Laughter, colour, revelry and chaos. Clowns, fools and grotesque exaggeration. Such are the sights and sounds of a carnival, a Feast of Fools. The way Bakhtin infuses this liberal atmosphere into a particular literary form is what lies at the heart of his Carnivalesque. Like the carnivals themselves, the Carnivalesque is about breaking oppressive forms [...]

That the Beatles are immortal is hardly a point to be disputed. A pointer to their perpetual status might be found in the hallucinogenic, Carnivalesque whirl of their art, found particularly in their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the fantastical Magical Mystery Tour that followed it - the albums that propelled them to god-like status.