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Behind The Scenes Of The Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour'

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The Beatles look out of the Magical Mystery Tour coach skylight, on location in England in September 1967.

On Friday night on PBS, Great Performances presents a documentary about the making of a Beatles TV special from 1967 — Magical Mystery Tour — then shows a restored version of that special . Magical Mystery Tour has the music from the U.S. album of the same name, but it's not the album. It's a musical comedy fantasy about the Beatles and a busload of tourists taking a trip to unknown destinations.

It was written and produced in 1967, which was an incredibly fertile period for the Beatles. "Strawberry Fields Forever" came out that year, as well as "Penny Lane" and the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. That was followed, a month later, by the live TV premiere of "All You Need is Love," broadcast globally. The Beatles, it seemed, could do no wrong. And then they did Magical Mystery Tour, which was televised by the BBC the day after Christmas — on Boxing Day — as a holiday special. A quarter of the British population watched it — and many of those hated it.

Back then, the 53-minute program was filmed in color but wasn't broadcast that way. Imagine the Sgt. Pepper cover in black and white, and you can imagine how much was lost in the translation. Reception to the TV special was so poor that the show wasn't even picked up in the United States — just the soundtrack. Eventually, the special was syndicated to some local TV stations and toured the college film circuit along with Reefer Madness. That's when I first saw it. But on a national level, Magical Mystery Tour has never been televised in the United States — until now.

On Friday — as always, check local listings — Magical Mystery Tour will be preceded by the new one-hour companion documentary , Magical Mystery Tour Revisited. This may be the first case on record in which a documentary about a film is longer than the film itself — but it's worth it.

The documentary, produced by Jonathan Clyde of Apple Films and directed by Francis Hanly, is wonderfully thorough. It explains how the idea for Magical Mystery Tour came about, and how Paul McCartney originally drew the concept as a pie chart — then shows the chart. It covers the origins of each number written specifically for the show, from the title song and "The Fool on the Hill" to "I Am the Walrus" and "Your Mother Should Know." It presents lots of outtakes and new interviews with McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam and Peter Fonda. It also includes a vintage interview with George Harrison, whose assessment of the 1967 TV special is as unfiltered as the program itself.

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It's a fine documentary — better, to be honest, than Magical Mystery Tour itself. But Magical Mystery Tour is so much fun to watch if you're a Beatles fan, that it serves up one joy after another. John Lennon serving shovels of spaghetti as a waiter in a dream sequence. John and George in a strip club, watching the house band singing a song called "Death Cab for Cutie" — which, incidentally, inspired the name of a much more recent rock band. And the closing production number, "Your Mother Should Know," which has the Beatles in white suits, dancing in unison down a giant staircase.

In addition to the PBS double feature, Magical Mystery Tour is also now available as a deluxe boxed set from Apple. It includes Blu-ray and DVD versions of the original special, a vastly shortened version of the documentary, and lots of extras, including outtakes and complete scenes that were cut out of the program before its 1967 premiere. These extras are every bit as entertaining as Magical Mystery Tour, and one segment is a minor revelation: singer-songwriter Ivor Cutler, seated at an ornate white organ in the middle of the English countryside, performing his composition "I'm Going in a Field." It must have been hypnotically bizarre then. It's hypnotically bizarre now .

It's no secret that I'm almost ridiculous in my enthusiasm for the Beatles. But for me, all this new Magical Mystery Tour material -- the restored TV special, the documentary, the boxed set — is like a perfectly timed holiday gift. The boxed set is expensive — but the Great Performances double feature is free. All you need is ... a TV set.

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"We said to everyone: 'Be on the coach on Monday morning.' I told them all, 'We're going to make it up as we go along, but don't worry - it'll be all right.'" Paul
"It was good. We would get off the bus: 'Let's stop here,' and go and do this and that. Go on the beach, draw a heart, dance. Then we'd put the music to it. It took two weeks to film and a long time to edit." Ringo
"In the time that had elapsed since A Hard Day's Night and Help! - although it was probably only two years - it was as if we'd gone through five hundred years mentally. We didn't see any way of making a similar film of four jolly lads nipping around singing catchy little tunes. It had to be something that had more meaning." George
"They thought we were stepping out of our roles. They'd like just to keep us in cardboard suits that were designed for us. Whatever image they have for themselves, they're disappointed if we don't fulfil it. And we never do, so there's always a lot of disappointment." John

Away in the sky, beyond the clouds, live 4 or 5 Magicians. By casting wonderful spells they turn the Most Ordinary Coach Trip into a Magical Mystery Tour. If you let yourself go, the Magicians will take you away to marvellous places. Maybe you've been on a Magical Mystery Tour without even realising it. Are you ready to go?

The Beatles produced this film around a coach journey across England. It features a series of musical vignettes, interspersed with scenes of comedy and fantasy. It includes tracks such as Magical Mystery Tour, The Fool On the Hill, Your Mother Should Know, and I Am The Walrus.

" Having been involved in feature films such as A Hard Day’s Night and Help! The Beatles wanted to make a film that was in keeping with the spirit of the times. So in the summer of 1967 we came up with a scenario that would keep the project extremely freewheeling.

At the time Richard Lester, the director of our first two films, was quoted in Rolling Stone as saying “ They should make their next film themselves, just the way they make an album. I mean that it should grow organically rather than having the professional cult of film making superimposed upon it. ”

I took over most of the responsibility of pulling this together. We remembered mystery tours from when we were growing up in Liverpool which would take people on a bus trip without them knowing the ultimate destination. So that’s what we did. We wrote a basic story outline starting with a hand drawn pie-chart, recorded some songs, engaged some likely looking actors and along with a few friends set off in our brightly coloured bus heading towards the south west coast of England.

Most of the dialogue was improvised and would involve us talking to the actors, deciding a basic idea for a scene and filming it right away. None of us knew our destination, as in the mystery tours of our childhood, but we had a very enjoyable few days and then returned to London to sort out all the footage we had shot.

It turned out to be a wacky, impromptu romp that puzzled a few people at the time but as the years have gone by it now stands as a fond reminder of that period in our lives."

Paul McCartney, August 2012.

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28 December 1967 The Guardian’s television reviewer finds himself almost alone in praising the Fab Four’s latest film

M y feelings on finding myself almost alone in praising the Beatles television film Magical Mystery Tour are amazement, and the sad conviction that as a mass the public is more stupid and ignorant than it is as individuals, and does not like to be told so. It particularly does not like something which it cannot understand but dimly feels to be a depiction of its qualities and its romantical view of show business. In deference to this the film should no doubt have gone out under some late-night banner like Omnibus or Contrasts – a bureaucrat’s device which says switch over to the wrestling, this programme does not concern you or your life in any way at all. My amazement is for the way in which the film has been dismissed as pretentious rubbish without any attempt to analyse its content.

The film is a deliberate parody of mass communication so it parodies the techniques. Most of its technical tricks are used now even in commercial films, and in shows like Top of the Pops every week. They are known, and that being so people should be able to accept them and advance through them to the images and the content of the film. Why therefore do people automatically deny that the content exists? Answer: because they don’t want to know what it has to say. They don’t want to have to face the fact that their idols and their modern mythology is a lot of mass-produced hooey and that most of us are fobbed off most of the time with utter banal rubbish.

The film is about the predicament of people who have become such idols. They are trapped inside an image and a wealth machine which simply cannot express what they really feel. This is a valid modern theme and the Beatles seem most qualified to comment upon it. Maybe they will be entirely trapped: maybe like Chaplin they never will quite struggle in the way they would like into the world of “real art.” But the struggle itself is indicative and the film whatever its faults is a comment and a documentation. The Beatles’ image of themselves as magicians is not conceited, because it is we who want them to be magicians. They know that they are not.

Beatle puts controversy before boredom

Paul McCartney answered newspaper reporters yesterday criticising the Beatles’ first television film, Magical Mystery Tour, shown on BBC-1 on Tuesday night. It was better to be controversial than just boring, he said.

“We tried to present something different for the viewers. But according to the newspapers it did not come off.” He added that the group was not discouraged, and would probably now make a feature film.

They had decided against producing a typically Christmasy show with lots of phoney tinsel. “We thought we would not underestimate people and would do something new.” Those critical of the film had expected it to have a plot, whereas it was a fantasy. It was a tour in which anything could, and did, happen. There was not meant to be any good reason for what happened.

Being themselves He said that a possible defect was that the “magical” aspect had not been emphasised. They could have obtained the assistance of a good director and editor and asked them to produce a Christmas show for them, but they had wanted to be themselves. The response to the film was “a pity,” but lessons had been learnt which would be borne in mind in making another film.

Magical Mystery Tour had been shown to members of Beatles’ fan clubs, who had thought it “a lovely film.” Mr McCartney said he and the other Beatles had not regarded it as “too far out.” Earlier, a spokesman for Nems Enterprises said: “Mystery Tour is being accepted all over the world as an important and successful experimental film.” The 50-minute colour film – shown in black and white on BBC-1 – will be seen by millions of viewers overseas including the United States. Some countries have seen it already.

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The Beatles, ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ – Film Review

Going into the last quarter of 1967, the Beatles couldn’t get any bigger. Their masterwork, ‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ,’ pretty much changed the way pop music was made, sounded and consumed. They had transcended the rock ‘n’ roll ghetto, entering the final phase of a career that glided past pop music’s boundaries and into a wide-open realm of exploration and experimentation.

They were on top of the world, and nobody wanted, or could, tell them no. Which is how and why their third movie, ‘Magical Mystery Tour,’ came to be over two weeks in September of 1967. Conceived as a daylong travelogue, in which the Fab Four accompany a busload of family and friends to the sea, the 53-minute film was a kaleidoscopic-colored, and mostly improvised, trip into the overeager egos of the Beatles.

Each member gets his spotlight: John Lennon romping on the hillside during a musical interlude featuring ‘I Am the Walrus’; Paul McCartney (the driving force behind the project) ruminating on ‘The Fool on the Hill; George Harrison tripping out to ‘Blue Jay Way’; and Ringo Starr bickering with his aunt (played by an actress) for the duration of the tour.

But most of the movie is filled out by that tedious bus ride. Just to show you how desperate the filmmakers were for material, somebody plays an accordion and everyone else sings along. There's also bizarre sketches featuring the quartet dressed as magicians and a dreamlike love-story vignette that doesn’t include any of the Beatles.

‘Magical Mystery Tour’ originally aired on British television on Dec. 26, 1967, and bombed, proving that the Beatles were fallible after all. It’s easy to see why: The movie is a mess – incoherent, unfunny and an example of ego and authority running rampant and unchecked. It only comes to life during the musical numbers, especially the great ‘I Am the Walrus’ sequence, a music video before there was such a thing.

The restored DVD and Blu-ray includes a stellar soundtrack remix, ensuring that the movie’s watchable moments sound terrific. Extras include interviews with McCartney, Starr and some of the cast and crew, as well as commentary by McCartney, who readily admits that ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ isn’t one of the Beatles’ best moments. We couldn’t agree more.

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Magical Mystery Tour is an hour-long television special that served as The Beatles ' third film. It debuted on BBC1 in 1967 . It was poorly received by critics and viewers upon its release, but has now garnered a cult following of sorts.

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The film was unscripted and shooting proceeded on the basis of a mostly handwritten collection of ideas, sketches, and situations, which Paul McCartney called the "Scrupt". The situation is that of a group of people on a British charabanc bus tour (On board a 1967 Bedford VAL Plaxton Panorama), focusing mostly on Mr. Richard Starkey ( Ringo Starr ) and his recently widowed aunt, Mrs Jessie Starkey (Jessie Robbins). Other group members on the bus include the tour director Jolly Jimmy Johnson (Derek Royle), the tour hostess Miss Wendy Winters (Mandy Weet), Buster Bloodvessel (Ivor Cutler), and the other Beatles.

During the course of the tour, "strange things begin to happen" at the whim of "four or five magicians", four of whom are played by the Beatles themselves and the fifth by long-time road manager Mal Evans .

During the journey, Starkey and his aunt argue considerably. Meanwhile, Mrs. Starkey begins to fall in love with Buster Bloodvessel, who displays eccentric and disturbing behaviour. The tour involves several strange activities, such as an impromptu race in which each tour group member employs a different mode of transportation (some run, a few jump into cars, a group of people have a long bike they pedal). The tour also goes through a long crawl tunnel which leads to a set-up projector theatre, and involves a strange scene where the group walks through what appears to be a British Army recruitment office. The film culminates with the group splitting up to see strip shows.

The film is punctuated by musical interludes which include the Beatles performing " I am the Walrus " wearing animal masks, George Harrison singing " Blue Jay Way " while waiting on Blue Jay Way Road and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing "Death Cab for Cutie".

At various times, an audience is seen when something funny or unexpected happens; for example, when John asks a little girl, Nicola, if she wants him to blow up a red balloon for her, she exclaims a straightforward "NO", prompting John to pull a face that says "Why do I bother?"

Production [ ]

Despite being the shortest Beatle film, nearly ten hours of footage was shot over a two week period. The core of the film was shot beginning on 11 September, and finishing on 25 September. The following eleven weeks were mostly spent on editing the film from ten hours to 52 minutes. Scenes that were filmed but not included in the final cut were a sequence where ice cream, fruit and lollipops were sold to the Beatles and other coach passengers, John, Paul, George, and Ringo each looking through a telescope, and Happy Nat The Rubber Man chasing women around the Atlantic Hotel's outdoor swimming pool, a sequence directed by John.

The coach used in the film was a 1967 Bedford VAL Plaxton with Panorama bodywork. The vehicle was new to Fox of Hayes in 1967.

Much of the film was shot in and around RAF West Malling, an airfield in Kent that had recently been decommissioned. Many of the interior scenes, such as the final ballroom sequence for " Your Mother Should Know ", were shot in the disused aircraft hangars. The exteriors, such as the "I am the Walrus" sequence, and the marathon race, were filmed on the runways and taxi aprons. RAF Air Training Corps cadets can be seen marching in some scenes, and during "I am the Walrus" an RAF Avro Shackleton is seen orbiting the group.

The mystery tour itself was shot throughout the West Country of England, including Devon and Cornwall, although most of the footage was not used in the finished film. The final striptease sequence was shot at Paul Raymond's Raymond Revuebar in London, and the sequence for " The Fool on the Hill " was shot around Nice, France.

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The film was first shown in the United Kingdom as a made-for-television film on the BBC; it was shown in black-and-white on BBC1, then in colour on BBC2 a few days later. The poor critical reaction to the telecast soured American television networks from acquiring the film, while its one-hour running length made it commercially unviable for theatrical release. It wasn't seen in commercial theatres in the US until 1976, when New Line Cinema acquired the rights for limited theatrical and non-theatrical distribution; it wasn't seen on American television until the 1980s in syndication. However, it was shown in 1968 at the Fillmore East in New York City as part of a fundraiser for the Liberation News Service. The critical reception in 1967 had been so poor that no one had properly archived a negative, and these later re-release versions had to be copied from poor-quality prints. By the end of the 1980s, MPI (via rights holder Apple Corps) had released the movie on video, and a DVD release followed many years later. An official rerelease is due out sometime in 2008.

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The British public's reaction to the film was scathing. Hunter Davies , the band's biographer, said: "It was the first time in memory that an artist felt obliged to make a public apology for his work." McCartney later spoke to the press, saying: "We don't say it was a good film. It was our first attempt. If we goofed, then we goofed. It was a challenge and it didn't come off. We'll know better next time." However, with the passage of time, McCartney's view of it has changed: "Looking back on it, I thought it was all right. I think we were quite pleased with it."

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" The Fool on the Hill " " Flying " " I am the Walrus " " Blue Jay Way " " Your Mother Should Know " " Hello, Goodbye " (finale played over credits) " Death Cab for Cutie " (written by Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes and performed by their band, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) " All My Loving " (orchestrated, as background music) " She Loves You " (played during the marathon with a carnival-style organ)

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Filming: Magical Mystery Tour

The first full day of filming for The Beatles’ television film Magical Mystery Tour took place in the south west of England.

The coach had arrived in Teignmouth in Devon on the previous night, and the party stayed at the Royal Hotel. Following breakfast on this day, the coach set off once again and headed for the Dartmoor village of Widecombe.

The annual village fair was being held in Widecombe, and it was decided that filming should take place there. However, the driver Alf Manders took a shortcut in order to beat traffic queues, and the coach became stuck on a narrow bridge.

The coach had to be reversed for half a mile, and tempers frayed on board. Footage was made of on-board arguments, though none was used. In the end The Beatles decided to abandon the trip to the fair, disappointing some local fans who had heard about their impending arrival.

The mystery trip continued instead to Plymouth on the A38. The party had lunch in the Grand Hotel, situated on the famous Plymouth Hoe, where The Beatles posed for photographers from national newspapers.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were also interviewed by BBC TV reporter Hugh Scully. The interview was shown as the lead item on the local news programme Spotlight South West on the following day from 5.55pm.

The party then boarded the coach once more, and continued along the A38. Stops were made at Liskeard and Bodmin – where filming took place outside West End Dairy in Higher Bore Street and on Paull Road. For the latter scene, the courier Jolly Jimmy Johnson, played by Derek Royle, boarded the coach and welcomed everybody. The sequence was used at the beginning of the film.

The final destination for the day was the Atlantic Hotel on Dane Road, Newquay. The Beatles had intended to stay for just one night, but eventually decided to use it as a base for three nights. They slept in four holiday flats.

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  1. Magical Mystery Tour (film)

    Magical Mystery Tour is a 1967 British made-for-television musical film written, produced, directed by, and starring the Beatles. It is the third film that starred the band and depicts a group of people on a coach tour (including the band members) who experience strange happenings caused by magicians (also played by the band as well as road ...

  2. Magical Mystery Tour (1967) : The Beatles

    Watch the free online streaming of the Beatles' musical film directed by Paul McCartney and inspired by Ken Kesey's Furthur adventures. The film depicts a group of people on a coach tour who experience strange happenings caused by magicians.

  3. Magical Mystery Tour (TV Movie 1967)

    Magical Mystery Tour: Directed by George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Bernard Knowles. With The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Jan Carson, George Claydon, Ivor Cutler. The Beatles charter a special bus for a surreal mystery tour.

  4. Magical Mystery Tour

    Magical Mystery Tour 1967 55 min. Musical List 64% 14 Reviews Tomatometer 57% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score John, Paul, George and Ringo take a psychedelic bus trip through the English countryside.

  5. Magical Mystery Tour

    BUY THE ALBUM. The Beatles devised, wrote and directed a television film called Magical Mystery Tour which was broadcast on BBC Television at Christmas, 1967. Even before Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, had hit the shops, the idea of the programme had been born and work had commenced on the title track. It was decided that the soundtrack ...

  6. Behind The Scenes Of The Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour'

    A new documentary on PBS about the making of the Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour features outtakes from the original and new interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. TV critic David ...

  7. Magical Mystery Tour (film)

    Magical Mystery Tour is a 1967 British made-for-television musical film written, produced, directed by, and starring the Beatles. It is the third film that starred the band and depicts a group of people on a coach tour who experience strange happenings caused by magicians. The premise was inspired by Ken Kesey's Furthur adventures with the Merry Pranksters and the then-popular coach trips from ...

  8. Magical Mystery Tour

    The Beatles produced this film around a coach journey across England. It features a series of musical vignettes, interspersed with scenes of comedy and fantasy. It includes tracks such as Magical Mystery Tour, The Fool On the Hill, Your Mother Should Know, and I Am The Walrus. " Having been involved in feature films such as A Hard Day's Night ...

  9. Magical Mystery Tour (TV Movie 1967)

    The film begins as Ringo and his aunt Jessie Robbins walk hurriedly to catch the Magical Mystery Tour bus for an afternoon trip to the English countryside, double meaning on the word "trip", as a major punning tool for the late 60s, when everybody was dropping out, turning on, and tuning in. As an unidentified voice over narrates, this trip to ...

  10. Magical Mystery Tour

    Magical Mystery Tour is a record by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a double EP in the United Kingdom and an LP in the United States. It includes the soundtrack to the 1967 television film of the same name.The EP was issued in the UK on 8 December 1967 on the Parlophone label, while the Capitol Records LP release in the US and Canada occurred on 27 November and features ...

  11. The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour: 'a romantical view of show business

    The response to the film was "a pity," but lessons had been learnt which would be borne in mind in making another film. Magical Mystery Tour had been shown to members of Beatles' fan clubs ...

  12. The Beatles, 'Magical Mystery Tour'

    It's easy to see why: The movie is a mess - incoherent, unfunny and an example of ego and authority running rampant and unchecked. It only comes to life during the musical numbers, especially ...

  13. Magical Mystery Tour (film)

    Magical Mystery Tour is an hour-long television special that served as The Beatles' third film. It debuted on BBC1 in 1967. It was poorly received by critics and viewers upon its release, but has now garnered a cult following of sorts. The film was unscripted and shooting proceeded on the basis of a mostly handwritten collection of ideas, sketches, and situations, which Paul McCartney called ...

  14. Magical Mystery Tour (HQ Version)

    "Ladies and gentlemen, what you are about to see is the product of our imaginations and believe me, at this point they are quite vivid" PaulThe Beatles' Clas...

  15. 12 September 1967: Filming: Magical Mystery Tour

    Tuesday 12 September 1967 Film and video, Magical Mystery Tour 1 Comment. The first full day of filming for The Beatles' television film Magical Mystery Tour took place in the south west of England. The coach had arrived in Teignmouth in Devon on the previous night, and the party stayed at the Royal Hotel. Following breakfast on this day, the ...

  16. The Beatles

    The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (Movie) ... Unlike Help which is just 'silly-experimental', and A Hard Day's Night which just feels like a home movie, this film has a strange 'found footage' quality to it. Like those analog horrors could never match this vibe.

  17. Magical Mystery Tour : The Beatles : Free Download, Borrow, and

    The Beatles 3rd movie, Magical Mystery Tour from 1967. Credits. Screenplay by Paul McCartney and Mal Evans Directed by Paul McCarney Co-Directed by John Lennon and George Harrison ... for a film starring the beatles, this had little to no george harrison . 4,537 Views . 57 Favorites. 2 Reviews

  18. The Beatles

    Here's a nice change of pace! Here's a documentary on the making of the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film. Below are the notes from the back of the case:THE...

  19. Magical Mystery Tour (TV Movie 1967)

    Magical Mystery Tour (TV Movie 1967) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. ... Oscars SXSW Film Festival Cannes Film Festival STARmeter Awards Awards Central Festival Central All Events. Celebs. Born Today Most Popular Celebs Celebrity News. Community.

  20. The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

    Movie Soundtrack's0:00 Magical Mystery Tour5:55 The Fool On The Hill17:55 Flying25:08 I Am The Walrus36:57 Blue Jay Way48:21 Your Mother Should Know50:44 Mag...