# Guess What! The Beatles Never Existed, and there's a website to prove it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139 "2016-08-27T15:06:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/1 "2016-08-27T15:06:05Z")
[Just click here](http://thebeatlesneverexisted.com/) > [@](#): > > We who began researching this in 2011 consider it to be a serious subject, not a joke, and this site is here to expose the actions of those who exploited these young men – in whatever form they actually appeared to us – and defrauded us their fans. It is to defend the honor of everyone involved who did not take part in it willingly. It has become apparent to us in this extensive and painstaking research that there were never just four individual people known as “John”, “Paul”, “George”, and “Ringo” who comprised one Rock & Roll band known as “The Beatles”, and rose to fame as the world’s first supergroup. For all intents and purposes as far as we can tell, no one such group ever existed. You never know what a simple Google search will turn up these days. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/2 "2016-08-27T15:11:53Z")
The good news here then is that there was never a Yoko. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/3 "2016-08-27T15:17:32Z")
So we have a Schrödinger’s Paul? Is he dead or alive? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/4 "2016-08-27T15:38:38Z")
Paul’s height differences is right up there with moon hoaxing. Not just in the sheer stupidity, but the exact same type of sheer stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/5 "2016-08-27T18:48:54Z")
I for one find it far more likely that cloning technology existed in the 1960’s than that Paul McCartney sometimes wore boots with high heels. Who ever heard of a man in the 1960’s wearing a heeled boot? ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/6 "2016-08-27T19:07:34Z")
PM was very competitive. Sometimes in an irritating way. There were probably some heel booster wars among the three of them. (Ringo was, ahem, above all this). Note the early photos of 1960-64. In those the four boys had a democratic sense of taking the limelight. That changed, from 65 on John and Paul were the Alphas. Paul in particular seemed to strive to stand out: only black rose, only one barefoot, the one in the trunk, etc. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/7 "2016-08-27T21:41:03Z")
I’ve had Larouchites tell me that the Beatles were a druggie, no-talent band that British Intelligence and the Tavistock Institute plucked from seedy dive bars in Hamburg and groomed to brainwash the world’s youth and mold them to serve the global elite. John, Paul, George, and Ringo were just actors/mannequins who recited scripts their handlers fed to them and did not play or sing on any Beatles record. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/8 "2016-08-27T23:20:05Z")
Poe’s Law rules the Universe these days, for sure. Y’know, before the Web, this sort of thing stayed in the parents’ basement or pot-smoke-filled garret where it was hatched, and maybe, MAYBE a mimeographed folded-paper pocket zine made it to the local altie newsstand. Now it can spread worldwide and make the world dumber for it. Tim Berners-Lee wept. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/9 "2016-08-27T23:36:10Z")
Ok, if the Beatles never existed, then where did Jerry Garcia’s really cool Dear Prudence cover come from? Flo and Eddie? All the way down? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/10 "2016-08-27T23:48:29Z")
Clearly, none of the Beatles songs were written by the Beatles. The Beatles were a no-talent cover “band” that somehow got The Conspiracy to put their names on songs other composers wrote. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/11 "2016-08-28T01:01:14Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > The good news here then is that there was never a Yoko. Ba-Bing! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/12 "2016-08-28T01:38:24Z")
> [@](#): > > It has become apparent to us in this extensive and painstaking research that there were never just four individual people known as “John”, “Paul”, “George”, and “Ringo” who comprised one Rock & Roll band known as “The Beatles”, and rose to fame as the world’s first supergroup. That statement is true. Everyone knows The Beatles didn’t play Rock & Roll!😃 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/13 "2016-08-28T01:42:50Z")
Now I’m starting to question the existence of the Monkees, too. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/14 "2016-08-28T02:11:08Z")
It The Beatles never existed then The Rutles never existed either. I can’t accept that. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/15 "2016-08-28T02:29:39Z")
You mean **Zeke N. Destroi** got suspended for nothing?!? The futility of it all… ---
**Author:** ![stosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@stosh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stosh)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/16 "2016-08-31T18:33:56Z")
There are websites that say Elvis, Hoffa and JFK are alive and well, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster are real and the CIA blew up the WTC and we never landed on the moon, so, this must be true. After all, it’s on the internet, it has to be true. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/17 "2016-08-31T19:37:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > You never know what a simple Google search will turn up these days. What exactly were you searching? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/18 "2016-08-31T20:02:14Z")
I think it’s so cool to have a message-board like that all to yourself. Or maybe that should all to yourselves. You’re the founder, the only member and the only poster. So cool. I know I’ve been cloned a bunch of times after looking at all of my old photos. I’m particularly interested in the whereabouts of that dashing 24 year old I used to be 'cause he sure as shit ain’t in the bathroom mirror anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/19 "2016-08-31T20:10:09Z")
There was Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe. So “The Beatles” was never always and only John Paul George and Ringo. “The Beatles” is a fraud! ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139/20 "2016-08-31T20:48:58Z")
How do they account for the [future historical record](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI) in the year 3126? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-the-beatles-never-existed-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/764139.md?page=2)