Comments on: Blue Jay Way

By: Hodgie Nelson

Hodgie Nelson — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:50:44 +0000

Agree. A top candidate for worst Beatles song. It’s about a mundane situation and achieves said levels of boredom. The effects are interesting but that’s about it.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 03:40:55 +0000

In other words…. I couldn’t be bothered with that rambling tome.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 03:39:08 +0000

Oh, please….people do like to read their own biases into everything.

Paul was playing to the cameras – “Direct your attention here, folks! This is where it’s happening!” Paul was, and is. a ham for cameras and an audience.

By: Matt33

Matt33 — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 20:02:54 +0000

The “Magical Mystical Boy” in the movie can clearly be identified as Mal Evans.

By: Slave

Slave — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 06:49:44 +0000

The poster you are referring to was created in the mid 70’s after MMT had a brief limited theatrical run. It was probably just a spelling error when the Carson Entertainment Group picked up the distribution and made that poster. But if it were Blue Day Way that would suggest George is on a depressing path.

By: DrRobert

DrRobert — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 20:05:43 +0000

I have a reproduction poster for MMT and just noticed on it where the songs are listed for the song Blue Jay Way. But instead of Blue Jay Way it is Blue Day Way. I know that this is just a reproduction but it would be a good guess to say that the original poster is also like that. Has anyone else ever seen this? Or have heard about it. Would be curious to find out. Thanks.

By: Tony Haine

Tony Haine — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 21:16:43 +0000

No, a chap called Peter Willison is the ‘cellist. He remembers the session as he was called in late at night after playing in a concert at London’s South Bank Centre. He’s currently executive director of The Sinfonia Of London

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 00:31:00 +0000

So, in other words, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar?

By: Lex Lewis

Lex Lewis — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 01:03:57 +0000

This is a great song. The melody is haunting and that, combined with the smooth lyrics draws one in. Ringo’s drumming is just right for this song (as is always the case). He truly holds the band together throughout all the rhythmic changes. The vocal effects are superb. As with all their recordings, you still can hear the actual timber and pitch in their voices, unlike most modern pop stars with their auto-tune and vocal filtering. George wrote a great song and the group, George Martin and his engineers made a great recording.

By: johnlemon

johnlemon — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 10:36:33 +0000

This has been my favorite track on the Magical Mystery Tour album and all this time I thought it was Lennon’s…well I found my favorite Harrison song 🙂 listening to this track on acid is wicked

By: Paul elliman

Paul elliman — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:28:03 +0000

This song perfectly expresses the feeling of loss and abandonment the Beatles must all have felt at this time

By: Silly Girl

Silly Girl — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:18:43 +0000

Oh yes, I seem to recall some of the highbrow music critics thought the same– something about George encouraging young people to not belong to society, and to drop out, or the saying whole generation had lost their way. I’m fairly sure it was just another “goo goo, goo joob” type sound.

By: Ri Heide

Ri Heide — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 00:22:22 +0000

This is one of the worst songs the Beatles ever released. They must have been quite desperate for more material as filler to have put this on the album. It was a poor decision.

By: James W Barber

James W Barber — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:21:54 +0000

This was written just a few weeks before Brian died, during the “late” part of their psychedelic phase. Not only was George bored while waiting for Derek Taylor to show up (who really was lost in the fog) but he was bored with the Beatles. I love the double meaning of “Don’t Be Long” and “Don’t Belong”. George meant both.

I think it was the beginning of the end for the group and he knew it.

The Beatles hadn’t toured in a year, and though Pepper was a triumph for the group and a great ego boost for Paul and John, it was not very much fun for George (or Ringo) to record. Pepper was assembled much like a movie and NOT 4 guys in a room playing Rock-n-Roll, like the records before or the live band on stage. Both were looking for ways to “Not Belong”. The band wasn’t having fun any more.

Paul was trying to lead the band by then, mostly because John was occupied with acid and laying around in bed watching TV for weeks on end. Paul began making more and more decisions about what the group would do next and when. I think anyone in George’s position, would consider (or hope) that it would be over soon. Or at least see the writing on the wall. Two years later it really was over and George saw it coming.

By: BT

BT — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 04:43:38 +0000

I think that this is a song that becomes a lot more charming once you hear the above story.

By: Captain Kundalini

Captain Kundalini — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:04:09 +0000

The Beatles “Blue Jay Way” house is located at 1567 Blue Jay Way right next door to the house I just bought!

By: carlos

carlos — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:03:32 +0000

Thanks Don for your reflection. I wonder if there´s a timpani in the first verse. It sounds like a timpani. Is there any information about it? Ringo playing timpani and then the drum kit?

By: Francisco Javier Gil Vidal

Francisco Javier Gil Vidal — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:19:17 +0000

Yes, “Beatless” (what a FAB nick!) That’s what GENIUS is all about. With this song, George proves he’s on a par with the other two great composers (and monster egos) of The Beatles in quality, if not quantity.

By: Francisco Javier Gil Vidal

Francisco Javier Gil Vidal — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:13:02 +0000

Perhaps a good indication of what you both (JP & Joseph) say can be seen at the beginning of the “I am the Walrus” clip in MMT, when Paul energetically “cues” Ringo into the song, as if this monster of a drummer wasn’t able to measure the right time with uncanny accuracy! in fact, when ALL the other three got lost amid the screaming maelstrom of live performances (and in quite a few studio takes too) it was “Big Ben” Ringo who kept the time as solidly as the Rock of Gibraltar! Paul was/is a talented musician and a competent lyricist, but no more than that. He’s not the over-arching genius he likes to believe he is and, certainly, contrary to his belief, the world did not begin going round on June 18th, 1942!

By: Francisco Javier Gil Vidal

Francisco Javier Gil Vidal — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:01:42 +0000

I’m not quite sure it’s a decapitated corpse; rather it looks like a live man with a naked torso, filmed in such a short plane that his head falls out of the frame. A very strange image indeed, but not quite as macabre as it is claimed to be…