There was a mono album issue (Capitol MAL 2835) but it was fairly rare as most listeners by then were well into stereo. Instead Capitol released it as a full album with the EP songs on side one and five songs from the Sgt. The Magical Mystery Tour double EP was issued in the UK on Friday December 8th in both mono and stereo versions but not in America. ”Hello Goodbye”/”I Am The Walrus” made it to #1 in the UK shortly after its November 24th release. The comings and going are fascinating but “all too much” to cover here. Throughout the Fall the group continued recording and mixing songs for MMT and for “Yellow Submarine”. On the 16th they re-did “Your Mother Should Know” with Ken Scott engineering for the first time having been promoted after Geoff Emerick had burned out after (according to Scott) Sgt. On September 8th the group recorded what would become its first released instrumental and the first composed by all four group members. Harrison’s “Blue Jay Way” was another studio effects tour de force and richly evocative of foggy Los Angeles, which is where it was written and what it’s about. Also outstanding was Paul’s “The Fool on the Hill”. “I Am The Walrus” came out of it and Martin was proud of it as well he should have been. They commenced recording on the 5th, started filming on the 11th and had the double Magical Mystery Tour EP in the stores well before Christmas.Ībout the MMT project George Martin is quoted in Lewisohn’s book as saying “MMT was terribly badly organized and it’s amazing that anything ever came out of it”. Four days after Epstein’s passing, on September 1st, they met at McCartney’s home and decided to continue with the movie project. Those who claim had Epstein lived he could have persuaded the group to abandon “MMT” were probably wrong. It was the final session attended by Brian Epstein, who passed away on the 27th from an accidental drug overdose. The Beatles returned to the studio (Chappell Recording Studios, not Abbey Road) August 22nd to record “Your Mother Should Know” and on the 23rd to record overdubs. so neither would be released on a UK album. The single “All You Need is Love”/”Baby You’re a Rich Man” was released July 7th five weeks after Sgt. Pepper’s… on June 1st, they went back to work on “It’s All Too Much” and a few days later “You Know My Name….”. The next week they returned to De Lea Music Recording Studio to begin recording “It’s All Too Much”, and then following the release of Sgt. They returned to Olympic on May 12th and recorded, again in one evening, “All Together Now” and on the 17th began work on the deliciously warped “You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)”. So now The Beatles had two projects going simultaneously: “Magical Mystery Tour” and “Yellow Submarine”. It was originally slated to be used in the animated film “Yellow Submarine” announced on June 7th (a week after the release of Sgt. The session began at 9PM and by 3AM they had it mixed and “in the can”. On May 11th the group recorded and mixed “Baby You’re a Rich Man” at Olympic Studios with Keith Grant engineering. He wrote the title tune and recording began April 25th. The others agreed to it so they all share it to some degree. McCartney had thought of it while in America in April of 1967. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Paul McCartney must take much of the blame for the ill-conceived for television movie “Magical Mystery Tour”.
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