The Beatles released Magical Mystery Tour as a double EP in the United Kingdom and as an LP in the United States. This album includes the soundtrack to the 1967 television film of the same name. In the UK, the EP was released on 8 December 1967, while the Capitol […]
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The Beatles 1967-1970 album, also called the Blue Album, is a compilation of songs from those years. This double LP was released in April 1973 along with 1962–1966 (the “Red Album”). 1967–1970 topped the US Billboard albums chart and reached number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. It was re-released in September 1993 on CD, […]
JOHN 1972: “Paul wrote it. I helped with some of the lyric.” JOHN 1980: “Paul’s song. Maybe I did part of it, but it was his concept.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘Magical Mystery Tour’ was co-written by John and I, very much in our fairground period. One of our great inspirations was […]
JOHN 1968: “In ‘Baby You’re a Rich Man’ the point was, stop moaning. You’re a rich man and we’re all rich men, heh, heh, baby!” JOHN 1980: “That’s a combination of two seperate pieces, Paul’s and mine, put together and forced into one song. One-half was all mine. (sings) ‘How […]
About “Long Tall Sally” “Long Tall Sally” is a rock and roll song written by Little Richard, Enotris Johnson and Robert “Bumps” Blackwell. The Beatles admired Little Richard and regularly performed his songs during their live performances. From their earliest days as the Quarrymen in 1957 until their last public […]
Past Masters is a two-disc compilation originally released as two separate volumes on 7 March 1988, as part of the first issue of the band’s catalogue on compact disc. Every song released commercially by the band that wasn’t on the Beatles’ 12 original UK albums or the US Magical Mystery Tour […]
Past Masters is a two-disc compilation originally released as two separate volumes on 7 March 1988, as part of the first issue of the band’s catalogue on compact disc. Every song released commercially by the band that wasn’t on the Beatles’ 12 original UK albums or the US Magical Mystery Tour […]
PAUL 1967: “We had been told we’d be seen recording it by the whole world at the same time. So we had one message for the world– Love. We need more love in the world.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘All You Need Is Love’ was John’s song. I threw in a few […]
JOHN 1968: “Strawberry Fields was a place near us that happened to be a Salvation Army home. But Strawberry Fields– I mean, I have visions of Strawberry Fields. And there was Penny Lane, and the Cast Iron Shore, which I’ve just got in some song now, and they were just […]
PAUL 1967: “Everyone keeps preaching that the best way is to be ‘open’ when writing for teenagers. Then when we do we get criticized. Surely the word ‘knickers’ can’t offend anyone. Shakespeare wrote words alot more naughtier than knickers!” JOHN 1967: “We chose the word (knickers) because it is a […]
GEORGE 1968: “Derek Taylor got held up. He rang to say he’d be late. I told him on the phone that the house was in Blue Jay Way. And he said he could find it okay… he could always ask a cop. So I waited and waited. I felt really […]
PAUL circa-1994: “‘Flying’ was an instrumental that we needed for (the film) ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ so in the studio one night I suggested to the guys that we made something up. I said, ‘We can keep it very, very simple, we can make it a 12-bar blues. We need a […]