What: Magical Mystery Tour Stop #8
Where: Perkins (North Location)
When: June 20, 2015 at 2200-2400 (that's 10 to midnight)
Why: A Righteous Good Time
Who: Any one who feels that they are the Walrus
How: Bus, van, car, bike, or transportor
The Magical Mystery Tour 2015 is set for June 20, 2015. Originally held in 2012 as a state-wide, 24-hour event with eight different stops – create your own adventure in 2015! Load your closest 12 geo-friends in a van and cache the entire state in 24 hours. Attend your closest event and meet cachers from across the state as they travel to you. Pick an event in another corner of the state and meet new friends, see new places, and find a few new caches. There is never a shortage of caching tales (or caching tall-tales) at an event – hear a few and make of few of your own on the way! The first event starts at 0001 and the last event ends at 2359. Grab a friend (or two) and make as many of the stops as you can. There is no limit to the amount of fun that you can have traveling the state of Minnesota!
Stops are scheduled in the following cities:
- Maple Grove
- Hinckley
- Virginia
- Bemidji
- Crookston
- Fergus Falls
- Redwood Falls
- Rochester
Magical Mystery Tour
Script
The script of Magical Mystery Tour was very informal. The Beatles gathered together a group of people for the cast and camera crew, and told them to "be on the coach on Monday morning". The film was made up along the way. Ringo Starr recalled: "Paul had a great piece of paper — just a blank piece of white paper with a circle on it. The plan was: 'We start here, and we’ve got to do something here...' We filled it in as we went along." Lennon recalled in a later interview, "We knew most of the scenes we wanted to include, but we bent our ideas to fit the people concerned, once we got to know our cast. If somebody wanted to do something we hadn’t planned, they went ahead. If it worked, we kept it in." At one point, Lennon had a dream in which he was a waiter piling spaghetti on a woman’s plate, so the sequence was filmed and included in the movie. Some of the older actors, such as Nat Jackley, were not familiar with productions without a script and were disappointed by the lack of one.
Criticism
The British public's reaction to the film was scathing. The film initially aired in the United Kingdom as a made-for-television film on BBC1. George Martin, the band's producer, explained: “When it came out originally on British television, it was a colour film shown in black and white, because they didn’t have colour on BBC1 in those days. It looked awful and was a disaster." The film was shown in colour on BBC2 a few days later, but there were only about 200,000 colour TV receivers in the UK at the time.
Hunter Davies, the band's biographer, said: "It was the first time in memory that an artist felt obliged to make a public apology for his work." Paul McCartney later spoke to the press, saying: "We don't say it was a good film. It was our first attempt. If we goofed, then we goofed. It was a challenge and it didn't come off. We'll know better next time." McCartney also said, "I mean, you couldn’t call the Queen’s speech a gas, either, could you?". However, with the passage of time, McCartney changed his view of the production, saying: "Looking back on it, I thought it was all right. I think we were quite pleased with it." He also noted in The Beatles Anthology DVD that the film features the band's only video performance of "I Am the Walrus".
-Wikipedia
