Don't Miss. Pepper, Turn Me On, Dead Man: The Complete Story of the Paul McCartney Death Hoax, he was shot by Los Angeles police while acting strangely in 1976, Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band that Shook Youth, Gender, and the World, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup, "A Radical Human Rights Approach to the Immigration 'Problem. cover, where Paul alone is barefoot (Paul often appears differently on album images than the others), John is dressed as a priest, Ringo as an undertaker, and George as a gravedigger. It was supposed to last only a week or two, but time went by andnobody seemed to notice, so we kept playing along. Beyond mere belief opinion; but as long as it was, the case remained hypothesis as much as PIA is an hypothesis, strictly speaking. Then there was John Lennons shocking assassination at 40 years old by Manchurian Candidate Mark David Chapman which was the direct result of his ardent anti-war stance and incessantworld peace message. The Beatles were no longer propagating nave love anthems, giving voice to teenage female angst, deriving inspiration from early '60s girl groups like the Shirelles and the Ronettes and making it more musically sophisticated. And why would such images as have been pointed out in the Free as a bird video be shown? Pauls idea was to distance themselves from their music, presenting the album. As to Johns public statements: 1. We stuck a vinyl copy of Sgt Pepper on the turntable and asked Steve to tell us all about it. Then again, like Lennon, Paul McCartney never really diedgenetically speaking. At age 74, he is the only othersurviving member of the famous band besides Paul McCartney, and he was afraid the deception would never be revealed. Some people are uncareful, or had to ask about everything, but most clues are rather obvious in context of each other, with a few which are very obvious. I have a stupid questions why did the beatles stop touring if paul McCartney is still very much alive maybe somebody can answer me that. Actually Doctor Robert (ha ha): Per the Mal Evans single page shown in The Winged Beatle, John was distraught that it was really happening & how good the surgery was, that Paul had been to the clinic in Kenya which had done a good job. Wait, this is a hoax? Rather, they had started constructing a social utopia ("Sgt. Paul's replacement is usually cited as William Campbell. The Beatles, I would argue, had reached the farthest possible point with their interpretation of music as a counter to political reality, and had exposed, with "Pepper" and subsequent albums, the limits of the counterculture that had by then proliferated. A British version of the rumour is believed to have existed prior to the American one, with fewer details. In fact, he may have enjoyed very much getting the truth out, even with the putatively joking freaks in the line. Miss Him! For example, if one compares the official narrative of catastrophic political episodes with the conspiracy version, surely the latter offers greater psychological satisfaction and gets to the heart of organized power more elegantly. A little over 50 years ago, on Nov. 9, 1966 (9/11 in British usage), Paul McCartney was decapitated in a car crash, and was soon replaced, unbeknownst to the public, by a lookalike with equal or better musical abilities, the impostor Faul we have lived with till today. For me, the creepiest of all the back-masking is the entire Revolution 9 song, which turns into a step-by-step rendering of Pauls car crash, his shrieks for help, the burning and explosion of the car, and the laments of the Beatles at viewing his corpse and at the funeral. ; in The Beatles Recording Sessions (by Mark Lewisohn; Harmony Books/1988) the entry for the 11/24/66 recording session of Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 1) notes scat harmonies by John, Paul and George.. Billy Shears was an alias for Ringo Starr and was used as the announcement/segue for Ringos song "With a Little Help from my Friends on the Sergeant Pepper Album. The Beatles Bible is run for the love of anything and everything to do with The Beatles. Nor do the others: they mimic, in Hello/Goodbye (and I am the Walrus, in MMT film, earlier). Mr Brown is said to have got the story from a musician who had heard it on the Californian west coast, and that he also read the story in an underground newspaper. I was challenged to show one piece of evidence that any of this happened in that time period thank you Clare for providing that evidence. This page was last edited on Tuesday, 1 Sep 2020 at 15:11 UTC. Steven D. Stark explains this well in ", (2010) is fascinating reading on this score, but the easy way around the financial labyrinth, so inconsistent with the Beatles public image, is to give a heroic death to Paul, and substitute him with an even greater talent, as though to make musical ability beside the point, and thereby shift the narrative back to the audience, whose main task then becomes to decipher secret codes rather than confront the spiritually threatening challenge of the music. This interview was originally published in the May 2017 print edition of The Avocado and is now made available online for the first time. Months earlier, Billy Campbell had won a Paul McCartney look-a-like contest and was available to fill in as Paul. Want more? Lifes too short (though Pauls hasnt been). You might want to at least start to wonder. While the contest actually happened, part of the theory . It is the source for Billy's Back!, Beatles Enlightenment, and The Talent Contest, and also includes nine chapters that were not selected for those compilations. Surely, it was MI5 which coordinated the entire cover up, since they were best positioned to ensure that theconspiracy of silencewould stick for so many years. Oh man I just got 30% stupider reading all this. Can make those points, but theyre isolated; the disclaimer was being discussed as an item for the public; it is not the only one. The Beatles may have had a lot to say about the social changes of the early 1960s, but the new political realities were of a more intractable nature; the Beatles, with their wives and mansions, must have started to look pretty tame by then. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album was awash with Paul-is-dead clues: the Beatles had indeed officiallyformed a new band featuring a fictional member named Billy Shears, which happened to be the actual name of Pauls replacement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Shears, Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service. So, the remaining Beatles hired a Paul McCartney lookalike named William Campbell, also known as Billy Shears. The story goes that at 5am on Wednesday 9 November 1966, McCartney stormed out of a session for the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album, got in to his Austin Healey car, and subsequently crashed and died. We never went for anything like that. The band was founded on April 20, 1993 in Orlando, Florida, by Lou Pearlman. Conspiracy theory is not just simplistic, as official dismissals would have it. However, the car was being driven by a Moroccan student named Mohammed Hadjij, and McCartney was not present. As for whyTheBEATLESagreed to go along with the cover up scheme since 1966 the answer, especially if you were living during the 1960s and had sisters who could sing every singleBEATLESsong with perfection, is quite obvious. Now that writers have the background information about Tavistock (the actual facts and not some right ideas) and how it was definitely about social engineering, now that we know Jane Ashers father kept company with doctors who abused hypnotherapy to perform deep sleep hypnotherapy on unsuspecting victims and killed himself, now that we know of the Beatles links with those closely connected with Manson etc, we know there is more than meets the eye to all of this. This technolgy is at the finger tips of all who have a computer. Miss Him! In this light, his was perhaps one of the greatest sacrifices made in modern times. The song contains the lines: Those freaks was right when they said you was dead, the one mistake you made was in your head. One reason could be that Paul was the most androgynous of the group, and his transformation (especially in the midst of his intellectual takeover of the Beatles) was the most marked, both visually and musically. The band members had felt it for quite a while, which would explain why the songs after 1966 become self-reflective about their own (and particularly Pauls) symbolic death, or why, for example, the walrus identification (as metaphor for death and inauthenticity) becomes so important, or why. Billy Shears . He said that he once did an interview a week to keep in the headlines, but since getting married and becoming a father he preferred to live a more private life. In that case, where he was installed to coverup a truly accidental death of the real Paul, the following perspective is offered for the readers consideration. The former drummer of the Beatles, Ringo Starr, surprised the world this morning during an interview in his luxurious Californian residence, when he admitted that the 45-year old rumors about the alleged death of Paul McCartney in 1966 were actually true. Does this latest revelation confirm what conspiracy theorists have been saying for years? I never thought I could be so engrossed by the financial troubles inflicting Apple Corp., Pauls utopian idea to revolutionize all aspects of the culture industry (and surely the inspiration for Steve Jobs name for his company). The Beatles' albumsin order complete list! J claimed on TV hed heard it first from the newspapers or uh & looks very nervous for a split second (you can see the clip on Youtube or in The Winged Beatle. The Beatles held a Look-alike contest for Paul McCartney, and the winner was a Canadian man named William Shears Campbell, better known by the name Billy Shears. The Paul is Dead myth started in America. As to the rest of the info: of course they used Pauls name for the recording harmonies. affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and In particular, Pauls post-Beatles career was suspiciously vapid amateurish as he was in mistreating hirelings for different iterations of his Wings band for a man who by all accounts was the confident entrepreneur holding the Beatles together toward the end. One can decipher innumerable clues, such as Lennons gibberish at the end of Im So Tired playing backwards as Paul is a dead man! But LaBour was on to something when he wrote that the Beatles had a religious motive. This new Beatle, known to the cognoscenti as Faul, turned out to be an even better musician than the original Paul. The Replacement. You have no proof, only conjecture, and this has been going nowhere for far too long. One big supposed clue was the mention of Billy Shears, mentioned in Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club track, who fans took to be Paul's replacement. It replaces unbearable randomness (which is to say our own incremental, almost undetectable, death) with pure intentionality. We felt guilty about the deception added Ringo Starr. Affiliate programs and Pepper"is self-referential in that sense, the musical version of art for arts sake). The sources are unknown, but the notion of McCartney dying in a road accident appears to have originated there. Only by comprehending his role as the mega-Macca* in this often covert, multi-decade, Anglo-American operation will the real back story of Paul McCartney be properly understood. Billy turned out to be a pretty good musician and he was able to perform almost better than Paul. as a highly self-conscious performative act, introducing of course Billy Shears, in the opening song. The only problem was that he couldnt get along with John, at all.. Indeed, one of the reasons the Beatles stopped touring was because their final American tour was extremely fractious, marked by violence and record-burning in the South, after John claimed that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus; PID started soon after this confrontation. He supposedly won the Paul lookalike competition. Miss Him! In 1971 movie Imagine, perhaps freed by USA breaking story of PID, George corrects J jokingly, a bit nervously, hiding his mouth with his napkin a bit, saying The Fab 3 when J had been riffing on The Fab 4. We have indeed been told the turth in a straight forward way. Go to the article I wrote. At some point, it was too much for John and he decided to leave the band.. Pauls idea was to distance themselves from their music, presenting the albumas a highly self-conscious performative act, introducing of course Billy Shears, in the opening song. To spare the public from grief, the Beatles replaced him with a man named William Shears Campbell, who wasthe winner of a McCartney look-alike contest and who happened to have the same kind of jovial personality as Paul. The Beatles are said to have covered up the death, despite inserting a series of clues into their songs and artwork. The Paul Is Dead myth began in 1969, and alleged that Paul McCartney died in 1966. Oh well. Problem is: most who post them would not do the deep thinking on the issue required to really find out or think through whether such things really are alibis or impossible, or really have to be interpreted in a PIA Paul is Alive way. Who is to say that the audience, obsessed with clue-hunting, wasnt benefiting from a masculine scream of horror that was the reversal of Beatlemanias female orgiastic scream? Ok so in one of the forums on this topic I said a few months back that I thought the Paul is Dead Rumor began in 66 or 67 and if they didnt start it, the Beatles jumped on it. No, he is not an imposter! It'll help with server costs, research material etc About | Privacy policy | Advertise on this site. In particular, Pauls post-Beatles career was suspiciously vapid amateurish as he was in mistreating hirelings for different iterations of his Wings band for a man who by all accounts was the confident entrepreneur holding the Beatles together toward the end. That story about the Moroccan student doesnt even make sense from the claims the student makes came out way later, could be a cover story, could be an unrelated incident, etc. A listener called into a radio show and put forward his theories based on album covers. For it was Paul who was the premier singer for the first and most famous of all the British Invasion Bands to invade North America. The interview took place at the singers High Park Farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. One thing that actually happened that also supports this theory is the look-alike contest. On the other hand, I could also argue that the Beatles offered such a dynamic alternative to modes of seeing and feeling in their latter career that their offer could not be taken up by the culture at large it was too much, too soon. In September 1969, an article entitled "Is Beatle Paul McCartney Dead?" Indeed, one of the reasons the Beatles stopped touring was because their final American tour was extremely fractious, marked by violence and record-burning in the South, after John claimed that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus; PID started soon after this confrontation. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This masterpiece of a speculative essay, purporting to be a review of "Abbey Road," laid out many of the details that became the cornerstone of PID. Thanks for all the work, keep it up on that website about something can be know or whatever. To reinforce the cycle of life, he is pictured being dragged across the famous zebra crossing by one of the offspring of his sheepdog Martha. There are FOUR provably planted clues in the simple sense including the disclaimer (or fake-disclaiming) above. But, of course, there was absolutely no truth in it at all, as the Beatles Press Officer found out when he telephoned Pauls St Johns Wood home and was answered by Paul himself who had been at home all day with his black Mini Cooper safely locked up in the garage. The acclaimed Amazon bestsellerRiding So High The Beatles and Drugs By the creator of the Beatles Bible.Buy now:Paperback | Ebook . However, he continued, if I was dead, Im sure Id be the last to know.. He concluded the interview by saying that The Beatles had no plans to reconvene in the near future, having recently completed an album and film, and that he may not return to London until 1970. One can read the second half of the Beatles oeuvre, and indeed their solo careers, as a natural evolution from their origins as pranksters with roots in the British popular comedic tradition. It would, instead, seem as though Jane did a charade for a while, perhaps even turning for comfort to the new man. 5. As the reigning cultural deities of that decade, the Beatles died for us and went to heaven (or archival immortality). In reality, all of us are called upon from time to time to be or act like something that we are not. The front cover of "Sgt. Why? Heather Mills, Pauls second wife, went on record after their contentious divorce that she feared for her life, telling an interviewer that people dont want to know what the truth is because they could never handle it, they would be too devastated.. The band was named after a flea market in Orlando, the "backstreet flea market". Regardless of who he really is, the new Paul (some call him Faul) was certainly coerced (or simply assigned by MI5) to play a roll that only preordained destiny could have fatefully brought to him in 1966. Without proof either way, both were. '", "A History of the Cat in Nine Chapters or Less". Im going to close comments on this article to try to preserve some sanity. It is clearly McCartneys image in a video supposedly only about John. Since I am one of the people and since you seem to know, please inform us of the ratio between the Beatles income as compared to the GNP of Great Britain during the years in question. Russias Top Military Spy Dies Mysteriously, UN Human Rights Envoy To Palestinian Territories Resigns, by Sean Adl-Tabatabai in Sponsored Theyre either surrealistic masterpieces (if youre a literary theorist) or clues to Pauls death (if youre a PID believer), but the process of exhumation and recovery is similar. You may be well aware of that, but it does need to be pointed out in general. Precisely at the moment PID took off on American campuses and radio, the Beatles had in fact ceased to exist, for all practical purposes, though the world didnt know it yet. How could we do it? TheBEATLES, it was understood, had way too much POWER AND INFLUENCE for the British Intelligence Services not to take advantage of it. A documentary more reverential toward PID is "The Winged Beatle." The Memoirs of Billy Shears brings astonishing facts to light that have been hidden for decades. CRAP! Both worshippers and deities together made the Beatles' breakup, and all thats followed in the half-century since then, tinged with a deadly romanticism that was rapidly leaking out in the late 1960s. The Beatles, as we learn in George Martins book "With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of Sgt. The historic "Abbey Road" cover, strewn with "clues," which McCartney later made fun of in his own cover for his 1993 album, "Paul Is Live. William Shears Campbell, better known as Billy Shears, does indeed "disappear " from records in 1966 and no traces of him can be found after Paul's alleged death. The article below, as it turns out, was published by a tabloid-styled, faux-journalism website by the name ofWorld News Daily Report. According to the theory or rumour, McCartney died in a car crash, and to spare the public from grief, the surviving Beatles, aided by Britain's MI5, replaced him with a McCartney look-alike, subsequently communicating this secret through subtle details of their albums. I do SO want to believe Paul is dead and Faul took his place. Its so much more entertaining than the Kardashians. DuringTheBEATLESperformance at Shea Stadium, which kicked off their 1965 US Tour, the massive contingent of New York City policemen who were assigned to crowd control reported rivers of urine which flowed from the girls and young women in attendance, they were in such genuinely altered states. (In The Winged Beatle the clip is shown, though for effect (and thus makes a literal untruth in the edit, unfortunately) the maker of the movie edits in J winking, which is from later in scene. The BEATLES Lead TheBritish Invasion Bands. Sorry. An egg man and Walrus figure into the very same song which gets the No, youre not reference, as does a quotation from the BBC King Lear, Is he dead? All rights reserved. Again, this highly qualified perspective is being presented in the event that Pauls replacement was truly unaware of any designs by British secret services to use TheBEATLES to advance a clandestine worldwide agenda.
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