What Came Next...The Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour"

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After the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles released a series of singles with a related sound to the album throughout 1967, without releasing any songs from the album as actual singles. Toward the end of the year they planned a double-disc E.P. release of newly recorded soundtrack music for a one-hour BBC Boxing Day special, Magical Mystery Tour. While the film itself was one of the first major stumbles the band did, most of the music on the E.P. reflected further expansion on the sound of Sgt. Pepper. In the United States, however, the singles were combined with the EP to make a new Beatles album.