Flying Painting

This original acrylic painting incorporates The Beatles superimposed in flying positions over the aerial shots over Iceland, which were used in their film 'Magical Mystery Tour'. Originally titled Aerial Tour Instrumental, it was the first Beatles recording to have a songwriting credit featuring all four members. Flying was the only Beatles instrumental released by EMI. The group had previously recorded Cry For A Shadow in Hamburg in 1961, and 12-Bar Original during the Rubber Soul sessions in 1965. In the Magical Mystery Tour film, Flying was used to accompany landscape scenes of Iceland taken from an aeroplane. These sequences were unused outtakes from Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr Strangelove. Paul McCartney revealed the background to Flying in Barry Miles' biography 'Many Years From Now': "Flying was an instrumental that we needed for Magical Mystery Tour so in the studio one night I suggested to the guys that we made something up. I said, 'We can keep it very very simple, we can make it a twelve-bar blues. We need a little bit of a theme and a little bit of a backing.' I wrote the melody. The only thing to warrant it as a song is basically the melody, otherwise it's just a nice twelve-bar backing thing. It's played on the Mellotron, on a trombone setting. It's credited to all four, which is how you would credit a non-song." A mostly instrumental recording with wordless vocals from all four Beatles, Flying was recorded as incidental music for the Magical Mystery Tour film.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:20 W x 16 H x 0.5 D in

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