![]() ![]() Unfortunately, as Beatles’ producer George Martin explains in Roy Carr’s The Beatles at the Movies (New York: HarperPerennial, 1996), things did not turn out that way and “if the Beatles’ professional career were to be plotted on a graph, Magical Mystery Tour was definitely a dip” (113). Or, at least that was how they envisioned it. It would be an extravagant film, every bit as colorful, interesting, and original as their music. ![]() Then, in early September, just a few weeks after the death of their manager, Brian Epstein (the victim of an accidental overdose of prescription-drugs on August 27, 1967), the Beatles began work on their next project – a film for television entitled Magical Mystery Tour. They were, by all accounts, perceived as infallible. Since the record’s June release, the group had become cultural and musical icons and had attained a form of rock sainthood. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album and looking for a follow-up. The fall of 1967 found The Beatles feasting on the critical and commercial success of the Sgt. ![]()
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