioned piece, not a naturally inspired one, designed for an international TV broadcast).

Meanwhile, “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane” stand alone as a pair of the foursome’s most inventive studio concoctions. The former is a composite of two separate recordings, ingeniously configured by producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick (at author Lennon’s request), its massed blocks of strings and brass underpinned by comparably orchestrated percussion. 

A far cry from the subdued early demos, its dark foreboding is also a stark contrast to its sunny opposite wherein McCartney, in direct response to his writing partner’s nostalgic reverie, continued to stretch the boundaries of pop song structure. A decidedly more positive dream-like air permeates this jolly number, that atmosphere epitomized by the charming piccolo trumpet interlude (that reappeared in the truncated form at the end of some mixes). 

The half-dozen tracks from the film are lightweight at best and would gain little or no gravitas from juxtaposition from the superior numbers that comprise the second half of the ‘LP.’ “The Fool On The Hill” is a fair McCartney ballad, but “Your Mother Should Know” is an exercise in style pure and simple: to call it a knockoff of “When I’m 64” is being kind. Meanwhile, the title song is as flimsy a conceit as the title song to the iconic (authentic?) 1967 Beatles album, “Flying” is a limp instrumental that could only work to discernible effect if used in snippets as segues between the other numbers. And on “Blue Jay Way,” the sonic effects of phasing and echo are more interesting than the song itself; this is not the kind of heartfelt substantial material that would prompt George Harrison to contemplate a solo album over the next two years.

All that said,  Magical Mystery Tour  is not the most expedient example of the craven mercenary approach Capitol Records took to the bastardizing of the Beatles albums. The label borrowed liberally from both  Rubber Soul  and  Revolver  to create  Yesterday And Today and, i n doing so, seriously distorts those 1965 and 1966 works in their fourteen-track forms. Standing as the arguable pinnacles of the quartet’s studio collaborations with producer George Martin, with fifty-five years of hindsight, those better-integrated collections cast an ever wider and longer shadow over  Magical Mystery Tour .

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A Top Ten Music Book Bestseller in The Independent (UK) "Brings the era to vivid life. The mythic moments are all here. Magical Mystery Tours is a tour de force." ---Entertainment Weekly Growing up in a postwar Liverpool suburb, Tony Bramwell was boyhood friends with three of the Beatles long before they were famous. And by the time he caught up with George Harrison on the top of a bus to check out "The Beatles, direct from Hamburg"---one of which George turned out to be---Tony was well into a life story absolutely unlike any other. Tony carried George's guitar that night, and he stayed with the band from the first Number 1 to the last. From overseeing the tours of Brian Epstein's Merseybeat stars to producing shows for Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Cream, and Pink Floyd at Epstein's Savile Theatre; and from producing and directing Beatles videos to heading Apple Films, Tony's life really did encompass a who's who of rock. With an insider's shrewd eye, Tony describes the rise and fall of the Apple empire, Brian Epstein's frolics, Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, Phil Spector's eccentric behavior, and stories never before told about Yoko Ono. He uncovers new information about the Shea Stadium concert footage, John Lennon's late-night "escapes," and more. From the Cavern Club to the rooftop concert, and from scraps of song lyrics to the discovery of the famous Mr. Kite circus poster, Tony Bramwell really did see it all. It's a story in which every character is one of the musical 1960s most colorful. Conversational, direct, and honest, the ultimate Beatles insider finally shares his own version of the frantic and glorious ascent of four boys from Liverpool lads to rock and roll kings. Praise for Magical Mystery Tours "A must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Fab Four. Bramwell doesn't hold back with his tales of the grand insanity that tailed The Beatles."-- The New York Post "Energetically written…a vivid and intensely personal look at not only the Beatles but at a storybook trip from the docks of Liverpool to swinging London and the very epicenter of the British invasion."-- Publishers Weekly "A sprawling, amiable account of life near the world's most famous and most gifted pop group. A welcome addition to Beatles lore."-- The Globe and Mail (Canada)

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"Brings the era to vivid life. The mythic moments are all here. Magical Mystery Tours is a tour de force." ---Entertainment Weekly

Growing up in a postwar Liverpool suburb, Tony Bramwell was boyhood friends with three of the Beatles long before they were famous. And by the time he caught up with George Harrison on the top of a bus to check out "The Beatles, direct from Hamburg"---one of which George turned out to be---Tony was well into a life story absolutely unlike any other. Tony carried George's guitar that night, and he stayed with the band from the first Number 1 to the last. From overseeing the tours of Brian Epstein's Merseybeat stars to producing shows for Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Cream, and Pink Floyd at Epstein's Savile Theatre; and from producing and directing Beatles videos to heading Apple Films, Tony's life really did encompass a who's who of rock. With an insider's shrewd eye, Tony describes the rise and fall of the Apple empire, Brian Epstein's frolics, Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, Phil Spector's eccentric behavior, and stories never before told about Yoko Ono. He uncovers new information about the Shea Stadium concert footage, John Lennon's late-night "escapes," and more. From the Cavern Club to the rooftop concert, and from scraps of song lyrics to the discovery of the famous Mr. Kite circus poster, Tony Bramwell really did see it all. It's a story in which every character is one of the musical 1960s most colorful. Conversational, direct, and honest, the ultimate Beatles insider finally shares his own version of the frantic and glorious ascent of four boys from Liverpool lads to rock and roll kings.

Praise for Magical Mystery Tours "A must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Fab Four. Bramwell doesn't hold back with his tales of the grand insanity that tailed The Beatles."-- The New York Post "Energetically written a vivid and intensely personal look at not only the Beatles but at a storybook trip from the docks of Liverpool to swinging London and the very epicenter of the British invasion."-- Publishers Weekly "A sprawling, amiable account of life near the world's most famous and most gifted pop group. A welcome addition to Beatles lore."-- The Globe and Mail (Canada)

A Top Ten Music Book Bestseller in The Independent (UK) "Brings the era to vivid life. The mythic moments are all here. Magical Mystery Tours is a tour de force." ---Entertainment Weekly Growing up in a postwar Liverpool suburb, Tony Bramwell was boyhood friends with three of the Beatles long before they were famous. And by the time he caught up with George Harrison on the top of a bus to check out "The Beatles, direct from Hamburg"---one of which George turned out to be---Tony was well into a life story absolutely unlike any other. Tony carried George's guitar that night, and he stayed with the band from the first Number 1 to the last. From overseeing the tours of Brian Epstein's Merseybeat stars to producing shows for Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Cream, and Pink Floyd at Epstein's Savile Theatre; and from producing and directing Beatles videos to heading Apple Films, Tony's life really did encompass a who's who of rock. With an insider's shrewd eye, Tony describes the rise and fall of the Apple empire, Brian Epstein's frolics, Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, Phil Spector's eccentric behavior, and stories never before told about Yoko Ono. He uncovers new information about the Shea Stadium concert footage, John Lennon's late-night "escapes," and more. From the Cavern Club to the rooftop concert, and from scraps of song lyrics to the discovery of the famous Mr. Kite circus poster, Tony Bramwell really did see it all. It's a story in which every character is one of the musical 1960s most colorful. Conversational, direct, and honest, the ultimate Beatles insider finally shares his own version of the frantic and glorious ascent of four boys from Liverpool lads to rock and roll kings. Praise for Magical Mystery Tours "A must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Fab Four. Bramwell doesn't hold back with his tales of the grand insanity that tailed The Beatles."-- The New York Post "Energetically written a vivid and intensely personal look at not only the Beatles but at a storybook trip from the docks of Liverpool to swinging London and the very epicenter of the British invasion."-- Publishers Weekly "A sprawling, amiable account of life near the world's most famous and most gifted pop group. A welcome addition to Beatles lore."-- The Globe and Mail (Canada)

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