The Beatles : magical mystery tour and yellow submarine / compiled by Bruce Spizer with additional contributions by Bill King, Al Sussman, Frank Daniels, Piers Hemmingsen, and other Beatles fans.
This book is published by 498 Productions, L.L.C. It is not an official product of Universal Music Group, Inc., Capitol Records, Inc. or Apple Corps Ltd.
Contents:
The Beatles magical mystery tour through the U.K. / Bruce Spizer -- The Beatles magical mystery tour in America / Bruce Spizer -- The Beatles in Canada : from our world to no one's gonna change our world / Piers Hemmingsen -- The Beatles were a part of our world / Al Sussman -- Why don't we sing this song all together? The Beatles & the Stones / Frank Daniels -- The Beatles Saturday morning cartoons / Bruce Spizer -- Yellow submarine merchandise in the sixties -- Picture sleeves -- Fan recollections -- A fan's notes : when all we needed was love / Bill King -- The third film & EP that never came to be / Bruce Spizer -- Nothing's gonna change our world / Bruce Spizer -- The magical mystery tour package, a journey on a yellow submarine and a return to their roots / Bruce Spizer -- The magical mystery tour & yellow sub sessions / Bruce Spizer -- Formats and later releases / Bruce Spizer.
Summary:
"The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine is the latest installment in the Beatles Album Series by Beatles historian Bruce Spizer. The book covers the songs and projects undertaken by the Beatles shortly after completion of their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in April 1967. In following ten months, the group wrote and recorded the song "All You Need Is Love" for the Our World TV program that was broadcast by satellite throughout the world, wrote the songs for and filmed the TV spectacular Magical Mystery Tour, wrote the songs for their feature length cartoon film Yellow Submarine, and recorded the songs "Lady Madonna" and "Across The Universe" before heading to India to study transcendental meditation in mid-February 1968. The book covers these remarkable achievements from the British, American, and Canadian perspectives, and includes chapters on the packaging of the albums and the writing and recording of the songs. It also has chapters on how the Beatles influenced our world, the friendly rivalry between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the Beatles Saturday morning cartoons, dozens of fan recollections, and more. The book has over 150 images."-- Provided by publisher.
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