You'll notice--especially--the eyes are very reminiscent of the Paul of today. Notice also the angular face, which looks much more like the face of the two photos immediately below as opposed to our Paul's distinctly rounder face that you can see in photos 3 and 4 below. I've been contending for some time that our Paul never made it to the 1966 tour and these photos lend credence to that theory.
My concentration in this blog is on Paul, but if you look at "John" in the WCFL photo you'll notice that this man---with his narrow face--is not our John. (See photos below for comparison.)
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The replacement might have been a gradually planned thing, or if they were already using doubles for them in certain publicity situations – I read somewhere that they decided to take a replacement on the US tour as Brian said that Paul gets sick a lot. If Paul died suddenly they could have thought why not replace him altogether which might not have occurred to them seriously if the doubles had not already been on the scene and the public were oblivious to the switches up to that point. You must have sen the famous photo of the 3 beatles in a boat of the hudson river so I think Paul was on the US tour but so were his replacements. He even looks right-handed in this photo although he is only fiddling with a piece of paper or something.
Hi Hooverfish. I'm finally getting to some of the comments.
I definitely think there were 3 touring, public Pauls over the life of The Beatles. I don't think the Paul I call "our Paul"--the Paul American fans saw beginning in 1964--was on the 1966 American tour. I've looked at alot of photos of that tour and I don't see our Paul anywhere.
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