The "Paul McCartney Is Dead" Conspiracy

[luisam]

Paul McCartney never wrote "Maybe I'm Amazed." He never formed the band Wings. He never clashed with Yoko, became a vegetarian, or fathered any of his children. When Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1997, she was actually knighting someone else. This is because, conspiracy-minded Beatlemaniacs say, Paul McCartney secretly died in 1966.

Theorists claim the other Beatles covered up his death — hiring someone who looked like him, sang like him, and had the same jovial personality. But the guilt eventually got to them and they began hiding clues in their music. In the song "Taxman," George Harrison gave his "advice for those who die," meaning Paul. The entire Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album was awash with Paul-is-dead clues: the Beatles had formed a "new" band featuring a fictional member named Billy Shears — supposedly the name of Paul's replacement. The album contained John Lennon's "A Day in the Life," which had the lyrics "He blew his mind out in a car" and the recorded phrase "Paul is dead, miss him, miss him," which becomes evident only when the song is played backward. Lennon also mumbled, "I buried Paul" at the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever" (in interviews, Lennon said the phrase was actually "cranberry sauce" and denied the existence of any backward messages).

 

Paul-is-dead believers think the Beatles accompanied these backward tape loops and veiled references to death with album covers that illustrated the loss of their friend. The original cover of 1966's Yesterday and Today album featured the Beatles posed amid raw meat and dismembered doll parts — symbolizing McCartney's gruesome accident. If fans placed a mirror in front of the Sgt. Pepper album cover, the words Lonely Hearts on the drum logo could be read as "1 ONE 1 X HE DIE 1 ONE 1."

 

The O.P.D. badge that McCartney is wearing, which John Neary, in a Life article, called the British equivalent of "Dead on arrival." In the same article, McCartney said, "It's all so bloody stupid. I picked up the O.P.D. badge in Canada. It was a police badge." Indeed – the letters stand for Ontario Provincial Police, with the second P being mistaken for a D.
 

And of course, there's the Abbey Road cover, on which John, George and Ringo forwent all pretense and pretended to cross the street as a funeral procession. John wore all white, like a clergyman. Ringo, the mourner, dressed in black. George donned jeans, like a gravedigger. Paul wore no shoes (he didn't need them, because he was dead) and walked out of step with the others.
 

If Paul is dead, then his imposter is still at large. He met and married Linda Eastman, with whom he had four children before losing her to breast cancer in 1998. He released a live album in 1993 called Paul Is Live (likely story), and produced more than 20 solo albums — and that's not even counting the ones released by Wings. Then he endured a horrible divorce from Heather Mills, which may have made him wish he were dead — or, at least, were still Billy Shears.

 

So who is the real McCartney? The world may never know.

 

Ohh... have some fun watching this YouTube video of those songs Paul MacCartney never recorded

 

 

 

 

[dMog]

and...the truly scary thing about this that some truly believe this shite to be true... my nephew STILL thinks Tupac never died and is just waiting for his return... several times now .

[luisam]

58 minutes ago, dMog said:

the truly scary thing about this that some truly believe this shite to be true

 

Conspiracy theories have no credibility limit! Actually some still expect Elvis Presley to be returned by aliens, abducted by them 40 years ago.  According to Einstein's Relativity Theory, probably he should have about the same age when he "disappeared"....

[funkyy]

You could write a book filled with all these nutty conspiracy theories..there are people who believe that JFK didn't die but was left badly brain damaged and secreted away to one of Aristotle Onassis' private islands (Scorpios I think was the name), and that is why Jackie Kennedy married Onassis..to be near and nurse JFK.

You can write to these conspiracy theorists c/o the nearest loony asylum.

[luisam]

1 hour ago, funkyy said:

You could write a book filled with all these nutty conspiracy theories

 

Actually, there are tons of books and thousands of hours on Youtube about the most crazy conspiracy theories, many of them based on proofs like affirmations "as everyone knows", references to some obscure webpage, sometimes with profusely "photoshopped" graphic information or some hardly legible copy released "by the CIA" or the declarations of some vaguely defined experts.

[Agent 86]

6 hours ago, luisam said:

Billy Shears — supposedly the name of Paul's replacement

the luckies man that ever lived! long live Billy! 

 

6 hours ago, luisam said: