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  • what da hell is goin on at 2:16

  • Actually I realized I'd mispelled it the second after I typed it but in YouTube's infinite wisdom they don't allow you to correct your posts so screw them. LOL ... I guess I'll just have to say "what's with these crazy kids and their rock and the roll and their crazy names anyhow? You kids get off my lawn!!"

  • Death Cab for Cuties should have done a double-header concert with Toe the Wet Sproket. Half the ticket sales would have to go to Monty Python.

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  • @FlamingoKicker Toad...not an insult, just a correction...

  • George looks like he is somewhere between dead thrilled and paralyzed.

  • I've watched the Magical Mystery Tour lots of times and have the soundtrack but I never knew that those guys actually were the Bonzos

  • My favorite band is Death Cab For Cutie.. Uhm. Awkward.

  • TITS!

  • Y'know, I've got to wonder if this was the first televised striptease.

  • nothing comical about it, or serious either. Magical Mystery Tour represents an acid trip pretty well - very generous-hearted: this stripper scene is all about that - honest - what the guys really would like to see. What's GREAT about it is that IN THOSE DAYS a girl "getting topless" in public was still a REALLY BIG DEAL - which is proper. Mainstream culture got very jaded after that. The stripper is incredibly classic; the band, and the editing of various angles and textures is psychedelic!

  • Who the Hell are the 2 Homos that Don't like this?

  • was it me or did John happily shout "TITS!" after viewing the performance

  • @andy86i good call andy - you're probably right. Are you aware that John and Paul saw fit to sing "tit-tit-tit-tit" as a background vocal in the Rubber Soul song "A Girl"? John said, much later, that they put that in just to see if anyone was listening. (Well my high-school friends and I were certainly listening - knew every note and nuance of that song and all the good Beatles songs - but it never occurred to us that they might be saying THAT. We just innocently thought "dit-dit-dit-dit".

  • @dakersting in live performances John would sometimes replace words when the screaming was so loud they couldnt be heard. he sang " i want to hold your gland" a line which made it into the film" I want to hold your hand" by robert zemeckis

  • @dakersting Good Lordy me you're right! I just checked and never in all my many years noticed! Thanks!

  • @andy86i Likely and possible. He wrote it on the reporters notepad in A Hard Days Night when she asked him what his hobbies were.

  • what was being censored?

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  • I mean even the song "Death cab for cutie"...who was always considered "the cute one"? The clues could not be more plain if it was announced the whole thing was a farce to cover up Pauls' death. The ole "let this all come out in '69 and then so long as no Beatle says otherwise,we'll sink the reality of what really happened. TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE is probably still rolling on the floor laughing at their greatest achievement of mind manipulation {at the time}.

  • Of course that's where the band got their name. Where else have you heard a reference to Death Cab for Cutie that could have influenced the bands name? Also, the woman is really a professional stripper that was hired just for this one segment. They had to censor the film because it was being aired on BBC TV.

  • @Beatleboy1964 Toad The Wet Sprocket. Now THAT's an original name.

  • @shaynegryn I can't argue with that. LOL Then again, there's always Mott the Hoople.

  • @Beatleboy1964 Heh. Toad The Wet Sprocket actually get their name from an Eric Idle sketch.

  • @shaynegryn I forgot. Yes, that sounds like a Python-esque thing. Well, now I'm off to have some Spam and eggs for lunch.

  • At 3:10, it sounds like John saying "Hey, Paul. Hey hey. It is him, dead. Ooooh no. Paul is dead. Dead.

    I'm not much on the idea that the Beatles planted clues, but that what it sounds like he's saying.

  • 1 person thought The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band was a rare track by Death Cab for Cutie.

  • @xxTitanicRocksxx YEAH, BUT A MAN ALWAYS APPLAUDS A NICE PAIR OF TITTIES! WHEREVER HE MIGHT FIND THEM!

  • 1:28 There trying to hide it!Look were their hands are! :O Trying to "Hold it down" ;)

  • Alas, a whiny unfunny talentless band named themselves after this song. Makes me GRUMPY!

  • @RockabillyAutopsy Your mom thought her brother was talented when they conceived you on the filthy floor of a gas station mens room .

  • @RockabillyAutopsy how mature of you to say

  • What the heck is ol'Buster Bloodvessel doing with his hands?

  • 2:22 POKER FACE

  • John looks so excited like "YEA NAKED CHICKS!"

  • @xxTitanicRocksxx at the time of this movie they were all married except for Paul - who had a girlfriend.

  • This song and performance can be best appreciated when you keep it in historical perspective...this was 1967! Virtually no one excepts the Bonzos (and the Mothers Of Invention) were making fun of 50's/Elvis-type songs and lounge singers. There are good reasons why the Beatles and the guys in Monty Python were influenced by them and supported them.

    And the CENSORED banner is there because this premiered on British TV at Christmas time in 1967!!

  • This song is about Cutie who goes out on the town to make her boyfriend jealous. She ends up making out with the cabdriver while he's driving. He either runs a red light because he "can't stop" or the cab gets jealous and kills them. Hince the line "Don't you know that baby, cabs can kill".

  • @debjorgo - actually the more innocent interpretation of the song is the cab driver wrecks because he's staring at Cutie in the rear view mirror.

    And the lyrics are "cars can kill".

  • @debjorgo It's kind of funny, for some reason I always thought it was "curves can kill."

    'Course, maybe the "distraction" during the performance in this may have thrown me off there...

  • @TackyRackyComixNEO-Whoa, you're right. It is "curves can kill". I have to rethink what the song's about.

  • @debjorgo - If it's "curves can kill", that kind of makes the cab seem less at fault. The cab driver is distracted by Cutie and loses control in the curves, or,,, more likely, he gets distracted by Cuties curves.

    I don't think there is a Christine element here.

  • Good song good band inspired a good band

  • @xxTitanicRocksxx Oh yeh! This is pre- Beatles in India. My bad (and John's when you think about it)

  • @xxTitanicRocksxx Yeh, but think who John's wife was!

  • @TheAlienesque some speculate its all about the paul is dead rumour of the late sixties and all that crap

  • Stripper Jan Carson appears c/The Paul Revere Bar

  • wow after seeing this hot babe i going to rent this movie!

  • Also it was originally meant to be The Incredible String Band who performed in the film, but they couldn't do it and were replaced by the Bonzo's!

  • The whole point of this scene was that The Beatles themselves used to perform onstage in Strip-Clubs in Hamburg & that strippers used to join them onstage & remove their clothes. It really is that simple, no big mystery! P.S. You don't have to pretend to like the song, everyone is entitled to their preferences & opinions. For me though, its excellent!

  • The whole point of this scene was that The Beatles themselves used to perform onstage in Strip-Clubs in Hamburg & that strippers used to join them onstage & remove their clothes. It really is that simple, no big mystery! P.S. You don't have to pretend to like the song, everyone is entitled to their preferences & opinions. For me though, its excellent!

  • 1:28 John is just gawking O_o

  • @TheAlienesque I fucking grew up with the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. I'm going To Bring A Watermelon is brilliant. How this sleep walking Elvis parody qualifies as a good song is beyond me. Just because they were a wonderful band we have to pretend they were uniformly good at writing songs? Those two things are not at all the same thing. Musically it's without an idea, like Allan Sherman.

  • Is it heresy to point out he song's no good, or just tiresome?

  • John doesn't say MOre he says PAUL

  • Faul

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  • Where's Neil in this?

  • @mshecket He's playing the piano

  • Actually, can't decide which bit is funnier... John Lennon's eyes popping out of his head, or Viv Stansall pretending nothing's happening right next to him?

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  • "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam

  • I wonder if all the girls in the early 60's when The Beatles first became famous could imagine The Beatles enjoying a show like this. ;)

  • @TheOneartist Remember The Beatles in the early '60s PERFORMED as a strip club band in Germany for several years. No idea if the girls knew any of that though. Suspect Brian Epstein kept the Beatles' past as quiet as he could.

  • DAMN YOU CENSOR BAR!

  • jajajajajajaja... "CENSORED"

  • LOL.

  • Ideas can be inspired by dreams, but that doesn't mean you should write them in your sleep.

    Thank God the Beatles did acid, but...

  • I guess Bonzo is the only (other) band that can actually say that THEY performed a song in a BEATLES movie.

    That must be awesome.

  • @cfortunato58 Though moderately unwise of Paul McCartney to allow a talented group with a sharp sense of irony and pastiche to show up the woeful absence of it in the majority of this film. The closing, Beatles-performed pastiche (Your Mother Should Know) manages to be particularly lifeless after this performance.

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  • 3:00 Why the hell did his teeth get so giant? D:

  • Just weird.

  • Vivian Stanshall was the lead singer for this song. Among the Bonzo Dog Band members, I consider Viv to be Lennon of the group. Neil Innes, who played piano, is considered the McCartney of the Bonzos.

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  • An early Elvis impersonation perhaps? Thanks for the upload.

  • CENSORED.

  • John seems to genuinely enjoy this, whereas George seems to sit there and applaud indulgently as if a 9-year-old had just given a fine speech on the history of the stapler and he felt he needed to seem encouraging. I'm not sure if the timing on this idea would have been right but I kind of imagine him thinking, "well I certainly don't want to be rude or seem un-hip but...*sigh* there really isn't anything new under the sun. Can I just go back to the bus and meditate now?"

  • @LanakilaIesu He probably snuck a doobie before they filmed this scene.

  • I don't remember this bit!

  • god that woman is UGLY (face)

  • john and george were very exited !!1

  • Too bad that horrible band stole the name.

  • The Beatles! They Defined the 60's so

    amazingly that nothing has out shined them,

    even to this day! MMT. wasn't a true and

    picture of how truely talented JPGR. were

    yet it is a home video of a day in their lives!

  • @skylight1952 didn't you hear, Paul died in 1966 and was replaced. This song is one of many many clues. Paul was the cute one. watch this

    watch?v=bHkhYHU08hQ

  • @zephiloyd The Beatles put a lot of secret messages and hints in their music saying Paul is dead. It's obvious the messages were put in on purpose, but I think it's more of a joke they played. I'm pretty sure the Paul we have today is the real deal.

  • @finalconsecration If it was such a joke why did Lennon get all nervous and awkward when posed the question, and McCartney just dismiss it as a crazy theory, as though there was no substance to it, when there is over 100 clues. Have you watched the Winged Beatle?

    watch?v=FsPCQ932vlU

  • @zephiloyd IamPhoney is about as reliable as the Joel Gilbert documentary. And by that, I mean they're both false.

  • @finalconsecration that guy from the bonzo dog doo dah band is Faul!

  • @finalconsecration  I'm relieved

  • @finalconsecration No way dude. Paul died in a car crash and it drove John crazy with guilt. The plot was hatched by MI6 and was brilliant because they kept it secret through all the years as all the Beatles agreed to do. But when John talked to George about comming clean in 1980,he got snuffed. Faul could care less about Lennons' murder. He was relieved actually. As he said himeslf,"Well...it's a bummer ain't it?"

  • @tjrxk7 - He said "It's a drag, idn't it?"

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  • @tjrxk7 Tin foil hat time

  • @finalconsecration Some one's gonna make.......you pay your fare.

  • @tjrxk7 Baby, don't do it.

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  • i laugh so hard at this.

  • "Someone's gonna make you pay your fare."

  • It was censored and funny when it was released!

  • Bonzos are brilliant and timelessly bizzare! Check out "the intro and the outro" so funny : )

  • hahahaha... love the vultures of the basist and the saxophonists! xDDD

    it makes me laught! xDD

  • I love this band there soo funny and clever

  • This is "probably" where the band got their name (????!!!!!!) Ummmmmmmmm.... Ok???????

    Was there a novel by that name??

    Someone isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier! LOL

  • "Magical Mystery Tour" was a BBC Christmas special from '67 that bombed so bad that Sir Paul became clinically depressed over the whole thing. It sucked out loud then and it's even worse now.Neil Innes was the absolute best part of the video.I have a friend who watched this clip for 72 hours straight then signed himself into rehab.

  • I love this movie, it's pure nonsense. This scene is great - I love the song, and George's expression, and John all excited.

  • Ivor Cutler was my first teacher at school...:D :D :D

  • 3:19 John Shouts "TITS!"

  • @JoGeogiRiPaul

    Actually, he shouts: "DEAD!"

  • This is SUCH a weird movie -- not having watched it in a while.. The Beatles - in this?!

  • Sadly (for the Beatles) this was the best part of "Tragical History Tour" (I mean... Magical Mystery Tour)

  • @FlamingoKicker This is me throwing tomatoes at you.

  • I like in his description, Bonzodofans writes that this was "probably" where the band got their name. Like, where else would that name have come from?

  • ivor cutler was a genius, he wasnt wanking and was paid more than the whole cast of the film

  • Holy crap; that is Ivor Cutler. Sad fact ; Viv went the same way as Stevie Marriot. What a fucking drag.

  • Is there an uncensored version of this? I wanna see that girl's jubblies so much.

  • John & George in the front row. As if we needed any affirmation of this band's awesomeness.

  • @Wormtongue13 : Yeah, but are these two the REAL John, and George, or just look-a-likes?

  • @terrafirma91 From Magical Mystery Tour, so I'm pretty sure it's them, or at least authorized proxies.

  • @terrafirma91 P.S. Of course it's them. Why do you think Neil Innes was in the Ruttles.

  • @Wormtongue13 If you don't know it already, please check-out..." We are normal " from the album The doughnuts in Granny's Greenhouse on youtube, my favorite Bonzo number. Elvis couldn't touch Viv for star quality and sex appeal.

  • @funkyalfonso In the US the album came out titled Urban Spaceman. It's one of my all-time favorites. All the songs are great, especially "We Are Normal", and "My Pink Half of the Drain Pipe". Cheers.

  • FOLKS! This is the amazing Bondzo Doo-Dah Dog Band. enjoy or reap the hell of never having lived the life of bizzare! surreal! dada!

  • Comedy genius Vivian Stanshall is obviously wearing fake joke teeth, you guys. Remember, one of their songs was "Joke Shop Man".

  • "Folks seated in the front row will die premature deaths." said the sign on the front door.

  • HOLY SHIT TEETH PAUSED AT 3:01 OH MY GOD

  • Is from the movie Magic Mistery tour the beatles Min 48

  • Did you hear Ringo at 1:14!? XD HAHAHA

  • Wonderful, many thanks.

  • what's up w/ the singer's teeth at 3:01 ?

  • Sorry, here is the link to compare this to The Pharaoh's Song for Joseph. It starts about :33 into the video. Search "pharaoh's song joseph"

  • Something to think about. This song was recorded in 1967. It precedes Joseph and the Amazing Tech......the show was first presented as a 15-minute pop cantata at Colet Court School in London in 1968. In Joseph the Pharaoh's song has a suspiciously similar tune and is also sung like Elvis. Did Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber steal the music concept from the Bonzo's??? They were just kids then and could have heard their fellow Brits Death Cab for Cutie. Just asking!!

  • So Bonzo Dog Doo Da Band appears in The Beatles' MMT and goes on to BBC's Do Not Adjust Your Set from which fellow cast member Eric Idle goes on to Monty Python who then goes on to make The Rutles with Neil Innis who's in the band and playing piano in this video. That's kinda cool.

  • @spirtw72 Do Not Adjust Your Set was an ITV show, not BBC

  • where is neil innes?

  • Thankyou!!! Love this song! Have a strange attraction to the singer in this,hehe...

  • Yes, Death Cab for Cutie the band did get their name from this song. Apparently their lead singer Ben Gibbard was a fan.

  • faul may have been phil ackrill who sang this thought about a car crash hmmmm

  • hmmmm if i had a band... i think ill name it death cab for cutie:D

  • 2:18 <3

  • not censored in the movie, some think this was the first appearance of faul

  • hey some onne shoul rlly name thr band death cab for cutie after this song ... what a great band name eh ;)

  • @descendents4life I really hope you're joking.

  • @njgothgirl I'm afraid there is already an american rock band named this. They were formed in '97 I think and actually did name the band after this song.

  • @descendents4life There is a band called that

  • @chrishove123 no duh i was being sarcastic notice the ;) face re re

  • @descendents4life just cz you stick a smiley on it don't turn it into sarcasm DUH.. it means smile not sarcasm. if you had put lol or had it in inverted commas that would have been more appropriate.

  • @descendents4life Oh by the way looking at other comments I wasn't the only one who didn't realise your attempt at sarcasm DUH

  • @OrpheusIsThe1 well derpty derpty derp

  • john's so happy. LOL. :D

  • saxes r too much at the end hahaha

  • Oh my wow, this is very good quality. Viv Stanshall...a pleasure to see them all again, and in color, no less. Thank you for putting it up!

  • No, not Neil Innes. It was Viv Stanshall. Neil on piano though.

  • Neil Inness of the Rutles on vocals, no?

  • Oh my God - I just discovered this - lol. I thought I knew just about everything about the Beatles - how did I miss this for so long! I saw Magical Mystery Tour many times - and still missed this - sigh. I am just glad I found it now - thanks so much for putting it on You Tube - you rock - lol. Thaniks so much - love it .

  • omfg george! 2:22

  • @BobV97 jajajajaj :P

  • I swear to god that guy in the audience was masturbating lol

  • your right he is.

  • LOL He's "polishing" his "glass."

  • He would /never/!

    Mr. Bloodvessel's heart belongs to Aunt Jessica!

    xDDD

  • @falloutfan312 ..the guy in the audience was the great Ivor Cutler!

  • @falloutfan312 what u mean John Lennon or George Harrison?

  • @falloutfan312 hahahahah

  • @falloutfan312 That's what is being inferred, he even has a cloth. Dirty old man.lool

  • @falloutfan312 That is Ivor Cutler.