well, only being a young pup, i am not a devoted beatles fan, however, i recently heard about a rumour that was circulated in the late 60’s that paul mccartney was killed in a terrible road accident while he was ‘perving’ over a parking meter attendant.
anyway, this has really interested me, i was just wondering if anyone had any good links or has more information about this subject.
there are alot of subtle clues hidden in the beatles work and also in some of their pictures and albumn covers, abbey road being the most famous
thanks for the link arnold. it is a good one, however i feel that the author of the site comes up with some pretty crappy reasons for the ‘clues’ not being valid. stuff like, ‘there was a fold in the negative when the photo was developed’ and ‘it is a printing error’
i’m sorry but this is the beatles we are talking about. surely they would never settle for faulty photos on their albumn covers
OK, joking aside, NO, Paul is not dead. As you say, “this is the Beatles”; for several years these guys were some of the most photographed, interviewed, plublic people on the planet. No way could something like that be faked. And if he were dead and they had cynically organized this elaborate (and illegal) scam, I feel certain they were too smart to go putting cryptic references to it on their albums.
By the way, “Strawberry Fields Forever” does not say “I buried Paul”; if you turn it up and listen closely, it clearly says “cranberry sauce.” Why it says this remains a mystery.
The entire idea is totally ridiculous, really; they take the winner of a Paul look-alike contest and get him cosmetic surgery to make him look just like Paul, and then–what luck!–the guy can sing and play just like Paul!
No. Paul is not dead. This is the result of some people with too much free time sitting around with some (un-Straight) dope and some Beatles albums.
As I was opening this thread, along with “Not Paul too!” I was thinking, “I’m old enough to remember when he was dead the first time!”
And now I find out that’s the time we’re talking about, thank goodness.
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And the part that sounded like “Stig has been dead for ages honestly” actually said “E burres stigano” which is very bad Spanish for “Have you a water buffalo?”
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Maybe they’ve doctored later versions of the “Tragical History Tour,” umm, “Magical Mystery Tour” album so that it says “Cranberry Sauce” at the end of “Strawberry Fields”, but it certainly didn’t used to say that. And I’d be willing to bet that early pressings of the LP did in fact say “We buried Paul” amidst that sonic thicket at the end.
The Beatles apparently had a fun time placing pseudo-clues in their albums, particularly the White Album and Magical Mystery Tour, about Paul’s supposed demise. My favorites were the things on the White Album that you heard by turning off the motor on the turntable and rotating the LP backwards at ~33rpm.
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If “backward masking” (some of you surely remember the fundie fuss over that) was part of a Satanic plot on the part of the recording industry to corrupt our youth, why’d they convert to CDs without a fight?
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A word of warning about some of the many pop-ups that accompany that site: some of them attempt to install spyware, one of them attempted to install a dialler to connect (presumably at premium rate or something) with a German site of unknown content; be careful.
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