I'm Back, But Late

 I wanted to get started again before autumn, so this will be the first post back.

I have ALOT of new information, but I don't have ALL the information I need yet, so I'll be posting a selection of what I HAVE found until I can get the main information organized.

When I first started the blog, I was aware (and had been, really, since 1966) that the young man I call our Paul (the Paul that American fans saw and heard from February, 1964 through June, 1966) was gone out of the group from at least November, 1966.

When I started researching, I focused on scenarios of what might have happened to him.

Since I was researching far and wide, I found references that suggested solutions for our Paul's disappearance.  That's why I included contradictory or random information.  I thought if I posted things that seemed interesting, but that I had, nevertheless, not been able to connect to a unified explanation, IF another researcher had gone down that path, my bits of information might be what he or she might need to solve the puzzle.  BUT, I have been able to find so much in the past year or so, that I can understand much more clearly what he was up against in his years in the group and that he was removed from the group and replaced.

I'm working on a theory of what happened to him after that.

Again, none of us researchers have official reports because the British government and ALL of the media that reported on The Beatles have STONEWALLED the truth from coming out.  But I have shown enough research already that points to the truth.  And I have found much more evidence that shows a cohesive explanation of this mystery.  So stay tuned.

                         ---paulumbo

I'm Posting New Research Soon

 Hi, paulumbo here.  I stopped my blog in 2018 for a personal reason.

Last year, I started  looking into--what I call--the lie they won't give up on.  I've found new evidence and I'm starting this blog up again.

I still have research to do, several books to read, and I also want to go through all the posts and update old links, so I'll be wading back into this 60-year-old mystery this summer (2025.)

I've seen some good efforts on the part of serious researchers.  People are laboring in the fields to get the truth told and I think it's going to happen.  Beatle fans wouldn't want it any other way.

So look for new posts beginning this summer.

                          ---paulumbo

 

Here Is Why It Was (Musically) Easy To Replace Paul

When I read criticism of Paul being replaced, the most common snide comment is:  "How could [the current] Paul possibly play a bass left-handed and sound like Paul?"

Really.

Bill Harry, who went to school with Stuart Sutcliffe and the original John Lennon, founded and edited Mersey Beat magazine that chronicled Liverpool area musicians, and who wrote books about The Beatles, says in the Merseyside area of Northern England, there were upwards of 350 bands in existence in the 1958-1965 time period.  He says, "The most popular line-up was a quartet with three guitarists -- lead, rhythm and bass [my emphasis] -- plus a drummer."

His list of those groups can be seen at:  https://www.sixtiescity.net/Mbeat/mb1A.htm  .

Check out the list and remember that there were hundreds of other bands throughout England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales with hundreds of guitarists in them, and in that sea of musicians there was our Paul--who replaced the original Paul--and the current Paul, who replaced them both.

Speaking of "When We Was Fab" . . .

George's 1987 song, "When We Was Fab" that I mentioned in the last post has several interesting Paul references.

George starts the song alluding to marijuana-- (". . . Grass was green, woke up in a daze . . . ".)

He progresses to 1966 with a reference to his song, "Taxman"-- (Back when income tax was all we had . . ." .)

The next verses are:  "Caressers fleeced you in the morning light/ Casualties at dawn."  According to my forays into definitions at British dictionary websites, the word casualty means a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.

The song goes on to use two U.S. slang words:  fuzz (police) and buzz (an altered state of mind from using a drug.)

All this suggesting the two B/Featle songs, "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"--("Climb in the back with your head in the clouds and you're gone..." and "A Day In The Life"--(He blew his mind out in a car . . .") because George says the police would have got to Paul but apparently he died in an accident--deliberate on his or somebody else's part or otherwise.

Later on in the song, George references Bob Dylan's 1965 song, "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" that has the lyric line--"The vagabond who's rapping at the door is standing in the clothes that you once wore":  Paul's replacement.

So Paul's memory haunted George all his life and the continued theme in Beatle songs of death and replacement ran unabated from 1967-on.

It's The Little Things . . . A Connecting Clue From "I Am The Walrus"

There's been speculation on the web that Paul may have been buried in or near the Strawberry Fields orphanage in Liverpool that was run by The Salvation Army from 1936-2005.  When I was trying to track down a reference to "Strawberry Fields cemetery" that I found on a Liverpool website I came across a detailed photograph of the front gate to the Strawberry Fields orphanage.  Something about it looked familiar and then I remembered the video the new, new Beatles did of the song "I Am The Walrus."  Take a look:

        

 

And then take a look at the drumskin on the video:

 

From "John's" song, "Glass Onion" and from George's video of his song, "When We Was Fab" where he had a left-handed bass player wearing a walrus mask, we know that the walrus was Paul, and I think this detail in the "I Am The Walrus" video is hinting at some kind of Strawberry Fields connection.

 

From the sketchy information I have been able to find about the orphanage, it doesn't appear as though our Paul was a resident of the orphanage but it is possible he could be buried on or near the site.

A Blast From The Past: Beatles, Detroit, 1966

If you were not an original Beatles fan--or were and couldn't get tickets to their concerts--return with me now to those thrilling days of yesteryear via a YouTube video I found that has photos and audio from the August 12, 1966 Detroit performances of The Beatles* at the old Detroit Red Wings hockey stadium, Olympia Stadium.

I was at one of those concerts and you can experience the sheer hysteria of the moment.

Find the video at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pV64U0Plw under the title:  "The Beatles photos  perform live Olympia stadium, Detroit, 1966." 

Also, take a look at the channel of the woman who posted the video:  Elena the Beatles photos.  She has some never seen before photos and other good information.

     *The Beatles tour of 1966 had replacements for our Paul and our John.  I think both of them were left behind on that tour.  My friends and I sat far up and to the left of the stage so we wouldn't have seen the difference.  The only thing I specifically remember of those little figures on stage was that "John"'s face was beet red.         ---paulumbo

So You Can See The Differences Between Young Paul and Young Faul

In my posts of December 26, 2015, January 22, 2016 and December 18, 2017, I posted photos I've found of young Faul--our Paul's replacement.  I've found another one (more and more have been surfacing.)  I also found a photo of our Paul as a boy.

If you are a Beatle fan, I'm sure you've seen quite a few boyhood photos of real Paul.  My guess is his family (and probably especially his brother, Michael) got those photos out in public.  Faul himself is probably responsible for the growing number of young Faul photos surfacing.

In contrast, I have only been able to find ONE boyhood photo of our Paul which I think is curious and there is no doubt a story yet to be told about that.

So here are the photos of young Faul I've previously posted and the new one I found and the photo of young Paul I've found.

Paul is the fourth boy from the left.