Narrowing Down Paul's Apparent "Underwear" Incident

In the September 27th. (2012) post I talked about the Los Angeles radio station's fan magazine KRLABeat's July 2, 1966 column describing a "dream" about Paul running in his underwear into "a posh fountain in front of a posh bank."  I went researching and I believe I've found the bank and the fountain mentioned in the column's "dream."

I posted the lyrics to Procol Harum's Lime Street Blues in the June 19, 2012 post.  The song talks about a man (who I believe is Paul) being arrested.  So I started looking for a bank and fountain near Lime Street.

In the book, Seaport  Architecture & Townscape in Liverpool by Quentin Hughes (Percy Lund, Humphies & Co Ltd, 1964), Hughes described the area in Liverpool in 1964 that had the main civic buildings (See map from book on below right.)  In the upper right hand corner of the map is a little island bounded by LIME STREET, William Brown Street, and Islington.  On that island is the Duke of Wellington monument and the little circle in front of it on the map is the STEBLE FOUNTAIN.

(See photo below).  On Page 104 of the Seascape book, Hughes says:  "Along the east side all pretence at monumental grandeur ends and the Wellington monument stands against a row of mean buildings relieved only by the small-scale stone facade of a branch of the MIDLAND BANK."

It looks like this was the site of Paul's "incident."  The next thing to find is more details of it.

 

                                              

Other Voices, Part 10: Paul's Voice

People have commonly believed that the debut of backmasking began with The Beatles' song, Rain, recorded April 14-16, 1966 and released May 30, 1966 in the US and June 10, 1966 in the UK, but Paul wrote the song, Woman for Peter and Gordon and that song was released before Rain--in the US on January 10, 1966 and in the UK on February 11, 1966--and Woman has backmasked lyrics.  Here they are:     0:38-0:42:  He would make a sound.
                                               He would make us know.

What do those lyrics mean?  Remember, our Paul was not the real Paul McCartney:  our Paul was the first replacement.  I think our Paul was talking about the real Paul McCartney in the song, I'm Looking Through You.  That song was recorded October 24th. and November 10th. and 11th., 1965 for the Rubber Soul album.  The song was supposed to be about Jane Asher and Paul's disappointment with their relationship.  But I listened to take four of I'm Looking Through You (at   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OWrlVT6vF8 ) and at the end of the take, (11:49-11:53) you hear:   You've changed, you've changed, you've changed, you've changed,
                   You sea chain.
I was trying to think what "sea chain" would be and then I figured it out: our Paul meant,
                    You see Jane.
The song was sung about the real Paul McCartney who established the real relationship with a 17-year old Jane Asher in 1963 before our Paul replaced him.
Think about some of the lyrics to I'm Looking Through You:
                     Your lips are moving,
                      I cannot hear.
                      Your voice is soothing,
                      But the words aren't clear.
So while people are tracking down what happened to our Paul, it is still a mystery what happened to real Paul McCartney.

My best guess is that sometime in 1965 the real Paul was left virtually speechless from some accident, deliberate act or malady.  The backmasked lyrics from Woman say:
He would make a sound.  He would make us know, not, he makes a sound, he makes us know.    Our Paul is talking in the past tense.  So, again, my guess is that sometime between ~ late October, 1965 and the the recording of Woman in ~December, 1965, the real Paul McCartney lost his voice altogether, or died.

As further confirmation of this, check out The Rutles:  All You Need Is Cash mockumentary at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PgzRizr6o where Eric Idle as the reporter is talking about the "Stig Is Dead" rumor (Stig being Paul).  At 0:23-0:29, he says:
     "He never said anything publicly.  Even as the quiet one, he'd not said a word since 1966."
                

Paul Was In Los Angeles in June, 1966

I have been exploring the KRLABeat archives and I found another important bit of information.

The magazine had a column called, "'In' People Are Talking About . . .".  In the July 9, 1966 column, they wrote the following:  "['In' People Are Talking About . . .] . . . Paul McCartney's stop-over in L.A. and how in the world he pulled it off."

There was an approximately two week lag time between an event described in The Beat and the magazine's publication which would put Paul in L.A. sometime around the week of June 19-25, 1966.  The Beatles' schedule on that week was:
1.)  Two off days on June 19th. and 20th.
2.)  Work at the London EMI Studo on two songs for the Revolver album.
3.)  ~ two more days off on June 22nd. and 23rd.  (Although some sources said the 23rd. was a travel day
      to Germany.
4.)  The German concert tour of Munich, Essen, and Hamburg.  Our Paul was beginning to be replaced
      starting with the German tour:  he definitely played Munich; I'm still tracking down Essen; and there was
      a replacement for Paul in Hamburg.

The questions are:  What day or days in June, 1966 was Paul in Los Angeles, and--most importantly--why was he there?

What Is Ten Miles North on the Dewsbury Road?

In the B/Featles 1967 movie, Magical Mystery Tour, there is a scene where Ringo and Faul converse. Ringo asks Faul: "Where's the bus?" Faul answers: "It's ten miles north on the Dewsbury Road." People have been puzzling over this segment for years and, with the help (again) of KRLABeat, I believe I've found the answer.

 In the April 16, 1966 edition of the magazine, Tony Barrow, who was the press secretary for The Beatles, is writing about our Paul's authorship of the song, Woman. The title of the article is "Paul Exposed" (!) He talks about how Paul created a "fictional" fifth Beatle named Bernard Webb. This man "was a young university student whose hometown was Leeds, Yorkshire. He had sent in 'Woman' to Northern Songs as a possible number for The Beatles to record. The song had been passed on to Peter and Gordon. Apparently Bernard Webb had a current Paris address but had left it and disappeared on some kind of extended skiing trip in the Swiss Alps. On the face of it, the talented young Bernard might have met up with PAUL MCCARTNEY who has just returned to London after vacationing at a secluded ski center hideaway in the Swiss Alps."

 Was Paul exposed in this article as the author of Woman or as having been a (former) university student whose hometown was Leeds, England. I think Paul was talking about himself. Click the "View Larger Map" below the Google map below. The distance between Dewsbury, West Riding, Yorkshire and Leeds, West Riding, Yorkshire is ~ TEN miles.
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Before All The Other Clues, There Was KRLABeat's "Dream"

I have been commenting in several posts about the idea that Paul was--let's say--nailed by the British government for an indecent exposure incident.  I traced the beginning of it from a New Musical Express interview with Paul published on July 29, 1966 where Paul said he had dreams of being caught out in the street in his underwear.  There was musical "chatter" following on this, beginning--from my research--with Procol Harum's 1967 song, Lime Street Blues, and continuing in 1968 with The Bonzo Dog's Band, We Are Normal and in 1969 with Jose Feliciano's So Long Paul.  But before even Paul's interview was published, the Los Angeles radio station KRLA's fan magazine, The Beat had in its July 2, 1966 edition a column that talked about a "dream" the writer (Shirley Poston) was "sent".

She commented that a "Narcissa Nash" wrote her with a dream she had about The Beatles.  They were riding in her VW bus, nicknamed NIGEL (!) and Paul finds that his pants are on fire:

At this point, I pull Nigel to a
screeching halt and up to a fire
hydrant.  But before I can turn the
water on Paul, he has shed his
trousers and is now headed toward
the nearest fountain with purple-
polka-dot shorts on.  (No com-
ment).  As he leaps into a posh
fountain in front of a posh bank, a
loud sizzling is heard and a great
mass of steam rises.
      Indecent Exposure
At which time Paul is arrested
for indecent exposure and for con-
tributing to air pollution (the
steamin' nit).

In my July 6, 2012 post, I speculated that NIGEL was the code name they gave our Paul.  Now I'm convinced of it.  The next thing to look into is the setting of a posh fountain in front of a posh bank sometime in 1965.  We are getting closer to the truth.

                                                                      ---paulumbo

Odds and Ends, Page 2

Continuing with my Odds and Ends post of July 13th., I found an interesting item about our John and something about the group that I'd like to put out a request to readers on:

                      A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS? 
1.)  In the February 19, 1966 KRLA Beat magazine, there was a small item that said:  "John is building a home on the Costa Brava [Spain] coast."  I did a little research and found that there is a place in the Sant Pere area next to the town wall at the section going up to MontJuic, at 17007 Girona, Spain called (and as the Brits say, wait for it):  Jardins de John Lennon.  It is very likely our John did indeed attempt a home there. 






2.)  In the June 4, 1966 KRLA Beat magazine, Tony Barrow (who was The Beatles' press secretary) wrote that during the Revolver album recording sessions all of The Beatles would meet at our John's Weybridge, Surrey home and:  "Quite frequently they give themselves a break from more serious work and shoot off some zany home movies in John's vast garden."  I have never read any other mention of these home movies and I would like to ask readers of this blog if they know of these movies and have seen any of them. 

Jose Feliciano's 1969 Song

There were several songs released during the Paul-Is-Dead controversy that began in October, 1969.  One of them was Jose Feliciano's song, So Long Paul that Feliciano recorded under the pseudonym, Werbley Finster.  The lyrics coincide with the lyrics of The Bonzo Dog Band's We Are Normal and Procul Harum's Lime Street Blues that I talked about in my June 19, 2012 post and with the "dream" Paul described in the New Musical Express interview of June, 1966 that I outlined in my August 17, 2012 post.  Listen to the song at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whAZ8aYztgU .

Here are some of the lyrics:

     I heard the radio the other day;
     I heard something that blew my mind.
     It was something that I didn't even believe atall:
     The news concerned itself with a young man everybody knows,
     And they said that he went, running, taking off his clothes.
     And I said, now, so long Paul, we hate to see you go,
     So long Paul after making all that dough.


Feliciano said in the song that he went to England and he knew and believed that Paul was still alive and that Paul had had himself  "a hard day's night."

Feliciano is hinting that Paul was removed from The Beatles.  The 1967 Beatles Christmas fan record with the famous refrain, "O-U-T spells OUT" suggests the same thing.

I think it's pretty conclusive that Paul was snatched up by the British government and held against his will.  The devil will be in getting the details---but they WILL be found.


                                                                                        ---paulumbo