Sunday, January 29, 2012

In Pennyland . . .

The rumor of Paul having a car crash that I talked about in my January 7th. post said that the accident happened on a secondary road off highway M1 near the city of Milton Keynes.  There is a district in Milton Keynes called Pennyland that is just off the M1.  (See map below. It is slightly south of the A422 road.)
 Could this be the site of Paul's accident and the origin of the song Penny Lane?

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Sgt. Pepper=Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire?

I was looking at a photo of the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (who at the time would have been Sir Henry Floyd) and the uniform is very similar to the--what was thought to be fanciful--image of Sgt. Pepper.
Judge for yourself.

(The Lord Lieutenant photo is from a webpage devoted to the Buckinghamshire Constabulary:
www.mkheritage.co.uk/bch/index.html

Sunday, January 22, 2012

When In Doubt, Believe The Literal and then The Pun

For the 100th. post of my blog (nothing special to me, but some people get into milestones), I'd like to emphasize something based on all my research about The Beatles:  all of the talk about MYSTIC hidden meanings, COSMIC meanings, OCCULT meanings etc., etc. in their songs and their lives I think is just that: talk.  The Beatles as individuals came from working class backgrounds and did not have an upbringing or education in the classical or the odd.  From what I read of "swinging London" in the 1960's, all that was out there to be learned and used, but understanding The Beatles as they were, they may have used images or references or odd bits from "mystic" sources, but they did not embrace the "philosophies" behind them.

I have no doubt that they were being pushed toward trying to unduly influence their young fans with new age "philosophies" and all the nonsense connected with it, but The Beatles had their feet on more stable soil and I think they had enough bravado to realize that they did not have to follow someone's idea of hip, they WERE the hip. And that's why--for example--it took George's dentist to drug them with LSD for the first time because they wouldn't have done it themselves.  And I think it was also Paul and John's refusal to hiss in the ears of their young fans about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that got them replaced.

They did have a collective sense of humor but even that didn't make it into the group's songs (although you can hear some of it in outtakes and in their interviews, and--very rarely-- in their Christmas records.)

So if I have one humble piece of advice to give people researching the mysteries about The Beatles--when it comes to the men we saw and heard from late 1963 to mid 1966--believe the literal and then the pun.

This One: More On The Accident Rumor

In my post of January 7th., I was talking about a comment posted on a French blog that said that Paul was involved in an accident near the area of Milton Keynes.  I've been trying to find out as much as I can about the area to see if it was worth exploring the rumor.  I have information that suggests it is.

1.)  The area in and around Milton Keynes is famous for having many roundabouts (circular roads.)  Remember the song Penny Lane?  But more importantly:
2.)  The county badge for Buckinghamshire has a swan in it and the Buckinghamshire Constabulary (the county police) had a swan on its badge. (See images on right.)

What's the connection to Paul?  Well, the man who has
replaced Paul for the past 45+ years released a song called
This One in 1973.  The video of the song has been much
talked about on Paul-Was-Replaced boards as making
references to Paul.  And it does.

Take a look at the Youtube video at:

At 0:14-0:18, the video fades in with the man who has replaced Paul in front of a SWAN that has an image of an angelic man
on its back while the song starts:  "This one, this one, this one . . . ."
At 1:14-1:22 "Paul" is shown with huge brown eyes.  (Paul had large brown
eyes, his replacement has green eyes.)
At 2:03-2:06, Linda "McCartney" is shown holding a globe with the same man-on-a-swan image.  When they change frames, the lyrics say:  "Fade this one to black."
"Paul" is shown again with huge brown eyes at 2:31-2:45.
When the scene shifts at 2:48 (to 3:07), "Paul" is wearing large-lensed sunglasses like the ones Paul wore in the Paperback Writer/Rain videos of 1966. (See image on right.)
The same image of a man on a swan with the "Fade this one to black" lyrics appears at 3:08 and 3:22.

So it could very well be that a badly injured Paul could have been riding in a Buckinghamshire Constabulary car or ambulance and was taken permanently out of the picture in 1966.

         More to come on this.
                     ---paulumbo

Monday, January 16, 2012

Another "Dirty Weekend" Photo of a Paul Replacement

I found a color photo of the 1965 interview replacement for Paul who surfaced during the so-called "dirty weekend" of June, 1968.  (See my January 6th. post.)

Thanks to the Google blog, "Meet The Beatles For Real" for the photo.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

An Important Rumor Worth Exploring!

I was looking for information about Paul being in Paris in September, October and November of 1966 when I found a blog written by a French singer.  He was discussing the Paul Is Dead clues.  The first comment to his article is new information that I have not seen elsewhere and is very much worth looking into.

The man (Michel) said he moved to the English town called Milton Keynes in 1977.  [A little background:  Milton Keynes is a town that was created in 1967 from several other small towns.  It is in the county of  Buckinghamshire, north of London.]  The man said he had heard a rumor in 1970 from his brother that Paul McCartney had been involved in a car accident on a secondary road in the Milton Keynes area.  He said he was walking with his sister-in-law in 1977 when she pointed out a rest home where she said Paul was living.  She said that Paul had survived the crash but had "lost his mind."  He said the people in the area have always been aware of the accident and he says it's only an English problem:  that the English are very strong on covering up (muddying the waters.)

He suggests that people try to get the people of that area to open up about the situation.

This is new information that could be a baseless rumor OR could lead researchers to some of the truth.  (I say "some" because as I've been emphasizing there was our Paul and several replacements involved.  But finding the truth about one man would no doubt open the door to getting at all the truth.)

The blog I'm quoting from is located at: www.leblogdejulienpetitjean.fr/article-29909798.html
It's very much worth looking into!  I'll be checking it out.  

Friday, January 6, 2012

John As A Middle-Aged Man?

Because John and Paul were extremely close, I want to bring John into the discussion when I find something interesting about him.  I found something interesting.

The Facebook page I talked about a few posts ago--John Lennon Is My Life--has hundreds of new photos of him and the other Beatles.  Dropped in the middle of them is the photo below.

John Lennon as a middle-aged man?

Where Did All The Pauls Go? (Cont. from 8/20/11 and 7/2/10)

I showed in my 8/20/11 post that it looks like a Paul replacement shown coming off a plane on The Beatles' 1966 tour surfaced in a 1969 photo.  I've found another photo of a Paul replacement first seen in The Beatles' 1965 MBE award interview surfacing in 1968 in the so-called "dirty weekend" when Paul was supposed to have visited Los Angeles. Take a look at two Youtube videos:
1:25-2:02   and
2:12 and 2:49.
Same "Paul" as on the right?  I think so.