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Description
The first six songs on MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR were the soundtrack to the
Beatles' TV movie of the same name. The film was an experimental mess, but the
experimental pop of the album included some of their most memorable productions.
The soundtrack side was dominated by Paul McCartney pop tunes, including the
bittersweet piano ballad "Fool On The Hill" and "Your Mother
Should Know", an impossibly catchy bit of Vaudevillian pop. But it also
featured George Harrison's mystical "Blue Jay Way" (about his house in
Hollywood) and John Lennon's "I Am The Walrus", which wedded a
stream-of-consciousness lyric to a fierce drum beat, layers of strings, odd
voices and some dialogue from Shakespeare's "King Lear".
McCartney's "Hello Goodbye", which led off the assorted singles,
featured some neatly arranged contrapuntal vocals, and may well have been about
the dissolving partnerships (song writing and otherwise) between McCartney and
Lennon. Lennon's strangely arranged "Strawberry Fields Forever", whose
two halves blend different takes of the same song, one slowed down to match the
pitch of the other, was a trippy reverie; its bridges, orchestrated with horns,
cellos, and backward cymbals, are sheer brilliance. "Penny Lane", a
wistful fantasy featuring a beautiful trumpet solo, was McCartney at his melodic
best, the AM foil to Lennon's FM headiness.
Track List
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Fool On The Hill
3. Flying
4. Blue Jay Way
5. Your Mother Should Know
6. I Am The Walrus
7. Hello Goodbye
8. Strawberry Fields Forever
9. Penny Lane
10. Baby You're A Rich Man
11. All You Need Is Love
Genre: CD - Pop
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