Was It A Dream?

(Note:  I'll comment on my last post in a future one.)

The New Musical Express is a British pop/rock magazine.  In the summer of 1966, they ran a series of interviews with each of The Beatles where they each talked about his "night dreams."  Paul's interview by writer Alan Smith--a Liverpudlian who later became editor of NME--was published July 29, 1966, within the time frame of our Paul's life and public presence, assuming it took several weeks for an interview to be published.  It is difficult to verify the validity of the interview because it's a print interview as opposed to a  filmed interview, but I'm assuming it was mainly our Paul's words.

In my post of June 19th. (2012), I wrote about three songs that I think were written about events in Paul's life.  Two of the songs have a lyric line that talks about someone running around in his underpants in public.  In the NME interview Paul says:
          "'I also have normal ones [dreams] everybody has, about being caught in the street in my underwear.'"

The question is:  was this a dream Paul had or was it something that he had done in real life?  My guess is that he was, in fact, caught in public in his underwear.  In one of the songs, Procul Harum's Lime Street Blues, he would have been in disguise with blonde hair.

The interesting aspect of this is that there have been accounts of "doings" by Paul that were effectively hidden from the public-- that he fathered at least one child, that an underage girl was found in The Beatles' hotel room on one of the American tours .

If the "Brits that be" were hell-bent on getting Paul out of the group, something as simple as being seen in public in his underpants--in whatever context it happened--might have been their excuse for getting their hands on Paul--and not letting go.