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The Fool On The Hill was a Lennon/McCartney original, used in the Magical Mystery Tour film and accompanying LP/EP set. It was actually conceived by Paul McCartney, who stated in an interview that he wrote the song with someone like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in mind. He claims that he looked at the Maharishi as someone that was considered a fool to his detractors. However, the earliest memories of the song occur around the time of the sessions for the Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, a few months before The Beatles first met with the Maharishi. Paul had actually played the song for John Lennon on piano during a writing session for the Pepper track, With A Little Help From My Friends. The Beatles Anthology 2 CD set has the first recorded demo of the song, taped on September 6th, 1967, along with an account of take 4, made on September 25th, by which time the recording of the song in earnest had begun. The basic track for the master was completed by September 27th, and the flutes were added on October 20th as the finishing touch.
e bay united kingdom On October 30th, 1967, during filming of the Magical Mystery Tour television special, Paul, along with camerman Aubrey Dewar, traveled down to Nice, France, e bay united kingdom without the other Beatles. The idea was to shoot sequences of him prancing and skipping about in a rocky mountainous area, for use in the Fool On The Hill segment of the film. As seen in this video excerpt, e bay united kingdom the scene is portrayed as a daydream of Paul s that occurs while he sits on the Magical Mystery Tour bus, waiting for the magic to begin.
The finished e bay united kingdom film premiered on December e bay united kingdom 26th (Boxing e bay united kingdom Day) in the U.K. on BBC1 and has been on several VHS releases throughout the late 1970s and up through the 1990s. The most recent official release of the film was on DVD in 1997, and it is currently out of print. Fortunately, it still can be found if you visit the right stores. (I have added a link below to a 3rd party Amazon vendor who still has copies, if you are interested.)
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