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. ringo is the last beatle alive.paul died /many years ago /remember the words.jane asher knew that is why linda was choosen to replace her.with linda dead the secret will be forever.ringo is the only one left./jls. 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. Pepper" onward. The magazines cover featured Paul and Linda with their children, in a picture taken on their Scottish farm. The cover featured the words The case of the missing Beatle Paul is still with us. 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. However, until you learn how your brain actually processes information, you may not understand how it can fool you. 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. (Their last concert was in San Francisco that August.). 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. William Shears Campbell, better known as Billy Shears, does indeed disappear from recordsin 1966 and no traces of him can be found after Pauls alleged death. Also has good taste in music and smells nice.. 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. Visit the Beatles history section. No winners were ever announced for this competition. All rights reserved | The People's Voice. 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. The Beatles' albumsin order complete list! So I made it William Campbell. Thats why. I think LaBour hit the nail on the head, very intuitively, in describing the Beatles as being interested in building a religion. After 66 Faul has green eyes. I dont know, you know as much about it as me No, that was bullshit, the whole thing was made up. All of it is symbolized in Pauls grotesque end. Quite a conpiracy here. The complete guide to The Beatles 'Paul Is Dead' myth - Far Out Magazine Why? Your link from Beatles Monthly shows the Paul is Dead stuff began (at least) in February 1967 plenty of time to use Pepper, MMT and the White Album to fuel the rumor. Those surrounding Paul covered up his death - Parlia 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. Tasha, I hear you. Their only questions relate to whyMI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5)arranged for his removal. I just wish detraction statements would be more carefully thought through. Paul's replacement is usually cited as William Campbell. 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. Paul McCartney finally explains cover-up over rumours he died and was (Its poignancy also, however, would on its own indicate something serious might be real about PID clues overall.) This masterpiece of a speculative essay, purporting to be a review of ". Pepper) or William Sheppard (supposedly referenced in 'The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill'). (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. 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? In an edition of Life magazine dated 7 November 1969, McCartney reassured fans that Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated, paraphrasing Mark Twain. The earliest reference is in text, a disclaimer in Englands then UK-only Beatles Monthly in February 1967. 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. The drug overdose death of their first manager Brian Epstein in 1967 devastatedTheBEATLES, as it was meant to. as the first concept album (and it remains the most successful one to date). Their underlying theory goes like this: Paul McCartneys1966 death was the result of an MI5*Black Operationoverseen by the Tavistock Institute. You can listen to some of the back-masking and other clues, PID apparently has no end in sight, since the Beatles have continuously fed the controversy, right up to McCartney's most recent album, ". Campbell, luckily, not only bore a striking resemblance to McCartney he could sing like him and even write good songs. but it was done a different point. We are up against the familiar phenomenon of the true avant-garde always decapitating itself. 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. A robust conspiracy theory, like official theories, leaves nothing out; everything can be explained within its parameters. The Replacement Of Paul McCartney Why? ------------------------------------------, With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of Sgt. This is so funny to think some people believe you can pull a lookalike / soundalike Beatle out of the space where the sun dont shine and fool every sane person on the planet for 45 years. 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. Furthermore, conspiracy theories feed on each other, so if we take the JFK assassination as a template, other theories make direct and indirect connections with that one and keep building an endless loop. Of course you do. If you recall, Billy Shears had a heavy hand in penning the Sgt. (aka Billy Shears. 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. 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. 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? Follow Mirror. Similarly, the "Pepper" cover, arguably the most famous in the history of records, allows much creative interpretation. 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. Shortly after the issue went on sale the rumours started to decline. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Shears, Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service. Paul McCartney announces Eyes Of The Storm book and exhibition, Paul McCartney announces The 7 Singles Box, Revolver to be reissued with remixes and rarities, The Beatles: Get Back wins five Emmy Awards, Brian Epstein statue unveiled in Liverpool, Join the Fab Forum discussion on The 'Paul is dead' myth, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsPCQ932vlU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=317yvBXrXjw, disclaimer in Englands then UK-only Beatles Monthly, Paul McCartney live: Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, Paul McCartney live: Olympic Stadium, Seoul, South Korea, Television: John Lennon and Yoko Ono are interviewed for How Late It Is, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones visit Dollys nightclub, London, The Beatles arrive in Amesbury, Wiltshire, Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox fly to Lisbon, John and Cynthia Lennon, George Harrison and Pattie Boyd fly to Hawaii, The "Incredibly Impossible to Derail This Thread" thread, Beatles Hangman (nothing to get hung about), John Lennon attends the 14 Hour Technicolour Dream, NME Poll-Winners' show: The Beatles' final UK concert, Recording, mixing: Let It Be, You Know My Name (Look Up The Number). "Sgt. A one-minute extract from Chris Drakes interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4s The World This Weekend on 26 October from 1pm. His ears did not change between 66 and 67. Also (as if there were more difference one needed as proof, but of course different ears will have many different features), it is further back than Pauls upper leg of antihelix, pre-1966. Also: what of this claim by C. Bowin, about totally different earlobes (among other changes) makes you so defensive as to ignore the point? Go to the link I just posted. Why is everyone so shocked they called him Paul? It all started as a joke that got out of hand. He is even playing Glastonbury in 2020. 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. Somewhat improbably, McCartney was said to have been replaced by a lookalike, called variously William Shears Campbell or William Sheppard. In this light, his was perhaps one of the greatest sacrifices made in modern times. 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, exactly who did they replace him with? 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.. Whether to trust their affairs to rapacious but effective agent Allen Klein or Pauls well-heeled father-in-law Lee Eastman (both New Yorkers) was a big reason for the groups unraveling. Miss Him! In a droll lecture, Nick Kollerstrom focuses on MI5s investment in protecting the British national interest. 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. by Ship of Fools co-editor Steve Goddard. [P2] Lookalike Billy Shears replaced him in the band and Billys career is now many times longer than Pauls. RINGO STARR CLAIMS THE REAL PAUL MCCARTNEY DIED IN 1966 AND WAS REPLACED BY LOOK-ALIKE. But he is not Paulie. In this case, you are fooled; some are not. as a highly self-conscious performative act, introducing of course Billy Shears, in the opening song. 1 yr. ago Motherfu- I thought he was a real guy that just happened to fall into this theory. They were so excited and beside themselves that they were literally unconscious to controlling their bodily functions.. McCartney travelled with Jagger in the latters Mini Cooper, while Hadjij drove in McCartneys Mini. 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 only problem was that he couldnt get along with John, at all.. 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. Its so much more entertaining than the Kardashians. *The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdoms domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS; also known as MI6) focused on foreign threats, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI). Rather, they had started constructing a social utopia ("Sgt. has the best of the Memoirs' "Paul is Dead" material (excluding those . Im going to close comments on this article to try to preserve some sanity. Billy Shears is only mentioned in the title song and, implicitly, as the singer of the segued-into "With a Little Help from My Friends", and even more implicitly, in the title song reprise. Pepper"or "Abbey Road" or the "White Album," are not meaningless gibberish. We have indeed been told the turth in a straight forward way. We didnt know what to do, and Brian Epstein, our manager, suggested that we hire Billy Shears as a temporary solution. (He did; but Ill leave it at if.). I wonder why it is so imporatnt for some of you to believe this myth. A recent mockumentary, in the alleged voice of George Harrison (available at Netflix), covers the territory in an over-the-top manner, inciting doubt. Then learn the other circumstantial arguments either way. Of course this can take a monstrous form, as in Charles Manson decoding Beatles records for his murderous agenda. I posted a link above, for part of that info, with more links given inside that page, as well. When the first rumors finally began about the whole thing, we felt very nervous and started fighting a lot with each other. Although the Beatles were a key musical influence on me when I was growing up, I never encountered the Paul-Is-Dead (PID) theory until recently; or perhaps I did and let it glide over because it wasnt important for me to know it. Don't Miss. Billy Shears Campbell is a musician, a singer and a man about townif not a man about the world, or even the universe. We stuck a vinyl copy of Sgt Pepper on the turntable and asked Steve to tell us all about it. This explains why Paul had to be seen as dead and the Beatles no longer who they were, because in fact they were not who they used to be in their earlier nave phase, and the new experimental phase (with music that was technically irreproducible on the stage) was inherently self-limiting as revolutionary strategy. Therefore, it is alleged that Lennon was assassinated in 1980 because he was about to go public with the Paul conspiracy, and the same is alleged about George Harrisons attempted murder in 1999 and his subsequent premature death in 2001. So, the remaining Beatles hired a Paul McCartney lookalike named William Campbell, also known as Billy Shears. 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. After deliberating the fate of the group, the Beatles decided to secretly replace Paul with a musician named Billy Campbell. Brian Moriarty, skeptically covers the theory in the spirit of a computer gamer. While the exact facts surrounding Ringo Starrs involvement mayor may not be true, the background Beatlesmaterial certainly fits with the most likely historical narrative. But the Beatles, struck by bad conscience, kept strewing their albums, both aurally and visually, with a multitude of clues about what had happened; discerning Beatles fans would therefore know the truth. We are mapping the world's opinions to help improve civil discourse. I dont think Paul is dead, but I do think the Beatles added fuel to the fire. Paul Is Dead Myth - Rock'n'Roll Unravelled It is interesting to me that it never occurs to any of you conspirecy nuts that the simple explanation for different ear lobes is the result of modern technology. Pauls death. Published September 23, 2017 2:00PM (EDT) "The masses will catch up with us in 2020.". 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. I wonder how any of you would feel if a group of delusional individuals decided to take it upon themselves to strip any of you of your identiy. It turns out that not only is it POSSIBLE an important point!!! [P1] Paul McCartney died in a car crash in 1966. Why? The Reason Some Are Convinced Paul McCartney Is A Clone There are FOUR provably planted clues in the simple sense including the disclaimer (or fake-disclaiming) above. Actually, no. One way or another, there is a 5th Beatle, friend and interloper at the same time. Just as literary (deconstructive) textual analysis takes us to conflicts that resonate with us -- sub-rosa clashes of morality enacted by the critic in alliance with the reader (with the artistic creator standing at a distance) -- conspiracy theory, with its proliferation of endless clues, allows us an alternative route of access to the deeper meaning of history. 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. Billy Shears replaced Paul and the rest, as they say, is history PAUL'S REPLACEMENT - BILLY SHEARS. It'll help with server costs, research material etc About | Privacy policy | Advertise on this site. Its impossible to even briefly mention here some of the key aural and visual clues, but Andru J. Reeves good-humoredly skeptical "Turn Me On, Dead Man: The Complete Story of the Paul McCartney Death Hoax" (1994) is a good place to start. Picked to replace the "cute one" in the Beatles, Billy took the bull by the horns and took the remnants of the band to new and improved musical heights, heights filled with fantasy and ominous foreshadowing. It is wider, not narrower than the 1966 leg of the antihelix; foreshortening narrows, it doesnt widen. 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. Billy turned out to be a pretty good musician and he was able to perform almost better than Paul. Miss Him! As to Johns public statements: 1. His death was covered up and he was replaced in the band by a lookalike competition winner, William Billy Shears Campbell, to play Paul on future Beatles records. Pepper album. It is mere emotion which drives your comment. 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. PID consumers all but seem to desire Pauls death. Belief that Paul McCartney may have died in the mid 1960s began in 1969. He was firm in denying he had died, saying: If the conclusion you reach is that Im dead, then youre wrong, because Im alive and living in Scotland. Linda McCartney said their holiday was being ruined by the press speculation, adding that everybody knows hes alive. Affiliate programs and When did Paul is Dead become a hoax? this can result in this site earning a commission. In fact, the intention fits without stretching it at all, in the other case. ), to think that PID is interesting-but-ludicrous (where on earth would you be able to find a left-handed bass guitarist/acoustic guitarist/pianist/singer in time for Hello/Goodbye and Let It Be filming? The Beatles are said to have covered up the death, despite inserting a series of clues into their songs and artwork. In the case of PID it is the point where the counterculture crashed because it could not reckon with its own plenitude (though PID was a way for males, in particular, to reckon with the androgynous surfeit of Beatlemania, its exact earlier counterpart). Miss Him! At the outset I want to make it clear that the label "conspiracy theory" often turns out to be facile dismissal of legitimate grievances about unaccountable political power. 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). Pepper" (1994), wanted to make a major artistic statement with the cover, and recruited designer Peter Blake for the job. I do SO want to believe Paul is dead and Faul took his place. Brian Moriarty skeptically covers the theory in the spirit of a computer gamer. On 24 October McCartney agreed to speak to the BBCs Chris Drake. The following article appears to be correct in stating all the primary facts with the exception of the very last paragraph as follows: The British MI5 also announced an investigation to determine if an imposter could have indeed posed for 48 years as the Member of the Order of the British Empire, Sir James Paul McCartney, during official ceremonies involving Queen Elizabeth II.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=317yvBXrXjw 3. 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. Clues and the drawing and even false ears on Sir Paul after 1966 do not limited-case prove anything. They hired the winner of a McCartney look-alike contest to take his place in the band, a lucky guy with the name of either William Shears Campbell, Billy Shears (the name of the fictitious leader . It involves the producers and consumers of art in a complicit relationship. 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. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Miss Him!. Paul is dead - Wikipedia People do not understand just how crucial the Beatles were to the economy of Britain at the time. 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. Now that Im well past the Beatles style of music it has entered my consciousness. The acclaimed Amazon bestsellerRiding So High The Beatles and Drugs By the creator of the Beatles Bible.Buy now:Paperback | Ebook . Also, if youre interested in going down the same rabbit hole I did, there is endless fascinating material on the internet. 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. Also, the Walrus was Paul. And why would such images as have been pointed out in the Free as a bird video be shown? He is a talented man (some say not so, but I prefer to recognize that though different, it made the Beatles trajectory what we have in the end, and it worked out). Point is: just the claim that there are no items CALLED CLUES, and it was MADE UP, is false. His face changed in the space of a couple of years when he was in his twenties. I believe the truth will come out before he dies. In the eight months leading to the completion of their masterpiece Sgt. Talk then turned to the subject of McCartneys farm, which he admitted was scruffy. The Walrus and Paul are directly linked, and the disclaimer of Walrus and John (who was in the mask) started on liner notes for MMTour albums I am the Walrus listing, by having No, youre not, said little Nicola scrawled under it. The caller, identified only as Tom, claimed that McCartney was dead, and instructed Gibb to play Revolution 9 backwards, where the repeated number nine phrase was heard as turn me on, dead man. In the annals of college newspaper writing, surely Fred LaBours essay for the Michigan Daily ranks among the very top. 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? Now that we have good comps on the forensics, it must be done that way. Mr. Starr alleges that the group did send out a lot of hidden messages through the years to prepare the population for the truth. Wikimedia Commons A magazine cover examining the hoax. 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. 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. We make a mystery out of it: The Beatles widely panned movie project in the period of suspension, littered with clues, was called ". In reality, all of us are called upon from time to time to be or act like something that we are not. the Amazon Associates Program via amazon.com. Ringo Starr Claims The "Real" Paul McCartney Died In 1966 PLUS Forensic The BEATLES Lead TheBritish Invasion Bands. 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. 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 pair turned up at McCartneys house on the evening of 7 January, and were later joined by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones and antiques dealer Christopher Gibbs. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. The song contains the lines: Those freaks was right when they said you was dead, the one mistake you made was in your head. 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. This site is not associated with The Beatles, Apple Corps Ltd, related organisations, or any members of The Beatles or their representatives. William Campbell does not exist A-Stupid-Redditor Think for yourself 'cause I won't be there with you. Ringo Starr claims that he finally decided to tell the truth, because he was afraid that it was going to die with him. How, in the end, is PID any different from Thomas Pynchons ". wait, you CANT just go into cemeteries and start digging bodies up? They were a real group who honed their skills during countless nights in Hamburg but there seems little doubt that George Martin had a lot to do with their songwriting.
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