![]() ![]() Television was the obvious answer." Most of the band members have said that the initial idea was McCartney’s, although he stated, "I’m not sure whose idea Magical Mystery Tour was. In The Beatles Anthology, Lennon states that "if stage shows were to be out, we wanted something to replace them. ![]() The movie was an attempt to combine the free-wheeling fun of Ken Kesey's 1964 cross-country American bus tour aboard "Further" with the Merry Pranksters, and the then-popular charabanc trips from Liverpool to see the Blackpool Lights. The film is interspersed with musical interludes, which include the Beatles performing " I Am the Walrus" wearing animal masks, Harrison singing " Blue Jay Way" while waiting on Blue Jay Way Road, and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes' " Death Cab For Cutie" sung by Stanshall. The film ends with the Beatles dressed in white tuxedos, highlighting a glamorous old-style dance crowd scene, accompanied by the song " Your Mother Should Know". The film continues with the tour's male passengers watching a strip show (Jan Carson of the Raymond Revuebar). A scene in a restaurant shows a waiter (played by Lennon) repeatedly shovelling spaghetti onto the table in front of Aunt Jessie, while arriving guests step out from a lift and walk across the dining tables. The tour group also crawl into a tiny tent in a field, inside which is a projection theatre. ![]() (McCartney appears briefly as "Major McCartney", on whose desk rests a sign reading "I you WAS".) The sergeant, shouting incomprehensibly, appears to instruct the assembled onlookers on how to attack a stuffed cow. In one scene, the tour group walk through what appears to be a British Army recruitment office and are greeted by the army drill sergeant ( Victor Spinetti). The tour involves several strange activities, such as an impromptu race in which each of the passengers employs a different mode of transportation (some run, a few jump into cars, a group of people have a long bike they pedal, while Ringo ends up beating them all with the bus). Aunt Jessie begins to have daydreams of falling in love with Buster Bloodvessel, who displays increasingly eccentric and disturbing behaviour. Other group members on the bus include the tour director, Jolly Jimmy Johnson ( Derek Royle) the tour hostess, Miss Wendy Winters (Miranda Forbes, credited as Mandy Weet) the conductor, Buster Bloodvessel ( Ivor Cutler) and the other Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison).ĭuring 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 the band's long-time road manager Mal Evans.ĭuring the journey, Ringo and his Aunt Jessie argue continually. The situation is that of a group of people on a British mystery tour in a 1967 coach, focusing mostly on Mr Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr) and his recently widowed Aunt Jessie ( Jessie Robins). Similar movies South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, The Beatles: The Night That Changed America - A Grammy Salute, Jamon Jamon, Pistol Opera, Paul McCartney Out There Budokan, Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill ![]() Writer John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starrĭirectors Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Bernard KnowlesĬast John Lennon (Himself / Ticket Salesman / Magician with coffee / Narrator (as The Beatles)), Paul McCartney (Himself / Major McCartney / Brown Nosed Magician (as The Beatles)), George Harrison (Himself / Magician Looking Through Telescope (as The Beatles)), Ringo Starr (Himself / Talkative Magician (as The Beatles)), Vivian Stanshall (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (as The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)), Neil Innes (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (as The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)) Director The BeatlesBernard Knowles (uncredited) ![]()
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