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.
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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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There's an interesting Set of Facts regarding Sgt. Pepper. After giving up Live Performances to do Studio Work, The Beatles started Working on the Album. On THE VERY SAME DAY, The Rolling Stones went into the Studio to start Work, 'Their Majesty's Satanic Request'. Amidst all the Clues on The Beatles Album Cover, photos of The Rolling Stones were on the Cover, just as Photos of The Beatles appeared on The Stones' Album Cover. Even deeper, Sgt. Pepper starts off with, "It was 20 Years Ago Today, Sgt. Pepper taught the Band to Play...". Well, when both Bands embarked upon Their, New, Mature Sound, saying 20 years ago has a Dark Undertow. They are referring to the fact that both Albums were started on the 20th Year of the Date Aleister Crowley died. Crowley, too, appears on the Cover of Sgt. Pepper, One person away from Marilyn Monroe, we All know was really Murdered. And, as the Song continues to Play, They Present To You, Billy Shears. I am not One to Believe in Coincidences and these are all facts. Just Connect The Dots On That. And Aleister, dubbed as, "The Wickedest Man In The World", kept saying to use Music to reach the Masses, the younger, the Better. Hence, their Flashy Garb, which also represented The Psychedelic Era. Crowley used them with Cocaine quite heavily. The First Sacrifice Was Paul? But we know so much more about how the Industry can be now as compared to then. When I figured this One out, it wasn't until the Late '70's, early '80's, and then Lennon, who was an avid Reader of Crowley's Works, was taken from Us. My Late Husband was Friends and Worked with John. There is so much more. But these facts are real and can't be disputed. Add it to the Mountain of Clues, and it starts to Look like it was on purpose. But just HOW MUCH was done on purpose...
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