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The Beatles 10/06/12
"Magical Mystery Tour Revisited" (BBC Arena), documentary, England
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Boxing Day evening, 1967. After enjoying This Is Petula Clark at ten past eight on BBC1, at 8.35pm the nation settles in for Magical Mystery Tour, a new TV movie by the unstoppable authors of Strawberry Fields Forever and Sgt Pepper, who previously appeared in the wholesomely enjoyable films Help! and
A Hard Day's Night.

Fifty minutes later, Britain is pretty angry. The fallout lasts for weeks. Magical Mystery Tour is seen as a baffling, murky meander, made by musicians arrogantly thinking they can make up a film as they go along and get away with it. Even today, it's routinely cited as The Beatles' only major creative
failure.

Is that impression fair? Tonight, a new Arena documentary re-assesses the film, complete with previously unseen out-takes.
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