The 7th January was very icy, with dangerous conditions on the M1 motorway, linking London with the Midlands, and towards the end of the day, a rumour swept London that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash on the M1. However, until you learn how your brain actually processes information, you may not understand how it can fool you. 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. Who is to say that the Beatles were not artistically supercharged by rumors of the death of their de facto leader in their latter stages? Rumours only declined after a contemporary interview with McCartney was published in Life magazine in November 1969. And the fact he wrote those songs either by himself or with Lennon and with more than a little help from George Martin to begin with. The following quote from Guitar Worlds article titledDid Paul McCartney Actually Die in 1966?reveals more of the inside story. And its no joke at all, though that is a fine postulate while learning about it, as long as one decides it is true long enough to truly look for the right info to see if it is or not (as police work would). The interview took place at the singers High Park Farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. (Without them, it went on for a few more years, in a self-conscious though depleted way.) as Lennon would have intended if the whole thing were true, No? (He did; but Ill leave it at if.). Prior to Ringo coming forward with this information, a largenumber of conspiracytheorists suggestedthat the original Paul McCartney left The Beatles in 1966. It is clearly McCartneys image in a video supposedly only about John. 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. appeared in a US student newspaper the Drake Times-Delphic, written by Tim Harper, who said he had heard the story from other students. 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. Meaning Paul McCartney is buried at the site of where the Moon landings were filmed. Possibly the most gorgeous and sexy and cute thing ever invented, better than The Beatles and Darius put together. Here is the solution. ", DJs around the country stirred the pot, driving listeners to buy multiple copies of the same record, playing them backwards to detect clues and destroying them in the process (all the better for record sales). (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. It is more likely than not that Paul died and was replaced. Its so much more entertaining than the Kardashians. The Winged Beatle 2012 Extended Version : Billy Martin - Archive I dont understand what its all about., A reporter from New Yorks WMCA, Alex Bennett, arrived in London on 22 October. Harper later claimed that he wasnt the original source for any of the claims in his articles. A generation realizes maturity is at hand, but refuses to grow up, and PID becomes one attempt to stall its maturity toward an unwanted realism. They could never split up as a normal group, have normal afterlives in their solo careers, or die naturally. You can believe what you want, but this article is titled The Paul is dead myth because thats exactly what it is. But LaBour was on to something when he wrote that the Beatles had a religious motive. Heres a theory: The Paul Is Dead myth, was a hoax, actually thought up by Paul, Hey Lads, lets make up Im dead! and the rest went along not realizing how big the gag would get all of this fueled Pauls overbearing ego eventually they were too dug in to get out of it and I it became a major element in leading to disharmony and the eventual break-up and the other 3 becoming fed up with being sidemen for Paul thats Johns quote. Who is Billy Shears? - Encyclopedia of Opinion - Parlia Conspiracy theory, to counter elite science, always enacts pseudo-science in a populist vein; its methods are technological, its procedures deductive, its empiricism its only saving grace just like the official sciences of empire. It all started as a joke that got out of hand. 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Shears, Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service. I made the guy up. 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. The BEATLES Lead TheBritish Invasion Bands. But anyway: We are not debating a single clue here; we are pointing out that THE ITEMS ARE NOT MADE UP (largely). Belief that Paul McCartney may have died in the mid 1960s began in 1969. The following excerpt comes from a post athugequestions.com under the titlePaul is Dead:New evidence based on computer enhanced forensic technique. Earlier, DJ Russ Gibb of WKNR in Detroit had heard from Iowa student Tim Harper, asking Gibb to play Revolution 9 from the "White Album" backwards, which makes audible the phrase Turn me on, dead man. LaBour took it further by deconstructing the iconic "Abbey Road"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. Shortly after the issue went on sale the rumours started to decline. Either way, Billy Shears became the identity . Even after the breakup Paul continued publicly questioning his past reality as a Beatle, and does so to this day, which feeds into the conspiracy theory but also lets us see them as early skeptics of their own charisma. It was originally going to be Glenn Campbell, with two Ns, and then I said thats too close, nobodyll buy that. Even after the breakup Paul continued publicly questioning his past reality as a Beatle, and does so to this day, which feeds into the conspiracy theory but also lets us see them as early skeptics of their own charisma. (1994), wanted to make a major artistic statement with the cover, and recruited designer Peter Blake for the job. It works this way. He doesnt look ALIKE; he looks relatively similar, as some people do, especially if they learn body language and some vocal habits; he does not sound ALIKE; he sounds similar in some song moments and different in others. You can listen to some of the back-masking and other clues here, here, hereand here. 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. His face changed in the space of a couple of years when he was in his twenties. My oh my, the vitriol. as the first concept album (and it remains the most successful one to date). Click on the text box below for more examples included in Billy's Back! But it is also to the credit of that generations rampant imagination that it came up with a theory as protean as PID (and many others besides) to counter death with death. Shame on all of you. A one-minute extract from Chris Drakes interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4s The World This Weekend on 26 October from 1pm. With fears that the musician's death may lead to global grief and extreme hysteria, George Martin, Brian Epstein, the surviving Beatles, or a combination of all of them, replaced Paul McCartney with a replacement called Billy Shears, (sometimes known as William Campbell) the winner of a Paul McCartney look-alike-contest. 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. / Sit you down, father; rest you. And so on. But he is not Paulie. 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. I believe the truth will come out before he dies. In Come Together a reference to Walrus gumboot on the man with the disease, spine cracked, ju-ju eyeballs, flat-top, monkey finger, and so on, link that apparition with Walrus AND with Beatles (Beatle Boots are little black gumboots they popularized early on). Their underlying theory goes like this: Paul McCartneys1966 death was the result of an MI5*Black Operationoverseen by the Tavistock Institute. Perhaps also the college generation of that time felt that Paul, more than the others, had conned them with his earlier articulation of the primal feminine voice, which, in the wake of resurgent militarism, needed to be exorcized from the imagination. 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. One thing is for certain that I know as a fan, the rumor was going round in London in 1967. How could we do it? , 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. The band was founded on April 20, 1993 in Orlando, Florida, by Lou Pearlman. For he was compelled to leave behind his real identity for the rest of his life in the interest of the greater good for all of humankind. We thought the whole planet was going to hate us for all the lies we had told, so we kept lying but sending subtle clues to relieve our cousciousness. Earlier, DJ Russ Gibb of WKNR in Detroit had heard from Iowa student Tim Harper, asking Gibb to play Revolution 9 from the ", which makes audible the phrase Turn me on, dead man, . LaBour took it further by deconstructing the iconic ". My guess is the press office wanted to downplay things as much as possible, or didnt have the full info. 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? Between 6 and 19 November 1966, McCartney and his girlfriend Jane Asher were on holiday, travelling through France and Kenya. LaBour later admitted it was all made up (at the mock television trial attorney F. Lee Bailey conducted on RKO TV, questioning protagonists such as a petulant Peter Asher, Pauls ex-girlfriend Janes brother). How, in the end, is PID any different from Thomas Pynchons ". Russias Top Military Spy Dies Mysteriously, UN Human Rights Envoy To Palestinian Territories Resigns, by Sean Adl-Tabatabai in Sponsored As to the rest of the info: of course they used Pauls name for the recording harmonies. RINGO STARR CLAIMS THE REAL PAUL MCCARTNEY DIED IN 1966 AND WAS REPLACED BY LOOK-ALIKE. If you've learned something new about the band and wish to show your appreciation, why not make a small donation via PayPal? On 26 December 1965 McCartney crashed his moped, resulting in a chipped tooth (seen in the videos for Paperback Writer and Rain) and a scar on his top lip, which he hid by growing a moustache. No winners were ever announced for this competition. And it was done. Pepper. 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. 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. This page was last edited on Tuesday, 1 Sep 2020 at 15:11 UTC. By 1995, a death head as leafy reflection is added to a police van in Free As A Bird, but the reflection has no blur, so its optically impossible with a camera pan. At some point, it was too much for John and he decided to leave the band.. Indeed, it often provides a deeper, more profound, more satisfying systematization, as wholesome as official narrative. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. He is even playing Glastonbury in 2020. '", "A History of the Cat in Nine Chapters or Less". and subsequent albums, the limits of the counterculture that had by then proliferated. Pepper.. Billy went through plastic surgery and singing lessons to replace Paul MacCartney and take on the role of Paul (not just replace him). (Their last concert was in San Francisco that August.). Pauls idea was to distance themselves from their music, presenting the album. It really happened.You cant just read about the theories,because it is fun.Someones death it is not funny thing.They covered his death.Can you believe how many girls would kill themselfs if they knew the truth?For this reason the truth was hidden in songs,albums,photos They hide the truth and putted it in so many songs,just for the real fans,because the real fans would know that nobody can replace their favourite singer and they would know,that something is not quite right.As i see here,the big part of people cant call themselfs:Real fans of The Beatles,unfortunately. The Paul is Dead myth started in America. The man we know today as Sir Paul McCartney is actually Faul, who has done an outstanding job of impersonation for twice the length of the original Pauls lifespan. The Reason Some Are Convinced Paul McCartney Is A Clone Stories about the Beatles are always flying around Fleet Street. Anyone would know that. All of it is symbolized in Pauls grotesque end. Yes, he got to play a rock n roll superstar, but thats not nearly as fun or easy as it sounds. It is not possible for everyone to have the knowledge and intelligence to understand, say, neoliberal economics, so the New World Order organized by the Illuminati around the globe becomes an easily digestible mapping and perhaps gets to the heart of the matter in the same way. In fact, the intention fits without stretching it at all, in the other case. It involves the producers and consumers of art in a complicit relationship. It turns out that not only is it POSSIBLE an important point!!! There are tons and tons of clues and theyre thematically tight. 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.