UK Chart Entry: 13 Jan 1968
Highest Position: 31
Total Weeks on Chart: 2
Released in Mono and Stereo Versions
"Songs and music from a color television film called 'Magical Mystery Tour' ... plus ... other selections."
Produced by Big George Martin.
Includes 24-page color picture book.
Lyrics to Magical Mystery Tour songs on p. 3 of cover.
- First-pressings list all tracks as BMI; second-pressings list Tracks A1 through A6 as ASCAP while Tracks B1 through B5 remain BMI
- Tracks A1 through A6 originally issued in UK on Parlophone Extended Play SMMT-1
- Track B1 previously issued on Capitol 2056
- Tracks B2 and B3 previously issued on Capitol 5810
- Tracks B4 and B5 previously issued on Capitol 5964
- Tracks B1 and B2 available in true stereo for the first time
- Tracks B3 through B5 in Duophonic (fake stereo)
-- First pressing East-Coast Queens Litho inner slicks have "No You're Not" (under I Am The Walrus) in a printed font, West-Coast slicks have this phrase handwritten, subsequent East-coast pressings have this handwritten also..
Some Los Angeles factory copies came with the red-pink-white inner sleeves that had come with Sgt. Pepper.
Hi. These are tricky. Just added 1987 Rainbow label SMAL2835 final edition, before 1988 Purple with new issue number. Note this has labels without “STEREO” indicator. Song titles match font from other pressings for all 1987 US editions of UK album format of Please Please Me through Revolver. No inner 24 page comic booklet inside this one. Purple stripe on front cover. Beatle Lew.
Added variant cover, gatefold and label images for 1978 reissue. The differences are as follows:
The 24-page full color picture book was not included.
front cover variant:
- purple strip in place of "Includes 24-page full color picture book"
gatefold (left) variant:
- full catalog number SMAL 2835 above the Capitol and EMI logos (lower left)
- no "apple [picture of apple ®] presents" (upper right)
- The following text is removed after "SPLENDID!": "The story begins on Page 7 . . . or 8 . . . ."
back cover variant:
- Capitol Records logo (lower left)
- EMI logo (lower right)
- single line of text between the Capitol Records logo and the EMI logo
label variant:
maroon label
The right gatefold is the same as {Image #451258}.