We make a mystery out of it: The Beatles widely panned movie project in the period of suspension, littered with clues, was called "Magical Mystery Tour.". The task of conspiracy theory is always to explain the illicit usurpation of power by unseen forces, and in this case it was the aesthetic monopoly androgynous and challenging to male norms that was perhaps seen as usurpation by a Faul propped up by British intelligence. Strangely, nothing was ever heard of William Campbell again. 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. People who continue to push forward this myth need to seek therapy. 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. I just wish detraction statements would be more carefully thought through. Who is they who would dig up bodies? He notably says that the entire Sgt. We never went for anything like that. It is definitely possible that Pauls replacement was unaware of any furtive plots hatched by MI5 to control the biggest rock band of the era. Why? It does not prove Paul died, but it is a PID-style clue. 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). If you recall, Billy Shears had a heavy hand in penning the Sgt. Sorry, I really cant be bothered. The Beatles had disappeared from sight (Life magazine reporters traced Paul to his primitive Scottish farm, once major American media started going wild with rumors), and the music that came out after the break was a radical departure from not just their own oeuvre but from the history of rock music to that point. To spare the public from grief, the Beatles replaced him with a man named William Shears Campbell, who was the winner of a McCartney look-alike contest and who happened to have the same kind of. Although clearly intended as a joke, it had an impact far wider than the writer and his editor expected. All of it is symbolized in Pauls grotesque end. Now this is the most successful band with more than 100 million records sold all around the world. Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Sam, Mar 25, 2010. New clue: Flowers In The Dirt by Faul is a reference to Paul being dead, and the red background signifies the dirt of mars, which is a reference to the moon landing, which was obviously faked. If you understand that then you can start to see how if Paul died the truth would not necessarily have come out. 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. Clue-hunting rapidlyproved infectious, and within a few weeks, ithad become an international phenomenon. However, a couple of relevant incidents did take place. Miss Him! Fred LaBour says his review was satirical and admitted making up most of the details. has the best of the Memoirs' "Paul is Dead" material (excluding those . 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. But its also true that some who see differences in things are patently wrong. The Paul Is Dead myth began in 1969, and alleged that Paul McCartney died in 1966. 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 Lennons 1971 song How Do You Sleep? can either be interpreted as the natural destruction of the musical groups integrity against harsh political realities, if youre not a conspiracy theorist, or Fauls continuing deception, if you believe in PID. (1994), wanted to make a major artistic statement with the cover, and recruited designer Peter Blake for the job. According to the official website of London suburb St. Margarets, the man who allegedly became Macca was born William Campbell Shears in Shreveport, Louisiana, on September 16, 1940. In fact, the intention fits without stretching it at all, in the other case. You might wish to have a look at the upper leg of the antihelix, which, without intense foreshortening, is quite different after 1966. Additionally, on 7 January 1967 McCartneys Mini Cooper was involved in an accident on the M1 motorway outside London, as a result of which it was written off. While the exact facts surrounding Ringo Starrs involvement mayor may not be true, the background Beatlesmaterial certainly fits with the most likely historical narrative. All rights reserved. Ringo Starr claims that he finally decided to tell the truth, because he was afraid that it was going to die with him. Three brash Americans intervened in the cozy British setup of the Beatles, who used to be able to work seamlessly with genius producer George Martin and their devoted gay manager Brian Epstein (who, very sadly, committed suicide in 1967). Brian Moriarty skeptically covers the theory in the spirit of a computer gamer. . Also, if youre interested in going down the same rabbit hole I did, there is endless fascinating material on the internet. Voices can be heard saying, for example: He hit a light pole and we better go see a surgeon, and My wings are broke and so is my hair. Apparently it is difficult to have sounds make sense when played backwards, unless one is consciously aiming to do so and the Beatles, according to producer George Martin and Lennon himself, were very much interested in such technical wizardry, particularly from "Sgt. McCartney travelled with Jagger in the latters Mini Cooper, while Hadjij drove in McCartneys Mini. However, it contains a general narrative regarding the Paul McCartney story which could actually be true right down to the exact dates and details. It is more likely than not that Paul died and was replaced. He actually came back with the rest of the Beatles, but to avoid being caught by Campbell who tried to kidnap him, he disguised himself as Cynthia, when John realized, he decided to help George escape by getting a divorce, but in order to fake Cynthia, after George had left, he convinced Yoko to pretend to be Cynthia and hired William Shears 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. Somewhat improbably, McCartney was said to have been replaced by a lookalike, called variously William Shears Campbell or William Sheppard. 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.. Pepper" (1994), wanted to make a major artistic statement with the cover, and recruited designer Peter Blake for the job. can either be interpreted as the natural destruction of the musical groups integrity against harsh political realities, if youre not a conspiracy theorist, or Fauls continuing deception, if you believe in PID. Point is: just the claim that there are no items CALLED CLUES, and it was MADE UP, is false. He intended it to be a joke, but sadly many took him seriously. 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. 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. Learn about the ears, the height, the teeth. The application of the toolbox of scientific rationality toward accelerated, almost incomprehensible, social change is only superficially similar. Published September 23, 2017 2:00PM (EDT) "The masses will catch up with us in 2020.". Conspiracy, to repeat, is the imagination of excess, the acknowledgment that imagination cannot contain everything, the refusal that the work of art can ever be contained and closed; it is liberating precisely for that reason, especially if we think of political performance or spectacle as works of art produced and engineered, behind the scenes in technocratic warrens, for the dormant masses, who refuse, however, to abide by the law and give up their creative agency. Miss Him! , 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. It replaces unbearable randomness (which is to say our own incremental, almost undetectable, death) with pure intentionality. Paul McCartney drove off angrily in his car from a Beatles recording session after an argument with his bandmates, crashed on the M1, and was killed. 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. Prior to Ringo coming forward with this information, a largenumber of conspiracytheorists suggestedthat the original Paul McCartney left The Beatles in 1966. This interview was originally published in the May 2017 print edition of The Avocado and is now made available online for the first time. I saw a photo where Faul was clearly wearing a prosthetic ear piece and I got to tell you, that was the smoking gun that started my research and in other photos you can clearly see that Paul 66 and prior had nice, smooth rounded ears with connected ear lobes and Faul (after 67) does not. (There is some debate on that.) 21, Copyright 2023 NEWSPUNCH, LLC. According to conspirators, the singer's replacement was a sweet-sounding Louisiana local called Michael Campbell Shears - better known as Billy Shears. 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. Paul had nothing to do with this myth being started. Pepper". Quite a conpiracy here. (Without them, it went on for a few more years, in a self-conscious though depleted way.) is self-referential in that sense, the musical version of art for arts sake). The cover featured the words The case of the missing Beatle Paul is still with us. Rumours only declined after a contemporary interview with McCartney was published in Life magazine in November 1969. McCartney wasnt even there; he wasnt driving the car. They nearly broke up after Brians death, and Paul is more important than money. So, either Paul is dead, or the Beatles crashed against the limitations of popular music as agent of change after the highly engineered sound of "Sgt. 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. That is true of PID, as well as 9/11 or the JFK assassination or any other conspiracy. Their underlying theory goes like this: Paul McCartneys1966 death was the result of an MI5*Black Operationoverseen by the Tavistock Institute. 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? One can decipher innumerable clues, such as Lennons gibberish at the end of Im So Tired, playing backwards as Paul is a dead man! In my opinion, acid head people are also called dead people; when Paul finally took LSD, John probably said now, Paul is dead, at last or something, h? The Beatles intended "Sgt. As the reigning cultural deities of that decade, the Beatles died for us and went to heaven (or archival immortality). Pepper" as the first concept album (and it remains the most successful one to date). Although, there are accounts that fellow Liverpudlian, Billy Pepper assumed the role. The flowers signify where he was buried. However, he continued, if I was dead, Im sure Id be the last to know.. Its undergoing rewrites. He is still playing the role of Paul McCartney and putting out clues as a "Masterful Speaker". Paul's replacement is usually cited as William Campbell. The upper leg of the antihelix is straight and toward the rear of the ear, in Sir Paul, whereas it is forward and rounded, and front of the midline (plumbline at the middle) of the ear in Paul. first of allif there was any question about his death being real and this hoax did take place, they would of dug up the body and did dna on it..remember we live in the 21st century and have numerouse technology ways and means. It was supposed to last only a week or two, but time went by andnobody seemed to notice, so we kept playing along. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsPCQ932vlU at 40:05. 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. On 14 October, Fred LaBour wrote a review of the Abbey Road album for The Michigan Daily, where he said McCartney had lost his writing mojo and suggested this was because Paul had died and been replaced. One thing that actually happened that also supports this theory is the look-alike contest. Wait, this is a hoax? cover, arguably the most famous in the history of records, allows much creative interpretation. You can listen to some of the back-masking and other clues here, here, hereand here. After deliberating the fate of the group, the Beatles decided to secretly replace Paul with a musician named Billy Campbell. 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. ; 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.. Pepper.. Billy went through plastic surgery and singing lessons to replace Paul MacCartney and take on the role of Paul (not just replace him). Why? Pepper" onward undoubtedly reveal the Beatles macabre obsession with death, the point where the counterculture got frozen (hence Paul and the other Beatles health-consciousness and vegetarianism from that point on), an overwhelming fear of death that makes all of us hyper-consumers of our own end. All rights reserved. Shame on all of you. The following quote from Guitar Worlds article titledDid Paul McCartney Actually Die in 1966?reveals more of the inside story. But LaBour was on to something when he wrote that the Beatles had a religious motive. 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. Ill let you judge who he is condemning though. Anyone would know that. The Beatles Bible is run for the love of anything and everything to do with The Beatles. 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. So why did PID take hold at the time it did, and what does it tell us about the nature of conspiracy theories? All rights reserved | The People's Voice. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Then again, like Lennon, Paul McCartney never really diedgenetically speaking. The two cars became separated during the journey. We can point exactly to who replaced Paul McCartney - Billy Shears. Of course this can take a monstrous form, as in, Charles Manson decoding Beatles records for his murderous agenda, 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); You can unsubscribe any time. As to your implication that ANYTHING CAN BE INTERPRETED AS A CLUE: Lets look at that: one can of course take anything and MAKE it have meanings of wild associations, but the PID clues, in the main, are pretty obvious: they repeat and have direct reference to Paul at some point. Why is everyone so shocked they called him Paul? It was because of the end of the 45 rpm record played up high with the end of strawberry fields song where John clearly says I buried Paul. When the rumor got to America the new pressed editions of that song said cranberry sauce. But rock stars were going down by the bucket if not by drugs then by accident. All images their respective owners. The Beatles' albumsin order complete list! Billy Shepherd was also known as Neil Aspinall and he was "Billy Shears" from the Beatles song and also Billy Pepper..aka Sgt. As to Johns public statements: 1. The party decided to head to Jaggers home in Hertfordshire, before moving on to Redlands, Richards Sussex mansion (and scene of his later drugs bust). Proponents slide 1 of 1 Matt Tamanini Editor and Producer at True Crime Obsessed "His name is Billy Shears." 18 June 2019 Premises [P1] Paul McCartney died in a car crash in 1966. The drugs he was taking do not seem to explain those changes, he was not ravaged by them the way young people who change dramatically under their effects change their features. He responded in a typically forthright fashion: Lennon referred to the myth in 1971s How Do You Sleep?, his vitriolic attack on McCartney from the Imagine album. and subsequent albums, the limits of the counterculture that had by then proliferated. 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. In the eight months leading to the completion of their masterpiece Sgt. A drawing now being made more well known, by John, shows severe head injuries (including an eggshell flat-top, ju-ju wonky dissociated eyeballs, much gore and brain matter, a side-to-side split as well, no mouth injuries as a walrus image might conjure but the drawing gets sympathetic below the 2 upper head injuries so mouth damage may be normalized, not shown, and a set of GUMBOOTS, dissheveled, possibly ready to fall off). 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. Clearly there are references that are not there to mock the fans or the world. There were other, far more genuinely radical, musicians on the scene , Official history has much to say about this. The idea was started publicly by the Beatles themselves. If you mean the latter: a double requires intel and police complicity (a few persons, as with media censorship: its partial but effective). See TWB (link above) at 45:00. Clues and the drawing and even false ears on Sir Paul after 1966 do not limited-case prove anything. It was a rainy night and after a late session at their Abbey Road studios, ending in an argument amongst the Beatles, Paul got into his Aston Martin and picked up a streetwalker named Rita (of Lovely Rita fame) along the way; Rita got excited when she realized who she was with, making Paul lose control. We dont know on that one, but its not impossible that behind the scenes things were messy. The moment I walk in the door, he's asking me how my drive over was in that famous Liverpudlian accent, but he stops himself . Once exposed to PID, it became possible for me to read all of the Beatles latter output, at the level of pure text, as one extended lament over Pauls death and their guilty conscience about the coverup. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. PID apparently has no end in sight, since the Beatles have continuously fed the controversy, right up to McCartney's most recent album, "Memory Almost Full,"which has been mined by cluesters for numerous creepy admissions. Billy was introduced by name on the Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Steven D. Stark explains this well in "Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band that Shook Youth, Gender, and the World" (2005).
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