First released: 1967, December 8

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1. Magical Mystery Tour (2:52)
   Recorded: April 25, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added April 26-27, 1967 (vocals), May 3, 1967 (trumpets), and November 7, 1967
   John Lennon - acoustic guitar, background vocal
   Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, piano (with echo effects)
   George Harrison - lead guitar, background vocal
   Ringo Starr - drums, tambourine
   Session musicians - three trumpets
2. Your Mother Should Know (2:29)
   Recorded: August 22, 1967 at Chappell Recording Studios, London, England with overdubs added August 23, 1967 and September 29, 1967
   John Lennon - organ, background vocal
   Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, piano, background vocal
   George Harrison - tambourine, tabla, background vocal
   Ringo Starr - drums
3. I Am the Walrus (4:37)
   Recorded: September 5, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 6, 1967 and September 27, 1967
   John Lennon - lead vocal, mellotron (at the beginning)
   Paul McCartney - bass guitar, background vocal
   George Harrison - tambourine, background vocal
   Ringo Starr - drums
   Session musicians - eight violins, four cellos, three horns
   Choir - six boys singing "Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper", six girls singing "Everybody's got one"
4. The Fool on the Hill (3:00)
   Recorded: September 25, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 26, 1967 and October 20, 1967 (flutes)
   John Lennon - harmonica, maracas
   Paul McCartney - lead vocal, piano, double-tracked recorder, flute
   George Harrison - lead guitar, harmonica
   Ringo Starr - finger cymbals
5. Flying (2:17)
   Recorded: September 8, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 28, 1967
   John Lennon - mellotron, chanting, tape loop at end
   Paul McCartney - guitars, chanting
   George Harrison - guitars, chanting
   Ringo Starr - drums, maracas, chanting, tape loop at end
6. Blue Jay Way (3:57)
   Recorded: September 6, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 7, 1967 and October 6, 1967
   John Lennon - tambourine
   Paul McCartney - bass guitar, background vocal
   George Harrison - double-tracked lead vocal, Hammond organ, background vocal
   Ringo Starr - drums
   Session musician - cello

Average??!! I don't think so!! I am the Walrus alone justifies both this EP and the MMT movie. This was a wonderful release. I bought the EP soon after it was released on vinyl and the CD release is good too giving you both stereo and mono versions. Despite the high cost at the time of a double EP, as Ian Fisher rightly points out, it would have been a number one had it not been for the Beatles single Hello Goodbye which had been released a week earlier. For the second time in 4 years (after 1963) the Beatles held both the number one and number two slots on the UK Christmas singles chart! If they'd delayed this release until January it would have been a chart topper!

MMT wasn\'t an ablum but a double EP. It reached no 2 in the British charts. It didn\'t reach no 1 because The Beatles were already there. Later MMT was reissued as an album with some extra tracks added.

Average album, what is strange for the Beatles... After Sgt. Peper, they should have to make a dozen of singles before "White Album", which should have been a little shorter. Back to "MMT", it was better not to do this album, and of course film, but to publish ONLY few singles, such are "I Am the Walrus", "Fool on the Hill",... Songs as title-song, "Flying" were done only to cover the time and some time on the film... Anyway, especially after Sgt. Peper, great fall of Beatles has begun.

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