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The tunes recorded for the film are less consistent and less satisfying.

The single sides include two John Lennon classics, the otherworldy “Strawberry Fields Forever” and the searing and vastly underappreciated “Baby, You’re a Rich Man,” as well as the hippie-dippy sing-along “All You Need Is Love.” For his part, Paul McCartney gives us one pop gem, “Hello, Goodbye,” and one of his less annoying romps through rose-colored nostalgia, “Penny Lane.” with recent singles as a more satisfying LP, and that set is now considered the “official” release in the remastered catalog.

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band that June at the start of the fabled Summer of Love, the Beatles recorded six new songs for their nascent film project. In the second half of one of the busiest years in their career, following the release of Sgt. (Oh, where was Richard Lester when they needed him?)īefore we get to the movie, let us briefly look at the album, which is how most American fans know the project. No matter it does little to illuminate how the Fab Four went so horribly wrong with the first film they produced themselves. The documentary is featured on the new DVD, though it inexplicably is shortened to 19 minutes.

#Watch magical mystery tour movie series#

The PBS series Great Performances finally aired the 52-minute film on American television for the first time a few weeks ago, preceded by a new hour-long documentary about its making. And make no mistake: a spectacular, disastrous, largely incomprehensible and nearly unwatchable mess it was and remains. Nearly half a century on, the fascinating thing about Magical Mystery Tour the film is the rare glimpse it offers into one of the best rock bands of all time at its unadulterated worst.