{"id":55,"date":"2024-11-28T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/?p=55"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:18:39","slug":"199-blue-jay-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/199-blue-jay-way\/","title":{"rendered":"199: Blue Jay Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unless I am overlooking something, this Harrison song is almost unique in the Beatles&#8217; catalogue in evoking a spooky and sinister feeling. I say almost because Revolution #9 also has its moments.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-beatles-card-song-info\"><div class=\"beatles-card-content\"><div class=\"bible-section\"><div class=\"source-heading\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-content\/plugins\/beatles-card\/src\/icons\/BeatlesBibleApple.svg\" alt=\"Beatles Bible\" class=\"source-icon\"><span>The Beatles Bible<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bible-text\"><p class=\"bible-paragraph\">\u2018Blue Jay Way\u2019, George Harrison\u2019s songwriting contribution to the Magical Mystery Tour soundtrack, was written while he was waiting for The Beatles\u2019 publicist Derek Taylor, who was lost in fog in the Los Angeles canyons.<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatlesbible.com\/wp\/media\/magical_mystery_tour-580x580.jpg\" alt=\"Magical Mystery Tour album artwork\" title=\"Magical Mystery Tour album artwork\" class=\"bible-thumbnail\" width=\"200\" height=\"auto\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatlesbible.com\/songs\/blue-jay-way\/\" class=\"continue-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading on Beatles Bible \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wiki-section\"><div class=\"source-heading\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-content\/plugins\/beatles-card\/src\/icons\/WikipediaLogo.svg\" alt=\"Wikipedia\" class=\"source-icon\"><span>Wikipedia<\/span><\/div><div class=\"wiki-text\"><div class=\"wiki-excerpt\">&quot;Blue Jay Way&quot; is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Written by George Harrison, it was released in 1967 on the group&#039;s Magical Mystery Tour EP and album. The song was named after a street in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles where Harriso&#8230;<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Jay_Way\" class=\"continue-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading on Wikipedia \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spooky, sinister and psychedelic. So &#8211; a bad trip? It&#8217;s not something that I often want to listen to, to be honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless I am overlooking something, this Harrison song is almost unique in the Beatles&#8217; catalogue in evoking a spooky and sinister feeling. I say almost because Revolution #9 also has its moments. Spooky, sinister and psychedelic. So &#8211; a bad trip? It&#8217;s not something that I often want to listen to, to be honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,23],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-a-day","tag-harrison","tag-magical-mystery-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}