Mr. Junishi Yore served as the translator for The Beatles when the group played in Japan in late June and early July of 1966. Mr. Yore said he traded (our) John copper cups for his wire-rimmed glasses.
Note near the end of the letter when Mr. Yore says the following: "Lenses removed when he die (Black) as I/we feel he see us after death in Japan." !!!!
It's obvious that the man he is referring to as having died is a MR. BLACK.
The letter is dated 1984 which is after the death of (a) John Lennon. Remember---from my count---there was a minimum of THREE John Lennons over the lifespan of the group.
IF Yore is saying that our John died, then John's real name was Black. I believe our John's real FIRST name was EDWARD.
But is it possible that the Mr. Black named in the letter could be our Paul? Yes. As you can see from the photo below taken in Germany just before The Beatles traveled to Japan, both our Paul and our John have the same style glasses. So, because I've found other information that suggests that our Paul's real name was JOHN BLACK, I'm staying with my theory. But there IS a possibility that our John's real name was Black and if it was, his name was Edward Black. ---paulumbo
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Black is a reference to being Irish.
I think what The Who meant when they said “I look all white, but my dad was black” is a reference to Paul’s replacement being Irish. 'Black Irish' is a common term, used mostly outside of Ireland as a description of people of Irish origin who had dark features, black hair, dark complexion and eyes. To support this theory if you watch the video from the rotten apple series on YouTube, paul is dead - the rotten apple 34 d, when the Life magazine crew went to check if he was still alive on his farm in Scotland he is caught unprepared by the camera crew and he says in an unguarded moment, in his real voice, “and don’t try filming it, you might get some trouble”. If you can pick UK accents then you can tell that he is Irish, eg; the word ‘try ‘ is pronounced ‘troi’ and might is pronounced ‘moight’. Not Scottish or Liverpool, definitely Irish.
There seems to be some consensus that Paul’s replacement is William Shepherd (Bill Shepherd, Billy Shears as in SGT Peppers).
You've got alot to comment on here, so I'll do it in two comments as I look up more information. But, right off, my thinking is that our Paul's replacement (the current Paul) is of Romany (Gypsy) origin, which doesn't mean he couldn't have been an Irish Gypsy.
When you talk about Black Irish and look at the current Paul, his complexion isn't really that dark AND the distinction most noticed by Paul-is-Dead researchers is that the replacement has GREEN eyes and our Paul had BROWN eyes.
I looked at the encounter between Faul and the Life magazine crew, and Faul definitely has an UN-Liverpudlian accent. I've been trying to pin down some of our Beatles' accents without success. One reason I think--at least with our Paul--is because, according to a 1964 book about The Beatles called Love Me Do; The Beatles Progress, the author said Paul told him he was trying to lose his accent.
If you want to hear the REAL Beatles (with the real John and the real Paul before THEY were replaced in late 1963) at their Liverpudlian accented best listen to The Beatles' 1962 Decca recording audition on YouTube. Pure Liverpool.
Irish gypsy ancestry could be right. Other parts of “Substitute” refer to Paul’s replacement being born into modest circumstances ; plastic spoon in my mouth, non-leather shoes, clothes made out of sackcloth, so that could mean his family were poor gypsies as their lifestyles can be those of traveling around and picking up casual work when available. It would also make it easier for him to replace Paul if he had had more of a transient, less well-documented lifestyle.
I have listened to the Decca recordings but find it difficult to determine accents from listening to singing; easier to pick them from spoken interviews. My observation, for what it’s worth, is that Paul’s speaking voice in interviews before Dec ‘66, is increasingly less Liverpool with gradually more clipped Received Pronunciation (RP) or BBC influence in his responses which may be as a result of him trying to lose his accent as you say. Sometimes when he starts to answer a question from an interviewer who has an RP accent he starts off responding similarly and then gradually reverts more to his original accent as his answer goes on. But in later Paul his answers are always in the general Liverpool area accent without noticeable RP influence. He seems to have stopped trying to lose his accent at some stage.
Also, in the song "Substitute", there was the line: "The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south." Gypsies in the UK traveled in caravan wagons--like the one "John" bought in the late 1960's. The wagon could be parked in any direction, so north could be east and east could be south.
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