In a 2010 interview (which can be read in its entirety at http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/mick-jones-0813/ ), Mick Jones, guitarist for Foreigner talks about his being a fan of and knowing The Beatles:
Question: Were you a Beatles fan?
Jones: Oh full on -- absolutely. . . . I had met The Beatles when I was much younger, about 18, I guess, and I got to hang out with The Beatles for a couple of weeks in Paris. We were on the same bill at the Olympia Theater at the time [note: that was for three weeks beginning January 15, 1964 ---paulumbo]. I was playing guitar with a French girl singer Sylvie Vartan. . . . Then Sylvie's husband, who was Johnny Hallyday, stole me away from her and I played with him.
The group that Jones was in that backed (French pop singer) Johnny Hallyday was called Les Blackburds.
Remember the Paul replacement song, Blackbird? The lyrics talked about a blackbird who would, "Take these broken wings and learn to fly." The broken wings line echoes the line in the Beatles' song Revolution 9 which said, "My wings are broken . . . ."
So what is the connection? Again, it comes back to France, to a rumored romance between Paul and Sylvie Vartan.
Vartan and Hallyday married April 12, 1965. They were rumored to be separating in 1966. He attempted suicide September 1, 1966.
Paul was supposed to have been in Paris the weekend of September 16, 1966 with John and Brian Epstein and in Paris again with John for the weekend beginning Thursday, October 13, 1966. Johnny Hallyday had a short tour of France in Mid-October, 1966 with Les Blackburds as his backing band. The tour was very close to Paul in Paris, if he was there: Evereux-- Hallyday's first stop on October 13th.-- is in the Haute-Normandie region about 54 miles west-northwest of Paris. The Hallyday tour also played in Paris on October 18, 1966.
The information has to pinned down, but it would explain Paul putting clues in Paperback Writer about November 10th. and France. (See my April 30, 2010 post.)
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There are people who believe Paul McCartney was permanently replaced in 1966. I'm one of them. What happened to him? That's what this blog will explore.
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- For original Beatles fans, 1966 was a strange year. The "Butcher" cover and John's "more popular than Jesus" comment signaled that something was wrong with The Beatles. By 1967, we heard a different voice than Paul's on Penny Lane and we saw a different face in photos. Most of us abandoned Beatle fandom. In 1969, the "Paul is Dead" clues surfaced and were so strong and consistent, that many people wondered if that was the answer to the puzzling changes in Paul's voice and looks. People have been looking into that possibility from 1969-on but have not been able to document what happened to Paul. My generation deserves to know the truths about the group that we loved and made famous. So the search is on . . .
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