This post was going to be about the only American song I found with what I believe are reversed (and forward) references to our Paul. The song is the American group Love's The Red Telephone and I'll get to that song in the next post.
I have been reading the 2010 book, Beatlemania! The Real Story of The Beatles UK Tour 1963-1965 by Martin Creasy. Of course, it is not the real story because it fails to mention that both the real Paul and John were replaced in late 1963 (by our Paul and John), but I did find several interesting bits of information that I'll comment on in future posts.
Creasy talks about the other singers and musicians that toured with The Beatles. One group was The Paramounts. The Paramounts toured with The Beatles on their sixth and final UK tour, December 3-December 12, 1965. In 1966 (or 1967 depending on the source) Gary Brooker of the group founded another group, Procol Harum with his friend Keith Reid. The group's first single, A Whiter Shade of Pale was released on May 12, 1967, and it has several pointed backmasked references to Paul.
The reversed references:
0:06-0:09 - Paulie was
0:36-0:41 - Everybody heard I was hurt
0:55-0:57 - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
0:58-1:01 - Paulie was
1:17-1:18 - A Beatle
2:20-2:24 - Everybody heard I was hurt
2:41-2:45 - Paulie was I
The evidence I've found on consistent and widespread backmasking by British groups shows that The Beatles were not carrying on a hoax commenting on serious problems in Paul's life, and--because the references are so widespread over many British groups--there was alot of knowledge out there in bits and pieces and a large cover-up that is still going on. The truth needs to be told.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Other Voices, Part 6: American Voices?
I have been looking into backmasked references to Paul in American songs and--so far--I have found only one definite reference and one possible one. (More on those in the next post.)
It's interesting that the fate of our Paul was a hot topic for discussion from the British groups but not the American groups, but I'm speculating that the British groups were more worried about their personal situations vis-a-vis the English government.
It's interesting that the fate of our Paul was a hot topic for discussion from the British groups but not the American groups, but I'm speculating that the British groups were more worried about their personal situations vis-a-vis the English government.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Other Voices, Part 5
When you listen to the B/Featles' 1968 song, Revolution 9 backwards, there are several instances when someone is shouting "Let me out!" This song was commented on extensively during the first exploration of the Paul-Is-Dead rumor in 1969. Revolution 9 was released November 22, 1968.
The Move, an English rock band recorded a song called Blackberry Way and released it on November 28, 1968. It was a bouncy little pop song with a hidden agenda. Here are the lyrics to that song and alongside are the lyrics to Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, which I think Blackberry Way referenced:
Blackberry Way: Picture yourself on a boat on a river,
Absolutely pouring down with rain. With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
What a terrible day. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Up with the lark. Towering over your head.
Silly girl I don't know what to say. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
She was running away. And she's gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds (X3)
So now I'm standing on the corner Ohh, oh.
Lost, in the things that I said.
What am I supposed to do now? Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain,
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow
pies.
(Chorus) Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
Goodbye Blackberry Way: That grow so incredibly high.
I can't see you,
I don't need you. Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Goodbye Blackberry Way, Waiting to take you away.
Sure to want me back another day. Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone.
Down to the park. (Chorus)
Overgrowing but the trees are bare;
There's a memory there. Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking-glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile:
Boats on a lake: The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Unattended now, the laughter drowned;
I'm incredibly down. (Chorus -- repeat to fade)
Just like myself they are neglected.
Turn with my back to the wall.
What am I supposed to do now?
(Chorus)
Run for the train.
Look behind you for she may be there.
Say a thing in the air.
Blackberry Way.
See the battlefields of careless sins
Cast to the winds.
So full of emptiness without her.
Lost in the words that I said.
What am I supposed to do now?
(Chorus -- repeat to fade)
According to a Wikipedia article about this song, it was supposed to have been inspired by the B/Featles song, Penny Lane, but the lyrics are an un-psychedelicized, post-events unmistakably parallel version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. The references to a girl running away, a boat on a river (although in Blackberry Way, it's boats on lake), being in a park, the reference to being at a train station---the parallel lyrics are all there. So I listened to the song reversed and I found a run of lyrics (five in all) starting at 0:22 in the reversed song that says:
"Please let me out. Please snake me out."
The word "snake" threw me, so I did some research and found that snake used as a verb meant sneak as in "sneak me out" according to The English Dialect Dictionary, Volume 5, ed. by Joseph Wright (1898, and reprinted by Hacker Art Books, 1962.) I confirmed that the pronounciation of the word continued by finding the same definition in The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Volume 15 (1989.)
Again, it's a strong indication that the rumor I have been exploring in past posts has validity and that there were musicians other than the new Beatles who knew something about what happened to Paul and were commenting on it, both forward and backward, in their songs.
The Move, an English rock band recorded a song called Blackberry Way and released it on November 28, 1968. It was a bouncy little pop song with a hidden agenda. Here are the lyrics to that song and alongside are the lyrics to Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, which I think Blackberry Way referenced:
Blackberry Way: Picture yourself on a boat on a river,
Absolutely pouring down with rain. With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
What a terrible day. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Up with the lark. Towering over your head.
Silly girl I don't know what to say. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
She was running away. And she's gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds (X3)
So now I'm standing on the corner Ohh, oh.
Lost, in the things that I said.
What am I supposed to do now? Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain,
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow
pies.
(Chorus) Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
Goodbye Blackberry Way: That grow so incredibly high.
I can't see you,
I don't need you. Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Goodbye Blackberry Way, Waiting to take you away.
Sure to want me back another day. Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone.
Down to the park. (Chorus)
Overgrowing but the trees are bare;
There's a memory there. Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking-glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile:
Boats on a lake: The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Unattended now, the laughter drowned;
I'm incredibly down. (Chorus -- repeat to fade)
Just like myself they are neglected.
Turn with my back to the wall.
What am I supposed to do now?
(Chorus)
Run for the train.
Look behind you for she may be there.
Say a thing in the air.
Blackberry Way.
See the battlefields of careless sins
Cast to the winds.
So full of emptiness without her.
Lost in the words that I said.
What am I supposed to do now?
(Chorus -- repeat to fade)
According to a Wikipedia article about this song, it was supposed to have been inspired by the B/Featles song, Penny Lane, but the lyrics are an un-psychedelicized, post-events unmistakably parallel version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. The references to a girl running away, a boat on a river (although in Blackberry Way, it's boats on lake), being in a park, the reference to being at a train station---the parallel lyrics are all there. So I listened to the song reversed and I found a run of lyrics (five in all) starting at 0:22 in the reversed song that says:
"Please let me out. Please snake me out."
The word "snake" threw me, so I did some research and found that snake used as a verb meant sneak as in "sneak me out" according to The English Dialect Dictionary, Volume 5, ed. by Joseph Wright (1898, and reprinted by Hacker Art Books, 1962.) I confirmed that the pronounciation of the word continued by finding the same definition in The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Volume 15 (1989.)
Again, it's a strong indication that the rumor I have been exploring in past posts has validity and that there were musicians other than the new Beatles who knew something about what happened to Paul and were commenting on it, both forward and backward, in their songs.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Other Voices, Part 4 (Stupid Bloody Tuesday?)
The next song I found with a backmasked reference to Paul is the Marianne Faithfull/Rolling Stones song, Sister Morphine. Originally released as a single by Marianne Faithfull in 1969, it was included in the Stones' 1971 album, Sticky Fingers. According to my research, the Stones recorded the song in March or May-June, 1969 (depending on the source) during their Let It Bleed album recording sessions. The forward lyrics are grim and ominous:
Here I lie in my hospital bed.
Tell me Sister Morphine
When are you coming 'round again.
Oh, an' I don't think I can wait that long.
Oh, you see that I'm not that strong.
The scream of the ambulance
Is sounding in my ears.
Tell me, Sister Morphine,
How long have I been lying here?
What am I doing in this place?
Why does the doctor have no face?
Oh, I can't crawl across the floor.
Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine
I'm trying to score.
Well, it just goes to show
Things are not what they seem.
Please, Sister Morphine,
Turn my nightmares into dreams.
Oh, can't you see I'm fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last.
Sweet cousin cocaine
Ah, lay your cool, cool hand on my head.
Come on, Sister Morphine
You better make up my bed.
'Cause you know and I know
In the morning I'll be dead.
Yeah, and you can sit around, yeah,
And you can watch all the
Clean white sheets stained red.
I went looking into this song because of the allusions to hospitals and ambulances. (In England, nurses are called sisters.) I didn't find any backmasking in the Marianne Faithfull version, but when I reversed The Rolling Stones track (listen to the forward track at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IWF509L3H4 ), I found the following line beginning at 1:15 in the reversed song:
Paul looking dead. Ahhh, [mumbled] looking dead.
The Rolling Stones knew The Beatles and were rivals of them. Marianne Faithfull was a friend of Paul. In her autobiography, Faithfull (with David Dalton; 1994: Little Brown), Ms. Faithfull said of Paul: "Paul and I had a very close and unique friendship. He helped me on a lot of my work. He always had a special kind of vision." (P. 159. Note how Faithfull refers to Paul in the past tense.)
This is the first time I have ever heard of anything connecting Paul with a drug addiction and I'm not convinced that the song is totally autobiographical concerning Paul, but it is another indication that Paul WAS involved in some sort of accident and the "stupid bloody Tuesday" line in I Am The Walrus might have been a comment on a bloody accident that Paul had.
Here I lie in my hospital bed.
Tell me Sister Morphine
When are you coming 'round again.
Oh, an' I don't think I can wait that long.
Oh, you see that I'm not that strong.
The scream of the ambulance
Is sounding in my ears.
Tell me, Sister Morphine,
How long have I been lying here?
What am I doing in this place?
Why does the doctor have no face?
Oh, I can't crawl across the floor.
Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine
I'm trying to score.
Well, it just goes to show
Things are not what they seem.
Please, Sister Morphine,
Turn my nightmares into dreams.
Oh, can't you see I'm fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last.
Sweet cousin cocaine
Ah, lay your cool, cool hand on my head.
Come on, Sister Morphine
You better make up my bed.
'Cause you know and I know
In the morning I'll be dead.
Yeah, and you can sit around, yeah,
And you can watch all the
Clean white sheets stained red.
I went looking into this song because of the allusions to hospitals and ambulances. (In England, nurses are called sisters.) I didn't find any backmasking in the Marianne Faithfull version, but when I reversed The Rolling Stones track (listen to the forward track at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IWF509L3H4 ), I found the following line beginning at 1:15 in the reversed song:
Paul looking dead. Ahhh, [mumbled] looking dead.
The Rolling Stones knew The Beatles and were rivals of them. Marianne Faithfull was a friend of Paul. In her autobiography, Faithfull (with David Dalton; 1994: Little Brown), Ms. Faithfull said of Paul: "Paul and I had a very close and unique friendship. He helped me on a lot of my work. He always had a special kind of vision." (P. 159. Note how Faithfull refers to Paul in the past tense.)
This is the first time I have ever heard of anything connecting Paul with a drug addiction and I'm not convinced that the song is totally autobiographical concerning Paul, but it is another indication that Paul WAS involved in some sort of accident and the "stupid bloody Tuesday" line in I Am The Walrus might have been a comment on a bloody accident that Paul had.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Other Voices, Part 3
Then I was listening to Manfred Mann's Fox On The Run. Manfred Mann was a popular British pop/rock band of the 1960's (for those of you who don't know.) The bass player of the group Klaus Voormann was a friend of The Beatles. He designed The Beatles' Revolver album cover. His friendship with The Beatles spanned from their early days in Hamburg through the group's break-up, so obviously he had some knowledge about what was happening with them.
Fox On The Run was released on November 29, 1968 and was basically a lament about a young man brought down by a girl. The lyrics:
She walked through the corn leading down to the river.
Her hair shone like gold in the hot morning sun.
She took all the love a poor boy could give her.
And left me to die like the fox on the run.
Everybody knows the reason for the fall:
When woman tempted man down in paradise's hall.
This woman tempted me all right, then took me for a ride.
But like the lonely fox I need a place to hide.
Come take a glass of wine and fortify your soul.
We'll talk about the world and friends we used to know.
I'll illustrate, a girl put me on the floor.
The game is nearly up, the hounds are at my door.
Like the fox on the run.
Listening to the song in reverse, I found three runs--beginning at 0:16, 1:27, and 2:20 where Manfred Mann sings the words: PAUL FORGOT.
The group wouldn't have been talking about Paul Jones, their former bandmate, who, from my research, was "scandal"-less.
An interesting note on the imagery in the song: The Rolling Stones had a promotional video filmed for the 1967 song We Love You I wrote about in my last post. Take a look at the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF5sDwYSTCM . From 2:32-3:08 in the video, there is a sequence where Marianne Faithfull presents an animal skin--a fox or wolf--to the "judge" at the "trial". Then later--at 3:32-3:49--the animal skin is laying on a table and Mick Jagger (as the defendant) comes out from underneath it and looks at the camera.
Another interesting note on the song. The area around Milton Keynes-Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire has been a rural area and was definitely one in 1966. I found an internet listing for a 1965 sale of an estate in the area and the farm land on the estate was sown to corn: http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/hav/docs/linhistory/llsale1965.html . At the edge of Bury Field, Newport Pagnell, by the River Ouse, is a street called Mill Street, named after the corn mills that were once located there. So a woman walking through cornfields in Newport Pagnell in 1966 is very much a possibility.
Fox On The Run was released on November 29, 1968 and was basically a lament about a young man brought down by a girl. The lyrics:
She walked through the corn leading down to the river.
Her hair shone like gold in the hot morning sun.
She took all the love a poor boy could give her.
And left me to die like the fox on the run.
Everybody knows the reason for the fall:
When woman tempted man down in paradise's hall.
This woman tempted me all right, then took me for a ride.
But like the lonely fox I need a place to hide.
Come take a glass of wine and fortify your soul.
We'll talk about the world and friends we used to know.
I'll illustrate, a girl put me on the floor.
The game is nearly up, the hounds are at my door.
Like the fox on the run.
Listening to the song in reverse, I found three runs--beginning at 0:16, 1:27, and 2:20 where Manfred Mann sings the words: PAUL FORGOT.
The group wouldn't have been talking about Paul Jones, their former bandmate, who, from my research, was "scandal"-less.
An interesting note on the imagery in the song: The Rolling Stones had a promotional video filmed for the 1967 song We Love You I wrote about in my last post. Take a look at the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF5sDwYSTCM . From 2:32-3:08 in the video, there is a sequence where Marianne Faithfull presents an animal skin--a fox or wolf--to the "judge" at the "trial". Then later--at 3:32-3:49--the animal skin is laying on a table and Mick Jagger (as the defendant) comes out from underneath it and looks at the camera.
Another interesting note on the song. The area around Milton Keynes-Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire has been a rural area and was definitely one in 1966. I found an internet listing for a 1965 sale of an estate in the area and the farm land on the estate was sown to corn: http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/hav/docs/linhistory/llsale1965.html . At the edge of Bury Field, Newport Pagnell, by the River Ouse, is a street called Mill Street, named after the corn mills that were once located there. So a woman walking through cornfields in Newport Pagnell in 1966 is very much a possibility.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Other Voices, Part 2
(Note: My last post was published on April Fool's day (just noticed that), but the post wasn't meant as a joke: backmasking is real.)
Now . . . I started listening to songs from 1967-on backwards to see if there were "echoes" of references to Paul and I found five of them. I was going to put them all in one post, but I'm pulling out the first one (chronologically) that I found because it involves The Rolling Stones and the replacements for Paul and John and, from the backmasking I found, was not about what was going on with The Rolling Stones, but, instead, was definitely about Paul.
The song is We Love You, that the Stones recorded as a single on June 12, 1967 and released on August 18, 1967 in the UK and September 2, 1967 in the US. There was a promotional film made of the single that supposedly depicted the problems the Stones had with a drug bust in 1967. But when I listened to the song backwards, I found them singing:
at 2:22: "he walrus"
2:53-2:58: "Paulie"
3:01-3:07: "Here Paulie"
3:26-3:30: "Paulie"
3:33-3:39: "Who's Paulie"
And at the end of the mono version of the song:
0:02-0:11: "Paul . . . ah, he's dead."
The B/Featles' I Am The Walrus was recorded September 5, 1967 and released as a single November 24, 1967, so the Stones song was out before The B/Featle's song was even recorded.
Also, the replacements for (our) Paul and John sang background on We Love You.
The promotional film was about an arrest of a man and a trial. Some of the lyrics played forward are:
We don't care if you hound we
And lock the doors around we . . .
My theory is that Paul was being forced out of the group and was planning an exit in the way of an escape. I think he had an accident--whether it was a real accident or whether he was forced off the road remains to be seen--and I think the English "authorities" got their hands on him and never let go.
Now . . . I started listening to songs from 1967-on backwards to see if there were "echoes" of references to Paul and I found five of them. I was going to put them all in one post, but I'm pulling out the first one (chronologically) that I found because it involves The Rolling Stones and the replacements for Paul and John and, from the backmasking I found, was not about what was going on with The Rolling Stones, but, instead, was definitely about Paul.
The song is We Love You, that the Stones recorded as a single on June 12, 1967 and released on August 18, 1967 in the UK and September 2, 1967 in the US. There was a promotional film made of the single that supposedly depicted the problems the Stones had with a drug bust in 1967. But when I listened to the song backwards, I found them singing:
at 2:22: "he walrus"
2:53-2:58: "Paulie"
3:01-3:07: "Here Paulie"
3:26-3:30: "Paulie"
3:33-3:39: "Who's Paulie"
And at the end of the mono version of the song:
0:02-0:11: "Paul . . . ah, he's dead."
The B/Featles' I Am The Walrus was recorded September 5, 1967 and released as a single November 24, 1967, so the Stones song was out before The B/Featle's song was even recorded.
Also, the replacements for (our) Paul and John sang background on We Love You.
The promotional film was about an arrest of a man and a trial. Some of the lyrics played forward are:
We don't care if you hound we
And lock the doors around we . . .
My theory is that Paul was being forced out of the group and was planning an exit in the way of an escape. I think he had an accident--whether it was a real accident or whether he was forced off the road remains to be seen--and I think the English "authorities" got their hands on him and never let go.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
The Reality Of Backmasking--A Short Note
People reading this blog will generally be in agreement that something went wrong with The Beatles in 1966. If you read some of the skeptical comments on this, though, you may shy away from exploring the reality of it. I haven't and that's why I'm plowing into every aspect of bizarreness connected with The Beatles during that time. One aspect was the backmasking that happened on their songs and other groups' songs. There have been attempts to steer people away from the truth by casting doubt on the reality of backmasking (putting messages in songs that are heard when the songs are played backward.) I've been listening to songs backward for several days now I can assure people that The Beatles and others put very clear backmasked messages in some songs. Backmasking is real.
