Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Other Voices, Part 10: Paul's Voice

People have commonly believed that the debut of backmasking began with The Beatles' song, Rain, recorded April 14-16, 1966 and released May 30, 1966 in the US and June 10, 1966 in the UK, but Paul wrote the song, Woman for Peter and Gordon and that song was released before Rain--in the US on January 10, 1966 and in the UK on February 11, 1966--and Woman has backmasked lyrics.  Here they are:     0:38-0:42:  He would make a sound.
                                               He would make us know.

What do those lyrics mean?  Remember, our Paul was not the real Paul McCartney:  our Paul was the first replacement.  I think our Paul was talking about the real Paul McCartney in the song, I'm Looking Through You.  That song was recorded October 24th. and November 10th. and 11th., 1965 for the Rubber Soul album.  The song was supposed to be about Jane Asher and Paul's disappointment with their relationship.  But I listened to take four of I'm Looking Through You (at   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OWrlVT6vF8 ) and at the end of the take, (11:49-11:53) you hear:   You've changed, you've changed, you've changed, you've changed,
                   You sea chain.
I was trying to think what "sea chain" would be and then I figured it out: our Paul meant,
                    You see Jane.
The song was sung about the real Paul McCartney who established the real relationship with a 17-year old Jane Asher in 1963 before our Paul replaced him.
Think about some of the lyrics to I'm Looking Through You:
                     Your lips are moving,
                      I cannot hear.
                      Your voice is soothing,
                      But the words aren't clear.
So while people are tracking down what happened to our Paul, it is still a mystery what happened to real Paul McCartney.

My best guess is that sometime in 1965 the real Paul was left virtually speechless from some accident, deliberate act or malady.  The backmasked lyrics from Woman say:
He would make a sound.  He would make us know, not, he makes a sound, he makes us know.    Our Paul is talking in the past tense.  So, again, my guess is that sometime between ~ late October, 1965 and the the recording of Woman in ~December, 1965, the real Paul McCartney lost his voice altogether, or died.

As further confirmation of this, check out The Rutles:  All You Need Is Cash mockumentary at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PgzRizr6o where Eric Idle as the reporter is talking about the "Stig Is Dead" rumor (Stig being Paul).  At 0:23-0:29, he says:
     "He never said anything publicly.  Even as the quiet one, he'd not said a word since 1966."
                

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