They went from a more of a dance-party band to a cerebral, sophisticated, enlightened, creative band. Later on, a studio group, more the listen at home on headphones- type music. I also enjoyed Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. RIP Neil Innes.
I remember seeing them on the Ed Sullivan Show and then there was a period where we didn't see them. That was probably about this time frame. What a trippy idea. I'm a huge fan and love playing all their songs on my guitar. I was 14 when they came out in America and 21 when they broke up. Some really hard years for a young person and I remember many times their music bringing me back to life again. They seemed so full of hope and creativity. The songs of my life follow the Beatles.
@@fredglitz I absolutely love the British humour, it's the best in the world, being Australian I totally get it because we have a similar sense of humour where we can laugh at ourselves and so therefore not take ourselves too seriously.
Got this album in the US for my birthday. I was taking tap at the time and made up a brush step dance to "Your Mother Should Know". Many years later when I saw the film, there were the boys coming down the stairs swinging their arms in much the same way. I must have channeled it.
Thank you for posting this wonderful documentary about The Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour”. The music was always a high point in their career but unfortunately the film never got the credit it deserved. The interviews that were conducted with staff, local fans, the Beatles (themselves) and actor Victor Spinetti are simply incredible. Spinetti’s recollections are frank, heartfelt and sincere. Looking back the Beatles accomplished quite a lot with a bus, a hotel and an old army base. An amazing era that produced a positive spirit with hope.
whoever disliked the video must have thought ' dis I Like' because there's no way anybody in their right mind could not appreciate the sheer talent and amazingness of the Beatles!
EVEN The Beatles could lay an egg. Paul sure did with this one, the others just said, 'what the hell, let's let Paul have his fun'. Some GREAT music came out of it, but NO, MMT is NOT an example of The Beatles' "amazingness".
How cool to see the fans, the people all ages, all British, kids, mothers,fathers shopkeepers, kids tearing out of their homes to see the Beatles pass by on their Magical Bus in the England Countryside. The Beatles seem very relaxed and playful the whole time. A lovely memory, a part of living history (tho two are gone.)
I remember watching Magical Mystery Tour when it was originally released, shown on the BBC one evening (boxing day, 1967). It was only shown in back and white (as BBC1 was not in colour), it was repeated in colour on BBC2 a week or so later (not that anybody had colour TV sets in those days). I was only a small boy at the time and it totally blew my mind, as it did my school friends, we all loved The Beatles, but none of us could make head or tail of the film. Great memories, and a great film (after you've got a bit older, dropped acid a few time, and can understand what the hell it's about!) Thanks for the upload.
Anthony owen that's great that you have that memory. In the states it didn't air, but I do remember going to a friend's, who had a color tv, house and we watched the video of "Hello Goodbye" on the Ed Sullivan show, at around the same time.
One hint about some of the hard to understand things in the movie One hint was that the song Death Cab 4 cutie what is about the death of Paul McCartney
I'm laughing so hard at the comments about the film being rubbish. Were you expecting Gone With The Wind? First of all, good on Paul for keeping the group busy/distracted during the period of Brian's passing. Second, Paul's genius at work for all of us to see first hand is wonderous. What were most of you accomplishing at 25 years of age? Try to imagine figuring things out on the fly, writing/composing extraordinary music, and having a great time with mates while putting on a brave face. He knew fans would watch the Beatles for any length of time doing anything at all. Perhaps too avant garde for most of you, but getting back to genius. There is a good article written by Paul La Rosa, "4 Life Lessons from the Beatles" 1. Never Doubt Yourself 2. Take Chances/Don't Play It Safe 3. Practice 4. Be Open to Possibility and Don't Be Threatened by the Talent of Others. I say, 50 plus years and counting, the Beatles are still a groove. Thanks for the giggles.
I loved MMT. It was avant garde and artsy, with totally bizarre themes. Those with eccentric tastes would like it. So, maybe it wasn't up to Hollywood standards, technically. Monty Python was influenced by the movie, I'm sure. Neil Innes, from the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, was in the movie, and later with Monty Python, and the Rutles. RIP.
I'm less than four minutes in and already I love it! Real people that were really there, telling us the real story! Refreshing. I recently looked at a MMT-related video that was just a guy vocally sneering at every detail, at great length. I lasted far less than four minutes...
Their Outfits are So Magically nice. Those were the Hippie Days and I am still a Hippie a older Hippie that is I still have a pair or 3 of my Bellbottoms
I love this pschadelic era of The Beatle's career. They were the catalysts of the hippy movement of the late 1960's. Their "acid period" produced their greatest compositions in my opinion... Also...it was so cool to see the Fab Four relaxing in NATURE next to the Seaside!!! What a rare occasion to see them "hangin" at the beach... One cannot imagine how honored the locals were when they saw these World famous artists wandering from one small town to another small town in the Southwest region of rural England... Do you think they dropped an acid while they road "tripped" on the bus? I think that they probably did...since it was kind of a vacation for the maestros... LONG LIVE THE BEATLES!!! THE BEST SONGWRITERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY!!!
Absolutely BRILLIANT!!! Loved every second of this documentary. A real eye opener for true die hard Beatles Fans. Never knew that Paul's real reason for doing the movie was to promote himself as a director for hire
He also just joined the band that was the first year that he was in the band let's face it he turned the Beatles musical sounds completely around when he joined this new band to him and he was kicking ass and not taking name
Cannot believe these idiots that quite literally still believe that Paul died in '66 and that Vivian Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dag Band has been playing him ever since. Ridiculous
@@kazabushy Yeah, I'm scanning comments, but so far this is the only mention of the fact that the music used here is NOT The Beatles, though it's a really good facsimile. I can see how some could be fooled.
My ears rised &raised with this lp's songs ,was a kid !!! Automn- winter 1967 ......today when i do play my mellotron mk2 ,i can really say there are many " magical" sounds i do recognise ,two of the moodies did played or bark in two songs !!!
THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR was a collection of incredibly good pop videos of classic Beatles songs set in a psychedelic surreal misty dream world where story and logic and events were completely irrelevant. For fans it was Beatles heaven! The main people criticising it as a 'film' were those people who were too old to be mesmerised by it. It wasn't made for them. It was made for the fans, like me, who to this day view it as a priceless pop art creation starring the greatest band there ever will be! KAN 2.20 UK
My god that was so well put. I'm a new, and so happy fan. I wasn't around when they started as I'm just going on 50 so I am glad I gave them a chance. I really didn't think there was anything complex with them. I thought they were in the right place, time, and did just happy radio music. It all changed in my friends attic at a party we all took our turn to play an album and before I was about to go, a lady put in Revolver. That was four years ago. Not a day has gone by that I haven't listened or watched something on The Beatles. George Harrison's solo career is right up my alley. But you said it very well.
A real treat - I loved that and it was wonderful to get the memories of people who were simply part of it by chance or circumstance and the honesty displayed was astonishingly beautiful. Tons of brilliant unseen footage too! A snapshot of Britain as it was and the attitudes of the era. Interesting use of cover versions too - the instrumental pieces worked well. Utterly fabulous - thank you for posting!
It's not exactly a cover. It's meant to sound similar but not identical. It's often done on videos like this because they don't have permission to use the original record. They are often quite bad(like an embarrassing 'Rolling stones' video that I once played on) but it actually does sound good.
I always liked the dance scene at the end the most. It was so trippy. Actually, it's a good thing nobody tripped. On the stairs, I mean. I liked the Bonzo Dog scene almost as much.
Some nice anecdotes from "ordinary" people. In spite of their huge success The Beatles never had an overblown sense of their own importance and always interacted easily with all types of people.
I have always been amazed that we never saw this film in the USA. We had the album. We had the booklet in it. Everyone asked each other have you ever seen the film? I saw it bootlegged in 1977. Ten years to see this crazy movie!
Don , that`s nothing. I took part in the making of the film and did not get to look at it until the mid 1980s. The Film was played in the States in 1974 I have several of the Posters for U.S. Showings.
back in the sixties the film was badly recieved by the ever present infamous critics, and nowadays the vast majority os kids say it is fun. the film is just fantastic, very british and full of symbolism. just amazing.
Seen the Lennon Rolls Royce hundreds of times. They had it parked in front of the Royal BC Museum for a long time, and I worked across the street. Was surprisingly unsupervised.
I watched it on TV on Boxing Day. It was the best, most amazing film I'd ever seen. I was a kid and didn't understand all of it, but it really was magical. The only other thing I'd seen like it was Midsummer Night's Dream. It was lovely. I remember hearing some criticism of it and was perplexed. I couldn't understand it. I felt at the time the critics were motivated by envy. The press which had boosted the Beatles for so long were now in the mood to dress them down. Magical Mystery Tour was anti-establishment. It had a working class sensibility and humour. Like the Carry On Films it was sneered at by the snobbish media.
I want a time machine the 70's were the peak of human consciousness. The music of the 70's liberated my mind my own inequalities, social ackwardness and today's society hurt my mind hard. I'am born in some way in the exactly right time but lost traces to the remnants of the great 70's.
Death Cab for Cutie featuring Billy singing with the Bonzos and that new guy that they also put on the cover of the 1966 British only release Beatles Oldies LP. Gotta be Billy Shepherd that Paul replacement guy. He's still doing that gig after 54 years. Just ask Denny Laine or Olivia Harrison at the Concert for George, she greets him "Hello Billy".
Timothy Turner Most people cant seem to handle the truth when it is right in their faces. I wonder if Billy will ever be allowed to disclose he is Paul’s replacement.
This is on of the most ridiculous conspiracy theories ever, if you believe any of this bullshit, then you are already beyond help. You don't even know the "guy's" name in the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Viv Stanshall looked and sounded nothing like Paul McCartney whatsoever and died, yes genuinely died in a tragic house fire at his home in 1995. You idiots.
@@jackdshellback3819 So good to see someone else who knows that it's Viv Stanshall. It's not like he's not well known. You either have to be rather young or living under a rock not to know the 'Bonzo dog doo dah band'. I'm sure people have heard him on 'Tubular Bells', ''Two slightly distorted guitars!
Victor Spinetti, was on Little Stevens Underground Garage , and spoke very well about all the Beatles in his interview. One of the better interviews to come along , in the 2000's
This is just WONDERFUL!!! I grew up with the awesome magic of the album with the story board and images from the film! Saw the film later, particularly on You Tube, and it is such a fantastic work of film art! This doc. really has the magic of appreciating and celebrating the film event in a fresh authentic way!!
It was quite a while ago when they weren't policing that way. The whole film was on You Tube and also many postings of the film broken up into segments part by part and song by song. It was a nice luxury while it lasted. It was a really nice way to appreciate and revisit the whole thing seeing it in parts like that -- little mini films for each event like the big race or the stripper show or like music videos for each song.
my favourite bit is I Am the Walrus as the line of eggmen and the Beatles in the animal masks made me crack up laughing my head off vimeo.com/172674451
Thanks for the link. That is the new release restored version, great image quality! Lol, yes I love that too, "they are the egg men!" I like the faces in the sky above -- "eating" -- very trippy and surreal!
Partial transcript: The Beatles went to Cornwall, I think it was 9:35 am when they got there. John wanted lunch early, and had the shop open up for fish and chips. I think the young waiter brought the dish, and I believe there were 15 chips and only 3 fish. George grinned throughout the entire thing, it was priceless, they should have filmed it, really they should have.
Victor Spinetti's drill sergeant is like the sergeant in "Alice's Restaurant" saying "This piece of paper's got 47 words we wanna know details crime time arresting officer's name anything you got to say" . . . for 45 minutes, and no one understood . . . a word he said . . . :-D
I thought it was a movie film. Magicsl Mystery Tour is a tv documentary or film not intended for the big screen like the band previous film, The Hard Day's Night and Help.
I've always viewed the sergeant pepper and MMT as a double album rolled into one so to speak... had they released them as a double ONE album - that'd have been just... words fail me....
@@robertdominguez6002 Sgt Pepper With A Little Help From My Friends Hello Goodbye Baby You're A Rich Man Fixing A Hole Being For The Benefit Of Mister Kite Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Getting Better Strawberry Fields Forever She's Leaving Home Penny Lane All You Need Is Love Within You Without You A Day In The Life -- taken from eight track version where you don't hear the cheers from "Sgt Pepper" in the intro Flying Magical Mystery Tour Blue Jay Way I Am The Walrus When I'm 64 Lovely Rita Fool On A Hill Your Mother Should Know Good Morning Good Morning Sgt Pepper (reprise)-- taken from 8 track tape version with quick fade
The Magical Mystery Tour was only an album in the USA. It was actually an EP in England. It was two 45's with a total of 6 tracks and came in a really cool booklet. Capitol records made it into an album with 11 tracks. I used to love collecting the US versions of Beatle records to get the different versions.
Beatles recollections on a budget, but fun all the same. The soundtrack sounds like the sort of thing I used to pick up for 99p from Woolworths when I was a kid - "20 Beatles' Smash Hits" by The Bootles or The Bettles, etc.
57:20 could be authentic- the lady describes going to the Beatles (bandroom?) and also mentions she knows the Moody Blues. The Moodies (the original lineup from Go Now) were not only the opening act for the Beatles, but their manager was also Brian Epstein.
We're the biggest band in the world, we're so big we can't even tour anymore, so let's make an expensive home movie with no real plot to speak of - and accidentally invent the music video while we're at it!
@chuckles697106 And before Elvis there was Gene Kelly with "singing in the rain" and before him "somewhere over the rainbow" by Judy Garland. That's not what I would call video clips.
@chuckles697106 can't credit Elvis for it either. Those were never made for promotion but for use in movies and musicals had existed much before Elvis's time.
It wasn't that The Beatles were too big to tour. It is well established that all 4 Beatles were tired of playing 30 minute shows in which they couldn't hear themselves play and the fans couldn't hear the music over the screaming women.
the original video with several known singers singing "love, love, love" was in apple studios. 19:20 -21:00 .At end of the song you can hear "In the Mood" originally by Glenn Miller. (then Green sleeves) This song was performed in that same studio late 1944 just before Glenn Miller disappeared on his way to Paris. I wonder if this is co-incidence or done on purpose, because of connections with the studio.
Very nice! Interesting to see and hear everybody tell their story, their personal little connection to Beatles history. Everybody's recollections seemed quite vivid, but then again, it is not the sort of thing you would forget. Even if you were just stuck in a car in a traffic jam caused by the band's bus getting stuck on a narrow bridge, it's a story to tell the grandkids.
A WIENER WORLD PRESENTATION
Westworld XXX parody?
Which Wienerworld is the Paramount one? Paramount. Wiener. Subliminally (but not very) suggestive?
lol
Dynamite Studios Check out the braless chick in
The beginning.
"Check out the braless chick"
To paraphrase a comment in a nearby thread: "Those are the gems for REAL Beatle fans ..."
I like the Magical Mystery Tour era of the Beatles.
I thought the songs were great.
They went from a more of a dance-party band to a cerebral, sophisticated, enlightened, creative band. Later on, a studio group, more the listen at home on headphones- type music. I also enjoyed Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. RIP Neil Innes.
@@johnlinnon2629 tragical
Featles with Faul at the reigns
Emma Bradford Tragical History Tour by the Rutles
Anything containing "I am the Walrus" has to be excellent. One of Lennon's true originals.
I remember seeing them on the Ed Sullivan Show and then there was a period where we didn't see them. That was probably about this time frame. What a trippy idea. I'm a huge fan and love playing all their songs on my guitar. I was 14 when they came out in America and 21 when they broke up. Some really hard years for a young person and I remember many times their music bringing me back to life again. They seemed so full of hope and creativity. The songs of my life follow the Beatles.
This is a gem for REAL Beatle fans ...
you need to listen to the "Goon Show" to fully understand British Humour
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@@fredglitz I absolutely love the British humour, it's the best in the world, being Australian I totally get it because we have a similar sense of humour where we can laugh at ourselves and so therefore not take ourselves too seriously.
@@carolineburns1816 listen to this
ruclips.net/video/Nebe1zuEtbc/видео.html
YESH
Lovely memory of The Magical Mystery Tour. Delightful. So may first hand accounts here. Fabulous!
Got this album in the US for my birthday. I was taking tap at the time and made up a brush step dance to "Your Mother Should Know". Many years later when I saw the film, there were the boys coming down the stairs swinging their arms in much the same way. I must have channeled it.
Some of the most wonderful music the world will ever know. It’s wonderful that the interviews are with people who were there. A wonderful documentary.
Thank you for posting this wonderful documentary about The Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour”. The music was always a high point in their career but unfortunately the film never got the credit it deserved. The interviews that were conducted with staff, local fans, the Beatles (themselves) and actor Victor Spinetti are simply incredible. Spinetti’s recollections are frank, heartfelt and sincere. Looking back the Beatles accomplished quite a lot with a bus, a hotel and an old army base. An amazing era that produced a positive spirit with hope.
whoever disliked the video must have thought ' dis I Like' because there's no way anybody in their right mind could not appreciate the sheer talent and amazingness of the Beatles!
EVEN The Beatles could lay an egg. Paul sure did with this one, the others just said, 'what the hell, let's let Paul have his fun'. Some GREAT music came out of it, but NO, MMT is NOT an example of The Beatles' "amazingness".
everyone is entitled to their own opinion
No they are not. Many people are brainless idiots.
Sheer talent of Billy Shears!
@@stevestarr9769 MMT is used at film schools to teach "pure cinema". Not every fil has to be "lord of the Rings". MMT works better in color.
How cool to see the fans, the people all ages, all British, kids, mothers,fathers shopkeepers, kids tearing out of their homes to see the Beatles pass by on their Magical Bus in the England Countryside. The Beatles seem very relaxed and playful the whole time. A lovely memory, a part of living history (tho two are gone.)
Tell me about it
I remember watching Magical Mystery Tour when it was originally released, shown on the BBC one evening (boxing day, 1967).
It was only shown in back and white (as BBC1 was not in colour), it was repeated in colour on BBC2 a week or so later (not that anybody had colour TV sets in those days).
I was only a small boy at the time and it totally blew my mind, as it did my school friends, we all loved The Beatles, but none of us could make head or tail of the film.
Great memories, and a great film (after you've got a bit older, dropped acid a few time, and can understand what the hell it's about!)
Thanks for the upload.
Anthony owen that must have been awesome . It was supposed to be on in the USA , don't know why it took so long.
No question they were high as a kite!
Anthony owen that's great that you have that memory. In the states it didn't air, but I do remember going to a friend's, who had a color tv, house and we watched the video of "Hello Goodbye" on the Ed Sullivan show, at around the same time.
One hint about some of the hard to understand things in the movie One hint was that the song Death Cab 4 cutie what is about the death of Paul McCartney
I've seen the movie and I still don't understand it. Care to share what it's about?
@@HelpMeFindTheseSongs You might if you play it backwards, Lol.
I'm laughing so hard at the comments about the film being rubbish. Were you expecting Gone With The Wind? First of all, good on Paul for keeping the group busy/distracted during the period of Brian's passing. Second, Paul's genius at work for all of us to see first hand is wonderous. What were most of you accomplishing at 25 years of age? Try to imagine figuring things out on the fly, writing/composing extraordinary music, and having a great time with mates while putting on a brave face. He knew fans would watch the Beatles for any length of time doing anything at all. Perhaps too avant garde for most of you, but getting back to genius. There is a good article written by Paul La Rosa, "4 Life Lessons from the Beatles" 1. Never Doubt Yourself 2. Take Chances/Don't Play It Safe 3. Practice 4. Be Open to Possibility and Don't Be Threatened by the Talent of Others. I say, 50 plus years and counting, the Beatles are still a groove. Thanks for the giggles.
Thank You for sharing this.
I agree with you, it's actually encouraging.
Well said. People who think it's bad can't understand why anyone would feel otherwise.
I loved MMT. It was avant garde and artsy, with totally bizarre themes. Those with eccentric tastes would like it. So, maybe it wasn't up to Hollywood standards, technically. Monty Python was influenced by the movie, I'm sure. Neil Innes, from the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, was in the movie, and later with Monty Python, and the Rutles. RIP.
RUclips is dead.I just wanted to hear the song,And all I can get is BLH BLAH BLAH B.S,It's all just a money sucking void now.
Very well put, ma’am.!!🥰🌸
I'm less than four minutes in and already I love it! Real people that were really there, telling us the real story! Refreshing. I recently looked at a MMT-related video that was just a guy vocally sneering at every detail, at great length. I lasted far less than four minutes...
ONCE A BEATLE FAN, ALWAYS A BEATLE FAN. I WAS THERE ALL THE WAY - STILL ENJOY LISTENING TO ALL THEIR MUSIC.
Their Outfits are So Magically nice. Those were the Hippie Days and I am still a Hippie a older Hippie that is I still have a pair or 3 of my Bellbottoms
And Hippie shirts too
Psychedelic Times were the Bomb The Magical Mystery Tour Yeah
This is magic. I couldn’t have imagined that such footage. Ringo really had a sense of humour.
2020: Some of us are still on the bus ✌
Indeed!
I love this pschadelic era of The Beatle's career. They were the catalysts of the hippy movement of the late 1960's. Their "acid period" produced their greatest compositions in my opinion...
Also...it was so cool to see the Fab Four relaxing in NATURE next to the Seaside!!!
What a rare occasion to see them "hangin" at the beach...
One cannot imagine how honored the locals were when they saw these World famous artists wandering from one small town to another small town in the Southwest region of rural England...
Do you think they dropped an acid while they road "tripped" on the bus? I think that they probably did...since it was kind of a vacation for the maestros...
LONG LIVE THE BEATLES!!!
THE BEST SONGWRITERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY!!!
It was a beautiful Mystery to me.Thanks for the upload.
Absolutely BRILLIANT!!! Loved every second of this documentary. A real eye opener for true die hard Beatles Fans. Never knew that Paul's real reason for doing the movie was to promote himself as a director for hire
He also just joined the band that was the first year that he was in the band let's face it he turned the Beatles musical sounds completely around when he joined this new band to him and he was kicking ass and not taking name
@@zorroonmilkavitch1840
I wish I could say I feel sorry for you but don't. Are you a flat-earther? Let me know future discoveries. Thanks.
Cannot believe these idiots that quite literally still believe that Paul died in '66 and that Vivian Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dag Band has been playing him ever since. Ridiculous
@@zorroonmilkavitch1840 umm paul was part of the band since the beginning.
The soundtrack is brilliant. The movie , well a matter of taste.
Thank you for uploading this man!!
Glad I found this. What a fun era.
This documentary is better than the film! Music, as usual, is great!
Frank Fowlkes Yes. Good songs but it’s not The Beatles which is sad.
@@kazabushy Yeah, I'm scanning comments, but so far this is the only mention of the fact that the music used here is NOT The Beatles, though it's a really good facsimile. I can see how some could be fooled.
My ears rised &raised with this lp's songs ,was a kid !!! Automn- winter 1967 ......today when i do play my mellotron mk2 ,i can really say there are many " magical" sounds i do recognise ,two of the moodies did played or bark in two songs !!!
THE
MAGICAL
MYSTERY TOUR
was a collection of incredibly good pop videos of classic Beatles songs set in a psychedelic surreal misty dream world where story and logic and events were completely irrelevant.
For fans it was
Beatles heaven!
The main people criticising it as a 'film' were those people who were too old to be mesmerised by it.
It wasn't made for them.
It was made for the fans, like me, who to this day view it as a priceless pop art creation
starring the greatest band
there ever will be!
KAN 2.20 UK
My god that was so well put. I'm a new, and so happy fan. I wasn't around when they started as I'm just going on 50 so I am glad I gave them a chance. I really didn't think there was anything complex with them. I thought they were in the right place, time, and did just happy radio music. It all changed in my friends attic at a party we all took our turn to play an album and before I was about to go, a lady put in Revolver. That was four years ago. Not a day has gone by that I haven't listened or watched something on The Beatles. George Harrison's solo career is right up my alley.
But you said it very well.
A real treat - I loved that and it was wonderful to get the memories of people who were simply part of it by chance or circumstance and the honesty displayed was astonishingly beautiful. Tons of brilliant unseen footage too! A snapshot of Britain as it was and the attitudes of the era. Interesting use of cover versions too - the instrumental pieces worked well. Utterly fabulous - thank you for posting!
I'd love to have that whole cover of "Magical Mystery Tour" that opens the film. It sounds really good.
It's not exactly a cover. It's meant to sound similar but not identical. It's often done on videos like this because they don't have permission to use the original record. They are often quite bad(like an embarrassing 'Rolling stones' video that I once played on) but it actually does sound good.
This was all about fun. I love anything Beatles.
What an awesome gem this is!
This album will forever live as both Paul’s absolute genius and whatever the opposite of that is
Paul was such a creative, and capable member of the band, and the idea of doing movies for albums was just cutting edge.
I always liked the dance scene at the end the most. It was so trippy. Actually, it's a good thing nobody tripped. On the stairs, I mean. I liked the Bonzo Dog scene almost as much.
Some nice anecdotes from "ordinary" people. In spite of their huge success The Beatles never had an overblown sense of their own importance and always interacted easily with all types of people.
MMT best ever Beatles LP. This is incendiary,revolutionary .
I agree. Even though it was just an EP in the UK, the US LP makes for an amazing album!
Absolutely was the Beatles on the soundtrack absolutely one of my favorite collections of songs
I have always been amazed that we never saw this film in the USA. We had the album. We had the booklet in it. Everyone asked each other have you ever seen the film? I saw it bootlegged in 1977. Ten years to see this crazy movie!
Don , that`s nothing. I took part in the making of the film and did not get to look at it until the mid 1980s. The Film was played in the States in 1974 I have several of the Posters for U.S. Showings.
It was scheduled for a US airing in early '68, but word of the bad reception for the BBC broadcast cancelled it.
Great documentary thanks for uploading...
In typical Beatles style, even a dreadful failure can become an infamous artifact. Worth it for the soundtrack.
Many thanks for posting and for original production crew. Love to see the personal memoirs rather than the final polished production in many cases.
This was great!!!!!!
This documentary, had me @ "Weinerworld"!
; D
It's Wiener not Weiner. I thought it was made in Vienna.
That's Funny!!!😀,God Bless.
How fun! Thanks so much for sharing this!
Thanks guys for sharing
Yes! This was wonderful!
This was EXCELLENT! Thank you.
back in the sixties the film was badly recieved by the ever present infamous critics, and nowadays the vast majority os kids say it is fun. the film is just fantastic, very british and full of symbolism. just amazing.
Seen the Lennon Rolls Royce hundreds of times. They had it parked in front of the Royal BC Museum for a long time, and I worked across the street. Was surprisingly unsupervised.
My friends would spot it in Greenwich Village c.1970 and follow it around. Bunch of 10 yr olds.
Maybe this is a way to realise that not always the best things we do has to be the most memorable? Thanks a lot for this...
I watched it on TV on Boxing Day. It was the best, most amazing film I'd ever seen. I was a kid and didn't understand all of it, but it really was magical. The only other thing I'd seen like it was Midsummer Night's Dream. It was lovely. I remember hearing some criticism of it and was perplexed. I couldn't understand it. I felt at the time the critics were motivated by envy. The press which had boosted the Beatles for so long were now in the mood to dress them down. Magical Mystery Tour was anti-establishment. It had a working class sensibility and humour. Like the Carry On Films it was sneered at by the snobbish media.
It was supposed to be shown peak time on Christmas Day, but the BBC didn't like it so it got moved to Boxing Day..
A really fun, and often funny, watch. Thanks for posting this. Love the anecdote about John and the clueless Bahamian finance minister at the end.
R.I.P. NEIL INNES
I want a time machine the 70's were the peak of human consciousness.
The music of the 70's liberated my mind my own inequalities, social ackwardness and today's society hurt my mind hard.
I'am born in some way in the exactly right time but lost traces to the remnants of the great 70's.
This is fantastic. Thank you for posting it,,,,I've really enjoyed it and will watch it again.
Death Cab for Cutie featuring Billy singing with the Bonzos and that new guy that they also put on the cover of the 1966 British only release Beatles Oldies LP. Gotta be Billy Shepherd that Paul replacement guy. He's still doing that gig after 54 years. Just ask Denny Laine or Olivia Harrison at the Concert for George, she greets him "Hello Billy".
Yawn, that's a load of old tosh. Give it up
@@jackdshellback3819 I have seen that Olivia and Billy video. She does greet him as "Billy".
That is who he is!
Timothy Turner Most people cant seem to handle the truth when it is right in their faces. I wonder if Billy will ever be allowed to disclose he is Paul’s replacement.
This is on of the most ridiculous conspiracy theories ever, if you believe any of this bullshit, then you are already beyond help.
You don't even know the "guy's" name in the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
Viv Stanshall looked and sounded nothing like Paul McCartney whatsoever and died, yes genuinely died in a tragic house fire at his home in 1995.
You idiots.
@@jackdshellback3819 So good to see someone else who knows that it's Viv Stanshall. It's not like he's not well known. You either have to be rather young or living under a rock not to know the 'Bonzo dog doo dah band'. I'm sure people have heard him on 'Tubular Bells', ''Two slightly distorted guitars!
Thank you, Victor Spinetti. That was great.
Victor Spinetti, was on Little Stevens Underground Garage , and spoke very well about all the Beatles in his interview. One of the better interviews to come along , in the 2000's
The Welsh Wop, as he referred to himself.
Victor was put in Hard Days Night & MMT cause Georges mum fancied him!
Beatles rules!
Well, yes they do!!!!!!
Great documentary!
Fun clips about the making of Magical Mystery Tour. I like the new interviews, too.
the wonderful magical mistery tour film. thanks from Brazil.
Great documentary! Thanks for posting!
I saw the film when I was 8 and Ive been on the bus ever since
David Wilder I know what you mean sir
I was on the Bus with Ringo when I was 7 and now I own her and the world most extensive MMT Collection.
My fave mystery tour since my Aunty Madge took me on a Mystery Tour to Morecambe !! 1960
Victor Spinetti was a lovely man
He was. I had a drink with him. Adelph hotel liverpool convention 80s or 90s
Terrific documentary.
Wow! Victor Spinetti! How come I have never seen this before? Thank you . Thank you!
Vic has a great friend of John, he appeared in A Hard Day's Night & Help! as well
This is just WONDERFUL!!! I grew up with the awesome magic of the album with the story board and images from the film! Saw the film later, particularly on You Tube, and it is such a fantastic work of film art! This doc. really has the magic of appreciating and celebrating the film event in a fresh authentic way!!
how can you have watched the film on RUclips when Apple Corps have literally the strictest copyright policies ever.
It was quite a while ago when they weren't policing that way. The whole film was on You Tube and also many postings of the film broken up into segments part by part and song by song. It was a nice luxury while it lasted. It was a really nice way to appreciate and revisit the whole thing seeing it in parts like that -- little mini films for each event like the big race or the stripper show or like music videos for each song.
my favourite bit is I Am the Walrus as the line of eggmen and the Beatles in the animal masks made me crack up laughing my head off vimeo.com/172674451
Thanks for the link. That is the new release restored version, great image quality! Lol, yes I love that too, "they are the egg men!" I like the faces in the sky above -- "eating" -- very trippy and surreal!
Fantastic post . watching it on the 50th anniversary as the BBC cant be bothered airing the original
Bravo
Great doc guys and gals!
Awesome! Good fun!
Peggy Spencer - 'I had to get George out of meditation and into dancing'. LOL
As always the music saves the movie. John stated that though the movie flopped, it was the only place to hear/see the video of "I Am The Walrus".
Great bit of film, never seen this footage!
If you play this video backward you will see a very confusing and incoherent secret message.
I did and it said "Turn me on, rich live Beatle Paul at age 77"
I know what the message is... but it is s secret
Stig has been dead for years, honestly"
Shocked...and stunned
+Tom thx - you are the only one who digs it.... ha, ha - gather round ,all that clowns!
Partial transcript: The Beatles went to Cornwall, I think it was 9:35 am when they got there. John wanted lunch early, and had the shop open up for fish and chips. I think the young waiter brought the dish, and I believe there were 15 chips and only 3 fish. George grinned throughout the entire thing, it was priceless, they should have filmed it, really they should have.
Really gets on my nerves when the sound track aint the Beatles on a documentary about the Beatles!!!!
I very much agree with you.
Using actual Beatle Music would cost a fortune.
IT SOUNDS LIKE OUTTKES
@@MrCrispian #No-no it's different people, believe me.
It's like note for note covers though. Probably the best Beatles covers I've ever heard.
bruh... I watched this because my friend said it was terrible and I literally started wheezing 5 seconds in
Victor Spinetti's drill sergeant is like the sergeant in "Alice's Restaurant" saying "This piece of paper's got 47 words we wanna know details crime time arresting officer's name anything you got to say" . . . for 45 minutes, and no one understood . . . a word he said . . . :-D
I thought it was a movie film. Magicsl Mystery Tour is a tv documentary or film not intended for the big screen like the band previous film, The Hard Day's Night and Help.
Great Documentary
I've always viewed the sergeant pepper and MMT as a double album rolled into one so to speak... had they released them as a double ONE album - that'd have been just... words fail me....
Me too. Back in the day I created a 90 minute cassette where I mixed the two albums together in my own running order.
@@kirbygene just out of curiosity, what is you preferred track listing for it all
@@robertdominguez6002
Sgt Pepper
With A Little Help From My Friends
Hello
Goodbye
Baby You're A Rich Man
Fixing A Hole
Being For The Benefit Of Mister Kite
Lucy
In The Sky With Diamonds
Getting Better
Strawberry Fields Forever
She's Leaving
Home
Penny Lane
All You Need
Is Love
Within
You Without You
A Day In The Life
-- taken from eight track version where you don't hear the cheers from "Sgt Pepper" in the intro
Flying
Magical Mystery Tour
Blue Jay Way
I Am The Walrus
When I'm 64
Lovely Rita
Fool On A Hill
Your Mother Should Know
Good Morning Good Morning
Sgt Pepper (reprise)-- taken from 8 track tape version with quick fade
As if a double album, six songs per side
The Magical Mystery Tour was only an album in the USA. It was actually an EP in England. It was two 45's with a total of 6 tracks and came in a really cool booklet. Capitol records made it into an album with 11 tracks. I used to love collecting the US versions of Beatle records to get the different versions.
VERY interesting & exciting !!! Thanks a lot !!!
This would have been an amazing 'tour' if livestream technology existed back then.
You didn't credit George for "Flying", but its one of the first songs played.
Beatles recollections on a budget, but fun all the same. The soundtrack sounds like the sort of thing I used to pick up for 99p from Woolworths when I was a kid - "20 Beatles' Smash Hits" by The Bootles or The Bettles, etc.
Jane Asher!!!! Ahhhh....! Paul, you blew it!
Not really. He had a lucky escape. Gingers are unstable.
67-68 the greatest years in pop music:
Sgt. Peppers
Magical Mystery Tour
Yellow Submarine
films and songs!
Amazing!
Love the "Flying" bit at 9:40!
57:20 could be authentic- the lady describes going to the Beatles (bandroom?) and also mentions she knows the Moody Blues.
The Moodies (the original lineup from Go Now) were not only the opening act for the Beatles, but their manager was also Brian Epstein.
reallY I've always wondered about the connection between Paul and Denny Alien...
Denny Laine.
Great stuff!:)
We're the biggest band in the world, we're so big we can't even tour anymore, so let's make an expensive home movie with no real plot to speak of - and accidentally invent the music video while we're at it!
The Beatles had been making music videos for years!
@@PatioRS Paperback writer and rain maybe the first video clips ever?
I don' t know.
@chuckles697106 And before Elvis there was Gene Kelly with "singing in the rain" and before him "somewhere over the rainbow"
by Judy Garland.
That's not what I would call video clips.
@chuckles697106 can't credit Elvis for it either. Those were never made for promotion but for use in movies and musicals had existed much before Elvis's time.
It wasn't that The Beatles were too big to tour. It is well established that all 4 Beatles were tired of playing 30 minute shows in which they couldn't hear themselves play and the fans couldn't hear the music over the screaming women.
great documentary!
I wish I could follow them every where they go before cos they were so famous and peaceful
i can’t get over the part about the ringo interview he’s so fucking funny 23:20
the original video with several known singers singing "love, love, love" was in apple studios. 19:20 -21:00 .At end of the song you can hear "In the Mood" originally by Glenn Miller. (then Green sleeves) This song was performed in that same studio late 1944 just before Glenn Miller disappeared on his way to Paris. I wonder if this is co-incidence or done on purpose, because of connections with the studio.
Love those Beatles
Absolutely Great History.
Sad world we live in......nothing is real. Hurt that we were shammed. I still love to hear Lennon's voice when it comes on the radio.
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Yes its William. He replaced Paul in October 1966.
So why did Faul say he was 30 if Paul would have been 25 yrs old.
Very nice! Interesting to see and hear everybody tell their story, their personal little connection to Beatles history. Everybody's recollections seemed quite vivid, but then again, it is not the sort of thing you would forget. Even if you were just stuck in a car in a traffic jam caused by the band's bus getting stuck on a narrow bridge, it's a story to tell the grandkids.
We love the Beatles and Paul McCartney
God bless the Beatles and Paul McCartney
We love the Beatles and Paul McCartney
We love Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney you rock and roll forever
The way Freda Kelly says
"Fil um" you can't beat it👌😅