Friday, September 28, 2012

What Is Ten Miles North on the Dewsbury Road?

In the B/Featles 1967 movie, Magical Mystery Tour, there is a scene where Ringo and Faul converse. Ringo asks Faul: "Where's the bus?" Faul answers: "It's ten miles north on the Dewsbury Road." People have been puzzling over this segment for years and, with the help (again) of KRLABeat, I believe I've found the answer.

 In the April 16, 1966 edition of the magazine, Tony Barrow, who was the press secretary for The Beatles, is writing about our Paul's authorship of the song, Woman. The title of the article is "Paul Exposed" (!) He talks about how Paul created a "fictional" fifth Beatle named Bernard Webb. This man "was a young university student whose hometown was Leeds, Yorkshire. He had sent in 'Woman' to Northern Songs as a possible number for The Beatles to record. The song had been passed on to Peter and Gordon. Apparently Bernard Webb had a current Paris address but had left it and disappeared on some kind of extended skiing trip in the Swiss Alps. On the face of it, the talented young Bernard might have met up with PAUL MCCARTNEY who has just returned to London after vacationing at a secluded ski center hideaway in the Swiss Alps."

 Was Paul exposed in this article as the author of Woman or as having been a (former) university student whose hometown was Leeds, England. I think Paul was talking about himself. Click the "View Larger Map" below the Google map below. The distance between Dewsbury, West Riding, Yorkshire and Leeds, West Riding, Yorkshire is ~ TEN miles.
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