Tony Bramwell's Fabulous Story

In Magical Mystery Tours  My Life With The Beatles (2006), Tony Bramwell--who was The Beatles' road manager and the ex-CEO of Apple Records--gives a colorful and inaccurate account of the Paul-is-Dead controversy.

Bramwell said Michigan disc jockey who broke the story was John Small on Detroit radio station, WKNR.  The DJ was Russ Gibb.

More importantly, Bramwell said that he discussed with Derek Taylor and a couple of others an idea to call a Canadian radio station and pretend to be Paul.  He said he "telephoned Richie Yorke, an English deejay we knew on CING-FM, at Burlington Ontario, and said, 'This is Paul McCartney.  As you can hear, I'm alive and kicking.'"  According to http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/  CING-FM did not start broadcasting until September 24, 1976, which would have been nearly seven years after the Paul-is-Dead controversy began.

Bramwell, in discussing the PID clues mentioned the famous Abbey Road cover where Beatles and Featles (replacement Beatles) crossed the street and "Paul" was barefooted, said that Paul liked to walk around bare-footed.  Real Paul was a meticulous dresser and the only times you could see him barefooted were in beach photos.

The kicker is Bramwell saying that, according to the clues, Paul died on November 9, 1966 and HE WAS BURIED SEPTEMBER 27, 1968.  In all of my research, I have never run across that date given as Paul's burial date.

At his official website http://www.tonybramwell.com/  Bramwell calls himself a childhood friend with three of The Beatles.  He quotes Sir "Paul":  "If you want to know anything about the Beatles, ask Tony Bramwell, he remembers more than I do."  Bramwell obviously has a short memory when it comes to the events around the Paul-is-Dead research.   BUT,  he WOULD have known information on Real Paul's death and burial, if it occurred.