MFSL 1-047 Audiophile BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour JVC Japan SUPER VINYL

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THE BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour
EX/NM Used Audiophile Vinyl Record

Record Label: Mobile Fidelity MFSL 1-047

This Original Master Recording was made using the half-speed production process. The pressing was sourced from the original stereo analog master tapes. The disc was specially plated and pressed on high definition Super Vinyl by the Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. These are considered by audiophiles to be among the finest recordings ever produced and very limited in quantity.

Record cover is in great shape. Corners are dull. Spine rolls slightly backwards. Includes booklet and protective heavy board inner sleeve, both in great shape. Booklet is not attached to sleeve as it was on the original US releases, but loose. There are no spindle marks on the label. Vinyl looks like new and plays beautifully.

Side One
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Fool on the Hill, The
3. Flying
4. Blue Jay Way
5. Your Mother Should Know
6. I Am the Walrus

Side Two
7. Hello Goodbye
8. Strawberry Fields Forever
9. Penny Lane
10. Baby You're a Rich Man
11. All You Need Is Love

Review: The first six songs on MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR were the soundtrack to the Beatles' TV movie of the same name. The film was an experimental mess, but the experimental pop of the album included some of their most memorable productions. The soundtrack side was dominated by Paul McCartney pop tunes, including the bittersweet piano ballad "Fool On The Hill" and "Your Mother Should Know," an impossibly catchy bit of Vaudevillian pop. But it also featured George Harrison's mystical "Blue Jay Way" (about his house in Hollywood) and John Lennon's "I Am The Walrus," which wedded a stream-of-consciousness lyric to a fierce drum beat, layers of strings, odd voices and some dialogue from Shakespeare's "King Lear."

McCartney's "Hello Goodbye," which led off the assorted singles, featured some neatly arranged contrapuntal vocals, and may well have been about the dissolving partnerships (songwriting and otherwise) between McCartney and Lennon. Lennon's strangely arranged "Strawberry Fields Forever," whose two halves blend different takes of the same song, one slowed down to match the pitch of the other, was a trippy reverie; its bridges, orchestrated with horns, cellos, and backward cymbals, are sheer brilliance. "Penny Lane," a wistful fantasy featuring a beautiful trumpet solo, was McCartney at his melodic best, the AM foil to Lennon's FM headiness.

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