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:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufgjYiYovMM

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