Magical Mystery Tour, White Album and Yellow Submarine

The soundtrack to a Beatles television film, Magical Mystery Tour was released in the UK as a six-track double extended play disc (EP) in early December 1967.^[177][74] In the United States, the six songs were issued on an identically titled LP that also included five tracks from the band's recent singles.^[92] Unterberger says of the US Magical Mystery Tour, "The psychedelic sound is very much in the vein of Sgt. Pepper, and even spacier in parts (especially the sound collages of 'I Am the Walrus')", and calls its five songs culled from the band's 1967 singles "huge, glorious, and innovative".^[178] In its first three weeks, it set a record for the highest initial sales of any Capitol LP, and is the only Capitol compilation later to be adopted in the band's official canon of studio albums.^[179] First aired on Boxing Day, the Magical Mystery Tour film brought the group their first major negative UK press. It was dismissed as "blatant rubbish" by the Daily Express, and The Daily Mail called it "a colossal conceit", while The Guardian labelled it "a kind of fantasy morality play about the grossness and warmth and stupidity of the audience".^[180] Gould describes it as "a great deal of raw footage showing a group of people getting on, getting off, and riding on a bus".^[180] Although TV viewership was respectable, broad critical consensus in the UK caused US television networks to lose interest in broadcasting it.^[181]