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Vietnam War[edit]

This article completely fails to mention how this song makes various references to its contemporary, the Vietnam War. Even the title references those who are conscripted. njaard (talk) 08:32, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"...not a smash hit"[edit]

I'm having a hard time understanding why the song is deemed not to have been a smash hit when, in fact, it seems as though it never saw release as a single. A review of the vast Beatles discography page at Wiki shows it was not ever a single in the UK or the U.S. Indeed, release info on this song page is for the LP and EP. Was it a single anywhere? If not, then the "not a smash hit" thing needs to be altered to reflect the fact that this was an album cut. If it was a single somewhere in the world, then those markets where it was released and the single's respective peaks should be noted. Furthermore, "Magical Mystery Tour" is listed in the British section of the discography under EPs, but it states there that the EP peaked at #2 on the singles chart, beneath another Beatles single. If EPs charted as singles in the UK, shouldn't EPs of original material be considered as singles, and this one a smash hit at #2? So far as I understand, the UK singles charts don't consider airplay a factor in a song's success (or, put another way, the charts aren't arbiters of a song's success, merely its relative sales). If the point made by the article is that the song didn't receive much airplay compared to the other songs on the EP, are there citable figures for respective peaks on various UK radio stations? If the statement in the article is accurate, the article needs to explain how a #2 bestseller in a country that only factors sales into its chart, and considers EPs singles from a sales standpoint, can be said to have not been a smash hit. Abrazame (talk) 03:44, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:TheBeatlesMagicalMysteryTouralbumcover.jpg[edit]

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Is a charabanc a mystery tour?[edit]

I think linking "mystery tour" to the article Charabanc doesn't fit.

Under Composition, it says, "The remaining lyrics explain in a general way the premise of the film: a mystery tour of the type that was popular in Britain when the Beatles were young." "Mystery tour" in that sentence does not link to a mystery tour, but to Charabanc which is described as a "horse-drawn vehicle or early motor coach." The only reference I see linking the two is in Cultural references in the Charabanc article where it says, "George Harrison described the plot of The Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour 'a charabanc trip'.[14]" The reference is to a trip, not to a vehicle. Should this link be removed? As a separate issue, should an article on "Mystery Tour" be added? Alden Loveshade (talk) 22:20, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]