"Blue Jay Way" Beatles

"Blue Jay Way" is a 1967 psychedelic rock California song by The Beatles from the album Magical Mystery Tour.

The song was named after a cul de sac in the Hollywood Hills overlooking Los Angeles, California, where Beatle George Harrison stayed.

"Blue Jay Way" was written by Harrison as he waited for a visiting colleague who was driving through thick fog and had become lost, allegedly in Los Angeles.

The eerily chilly song was featured in 'Magical Mystery Tour', a movie so over-the-top bizarre that it caused many to wonder if The Beatles had been possessed or hijacked.

"Blue Jay Way" is a mysterious song, like the circumstances surrounding The Beatles since late 1966, when the group's previously upbeat tone and lyrical content turned dark, pessimistic and fatalistic.

Quite evidently, something had happened to The Beatles in '66 which stopped the group from performing live concerts, created distance from the public eye, and turned them into occult icons.

The Beatles' strange and freaky song about L.A. was written overlooking the famous city of illusions, shrouded in a mysterious fog which renders lost those who seek the way.

When it comes to California songs of darkness, The Beatles win hands-down with "Blue Jay Way".

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