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Australian singles chart:
The Magical Mystery Tour double EP entered the Kent charts on 16 March 1968 and peaked at #3. The EP was #42 on the Top 100 of 1968.
Songwriters:
John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Producer:
George Martin
Record label of Australian release:
Parlophone
BONUS CLIP BELOW – The Fool on the Hill
Wikipedia:
Magical Mystery Tour was released in late 1967 as a double EP in the United Kingdom and an LP in the United States. It includes the soundtrack to the 1967 television film of the same name. The EP contained Magical Mystery Tour, The Fool on the Hill, I Am the Walrus and three other songs.
After the Beatles completed Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in April 1967, Paul McCartney wanted to create a film that captured a psychedelic theme similar to that represented by author and LSD proponent Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters on the US West Coast. Titled Magical Mystery Tour, it would combine Kesey’s idea of a psychedelic bus ride with McCartney’s memories of Liverpudlians holidaying on coach tours. The film was to be unscripted: various “ordinary” people were to travel on a coach and have unspecified “magical” adventures.
The film idea then lay dormant while The Beatles worked on other projects but was picked up later in 1967 after their manager Brian Epstein died of a prescription drug overdose. McCartney suggested they proceed with Magical Mystery Tour to give them a point of focus after Epstein’s death.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Mystery_Tour
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BONUS CLIP
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