"Roll Up!"; 50th Anniversary of Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles

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  1. MrSka57

    MrSka57 Forum Resident

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    Got a mono copy when new and I was 11. Always liked it better than SP. The last album (I.E. side 1) where they last played together as a band. The White is solo plus backup and Abbey is slick proffessionalism and LIB is a disaster.
     
  2. Colocally

    Colocally One Of The New Wave Boys

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    My local library. [​IMG]
     
  3. genesim

    genesim Forum Resident

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    empirelvr,

    As noted, I was going off the top of my head, and in my compiled bluray Hello Goodbye is rightfully together like the E. P. I quoted off the bat.

    The singles on the other hand are out of place for the obvious reasons of being recorded earlier. They just don't gel imho.
     
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  4. garrincha

    garrincha Forum Resident

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    woah!
     
  5. jmxw

    jmxw Fab Forum Fan

    Assembling the songs was not particularly creative, no.

    But the book was a nice creative addition.
     
  6. Arnold Grove

    Arnold Grove Senior Member

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    The book was already part of the UK double-EP package. Capitol just enlarged it to fit the 12" LP sleeve.
     
  7. jmxw

    jmxw Fab Forum Fan

    Dang. Well, then I guess it was not creative at all. :tsk:

    Still... pretty good song choices, though.
     
  8. wgriel

    wgriel Forum Resident

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    I've already mentioned that this is the first album I ever bought with my own money - without question it's my favourite Beatles album. The gatefold album is super cool and all the photos and illustrations sure captivated me way back then. However, I didn't see the movie until much, much later and I agree - what a resounding disappointment that was!
     
  9. Tuco

    Tuco Senior Member

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    Actually, Capitol should be given credit for including the booklet. I'm guessing that there was probably discussion about saving $$$ by not including it.
     
  10. Bingo Bongo

    Bingo Bongo Music gives me Eargasms

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    I bought it before I even realized it was originally an EP. Pretty well goes for all their UK albums...
     
  11. WilliamWes

    WilliamWes Likes to sing along but he knows not what it means

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  12. Arnold Grove

    Arnold Grove Senior Member

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    Judging from the success that Capitol had with the astronomical sales of the Pepper album earlier in 1967, they likely would have agreed to including a plate of fish and chips with the Magical Mystery Tour album if the Beatles had insisted ... ;)
     
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  13. Colocally

    Colocally One Of The New Wave Boys

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    But no fish and finger pie please..
     
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  14. ODShowtime

    ODShowtime jaded faded

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    I just put this record on (mono) when I see this thread. I have a hard time deciding if I like stereo or mono better they're both great.
     
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  15. petem1966

    petem1966 Forum Resident

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    At least not four. Or in summer.
     
  16. malco49

    malco49 Forum Resident

    i could swear that my first copy(probably around 68 or so) was an EP and didnot have the four added songs. am i misremembering? i grew on the east coast of the states.
    with the addition 4 songs clearly one of my favorite beatles records along with the white album.
    oh and the best psychedelic(maybe the only) record ever made.
     
  17. A well respected man

    A well respected man Some Mother's Son

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    That's still American-centric thought. MTB may be their most famous album in the US, which may be their largest market. But it can't be compared to Sgt. Pepper, which was huge in the US and all over the world.

    By the way, according to official figures, Sgt Pepper had sold around 12 million copies by 2005. MTB, less than 6 million.
     
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  18. Rfreeman

    Rfreeman Senior Member

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    I am saying most people knew of MTB during their career, when they sold more albums in 64 than any other year and the vast majority of those sales were in the US. What happened in the 35 years after they broke up is irrelevant to this. If you want to go by total sales through 2017, the answer is clearly One.

    And most people means most total people even if they are mostly Americans. Their sales were the US centric thing, not my outlook.
     
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  19. Arnold Grove

    Arnold Grove Senior Member

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    You are probably misremembering.
     
  20. Purple Jim

    Purple Jim Senior Member

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    I borrowed it from the university record library in the late 70s.

    I knew most songs but a few were unfamiliar to me (Flying, Blue Jay Way, Baby You're A Rich Man). All the 1967 UK singles on one album. The perfect companion to Sgt. Pepper's and better than it in fact.
    It made me regret not buying the double EP back in the day.

    Nope.

    - Vinyl LP bought in the early 80s
    - CDRs of stereo and mono versions

    Both.
     
  21. empirelvr

    empirelvr "That's *just* the way it IS!" - Paul Anka

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    You mean like they did in the early 1980's? :agree:
     
  22. A well respected man

    A well respected man Some Mother's Son

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    I already said the US was their biggest market. It doesn't mean it was their only market, which you seem to suggest.

    Even during the time they were together, Sgt. Pepper would be only marginally less famous in the US than MTB, because Pepper was huge musically, commercially and socially. The difference is: Pepper was huge in the rest of the world too, while MTB didn't even exist.

    So you can say MTB was the most famous album in the US, I won't discuss that. In worlwide terms, no way.
     
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  23. HfxBob

    HfxBob Forum Resident

    The Fool on the Field was pretty special too.
     
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  24. vinylbeat

    vinylbeat Forum Resident

    I received "Magical Mystery Tour" along with The Stones "Satanic Majesties Request" and The Monkees "Pisces, Aquarius" for Christmas 1967. Talk about a "Cosmic Xmas" for my then 12 year old ears! All stereo issues played on my Zenith portable stereo phonograph!
     
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  25. lennonfan1

    lennonfan1 Senior Member

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    I had both the Beatles and Stones albums too as a kid with a Zenith cobra matic turntable in a console w/tv from the folks end and my end was a bsr portable changer. 50 years ago was truly cosmic and psychedelic.
     
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