More On My 12/15/12 Post--Paul's Yellow Submarine?

I talked in my 12/15/12 post about L.A. radio station KRLA's fan magazine article of 1966 that hinted that our Paul was from Leeds, Yorkshire.  Close to where Paul would have grown up, they built midget submarines for use by the British Navy in World War 2 and I speculated that Paul was drawing from his childhood memories when he wrote Yellow Submarine.

I found two more images to post on the subject.
The first on the right is from the cover of the sheet music of Yellow Submarine, printed in 1966.

The top image on the right is a drawing of a British X-craft midget submarine used during World War 2.

 I speculated in several posts that Paul was hinting about things that were happening--or about to happen--in his life in that song and it was very possible that he was also alluding to memories in his childhood.

Other Voices, Part 12 (continued)

One of the lyrics from Paint It Black  is:

     I see a red door and it has been painted black.

Here is a photo of Paul's home at 7 Cavendish Avenue.  Note the front door.

Other Voices, Part 12: Paint It Black

I speculated in my April 22, 2013 post that Paul's real last name might be Black, so I started thinking about songs around the year 1966 that had the word "black" in them.  Of course, The Rolling Stones released the song Paint It Black in 1966--recorded March 6-9, 1966 and released May 7, 1966 in the US and May 13, 1966 in the UK, so I checked for backmasking in the song and I found some.

The song is on Youtube at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?fPVUa29kHu8  .

Beginning about 2:47 in the reversed song, you can here Jagger sing something about "out."
At 3:08-3:11, you can hear:  "He was from us . . . but he's out."

If you remember the Christmas Time Is Here Again song from the Beatles' 1967 Christmas fan club record--which I believe chronicled the selection of our Paul's replacement--Ringo sings, "O-U-T spells OUT" several times in the song.

Was Mr. Black on his way out in early 1966?

Those "Other" Beatles

It's my contention that our Paul and our John never made it to the 1966 American concerts:  in 1966, we were seeing half of the Beatles that American fans came to love.  I found a Youtube video that suggests that the John that toured in 1966 was not our John.

The video is at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLxBcALNE6c  .

Beginning at 1:44 in the video, the 1966 American tour John was explaining "his" comment on the "Beatles-as-more-popular-than-Jesus" controversy.  He said:

I was talking to the effect the word "Beatles" as a remote thing.  Not what I think as Beatles:  as those, those other Beatles, like other people said.  I just said they are having more, more influence on kids and things than anything else, including Jesus."
 

It's pretty clear that he was saying that he was not a part of those "other Beatles."  What I think happened is that our Paul and our John knew they were going to be ousted from the group and decided that if they were going to go, they were going to try to take the group down with them.  Hence the "butcher" cover, the "more popular than Jesus" statement, Paul allowing his broken tooth to be shown in the Rain and Paperback Writer videos, etc. 

The music press was scrambling to neutralize the damage, but, as original fans know, Paul's and John's efforts took their toll on The Beatles' popularity in America in 1966.  I also think that is why the music press fell over their faces to try to convince the world public that the Sgt. Pepper album was a classic (I'll print some of the gasping praise of the album in a future post).  That massive Cash Cow called The Beatles was too good of a thing to lose.

Our Paul, Older

I found an age progression tool at the University of St. Andrews website that gives an interesting look at Paul as an older man.

Find the tool at www.st-andrews.ac.uk  .  And, note:  I found the image on the left at www.abovetopsecret.com  .

 

 

P.S.  Doesn't look much like the current Paul, does it?

 

Is This Paul's Birth Record?

In trying to find the real identity of our Paul, you have to try to piece together bits of clues and you have to SPECULATE.  And I'm telling you people if you're researching the mystery and you DON'T speculate, you or I or we will NEVER find the truth because the attitudes that led to the decimation of The Beatles and the cover-ups that followed each "personnel replacement" of them are the same now as in 1966, or 1963, 1970 or 1980.

With that in mind, I pieced together three relevant clues and went looking for a birth record using them.

The first clue was Paul's stating that he saw Bill Haley and His Comets when he (Paul) was 12 years old.  Paul said that in the Tokyo press conference of June 30, 1966.  (See my post of March 6, 2013.)  Since Bill Haley first toured England in February of 1957, Paul was most likely born in 1944. 

The second clue I used was from the "Paul Exposed" article from the April 16, 1966 KRLA Beat magazine that I talked about in my September 28, 2012 post.  When Paul used the pseudonym Bernard Webb for his song, Woman, he detailed a background for the composer that gave Bernard Webb's hometown as Leeds, Yorkshire.  I believe he was hinting that Leeds was HIS hometown.

The third clue I found was from The Who's March, 1966 song, Substitute.  Here are the lyrics to the song:
                    You think we look pretty good together.
                    You think my shoes are made of leather.
                    But I'm a substitute for another guy.
                    I look pretty tall but my heels are high.
                    The simple things you see are all complicated.
                    I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah.

                    Substitute your lies for fact.
                    I can see right through your plastic mac.
                    I look all white, but my dad was black.
                    My fine-looking suit is really made out of sack.

                    I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
                    The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south.
                    And now you dare to look me in the eye.
                    Those crocodile tears are what you cry.
                    It's a genuine problem, you won't try.
                    To work it out at all you just pass it by, pass it by.

                    Substitute me for him.
                    Substitute my coke for gin.
                    Substitute you for my mum.
                    At least I'll get my washing done.

I speculated on a Paul-Was-Replaced board that the man currently (and for the past 45 years) known as Paul McCartney is of ROMANY--GYPSY-- heritage.  I still believe that.  I think Substitute's lyrics were supposed to be a conversation between our Paul and that man.  The relevant clue in the song is the line:  "I look all white, but my dad was black."  The line might point to the current Paul's Gypsy background (because Romanies call themselves "black blooded"), but I DEFINITELY think that the line was meant as a pun on our Paul's real last name:  BLACK.

SO, with the 1944, Leeds, and last name, Black clues, I went looking in the UK's Free Birth, Marriage, Death database (find it at:  www.freebmd.org.uk  ).

I found the following listing:

          SURNAME          Black
          FIRST NAME      David
          REGISTERED     Sep 1944  (Note:  They register vital statistics in England in three month intervals:  January-March, April-June, July-September, and October-December.  So without the actual birth certificate, you can't tell if the birth occurred in July, August, or September.)

But, what really got my interest on this listing was the mother's surname:  APPLESON.

The collective Beatles began making all kinds of references to APPLES beginning in 1966.  A few examples:
     1.)  George's working title of GRANNY SMITH for his song, Love You To from the 1966 Revolver album.
     2.)  The Beatles' Revolver album producer Geoff Emerick's working title of LAXTON'S SUPERB for George's song, I Want To Tell You.
     3.) Paul or Faul's ~ August, 1966 purchase of the artist Magritte's painting Le Jeu de Mourre--THE GUESSING GAME.  See photo on right and notice, of course, that the APPLE has AU REVOIR--GOOD BYE--printed across it.
     4.)  And the reconstituted Beatles' forming in 1968 of the APPLE label.

Pretty impressive punning.

 The entire name is listed as David M. Black.  I did a search on the UKBMD for a death record and there was none.  I also did a quick Google search for "David M. Black"+"Leeds" and didn't find any info on a man with that name and city and age. 

SO . . . this might be our Paul's birth listing.

I'll do more searching and, meanwhile, if anyone is researching our Paul's background, please let me know.

                                                                  ---paulumbo

More To Come Shortly

I'm attempting to track down the identity of our Paul through the UK's free birth, marriage, death database (available at:  www.freebmd.org.uk ).  I have a very interesting speculation that I'll detail in the next few days.

                                                                 ---paulumbo