At its best, Magical Mystery Tour was born and bred of said influences, and at it’s worst, Magical Mystery Tour was born and bred of said influences as well. About two weeks later, The Beatles undertook the project, the first independent of their late manager and mainly spearheaded by Paul McCartney, who took his recent influences of psilocybin ingestion, coupled with some of the new innovations (at the time) from the French wave of cinema, which was a very influential medium in its heyday, telling stories mainly in a very untraditional style and in a much more visual sense, using close-ups, jump cuts, superimposed imagery, color and light, all components which pushed it’s respective narratives. A little after that time, their manager, the one who almost singlehandedly introduced them to the globe with his upper crust savvy business sense and proper generic English manner, Brian Epstein, died. Pepper album and changed the game of what pop/rock and roll music could be and how it could be executed. Magical Mystery Tour was originally released in 1967, a by-product of the Summer of Love that year, which spawned their Sgt. Out of print for years, and only existing by way poor transfers of bad 35MM blowups from second and third generation 16MM negatives on VHS home releases, Magical Mystery Tour has had quite a shabby treatment in its release to the public in the home market for the most part, until now, with this release on Blu-ray, it’s first release in any digital format of any kind. It’s a hollow and disjointed piece that has it’s only reliable saving grace in the wonderful soundtrack, which is remastered as well, with the memorable musical strains of The Beatles in all their sonic glory at peak levels. Pepper period, the idyllic peace, love carefree metaphoric lounging on eiderdowns in their native England. Magical Mystery Tour, the colorfully wild mess of a film by The Beatles, has been released on Blu-ray and it’s one of the few times in the bands illustrious and innovative career that the term “mixed bag” can be applied when summing up one of their projects.īut suffice to say, Magical Mystery Tour, while an absolutely charming and irresistible piece of delectable eye candy to gaze upon, and even more so now with the spit and polish of the Blu-ray remastering, still ultimately remains nothing more than a curio of The Moptops at their psychedelic peaks, still in the cosmic high of their Sgt. George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Victor Spinetti, Jessie Robins, Mal Evans
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