Pal McCartney is dead?!?!?!?!

Paul is dead, miss him, miss him…
Some ‘Paul is Dead’ clues:
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[li]“Lovely Rita”: The lines “I took her home, I nearly made it” are about Paul picking up the meter maid and not making it home (supposedly, look at the full lyrics).[/li][li]“I’m So Tired”: Play the mumbling at the end of the song backwards to hear “Paul is dead, miss him, miss him…” (according to Poundstone, who has listened, the reversal is in the space between “I’m So Tired” and “Blackbird,” and is unintelligible no matter how you play it [Big Secrets]).[/li][li]Abbey Road: Supposed representation of Paul’s death. John, in all white, leading, is the preacher. Then Ringo, in formal tails, is the undertaker. Next, Paul, in black and white and barefoot, is the corpse. Finally, George, in denims, is the gravedigger. (Rather strained, IMHO, and not the only possible interpretation.)[/li][li]“Revolution 9”: The sounds of the fatal crash are in the sound montage of this unintelligible track. (How in the hell did they pull that off? One of the loonier hints.)[/li][li]“Come Together”: The lyrics “1 and 1 and 1 is 3” means that only three Beatles remain. (The song is pretty trippy, so any interpretation of the lyrics will be highly subjective.)[/li][li]Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: “Bet at Leso” is supposedly written in the carnations, Leso being an island the Beatles own and where the hideously disfigured Paul was living. (And some people can read ‘sex’ off of a Ritz cracker. Secondly, I doubt the Beatles were ever rich enough to own an island and shield it from the press well enough to hide a high-profile resident.)[/li][li]“A Day in the Life”: “He blew his mind out in a car” supposedly refers to Paul. (First it was a crash, now it’s suicide? OK, not necessarily, but rather strongly suggested. And if he is dead, how is he living on Leso?)[/li][/ul]

Nope. When I say “Tragical History Tour”, I meanTragical History Tour”. :smiley:

Rutlemania! :wink:

RT, that is just bizarre.

And slightly disturbing.

Thank you. :slight_smile:

The DJ who first publicized the rumor, Russ Gibb, is now a high school teacher in my town.

He’s a pompous ass. For many years he had a public access cable show with which he spread rumors about local politicians and residents. Now he does his dirty work on his website.

Happy

The main ‘hint’ from that track was in the playing-it-backward business: the interminable “number nine, number nine…” at the beginning turns into “Turn me on dead man, turn me on dead man…” when you reverse the direction of the LP on the turntable.

But as the Rutles site says:

It then links to the following evidence:

Not to mention, you couldn’t hear a single note he played in their famous Che Stadium concert. But of course that was true of all four of them. :smiley:

Derleth: you’re welcome. I’ve been a big fan of the Prefab Four ever since their TV special appeared back in 1978.

Calling Alanis Morissette! Calling Alanis Morissette!

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Q: What’s got hree legs and lives on a farm?

A: Paul and Heather McCartney
She’ll never fill Linda’s shoes.

I’ll say. She might fill one of them, though.

Heather Mills, a women who fell on her foot. :smiley:

Funny, I don’t remember a Monkees TV special except for that reunion show.
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Paul was on SNL a couple years back and in a skit Chris Farley asked him “You know when you were in the Beatles and there were all those rumors that you were dead? That wasn’t true, right?” And Paul says, “Right. I’m really alive.”