I was reading the KRLA Beat teenzine of January 29, 1966 and came across a quote from Brian Epstein talking about our Paul's personality. (KRLA Beat, if you haven't read some of my other posts about the paper, was a fan magazine published between 1964 and 1968 by the then Los Angeles pop music station KRLA that had features about pop musicians.)
Here's Brian Epstein's quote:
"Probably the most changed Beatle. He's mellowed in character and thought. A fascinating character and a very loyal person. Doesn't like changes very much. He probably more than the others, finds it more difficult to accept that he is playing to a cross section of the public and not just to teenagers, or sub-teenagers, whom he feels are the Beatles' audience." [my emphasis]
In other posts, I've talked about my theory that there was a power elite that was directing and manipulating The Beatles. My theory is that Paul was resisting efforts to Pied Piper (so to speak) the Baby Boomer generation toward acceptance of widespread drug use and free (and diseased) love to begin with. If the manipulators could get their foot in the door of morally degrading the massive Baby Boom generation, they thought, no doubt, they could do anything.
Paul didn't like changes very much and Paul was concerned with keeping The Beatles' teeny bopper audience and not taking on--what turned out to be--the slightly older, Sgt. Pepper-era, album rock fans that the Faul-and-Fohn new, new Beatles of late 1966 played to. So said Brian Epstein.
But Paul was also aware that a changed group of Beatles singing to the larger audience might draw in some of the maturing young Beatle fans and, again, he apparently wanted none of it.
Epstein also said that Paul had mellowed in character and thought. But not so much that when The Beatles were up against a psychedelic wall, Paul would not put up a monumental fight against forced changes. Paul did fight.
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Faul's Vacation In Kenya
The Beatles' fan club Christmas record of 1967 had what Paul researchers believe is an autobiographical skit describing how our Paul's replacement got hired in 1966. In the skit, George--as the "hiring boss"--asks "the applicant" how old "the applicant" is, and can't believe it when "the applicant" replies, honestly, that he is 32 years' old. This would put our Paul's replacement's birth year at ~ 1935.
What makes Paul's replacement's birth year remarkable in the history of England is that there was a military national service scheme in place that did not formally end until 1960. The law required healthy males 17 to 21 years' old to serve for 18 months.
If Faul (our Paul's replacement) was born in 1935, he would have been liable to begin military duty from ~1952 to ~1957.
The country of Kenya was ruled by the Brits during that time and the Kenyans began an armed rebellion from 1952-1956 against the Brits. There's a good possibility that Faul was one of those combat troops.
The Kenyans achieved independence in 1963 and Faul achieved a dream job as Beatle Paul in 1966, so I'm speculating that Faul went back to Kenya to take a 6-day "victory lap" before he would attain the role of Paul McCartney in the late 1966, new, new Beatles.
Take a look at a Youtube video titled, "Paul McCartney's replacement trip to Spain and Kenya in the fall of 1966" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP4ZqBKEw1M . You have to figure that it was Faul's travel companion--Beatles' roadie--Mal Evans who was filming Faul. Faul was very relaxed and at ease in the Kenyan segment of the video. Look at the photos from the film of Faul riding along in a car and filming the countryside:
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What makes Paul's replacement's birth year remarkable in the history of England is that there was a military national service scheme in place that did not formally end until 1960. The law required healthy males 17 to 21 years' old to serve for 18 months.
If Faul (our Paul's replacement) was born in 1935, he would have been liable to begin military duty from ~1952 to ~1957.
The country of Kenya was ruled by the Brits during that time and the Kenyans began an armed rebellion from 1952-1956 against the Brits. There's a good possibility that Faul was one of those combat troops.
The Kenyans achieved independence in 1963 and Faul achieved a dream job as Beatle Paul in 1966, so I'm speculating that Faul went back to Kenya to take a 6-day "victory lap" before he would attain the role of Paul McCartney in the late 1966, new, new Beatles.
Take a look at a Youtube video titled, "Paul McCartney's replacement trip to Spain and Kenya in the fall of 1966" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP4ZqBKEw1M . You have to figure that it was Faul's travel companion--Beatles' roadie--Mal Evans who was filming Faul. Faul was very relaxed and at ease in the Kenyan segment of the video. Look at the photos from the film of Faul riding along in a car and filming the countryside:
At 19:14-19:17 in the video it shows Faul waving at someone and making a distinctive hand gesture. (See photos below.) He obviously knew someone well enough to do that. Look at the photo of the hand gesture:
I researched hand signals looking for this particular one. The closest I could find was an Indian hand position--called a mudra--: this particular mudra called an acceptance mudra that signifies accepting the blessings that are yours. (See photo below.)
The acceptance mudra, though, is not quite the same as Faul's hand signal.
Take another look at Faul's hand signal: Is it a small letter B" as in now Faul is a Beatle? Or is it an upside down letter "P"--Faul giving a signal to someone he knew that yes, indeed, he was the new Paul? Or was Faul flashing the number "9" to someone he knew? ??
