The Beatles: Tragical Mystery Tour
| The Beatles: Tragical Mystery Tour | ||
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| Album by The Beatles | ||
| Released Date | March 14, 1967 | |
| Recorded | January 5 - 19, 1967 | |
| Genre | Psychedelic rock | |
| Length | 90:67 | |
| Record label | Parlophone | |
| Producers | George Martin Phil Spector | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Oscar Wilde review | 4/5 - "Near tragic perfection!" | |
| The Rolling Stones review | 1/5 - "After the touring bus sank into the mud, I tuned out; it was all too horrible to really witness." | |
| American Union of Bus Drivers review | 0/5 - "The Beatles demonstrated a blatant disregard towards real bus safety. They should be banned from America!" | |
| Oxfud Engrish Dicktionari review | 0/5 - "technically the plural of 'walrus' is actually 'WALRII' and its pronouciated 'boob tube' not goog goob." | |
| Beatle Albums | ||
| Sgt. Lt. Pepper's Only Lonely Hearts Club Bandana (1967) |
Tragical Mystery Tour (1967} |
Ringo Needs Some Money (1967) |
“The Walrus was me!”
The Beatles: Tragical Histery Tour was The Beatles followup to Sgt. Lt. Pepper's Only Lonely Hearts Club Bandana, and it turned out to be a soundtrack to a Saturday morning film staring the Beatles and a tour bus running around the English countryside dressed in various assorted chicken costumes bringing a new sort of seriousness and dignity to their art, and touching on many of the philosophical questions that have plagued modern man for centuries.
Production[edit | edit source]
The Beatles now turned their attentions to various plays and tragedies, (and eating tons of spaghetti with shovels) where ever they ended up. Of course, the horrid loss of Paul automatically makes the movie a tragedy, and one often wonders why, over the course of 90 minutes, this epic disaster was ever committed to film. Rated G. (Ages 2 and under)
The mystery to this day is exactly who was the black "whore."
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In the song "Glass Bunyon", from the Beatles self-titled double album, John Lennon sings:
- "Here's a clue for you all,
- The whore was Paul"
We're still very uncertain what this means, seeing as Paul was white and the whore was black, but, who knows? It may just be the inscrutable ramblings of a long-dead drug poet.
Then, again...
Tracklisting[edit | edit source]
Side 1[edit | edit source]
- Tragical Mystery Tour - 3:12
- The Mule on the Pill - 2:02
- The Shit and the Pendulum - 2:34
- Dying - 3:32
- Canary Crossing - 1:58
- Your Mother's A Hoe- 2:08
- I Am The Whore - 9:09
- Go To The Other Side (And Suffer) - 0:96
Side 2[edit | edit source]
- Hello Piss Off - 3:44
- Elderberry Fields Forever - 3:16
- Quarter Avenue - 3:12
- Maybe You're A Bitch - 2:08
- All You Need Is More Drugs - 2:08