Is This Paul's Birth Record?

In trying to find the real identity of our Paul, you have to try to piece together bits of clues and you have to SPECULATE.  And I'm telling you people if you're researching the mystery and you DON'T speculate, you or I or we will NEVER find the truth because the attitudes that led to the decimation of The Beatles and the cover-ups that followed each "personnel replacement" of them are the same now as in 1966, or 1963, 1970 or 1980.

With that in mind, I pieced together three relevant clues and went looking for a birth record using them.

The first clue was Paul's stating that he saw Bill Haley and His Comets when he (Paul) was 12 years old.  Paul said that in the Tokyo press conference of June 30, 1966.  (See my post of March 6, 2013.)  Since Bill Haley first toured England in February of 1957, Paul was most likely born in 1944. 

The second clue I used was from the "Paul Exposed" article from the April 16, 1966 KRLA Beat magazine that I talked about in my September 28, 2012 post.  When Paul used the pseudonym Bernard Webb for his song, Woman, he detailed a background for the composer that gave Bernard Webb's hometown as Leeds, Yorkshire.  I believe he was hinting that Leeds was HIS hometown.

The third clue I found was from The Who's March, 1966 song, Substitute.  Here are the lyrics to the song:
                    You think we look pretty good together.
                    You think my shoes are made of leather.
                    But I'm a substitute for another guy.
                    I look pretty tall but my heels are high.
                    The simple things you see are all complicated.
                    I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah.

                    Substitute your lies for fact.
                    I can see right through your plastic mac.
                    I look all white, but my dad was black.
                    My fine-looking suit is really made out of sack.

                    I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
                    The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south.
                    And now you dare to look me in the eye.
                    Those crocodile tears are what you cry.
                    It's a genuine problem, you won't try.
                    To work it out at all you just pass it by, pass it by.

                    Substitute me for him.
                    Substitute my coke for gin.
                    Substitute you for my mum.
                    At least I'll get my washing done.

I speculated on a Paul-Was-Replaced board that the man currently (and for the past 45 years) known as Paul McCartney is of ROMANY--GYPSY-- heritage.  I still believe that.  I think Substitute's lyrics were supposed to be a conversation between our Paul and that man.  The relevant clue in the song is the line:  "I look all white, but my dad was black."  The line might point to the current Paul's Gypsy background (because Romanies call themselves "black blooded"), but I DEFINITELY think that the line was meant as a pun on our Paul's real last name:  BLACK.

SO, with the 1944, Leeds, and last name, Black clues, I went looking in the UK's Free Birth, Marriage, Death database (find it at:  www.freebmd.org.uk  ).

I found the following listing:

          SURNAME          Black
          FIRST NAME      David
          REGISTERED     Sep 1944  (Note:  They register vital statistics in England in three month intervals:  January-March, April-June, July-September, and October-December.  So without the actual birth certificate, you can't tell if the birth occurred in July, August, or September.)

But, what really got my interest on this listing was the mother's surname:  APPLESON.

The collective Beatles began making all kinds of references to APPLES beginning in 1966.  A few examples:
     1.)  George's working title of GRANNY SMITH for his song, Love You To from the 1966 Revolver album.
     2.)  The Beatles' Revolver album producer Geoff Emerick's working title of LAXTON'S SUPERB for George's song, I Want To Tell You.
     3.) Paul or Faul's ~ August, 1966 purchase of the artist Magritte's painting Le Jeu de Mourre--THE GUESSING GAME.  See photo on right and notice, of course, that the APPLE has AU REVOIR--GOOD BYE--printed across it.
     4.)  And the reconstituted Beatles' forming in 1968 of the APPLE label.

Pretty impressive punning.

 The entire name is listed as David M. Black.  I did a search on the UKBMD for a death record and there was none.  I also did a quick Google search for "David M. Black"+"Leeds" and didn't find any info on a man with that name and city and age. 

SO . . . this might be our Paul's birth listing.

I'll do more searching and, meanwhile, if anyone is researching our Paul's background, please let me know.

                                                                  ---paulumbo