BEATLES MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR PROMO [BOOKLET+OBI] JAPAN LP APPLE EAS-80569 NM1976

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I had 5 brick and mortar stores in Portland, OR, Boise, ID, Fairbanks, AK, and 2 stores in Anchorage, AK. I operated under the name Nickelodeon Records & Tapes from 1973 to 1978, hence the eBay name Original 1976 Nickelodeon Records.
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THIS LISTING is for THE BEATLES MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR [PROMO] APPLE EAS 80569 1976

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THIS IS COMPLETE ISSUE WITH GATEFOLD COVER + OBI + 24 PAGE BOOKLET [INSIDE GATEFOLD COVER] + JAPANESE LYRIC INSERT + RICE PAPER & DIE CUT CLEAR INNER SLEEVE

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"Magical Mystery Tour was released as a double EP in the United Kingdom and an LP in the United States. Produced by George Martin, both versions include the six-song soundtrack to the 1967 film of the same name. The EP was issued in the UK on 8 December 1967 on the Parlophone label, while the Capitol LP release in the US occurred on 27 November and featured eleven tracks through the addition of songs from the band's 1967 singles. The EP was also released in Germany, France, Spain, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Australia and Japan. The first official release as an eleven-track LP in the UK did not occur until 1976.

Despite widespread media criticism of the Magical Mystery Tour film, the soundtrack was a critical and commercial success and a number one Grammy nominated album in the US. When EMI issued the Beatles' catalogue on compact disc in 1987, the track listing of the 1967 US LP was adopted rather than the six-song UK release." WIKIPEDIA

Reviewing the EP a month before the film's screening, Nick Logan of the NME enthused that the Beatles were "at it again, stretching pop music to its limits". He continued: "The four musician-magicians take us by the hand and lead us happily tripping through the clouds, past Lucy in the sky with diamonds and the fool on the hill, into the sun-speckled glades along Blue Jay Way and into the world of Alice in Wonderland …. This is The Beatles out there in front and the rest of us in their wake." In Record Mirror, Norman Jopling wrote that, whereas on Sgt. Pepper "the effects were chiefly sound and only the album cover was visual", on Magical Mystery Tour "the visual side … has dominated the music", such that "[e]verything from fantasy, children's comics, acid (psychedelic) humour is included on the record and in the [EP] booklet." Bob Dawbarn of Melody Maker described the EP as "six tracks which no other pop group in the world could begin to approach for originality combined with the popular touch".

The album review in Rolling Stone consisted of a single-sentence quote from John Lennon from 1966 in reference to other artists covering their songs: "There are only about 100 people in the world who understand our music." Writing in Saturday Review, Mike Jahn hailed Magical Mystery Tour as the Beatles' best album yet, superior to Sgt. Pepper in emotion and depth, and "distinguished by its description of the Beatles' acquired Hindu philosophy and its subsequent application to everyday life".  WIKIPEDIA