40 year old CT - "Paul Is Dead"

[BenBurch]

http://beatles.ncf.ca/trivia.html

Listen to the four windows media clips in this page.

This is how to run a Conspiracy Theory!

"Truthers" eat your hearts out!

[Hyperviolet]

http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/g02569.jpg

[danielk]

"New World Tour" -- Aha! It's almost too easy!

[Kiosk]

This was the first CT I ever encountered, as a Beatlemaniac kid (in the 1980s). Fantastic lunacy. The more you dig into this, the more similarities you can find with twoofers. There are even a few nuts who insist to this day that this is true.

[Architect]

About 10 minutes after he married Ms. Mills I bet he wished he was dead.....

[Kiosk]

I've uploaded a great Paul-Is-Dead radio documentary here (I think it's different from the ones on that page):

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1WGOQVNM

Marvellous stuff.

[alexg]

I was a young boy and I WORSHIPPED the Beatles. I was really worried when the rumors started. I wasn't really convinced Paul was alive until Life magazine tracked him down at his farm and did took a few photos which showed up in a back page article along with a little story about what he had been up to.

I think I learned a valuable lesson about CTs from this. They spread and grow like a cancer. Once they take hold they are very difficult to dispell. You start to believe the entire system controlling all of your sources of information is in on it and then nothing can be trusted. There is just no simple way out of this cynicisim and paranoia.

[tomwaits]

When I first heard this I assumed it was a joke. Just people laughing about certain things on albums covers and stuff....but apparently people actually believe it. Go figure.

[MG1962]

And I think the Beatles fed the idea a bit - The sort of joke they would have adored. Abbey Road has some really interesting clues on the cover - And I really believe they were not coincidents either

[Kiosk]

It was a coincidence - Abbey Road was released before the CT started doing the rounds, and there are the usual problems with the "connections" people made anyway. The registration number on the Volkswagen on the cover reads "28 IF": Paul's age IF he was still alive. Problem was, he was only 27 at the time. If the Beatles had set this up themselves, they'd have done it properly.

The one that used to freak me out as a kid was John supposedly saying "I buried Paul" at the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever". Turns out the song was recorded in December, and he was actually saying "cranberry sauce", the favoured condiment for the Great British Christmas turkey, as confirmed by alternate mixes that have been released since. Now, "cranberry sauce" doesn't make much sense, but if you're as high as John Lennon was at the time...

[Drudgewire]

There used to be a site that had all kinds of morphed pictures showing "Paul vs. Faul" (that's "fake Paul" for those keeping score at home) compared against how he he looks now and the most detailed explanation I've seen of exactly "how Paul died."

It's a fun one. Totally ridiculous of course, but fun nonetheless.

[tomwaits]

How could it be the same as the 60's Paul when now he has wrinkles all over his face???? :eek:

[Drudgewire]

Here's the site. It's really fantastic, since the person who did it is one of those highly motivated, truly insane types who put up a million different links to new looniness on every page. Hours of fun... mixed in with a little pity.

http://digilander.libero.it/p_truth/

[Brainache]

It was a coincidence - Abbey Road was released before the CT started doing the rounds, and there are the usual problems with the "connections" people made anyway. The registration number on the Volkswagen on the cover reads "28 IF": Paul's age IF he was still alive. Problem was, he was only 27 at the time. If the Beatles had set this up themselves, they'd have done it properly.
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I'm not so sure about this, given that on "Glass Onion" John sings: "Here's another clue for you all, the walrus was Paul". This suggests to me that there was some kind of Paul CT nonsense around at least when they were recording the White Album in 1968.

[tomwaits]

Lennon said it was meant to be a joke, obviously referring to "I Am the Walrus". He thought it was funny that people were trying to find some deeper meaning to the song, when clearly it's just a bunch of random sentences thrown together. So he thought he would throw them for another loop by saying the walrus was, in fact, Paul. I don't believe it had anything to do with "Paul is dead".

[Checkmite]

I believe the "walrus was Paul" line references the cover of the album "Magical Mystery Tour" (the album which contains, of course, "I Am The Walrus"). On the album cover, the Beatles are dressed as different animals. Paul McCartney is dressed as a walrus. Really, that's it.

[fromdownunder]

There are actually two schools of thought on the Paul is dead thing. One is that he really did die, and that John and the remaining two gave subtle clues at to how and when it happened.

The second is that the Fab Four actually set it all up as a joke, deliberately put cryptic clues all over the place, sat back and watched, and were in on the whole joke the entire time.

The truth is a tad more mundane. It's all crap.

Norm

[MG1962]

Actually another band that suffered the same claim was ABBA, at one stage the logo changed and the second B was reversed - boy did that kick something off lol