Frank Beatles interview unearthed Nov 22, 2008
He heard the tapes while making a documentary about the Magical Mystery Tour film ... Mr Lambert only used a small section of the interview in his film, The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour Memories, and said the rest of was "pretty controversial". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Madonna runs out of steam Oct 24, 2008
To be fair, "Filth and Wisdom" is slightly better than most movies made by celebrated pop musicians, a hall of shame that includes Bob Dylan's "Renaldo and Clara," Prince's "Graffiti Bridge," and the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour." There's a narrative and some actual acting, and Madonna's long-established obsession with the power dynamics of sex and freedom gets a workout. On the other hand, the quality of the writing and performances in "Filth and Wisdom" are of the let's-put-on-a-show... (Boston Globe)
Learning by Ear Oct 15, 2008
If you enjoy the Magical Mystery Tour but can't see the point of 12-tone music, this is exactly the sort of self-discovery story you want to hear. It's an incomplete one, though, as his memoir attests. (Slate)
Review: Dig Out Your Soul by Oasis Oct 3, 2008
Oasis is perennially fixing a hole, namely the aesthetic gap between Magical Mystery Tour and the White Album and between the Stone Roses' two and only studio albums. But the fun and surprise have been in how incongruously Noel and Liam Gallagher have gone about this task. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
George Harrison: 50-yr anniversary Aug 31, 2008
That same year brings George's Blue Jay Way, a spooky psychedelic classic written on a Hammond organ, to the Beatles' only underrated album, the soundtrack to Magical Mystery Tour ... Recorded before Sgt. Pepper and held back from Magical Mystery Tour, its utter brilliance only underscores the exact point It's Only a Northern Song was striving to address. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Edwards, Obama, and the Perils of Narcissism Aug 13, 2008
That raises the other, deeper connection between the Edwards embarrassment and Obama's ongoing magical mystery tour. In many ways, the two candidates offer similar packages to the voters --- handsome, youthful guys who make great speeches but campaign for president with shockingly thin resumes and no notable past accomplishments. (Townhall.com)
Mural, mural on the wall Aug 1, 2008
It was our own version of a magical mystery tour. The three of us decided to jump into Felicia's gas-swigging SUV (OK, we really should have taken Donald's hybrid) and put together a self-guided tour of Fresno murals that anyone could follow. (Fresno Bee)
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Hypnosis is simply focused attention, not the magical mystery tour touted in public displays on TV or in the movies. The best understanding of "magic" is to go see the film "The Illusionist" two times. (Human Events Online)
A magical mystery tour Jun 10, 2008
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Museum clears memory's purple haze with a little help from Jimi ... May 30, 2008
Magical mystery tour: The Woodstock museum features a replica of the Merry Pranksters' tour ... Magical mystery tour: The Woodstock museum features a replica of the Merry Pranksters' tour ... Magical mystery tour: The Woodstock museum features a replica of the Merry Pranksters' tour. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Led Zeppelin, Moody Blues rides at new Hard Rock Park in SC May 7, 2008
The park is divided into areas such as British Invasion, which features the bus the Beatles used in the film Magical Mystery Tour. Among the other areas are Cool Country, Born in the USA and even Rock and Roll Heaven, where the names of 350 musicians playing in that big concert hall in the sky are engraved bricks and stone as a memorial. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Three delightful spring arrivals court Cappies Apr 18, 2008
The sets and costumes created a surrealistic, candy-colored world: think "Moulin Rouge" meets "Magical Mystery Tour" meets Medieval Times. The sound quality was uneven at times, but the lighting cues were close to perfect and never distracted from the focus of the show. (Howard County Times, MD)
More of this story Apr 2, 2008
How could an accident to State's best shooter lead to an improbable Magical Mystery Tour ... The magical Mystery Tour was over and the Cardiac Pack accomplished the unimaginable. (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald, NC)
George Varga asks himself: Who Made You God? Mar 28, 2008
(Buster Bloodvessel was the name of the bus conductor played by Ivor Cutler in The Beatles' ill-fated 1967 Magical Mystery Tour TV film. . (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Neil Aspinall, 66, Beatles' manager Mar 26, 2008
He was among the singers in the celebratory chorus of "Yellow Submarine," and he played tambura (an Indian drone instrument) on "Within You Without You," harmonica on "Being for the Benefit of Kite" and percussion on "Magical Mystery Tour.". Aspinall was born in Prestatyn, Wales, on Oct. 13, 1941, and grew up in Liverpool, where he attended the Liverpool Institute with McCartney and Harrison. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Obituary: Neil Aspinall, 1941-2008 Mar 25, 2008
His only musical contributions, however, were to play tamboura on Within You Without You, to add harmonica to Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite, to play percussion on Magical Mystery Tour, and to join the chorus on Yellow Submarine. In 1968 he married Suzy Ornstein, whose father, the chief executive of United Artists Films in the UK, had supervised the production of the Beatles' first two films, A Hard Day's Night and Help. (Guardian Unlimited)
It's Just Darling! Sky News Online checks out the run-up to the Oscars Feb 23, 2008
"It's a total magical mystery tour for me. I have never been here, I have never even seen the Oscars on the TV before," she said. Atonement, which starred Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, has seven nominations including Best Film. (Sky News)
I should be sleeping like a log Feb 9, 2008
Magical Mystery Tour. The two-hour trip takes in Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane and the Cavern Club. (Guardian Unlimited)
Unconventional careers Feb 2, 2008
"It's a magical mystery tour," says Tilda Swinton of her diverse resume, which includes this year's turn in Warner Bros. "Michael Clayton." "There is no game plan and never has been, beyond living a fulfilling and curiosity-sustaining life. And I have succeeded so far in doing that.". (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Coming attractions: Beatles have ticket to ride to deep space with NASA Feb 1, 2008
Now this is a magical mystery tour. NASA has been beaming songs to astronauts since 1965 (maiden voyager: Hello, Dolly. (USA Today -- Life)
How To Make Stay-Awake Glasses Jan 25, 2008
In case you were wondering, Efterkland is Danish for 'magical mystery tour' (5:00). Wednesday, January 23, 2008. (Slate)
Click for Full Story Dec 26, 2007
In 1967, "Magical Mystery Tour," The Beatles' critically drubbed one-hour special, aired on BBC-1 television. In 1972, the 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, died in Kansas City, Missouri, at age 88. (KWTX.com, TX)
Iraq 'n' Roll On Band's Magical Mystery Tour Dec 14, 2007
IRAQ 'N' ROLL ON BAND'S MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR ... IRAQ 'N' ROLL ON BAND'S MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
A really good musician? Or is he simply famous? Dec 8, 2007
The Beatles' 1967 Magical Mystery Tour. Good call. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Beatles film shows its true colours Nov 25, 2007
Apple Corps is about to start the slow restoration process of the Beatles' 1967 film, Magical Mystery Tour, but no date has been set for its release. The restored version of Help. (Guardian Unlimited)
With a little help from her friends Oct 27, 2007
"It's part of that era, the stop-making-sense, magical mystery tour." Choreography plays a crucial role in these scenes but Taymor says: "I didn't want the movie to be dancey. I wanted the choreography to come out of natural movement.". Not everything Taymor worked on made it into the movie. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Ground is a bit shaky high on moral mountain Oct 27, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Peter FitzSimonsOctober 27, 2007. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
A war cry from the battlefield Oct 27, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. A sense of social justice and a position of power have pushed Tony Joseph into the front line of the NSW hospital crisis. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Movie review: Great songs, visuals come together in ‘Across the Universe’ Oct 17, 2007
Here he s a very Ken Keseyian Dr. Robert, singing I am the Walrus, and taking the gang on his psychedelic bus for a magical mystery tour. Another showstopper is 60s music legend Joe Cocker crooning Lennon s Come Together. (Lompoc Record, CA)
Gwynn set for magical mystery tour Sep 28, 2007
Last modified Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:08 PM PDT. Someone waggles more than three times (are you listening, Sergio Garcia. (North County Times)
Wes Mess Very Limited Sep 26, 2007
But as he urges them to seek revelations, the movie becomes as shapeless as the Beatles movie Magical Mystery Tour. The guys soak up the colorful India-ness while Jack flirts with a stewardess. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
She's the guide on this magical mystery tour Sep 20, 2007
" Taymor also enlisted a few famous friends to make cameos in the film, including U2's Bono, who is collaborating on her upcoming Broadway adaptation of Spider-Man and performs two songs in the film, one on-screen (I Am the Walrus) and the other over the end credits (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds). Another sequence, a hallucinatory interlude in which British comedian Eddie Izzard performs Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite alongside stop-motion animation and puppetry, became a point of contention... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Across the Universe Sep 16, 2007
SECTIONS MOVIES CHANNELS ; GET GAMES. Evan Rachel Wood leads a cast otherwise made up of relative unknowns in this throwback to the psychedelic musicals of yesteryear. (IGN FilmForce)
Evan Rachel Wood: No longer thirteen Sep 13, 2007
Wood grew up with the Beatles Rubber Soul, Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine albums. She found a home movie of her first Christmas. (MSNBC -- News)
Going to extremes Sep 12, 2007
That is the word from Evan Rachel Wood, the outspoken 20-year-old actress who is one of the two leads in this controversial magical mystery tour. "Absolutely!" Wood told Sun Media about joining "everybody in the cast and crew" to support Taymor's extreme vision. (Winnipeg Sun)
Scott delivers the definitive cut fans craved Sep 4, 2007
"I was a new kid on the block in Hollywood, so driving to those studios every day was a magical mystery tour," he says. "But it was hard. The whole process of making the movie became quite difficult. "I wasn't used at that point in my career to having too many cooks in the kitchen and I think there were many people who started to get involved. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Scott gets revenge with re-cut Blade Runner Sep 3, 2007
I was a new kid on the block in Hollywood, so driving to those studios everyday was a magical mystery tour. But it was hard, the whole process of making the movie became quite difficult, he told reporters at the Venice film festival after a press screening. (MSNBC -- News)
Venice: Scott presents final cut of "Blade Runner" Sep 3, 2007
"I was a new kid on the block in Hollywood, so driving to those studios every day was a magical mystery tour. But it was hard, the whole process of making the movie became quite difficult," he told reporters at the Venice Film Festival after a press screening. "I wasn't used at that point in my career to having too many cooks in the kitchen, and I think there were many people who started to get involved," he added. (Xinhuanet, China)
CD's Connect The Dots... September Song Sep 2, 2007
" They answered the Phillie call for help in ways that might not seem completely apparent until the final verses has been written on the 2007 song. Sport often takes a phan on its own Beatle's version of a "Magical Mystery Tour", and this year has been nothing if not that for the Phightins' from Philadelphia. Yet, when did it begin? At what point did this team and this season cross over that realm that usually so filters the images of a club and its personality that one season seemingly mirrors... (Philadelphia, TheInsiders.com)
Fond memories at a former Soviet youth camp Aug 27, 2007
It was something of a magical mystery tour, this reunion. No one can really explain why the camp was so much more an embodiment of the haphazard, freewheeling Russia that so seduces and maddens foreigners than it was of the martial rigidity associated with the Soviet Union. (International Herald Tribune)
'80s Pop Quiz Aug 11, 2007
Sit back, prop up your rad new Vans shoes, crank up your Thriller record, adjust your denim jacket and get ready to be taken on a magical mystery tour of '80s trivia. Oh wait, Magical Mystery Tour is from the '60s. (Up & Coming Magazine, NC)
John Edwards to announce 'poverty tour'... Jul 9, 2007
Ben Smith's Blog - Politico. Subject Live Earth Live Question Did you buy tickets for one of the concerts. (The Drudge Report)
The Beatles Very Own Movie 'Starr' Jul 8, 2007
The best known are probably, With a Little Help from My Friends ", from , and Yellow Submarine from Magical Mystery Tour. One of the songs he sang included the prophetic lines, 'They're gonna put me in the movies. They're gonna make a big star out of me.' He was, of course, a very good drummer, although once, when an interviewer asked the Beatles, Is Ringo Starr the best drummer in the world? , John Lennon answered He's not the best drummer in the Beatles. In fact, he introduced what is known as... (Suite101.com)
Review: 'Alice' perplexing, longwinded Jul 8, 2007
Fantastic outfits, menacing masks, masterful makeup and wire-mounted figures who appear to "fly" on stage bring the action to life to do justice to Carroll's magical mystery tour a la Chin, and librettist David Henry Hwang. Freyer's signature disembodied limbs were also in plentiful evidence on Saturday. (Yahoo News)
* Return to the Summer of Love Jun 28, 2007
She is one in a trickle of style setters embarking on a latter-day magical mystery tour, revisiting the hippie aesthetic of their mothers or grandmothers and giving it a brash new spin. In pockets of downtown Manhattan and in cities as far-flung as Miami and Los Angeles, young women in the vanguard are setting aside their trapeze and baby-doll dresses - and as often as not, their drainpipe jeans - in favor of a breezier, more audaciously colorful interpretation of boho chic. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Movie review: Beauty and the geek have a baby in ‘Knocked Up’ Jun 7, 2007
Witness the hilarious psychedelic tomfoolery between Ben and new friend Paul Rudd (playing Alison s brother-in-law) at Cirque Du Soleil (the one place where you really shouldn t be taking a Magical Mystery Tour). The scene is a beautiful twist/homage to the Terry Gilliam-directed cinematic adaptation of the Hunter Thompson book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the poster of which hangs on Ben s wall). (Lompoc Record, CA)
40 years ago today... Jun 3, 2007
The version of Sgt. Pepper's released in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Hong Kong, replaced three songs - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, A Day in the Life and With a Little Help from My Friends, with three songs from Magical Mystery Tour, including The Fool on the Hill, Baby You're A Rich Man and an incorrectly spelled I'm the Walrus because of suspected drug references. 9. (The Palm Beach Post)
Enjoy the show May 31, 2007
Both songs ended up on the "Magical Mystery Tour" album instead. A third song from the sessions, "Only a Northern Song," was released on the "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack in 1969. (Herald-Tribune)
Janet & Jermaine on the town Apr 18, 2007
The Beatles psychedelic Magical Mystery Tour bus is waiting to take you away. OK, so technically, the 1960s counter. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Shandling's bed of neuroses Apr 18, 2007
April 17, 2007 It's Garry Shandling's magical mystery tour. He's dying to take you deep inside his soul on his new DVD set, "Not Just the Best of The Larry Sanders Show.". (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Suri Cruise Is Real, and Really Cute Mar 1, 2007
We may have been the last civilians she met before her magical mystery tour with Tom Cruise began in April 2005. Lo and behold: We ran into Katie again, this time at the Beverly Hills Hotel after brunch on Sunday, Oscar morning. (Fox News -- Views)
Music that twinkles and sparkles Feb 26, 2007
There's the mischief of the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour to go along with cinematic flair and vocals that are, at turns, fluffy or soaring. All that, and a twinkling girl-group sparkle right out of the Eisenhower era. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Montreal singer-songwriter close to success Feb 17, 2007
There's the mischief of the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour to go along with a cinematic flair and vocals that are, at turns, feathery or soaring. All that, and a twinkling girl-group sparkle right out of the Eisenhower era. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Podcast: Lost 101 Feb 7, 2007
"Magical Mystery Tour" The New Yorker 5/23/05. "If we're not being rescued, let's all start new lives" New York Times 9/19/04. (USA Today -- Life)
A tribute act that really pays tribute Jan 22, 2007
Things got trickier after that, as the psychedelics and sound collages from Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour are complex. Rain was now recreating concerts (reportedly with no backing tapes) never actually performed by the Beatles themselves, who stopped performing live in 1966. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Review: 'Pan's Labyrinth' Captivating Fantasy Jan 12, 2007
The second is a sort of magical mystery tour, as Ofelia's sporadic meetings with her surreal creatures become increasingly complex, bizarre and, at times, terrifying. But it's the third story, more about the grown-up world, that makes "Pan's Labyrinth" so powerful. (NBC 11, CA)
We were stardust Jan 8, 2007
A Stegner Fellowship at Stanford followed soon enough, along with the requisite lunacy and beauty of the times: Coltrane and peyote colors and the magical mystery tour that was northern California. Kesey and the gang in the Santa Cruz Mountains; the ineffable feeling that every day you were part of the choreography of a changed and changing world. (Boston Globe)
