Magical Mystery Tour (song)

November 27, 1967

Magical Mystery Tour (German: , Magical mystery tour ') is the title of a song by the British rock group The Beatles from 1967 Composed it was used by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.. Was first published the piece on the soundtrack to the film of the Beatles, which was published in the UK on a double -EP on 8 December 1967 in the United States in the form of an album on 27 November 1967.

Recordings

Music Producer of recordings was George Martin. The sound engineer Geoff Emerick and were Malcolm Addey (only on 3 May 1967). Paul McCartney was the singer of the song and played during the recording of piano and bass. John Lennon played acoustic and electric rhythm guitar. He also sang in the background. George Harrison played lead guitar and sang also in the background. Ringo Starr played drums and tambourine. The dedicated trumpeters were David Mason, Elgar Howarth, Roy Copestake and John Wilbraham.

Based on Paul McCartney's concept of a " mysterious bus tour of England," the group began on 25 April 1967 in London's Abbey Road Studios with the work on the title track of Magical Mystery Tour. Early on, it was decided to incorporate as a special effect the sound of a passing bus to the song. For this you resorted to a matching recordings from the archive of the Abbey Road Studios.

On the next two days followed by additional recordings in which various overdubs were added. After it had been decided to accompany some passages with trumpets, four studio musicians were hired for shooting on 3 May 1967. It had failed to prepare a package, so this was developed together with the studio musicians.

The final step took place on 7 November 1967. The piece was the spoken introduction " Roll up, roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour! Step right this way! " And the prepared on April 25, 1967 to the effect track Busgeräusch was added to the mixtures. It finally a mono and stereo version of the piece were mixed. The versions have slight differences.