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Yeah, I always liked it, and the album too. Don’t know what the haters are talking’bout.

Congrats

No music at all??

Absolutely.

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yeah its like a Warhol movie that way but with a brilliant soundtrack.

James needs to take some LSD and stop taking things so seriously. This was never intended or made to be a movie! Why do people still fail to understand this? It wasn't even released in cinemas! It was an arty, made for TV film and it's not Pauls fault it was first shown on BBC 2 in black and white. It was shown in colour shortly afterwards which Frost actually references seeing in the interview. People like the film and it has some great music, stop being so critical. And the beatles got better after the drugs. Lighten up.

Bang on here, if you’re not British then you’re not likely to recognise any of the cast either 😂😂😂

I didn't know there was a Blu-Ray Box Set! Assumed it was going to be a bog standard DVD of the film or 1 option with added commentary i'd see for sale. Box Set sounds like it'll be better & now is what I'm going for. (Never seen the beeb film, i only have the L.P. but always loved it. One of my much more played albums of 2K'ish L.P.s from 45'ish yrs collecting fave's, most heard around friends with good stereos when pre W.W.W.

i would put it on eternal repeat loop on a small TV in my kitchen for a week or two at a time so that you would catch random fragments of it whenever zipping into or thru the kitchen...made the kitchen into an otherworldly place

Hahaha! Boss comments chaps and I’m bang into this flick too, forget about all that early cashing in on their popularity movies, they reek of those awful Elvis Presley movies that the Colonel exploited but by this film they are doing wtf they want and it’s peerless to me! Best wishes folks 👍☘️

Spielberg once said it was his greatest inspiration to become a director.

not surprising snce they are all in the MAGICK PYRAMID

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I’m delighted that they had enough artistic freedom and courage to throw this movie out there. After the cringy early nonsense films culminating with Help I think it’s kudos to them for doing this. I am sure they were well aware that the majority of the people who appeared in it would be complete strangers to all but us North West English people so sod the rest of the world, this one was just a nod to their own people and I love it. #FourLads

Strawberry Fields forever is not part of the film, it was released as a double A side with Penny Lane. However I agree about it's brilliance. In the UK there was never an album for Magical Mystery Tour at the time it was a double ep and book, plus Pepper and Strawberry field were all still in the charts, what a time for popular music.

@@roberttreborable Well, I did say it was on my copy of the album. Thought that was self explanatory. In any case the album version has now become accepted as part of their canon and catalogue of official albums.

Strawberry Fields does not belong to the album. It was recorded during the Pepper's sessions and published as a single prior to Sgt Pepper. It has been put on the US version by capital to make an album from the original double EP so they could charge more. Technically, chronologically and aesthetically does not belong to the project. I actually do not like the mess they did with that, it makes the album sketchy and confused. I also hate all these remixes... it's like taking fluo paint to "correct" the Mona Lisa.

@@za-music No shit Sherlock. SFF is a CLASSIC and could be on virtually any album from that period. For me, it fits perfectly well in the psychedelic madness and imaginative free form art music that the Beatles were producing at the time.

@@theselector4733SFF is a classic SINGLE record coupled with Penny Lane. I like the Beatles discography AS THEY INTENDED IT. Not as some big major like Capitol chopped them to scam their fans putting on it 1 year old singles. It does not belong, it does not fit (It was recorded one year prior and it disrupts the quirky atmosphere of the original tracks). Production style does not fit either, that's why I hate every Capitol album with tracks completely devoided of context. The Beatles themselves hate them too, there must be a reason. If you think you know better than they did when they complained about it calling it a SCAM, go with it with your Fluo painted version, I rather like the originals. AS THEY WERE INTENDED BY THE GUYS. There was an ethical reason behind non album singles and an artistic reason too. I think we should start listening to them for what they were, not for what we would have liked them to be. Capitol Records sucks. MMT Capitol version is a mess of a compilation, not the masterpiece double EP that they published.

THIS! Abso-fugging-lutely this.

Yes. And Paul's "circular script' was nothing more than dividing the segments by using a clock face to represent the 1 hour running time of The TV special. It's also foolish to conflate coincidence with causation. Coach trip"Mystery tours" were actually an established tradition in mid century England. Lennon would write Glass Onion a year later as a jab at those who would seek hidden messages in their work. These kind of specious theories would achieve critical mass with the "Paul is dead," and Manson family's " HelterSkelter." What we have here is basic Conspiracy 101, where the narrator skips over relevant facts and obsessess over cherry picked coincidences, ostensibly to "prove" his thesis.

@@tawnieriekena7 Thank you!

What a depressing glass half empty lot you mob are

And the booklet makes an excellent children's book. I wonder who actually wrote it?

You are right. The audience is an artistic partner. It's ironic that John Lennon wrote I Am the Walrus in response to learning that academics were analysing his lyrics and he wanted to shove it to them by writing something meaningless. But, of course, it's not meaningless. Choices were made to include references to Lewis Carroll and a schoolyard rhyme etc. There is meaning in those choices; it wasn't random. And he was wrong to dismiss the role of literary criticism. Art can't exist without an audience. Art is the relationship between form and audience, of whom the artist is only one member. (I don't believe in the "authority" of the author.) Yoko's conceptual art is the purest example of this, since her art couldn't exist without someone to "get it". This is something that Paul understands. While I find it frustrating how coy he can be about his art, it belies this belief. He would rather deny meaning than impose meaning. He WANTS us to draw our own interpretations. Yeah, right, he didn't know that Venus ands Mars were the gods of love and war. Yeah, right. I think James is spot on here, maybe not to the extent he posits, but it is clearly the intended framework. If we do it, the truth will somehow present itself in the art. And I guess it succeeded despite the poor planning.

Cheers Bobby, much appreciated 🍻🍻

HIs commentary on pepper totally changed my thoughts on it. I listened to it anew, and holy crap.

@@SmokeslikelightningbandI completely agree. Such a well thought out and creative analysis. This is what it’s all about!

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I dunno. I'm only 6 minutes in and I wish I could get him to get to the point! (I thought I was much further in.)

The video ,and analysis are a sterling piece of work .

@@chasleask8533This isn't a gpod video though, he's trying to look for sense in something that relishes in being nonsense. It's an art film, there is no hidden agenda, no plot. It's just whatever goes goes.

@@404TVfr He tried to look for sense , and found it .

@@chasleask8533 so a slice of toast with Elvis on it makes it worthy to call it a rock and roll star?

Excellent review of this dusty gem of a film. If you're a Beatles fan you appreciate the little details and nuances of this performance. Yes I laughed hysterically at John's quirky mannerisms and humor especially the wizard scenes hahaha. MMT was the first and my favorite album I ever listened to. In my household my older brother and sister had 2 Beatles album..MMT and the White album. That's why it's so engrained in my brain more than the other albums and have warm fuzzy nostalgic feelings about it.

There was a rumour that, in the Fool on The Hill segment that Paul's trouser fly was un-done and he inadvertedly exposed his privates!

The Fabs as wizards. Ringo pulls it off best.

It's "Paul", or should I say Billy playing Viv in that scene.

"...a wafer-thin mint..."

Hey I'm very interested in this comment's meaning, can you explain further.

During the same sequence, Neil Innes plays the piano in "Death Cab for Cutie". He was with the Pythons in "Holy Grail" and on numerous other occasions

l'd guess you're American if you think British surreal humour begins and ends with Monty Python. lt has a long history, going back before Alice in Wonderland, so to say the Beatles were Monty Python before their time is quite insulting.

Here we go again, another unfounded generalization about Americans. I can only say in response, that yes, *_despite_* suffering from the *_handicap_* of being an *_American,_* I was well aware when I made my comment, of the wondrous and surreal works of Lewis Carroll and other European writers prior to The Beatles and Monty Python. I was also well aware of Carroll's influence on Lennon (Alice in Wonderland, The Walrus and the Carpenter etc.). I am and have always been an anglophile and love English literature and film. No need to be insulted friend, life is too short. I was simply pointing out, in a friendly (but not uninformed manner, as you seem to be implying) that there were similarities in approach between John Lennon's surreal and sometimes dark humor to that of Python's. I love them both --- *_despite_* being an *_American._*

George Harrison was a Pythons fan, befriended to Eric Idle and on Idles request to help, he funded the whole movie The Life Of Brian (with $ 4 Mio.). Otherwise the Phytons would have been forced to skip the project. Nobody else was interesed in this sensitive religious subject. That might light up a bit how different actors from MMT popped up again in Phyton's productions. Even before, a whole bunch of famous rockbands like Led Zeplin, Genesis (of course) and Pink Floyd sponsored already the Holy Grail.

@@Hernal03 l never suggested your comment was uniformed, in fact l don't even know what that means, but so many Americans compare any surreal humour to Monty Python as that's the only British comedy they are aware of. The Beatles were more influenced by the Goons, as were a whole generation.

... and from Queensland.

Many thanks mate :)

Wow. It’s exciting to even read a comment from someone who say it the day it aired. Do you remember anything in particular about watching it for the first time?

Perth

@@profile2047 Yes I do remember watching it with a bunch of my cousins and we all couldn't believe that such a trippy show was actually on BBC TV. Three years later I decided to become a bass player at the tender age of 14. And I have been playing bass in various rock and prog bands ever since.

Yes, Paul WAS watching Anger's stuff.

Thanks Sue! In answering your question on how long it took to script and finish this beast - two weeks non-stop. I am so tired now hahahahaha The edit alone took 5 days. Which was just absolute murder. I am very much enjoying a few days off now with my Mrs! Glad you enjoyed the vid 👍👍

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Ahhhh right, that's why I didn't know what they were! Figured they'd be something mystical / esoteric Thanks for the info Chris, and glad you enjoyed the vid sir

Do what thou wilt

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@@fuzzyd2121 I AM HE

My favorite scene

You're welcome! And thanks for your kind comments :)

I think somehow it really should be made aware to "music insiders or those in the Beatles' camp" as well...

How about a little Sslvador Dali on the side...?😉 😎✌👍❤🖖

It's about PID and Billy's arrival as well

Very welcome :)

I wonder if Paul Weller's introduction at the start of "Happy Together" was a tip of the hat to the OG showing ("And now for those of you watching in Black and White, this one is in color"). The Jam's final album The Gift was a hint at Weller's breaking away into The Style Council, who also had their own MMT with Jerusalem to support The Cost of Loving.

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John was married with a son, Paul was a young bachelor however

Read 2023 version of Memoirs, mind blowing indeed

When did they have time to even light one cigarette, that's the part that confuses me the most 😅

I was thinking about Deathcab for Cutie the band when he said that.

Was only an album in the states, over here it was a double EP