He transports the bus riders to a field where he instructs them on how to attack a statue of a cow. When some of the passengers on the Magical Mystery Tour bus file through the office, the sergeant barks orders incomprehensibly.

“Major McCartney” is staffing an army recruiting office accompanied by “Army Sergeant” (Victor Spinetti). This scene, like the rest of the movie Magical Mystery Tour, is not easy to understand. Also, the British flags behind Paul are crossed as they would be in a military funeral. The nameplate could also be read as “I You Was” or “I Was You,” perhaps suggesting that Paul had disappeared and been replaced by a double. On page 5 (using the page numbering from the 2009 CD reissue of Magical Mystery Tour) of the booklet, Paul is shown sitting behind a desk with a nameplate that reads “I Was”. The image inside the cover shows the Beatles dressed as wizards, but only Paul’s wizard hat features black flowers. In Strawberry Fields Forever #51, Joel Glazier is quick to point out that the cartoon image of Paul on the inside cover establishes a theme that runs throughout the booklet: that Paul is often portrayed differently from the rest of the Beatles and in ways that hint at something dark. The 24-page booklet was resized accordingly, making the “Paul is dead” clues larger and more numerous on the American release. In the United States, however, Capitol packaged the songs from the film with non-LP singles for a full LP. Magical Mystery Tour was packaged as double 7″ EP in the UK with a 24-page booklet that mixes cartoon images of the Beatles with stills from the film. With all of the nonsense and surreal imagery it was understandable that fans would be looking for clues about Paul McCartney’s rumored death and replacement by a lookalike on this album, particularly when the title song announced, “the magical mystery tour is dying to take you away”. Still, the record that accompanied the film, also called Magical Mystery Tour (1967), had plenty of good music to keep fans happy. More than anything, this film showed that the Beatles were struggling to find their direction in their first major project after the death of their manager, Brian Epstein. We guarantee him the trip of a lifetime.” Perhaps the Beatles presumed that those who were “turned on” would understand what was going on, but the film was a poorly conceived and hard to follow. The Beatles’ movie Magical Mystery Tour, originally broadcast on the BBC in 1967, opens with the line, “When a man buys a ticket for a Magical Mystery Tour he knows what to expect.

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