This decision was deemed a wise one since, on the coat-tails of the incredible success of “ Sgt.
US audiences just didn’t buy EPs.Īccording to the November 25th, 1967 issue of Billboard magazine, Capitol Records made a “decision to issue the six soundtrack recordings from The Beatles’ forthcoming TV fantasy spectacular, ‘Magical Mystery Tour,’ on an album in the US” These six songs would comprise side one, and the five tracks the group released as singles that year would make up side two. This, however, was not the case in America, the small handful of Beatles EPs released here not even making it to the top 40. Therefore, it was decided that the six songs would be released as a double EP to accompany the film, EPs remaining a popular format in Britain at the time. Pepper,” and they were too busy creating the film to throw together more music. Of course, six songs were not enough to release as a follow-up album to “ Sgt. The production values were still very high as they took their time to perfect these new audio creations. Pepper” still ringing through the EMI studios, The Beatles took great pains to record six amazingly psychedelic songs as the soundtrack to the film.
They knew that very well! With the echoes of “ Sgt. What they did know, however, was the music. Most American fans didn’t know it existed until about a decade later. As far as the US market was concerned, there was no such thing as a “Magical Mystery Tour” movie. Plans, of course, were to release it for American audiences to see but, because of the overall critical slamming it received in the UK, American television didn't acquire the rights for broadcast. The project was a new film entitled “Magical Mystery Tour,” which was debuted on British Television on December 26th, 1967. Meanwhile, The Beatles were hard at work on a brand new project earmarked to further "turn on" their world audience, although a major portion of this audience would never experience it until many years later. The infatuation with that album continued throughout the year, keeping it in the number one position on the Billboard album charts until November and in the top five for the remainder of the year. Pepper,” as well as their July single “ All You Need Is Love,” dominated the radio airwaves and home turntables throughout the world, most noteworthy in America and Britain.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” The music, artwork, album packaging, and even the look of the group themselves had changed so dramatically with that release that no one would be surprised by anything else the group might have up their sleeves for the future. The Beatles had raised the bar very high with the release of their June 1967 masterpiece album “ Sgt.