In the end the players were sent away while McCartney and George Martin worked out the notation on the piano in Abbey Road’s studio three. The session began by McCartney humming notes to the brass players to let them know what he wanted, but he mostly failed to get his intentions across. McCartney taped his lead, with backing from Lennon and Harrison.Īn overdub of four trumpets was added on 3 May. The following day still more vocals were added. McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison also taped extra vocals.
#A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR OF 100 BEATLES SONGS PLUS#
On 26 April McCartney recorded his bass part, and all The Beatles plus Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans played percussion instruments, including tambourine, maracas and cowbell. After this they raided the Abbey Road sound effects collection, creating a tape loop of the sound of coaches to be added at the mixing stage. The Beatles spent much time rehearsing and improvising the song, with Paul McCartney at the piano suggesting ideas to the others in the group.Įventually they recorded three takes of the basic rhythm track: two guitars, piano and drums. The first ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ session took place on 25 April 1967. Paul McCartney Many Years From Now, Barry Miles In the studio It can take off!’ In fact, in the early script, which was just a few fireside chats more than a script, the bus was going to actually take off and fly up to the magicians in the clouds, which was us all dressed in red magicians’ costumes, and we’d mess around in a little laboratory being silly for a while. We can take ’em anywhere we want, man!’ Which was the feeling of the period. ‘That’ll be good, a far-out mystery tour. ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ was the equivalent of a drug trip and we made the film based on that. We stuck all that stuff in for our ‘in group’ of friends really.
We put all these words in and if you were just an ordinary person, it’s a nice bus that’s waiting to take you away, but if you’re tripping, it’s dying, it’s the real tour, the real magical mystery tour. ‘Magical Mystery Tour is waiting to take you away,’ so that’s a kind of drug, ‘it’s dying to take you away’ so that’s a Tibetan Book of the Dead reference. We were always sticking those little things in that we knew our friends would get veiled references to drugs and to trips. But it employs all the circus and fairground barkers, ‘Roll up! Roll up!’, which was also a reference to rolling up a joint. This delay is the transfer time required.Because those were psychedelic times it had to become a magical mystery tour, a little bit more surreal than the real ones to give us a licence to do it. Please allow for between 2-10 working days for your order to be available for pickup.
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