The whole Paul-Is-Dead controversy began in October, 1969 in Detroit. As I say in the introduction to my blog, I was a kid Beatles' fan among thousands of kid Beatles' fans in Detroit. We heard "Penny Lane" in 1967 (although I swear I heard that song in the fall of 1966. But that can't be, right?) We Beatles' fans knew something was wrong with that song. Paul's voice was not the same.
When Sgt. Pepper came out, alot of us did not like the music and the vibe that The Beatles were projecting, It was off, it was not right. So most of us kissed off Beatle fandom and became Monkees' fans.
So when the Paul-Is-Dead backmasked clues started surfacing, many of us thought it was a publicity stunt that The Beatles were using to--as they say in Detroit--"goose up" their sagging popularity.
As I started researching the changes in the members of the group, it occurred to me that--if there were heavy duty machinations with The Beatles--whoever surfaced among them would want some way to talk about it. Blurting it out publicly would have gotten band members replaced--and whatever consequences followed from that. So they hid their information in their songs.
The music industry is a fluid situation: musicians quit bands and join new ones; musicians hang out together; they listen to each others' music and the gossip they hear in recording studios. So I reasoned that other groups would want to share their information and gossip.
The results from testing songs backwards were 'way more than I expected: pop and rock musicians had bits of information about behind the scenes problems with The Beatles, and they shared their knowledge and gossip in backmasked songs.
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There are people who believe Paul McCartney was permanently replaced in 1966. I'm one of them. What happened to him? That's what this blog will explore.
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- For original Beatles fans, 1966 was a strange year. The "Butcher" cover and John's "more popular than Jesus" comment signaled that something was wrong with The Beatles. By 1967, we heard a different voice than Paul's on Penny Lane and we saw a different face in photos. Most of us abandoned Beatle fandom. In 1969, the "Paul is Dead" clues surfaced and were so strong and consistent, that many people wondered if that was the answer to the puzzling changes in Paul's voice and looks. People have been looking into that possibility from 1969-on but have not been able to document what happened to Paul. My generation deserves to know the truths about the group that we loved and made famous. So the search is on . . .
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Hi, as you probably know, the Who’s "won't get fooled again" has references attributable to Paul's replacement - hair parting on the left is now parting on the right, Pick up my guitar and play just like "yesterday” etc.
I don’t know if you have seen this live version at Glastonbury, 2015 on YouTube. In introducing the song Pete almost lets the cat out of the bag when he says this song is '...a rebellious song about – oh yay, who is the biggest rock star in the world? ‘– oh that must be Elvis Presley’, he laughs after a pause. Well, I don’t think it’s about Elvis, do you, so who then is the biggest rock star in the world that the song is actually about? Interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7hvZjjsO28&list=RDm7hvZjjsO28
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