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Magical Mystery TourThe Beatles

Released: November 27, 1967

Songwriter: Lennon-McCartney John Lennon Paul McCartney

Producer: George Martin

[Intro: Paul McCartney]
(Roll up! Roll up for the magical mystery tour!
Step right this way!)

[Verse: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and (John Lennon)]
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour
Roll up (and that's an invitation), roll up for the mystery tour
Roll up (to make a reservation), roll up for the mystery tour

[Chorus 1: Paul McCartney]
The magical mystery tour is waiting to take you away
Waiting to take you away

[Verse: Paul McCartney, John Lennon and (George Harrison)]
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour
Roll up (we've got everything you need), roll up for the mystery tour
Roll up (satisfaction guaranteed), roll up for the mystery tour

[Chorus 2: Paul McCartney]
The magical mystery tour is hoping to take you away
Hoping to take you away

[Bridge]
A mystery trip

[Verse: John Lennon, George Harrison, and (Paul McCartney)]
Aaaah... the magical mystery tour
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour
Roll up (and that's an invitation), roll up for the mystery tour
Roll up (to make a reservation), roll up for the mystery tour

[Chorus: Paul McCartney]
The magical mystery tour is coming to take you away
Coming to take you away
The magical mystery tour is dying to take you away
Dying to take you away, take you today

[Outro]

The Beatles

The Beatles are arguably the most famous, critically-acclaimed, and successful rock band of all time—certainly the preeminent group of the 20th century. They started out as four teenagers playing grimy basement clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg, but they progressed to become world-beating rock stars who are still influential to this day.

John Lennon first formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen in March 1957. A fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined shortly thereafter, eventually inviting his friend George Harrison to audition for the band. After finally impressing John with his guitar skills, George was asked to join—but this juncture would be short-lived as John’s departure to college signaled the other quarrymen to go their separate ways.

By 1960, Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison had re-branded from ‘Johnny & the Moondogs’ to ‘The Silver Beetles’ at the behest of their new bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe. The name would eventually evolve into ‘The Silver Beatles’ by July of that year, before settling on ‘The Beatles’ come August—just in time for their trip to Hamburg with new drummer, Pete Best. Though club residencies in Germany would prove fundamental to the group’s progress as a whole, the tour turned out to be a blessing and a curse, following the deportation of a then-seventeen-year-old George Harrison, and the eventual tragic death of Stuart Sutcliffe.

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