{"product_id":"the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour-cd","title":"The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eMagical Mystery Tour is The Beatles at their most colourful and strange, here on CD as the 2009 remaster in a limited first-run digipak that also carries a short documentary as enhanced content.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album began life in 1967 as the soundtrack to a chaotic television film, and the American release padded those songs out with the band's recent singles. The result is one of the richest stretches of music they ever made, landing between Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the sprawling White Album at the absolute peak of their psychedelic phase.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Am the Walrus is the masterpiece of nonsense, John Lennon's surreal lyrics riding cellos, brass and a radio play drifting through the mix. Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane, originally released as a double A-side single, form the most perfect pairing in pop: one a hazy dream of childhood, the other a sunlit Liverpool street scene with a piccolo trumpet solo that sparkles. The Fool on the Hill brings gentle melancholy courtesy of Paul McCartney, all recorder and quiet wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 2009 remasters gave this music new presence and detail while respecting the original mixes, and this limited digipak edition comes straight from that campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoll up for the trip, as the title song promises.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57439081595185,"sku":"094638246527","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/1200x1200bb_26f6aacf-85fa-4ada-8d68-7fb850613d16.jpg?v=1794151989","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour-cd","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}