ABSTRACT
The plan for Magical Mystery Tour originated in April of 1967, soon after the band had finished the sessions for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released in June that year. This chapter explains the Beatles had come to believe that they had been tasked with modernizing rock music, on account of their special place in an expansive music industry, and their new invention of a more cerebral, sophisticated approach to rock songwriting. The camera focuses on a makeshift screen in the theater, and Harrison emerges from a cloud of vapors, to mime the song in a yogi posture. Although the song is one of several Indian style songs that Harrison had contributed to Beatles records since Revolver. The chapter also explains the return to childhood pastoral comes after the fracturing of consciousness through acid and other aspects of modern life. It shows the EMI studios represented a very English kind of music capitalism.
