Saturday, September 24, 2016

What The Time-Frame Was For Paul Breaking His Tooth (Continued)


In my last post, I narrowed down the time-frame for Paul breaking his tooth to early May, 1966.  Since Paul had no evidence of being in an accident on May 1st., 1966 at the NME Poll Winner's contest, and  the tooth could be seen  broken on the May 19, 1966 filming of the Rain/Paperback Writer promotionals, AND Paul said in a June 16, 1966 interview that he had recently broken the tooth before the 5/19 films--logically--something happened to Paul between 5/1/66 and 5/19/66.

Paul gave a story in the interview that he had been involved in a moped accident.  He said:  "But it was dark and I hit a stone and went flyin' through the air.  It was my fault . . . it was a nice night and I was looking at the moon."

During the month of May, The Beatles were busy recording tracks for their Revolver album.  Paul spent much of the evening of May 9th., 1966 recording his song, "For No One."

If he had had the "accident", say, on May 1st., 2nd., or even 3rd., there's a possibility he might have felt up to recording by May 9th.---except that his statement that the night was dark contradicts the near-full moon that was in the Liverpool night sky on those nights in 1966. (See chart) [from the website--www.rodurago.net  "Perpetual Moon Calendar"]
Also take a look at several photos I have found of roads that are fully moonlit.  Hardly dark.

Even if he had the accident after May 10th. or 11th., the road or path would not have been dark.  Take a look at a crescent moonlit road photo I found:
 
And then there's the healing time of a fall that would cause head, lip and tooth damage.
 
What's my point?  I think Paul gave an implausible explanation to get people to want to know what REALLY happened to him.


1 comment:

Unknown said...

The moped accident that chipped his tooth and tore his upper lip (scarring it), happened on Boxing Day, December 26, 1965.