Tuesday, March 6, 2012

(Straw)Bury Field(s) Forever (continued)

In the last post I was talking about Newport Pagnell (near the old and new town of Milton Keynes) as the possible site of Paul's car accident. 
The song Penny Lane--the first song out of the gate in 1967 with the new, new Beatles--has several references to a fireman and the relevant line to Paul's accident would be:
     Then the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain
     Very strange.
As I said in my last post, the Newport Pagnell fire department website said the fire crew "have been first on the scene at numerous incidents on the M1 Motorway.  These have included road traffic collisions where persons are trapped in their vehicles. . . ."
The "trapped in a vehicle" clue  comes from the backmasked lyric in Revolution #9 that had sounds of a traffic accident with a voice crying:
     Let me out!  Let me out!
I also think that if the "authorities" got there hands on Paul after the accident, the "Let me out" lyrics could pertain to that, too.
The song, The Long and Winding Road hints at an accident with the lyrics:
     The wild and windy night
     That the rain washed away.
     Has (left a pool of tears OR filled us all with tears)
     Crying for the day.
And the song, Day In the Life, talks about a man who "blew his mind out in a car."

So there are persistant clues that a Beatle was involved in a car crash, and a credible rumor that it happened in the area of Milton Keynes.

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