BEATLES - MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR - 1967 DOUBLE 7" - NEW OLD STOCK - UK IMPORT

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PURCHASED BRAND NEW AND NEVER PLAYED, I purchased this from JEM Imports and kept it stored in a large album bag that it came in since receiving. This is the STEREO double 45rpm EP UK Import with a GATEFOLD COVER and a 28 page booklet attached inside. The cover is in LIKE NEW condition with nice corners, faces and edges and the booklet is also in LIKE NEW condition (see pictures).  1967 United Kingdom Parlophone / EMI SMMT - 1 Stereo.
The inner sleeves are white, though my camera shows they are yellowish, due to the camera and indoor lighting, and are in LIKE NEW codition with no rips, splits or tears. They are of quality construction.
Vinyl has never been played and are in LIKE NEW condition. No visible defects. Labels are in LIKE NEW condition.
Record One Side One: Magical Mystery Tour - Your Mother Should Know Side Two: I Am The Walrus Record Two Side One: The Fool On The Hill - Flying  Side Two: Blue Jay Way

Magical Mystery Tour is a record by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a double EP in the United Kingdom and an LP in the United States. It includes the soundtrack to the 1967 television film of the same title. The EP was issued in the UK on 8 December 1967 on the Parlophone label, while the Capital Records LP release in the US and Canada occurred on 27 November and features an additional five songs that were originally released as singles that year. In 1976, Parlophone released the eleven-track LP in the UK.

Magical Mystery Tour included six tracks, a number that posed a challenge for the Beatles and their UK record company, EMI, as there were too few for an LP album but too many for an EP. One idea considered was to issue an EP that played at 33⅓ rpm, but this would have caused a loss of audio fidelity that was deemed unacceptable. The solution chosen was to issue the music in the innovative format of a double EP. It was the first example of a double EP in Britain.

According to music journalist Rob Chapman, each of the new tracks "represents a distinct facet of the group's psychedelic vision". He gives these as, in order of the EP's sequencing: celebration, nostalgia, absurdity, innocence, bliss and dislocation. Musicologist Russell Reising says that the songs variously further the Beatles' exploration of the thematic links between a psychedelic trip and travelling, and address the relationship between travel and time. Ethnomusicologist David Reck comments that despite the Beatles' association with Eastern culture at the time, through their championing of the Maharishi, just two of the EP's songs directly reflect this interest.

Part of my personal Import collection.