I, for one, didn't know that "mystery tours" were actual things:
The genesis of the disaster known as Magical Mystery Tour was a flight Paul McCartney took from America to England in April 1967. At the time, “Mystery Tours” were all the rage in England—these being low-budget weekend getaways, groups of people riding overnight on a bus to a surprise destination. While on the plane, Paul took a big piece of paper and drew a pie chart, hoping to fill in the blank sections with entertaining ideas for a mystery tour.
The idea lay dormant until late August of 1967, when The Beatles’ loyal and dedicated (and irreplaceable) manager Brian Epstein died of a drug overdose. A few days after Epstein’s funeral, the boys gathered together and had a meeting. According to Ringo Starr: “Paul had a great piece of paper—just a blank piece of paper with a circle on it… We filled it in as we went along.” So, with no script to speak of, the Fab Four rented a coach and hand-lettered it as the “Magical Mystery Tour,” and off they went, with the hope that this mysterious scenario might somehow prove interesting and entertaining.
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