The albums from "Sgt. I just wish detraction statements would be more carefully thought through. Although The Beatles and their press office at Apple were initially bewildered and somewhat annoyed by the storys refusal to die away, there is evidence that the group members themselves found it amusing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Shears, Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service. . The acclaimed Amazon bestsellerRiding So High The Beatles and Drugs By the creator of the Beatles Bible.Buy now:Paperback | Ebook . on the internet which supports Ringo Starrs alleged revelations. ), 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? A robust conspiracy theory, like official theories, leaves nothing out; everything can be explained within its parameters. 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. Don't miss our sister site, the Bowie Bible, now live! 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. this can result in this site earning a commission. But lets say there were massive foreshortening: it would still contradict. The following excerpt comes from a post athugequestions.com under the titlePaul is Dead:New evidence based on computer enhanced forensic technique. It works this way. Seems to be mixing griefs about Paul & Eppie for those in the know. I can only say its not true.. So why did PID take hold at the time it did, and what does it tell us about the nature of conspiracy theories? 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. I posted a link above, for part of that info, with more links given inside that page, as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsPCQ932vlU at 40:05. When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, Not a clue, a condemnation. For instance, the disclaimer (or disclaimer) in Feb. 1967 mentions car crash, Paul, death (and some wrong and deflective info). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=317yvBXrXjw 3. 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. Big mistake re. 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. How, in the end, is PID any different from Thomas Pynchons "The Crying of Lot 49"? - John Lennon. Fifty years on from 1967 and the Summer of Love, 'Shears' is a squeaky-clean Anglican chaplain, nursing memories of a lost and secret love. I believe the truth will come out before he dies. You may be well aware of that, but it does need to be pointed out in general. Lennon-McCartneys words, in"Sgt. 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 records in 1966 and no traces of him can be found after Paul's alleged death. Look it up. The earlier Paul, with his nave romanticism, died aesthetically, but conspiracy theory literalized it, as though the counterculturalists on American campuses were desperate to acknowledge their own political helplessness. Besides, if they were trying to plant clues, why would they slap down a rumour that was being spread around London that they wanted to perpetuate? A British version of the rumour is believed to have existed prior to the American one, with fewer details. Clues and the drawing and even false ears on Sir Paul after 1966 do not limited-case prove anything. The license plate of the Volkswagen Beetle reads 28IF (meaning Paul would be 28 if alive). And the gumboots are off on Abbey Road album if gumboots were what Paul wore and got partly pulled off in a crash or other damage. My oh my, the vitriol. ); green eyes aside (from LSD use? 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. We have indeed been told the turth in a straight forward way. The real ear cartilage is an exact proof, however, even if you dont see a difference in the men. While the exact facts surrounding Ringo Starrs involvement mayor may not be true, the background Beatlesmaterial certainly fits with the most likely historical narrative. Does this latest revelation confirm what conspiracy theorists have been saying for years? He notably says that the entire Sgt. 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. His ears did not change between 66 and 67. , 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. These Americans were Johns Japanese-American girlfriend Yoko Ono (historically held responsible for accelerating tensions among the Beatles, particularly with her overwrought and vacuous performance art, which she insisted on imposing on the Beatles); Pauls girlfriend, photographer Linda Eastman, who had earlier tried to rope in the Rolling Stones and other musicians; and the aforementioned amoral agent Allen Klein. 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. Oh well. And it was done. This interview was originally published in the May 2017 print edition of The Avocado and is now made available online for the first time. He supposedly won the Paul lookalike competition. Who is they who would dig up bodies? But he is not Paulie. For a much better explanation of just how traumatic such ashocking revelationwould have been in 1966, the following true story is presented for the readers edification. There were other, far more genuinely radical, musicians on the scene , Official history has much to say about this. For PID theorists, the question remains as to how a musician as talented as Paul could ever be replaced, with the alleged impostor perhaps even more successful than the original. Billy Shears . If you've learned something new about the band and wish to show your appreciation, why not make a small donation via PayPal? [P2] Lookalike Billy Shears replaced him in the band and Billys career is now many times longer than Pauls. The Beatles are said to have covered up the death, despite inserting a series of clues into their songs and artwork. A listener called into a radio show and put forward his theories based on album covers. Lifes too short (though Pauls hasnt been). 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. Conspiracy theory is excess, or rather impossible containment of excess. This site is not associated with The Beatles, Apple Corps Ltd, related organisations, or any members of The Beatles or their representatives. One can decipher innumerable clues, such as Lennons gibberish at the end of Im So Tired, playing backwards as Paul is a dead man! The following month a paragraph appeared in the February 1967 edition of the Beatles Book Monthly magazine, headed FALSE RUMOUR: Although the magazine downplayed the incident, and claimed the car was in McCartneys possession. I doubt we will ever be told in a straight forward way but it certainly makes you go, hmm. His novel "A History of the Cat in Nine Chapters or Less" comes out in October. Anis Shivani's recent political books include "Why Did Trump Win? Ok I am revealing a big secret here but Billy Shears is the name of the actor/musician who portrayed Paul in The Beatles following his tragic fatal/and or disfiguring 1966 auto accident. 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). And by Whom? 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. as a highly self-conscious performative act, introducing of course Billy Shears, in the opening song. Sometimes known as theRock and Roll Revolution, this global movement respected no boundaries and utilized the universal language of music (and English) to transform the entire planetary civilization. Pepper"in particular yields a rich overlay of meaning, and everywhere the apparent gibberish becomes illuminating, a piercing cry of grief that is the perfect antidote to the earlier Beatlemania. 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. Talk then turned to the subject of McCartneys farm, which he admitted was scruffy. Clue-hunting rapidlyproved infectious, and within a few weeks, ithad become an international phenomenon. The application of the toolbox of scientific rationality toward accelerated, almost incomprehensible, social change is only superficially similar. They picked a panoply of historical figures (for example, Aleister Crowley, the influential occultist), whose choice only fed into the PID theory, and they are all at a funeral (or celebration, if we heed Martin), mourning Paul or the Beatles, the yellow hyacinth wreath spelling Paul? and laid out in the form of a left-handed guitar (McCartney is left-handed). They could never split up as a normal group, have normal afterlives in their solo careers, or die naturally. In September 1969, an article entitled "Is Beatle Paul McCartney Dead?" At some point, it was too much for John and he decided to leave the band.. 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. 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). Now that we have good comps on the forensics, it must be done that way. Heres another take on the fans out-of-body excitement and uncontrollable urges: Clearly, MI5, MI6, together with the British Monarchy and Parliament had to make a very swift command decision to hide the death of Paul McCartney. 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. He described many of the clues pointing towards the story being true, and the story rapidly became an international phenomenon. Wikimedia Commons A magazine cover examining the hoax. Don't Miss. I dont think Paul is dead, but I do think the Beatles added fuel to the fire. Also: PID happens to be true. 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. As the reigning cultural deities of that decade, the Beatles died for us and went to heaven (or archival immortality). 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. 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? In this case, you are fooled; some are not. 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. In an exclusive interview with the Hollywood Inquirer, Mr. Starr explained that the real Paul McCartney had died in a car crash on November 9 1966, after an argument during a Beatles recording session. Coming in at third place at 23% was the urban legend of Paul McCartney's supposed car crash death.We could go on about the "clues" in Beatles songs that allegedly corroborated the "Paul is dead" rumor and the claim that he was replaced by one William "Billy Shears" Campbell the same guy referenced in the first two songs of "Sgt. The song contains the lines: Those freaks was right when they said you was dead, the one mistake you made was in your head. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); You can unsubscribe any time. 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. But anyway: We are not debating a single clue here; we are pointing out that THE ITEMS ARE NOT MADE UP (largely). If you recall, Billy Shears had a heavy hand in penning the Sgt. 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. 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? 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. Mr. Starr alleges that the group did send out a lot of hidden messages through the years to prepare the population for the truth. is self-referential in that sense, the musical version of art for arts sake). 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. Beyond mere belief opinion; but as long as it was, the case remained hypothesis as much as PIA is an hypothesis, strictly speaking. It'll help with server costs, research material etc About | Privacy policy | Advertise on this site. WKNRs Russ Gibb spoke to Derek Taylor, and to someone else who claimed to be McCartney but was in fact Tony Bramwell. The Beatles intended "Sgt. We are up against the familiar phenomenon of the true avant-garde always decapitating itself. 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. 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. 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. We didnt know what to do, and Brian Epstein, our manager, suggested that we hire Billy Shears as a temporary solution. That the real Paul McCartney left the world scene on November 9th of 1966 is an absolute certainty for those initiated into this particular line of inquiry and investigation. Ringo Starr claims that he finally decided to tell the truth, because he was afraid that it was going to die with him. 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. Go to the link I just posted. 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. It involves the producers and consumers of art in a complicit relationship. Sites likeWorld News Daily Reportare utilized to disseminate highly sensitive and secret information in a manner that permits plausible deniability. It is clearly McCartneys image in a video supposedly only about John. People who continue to push forward this myth need to seek therapy. 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. 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? 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. The masses will catch up with us in 2020. John Lennon. Oh you dont believe me? The real Paul McCartney is possibly buried in that farm in Scotland under the Standing Stone. 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). 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. 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). 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? The Beatles, as we learn in George Martins book "With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of Sgt. 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?

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