Paul Wasn't Where Jane Was From August, 1966

Jane Asher was Paul's steady girlfriend, as we know.  He lived in her house when he was in London from November, 1963 until the spring of 1966.  He was in attendance with her, for examples:
     1.)  When she performed in repertory at the Palace Theatre on 7/14/65.
     2.)  When they went to the premiere of a play at Wyndham Theatre on 1/31/66.
     3.)  When they went on a skiing trip from 3/6/66-3/20/66.
     4.)  When they attended the premiere on 3/24/66 of the movie, Alfie in which Jane had a starring role.
The public appearances and the trip are all well-documented with photos.

Somewhere in late July or early August, though, the bottom drops out of photographs (or even mentions of Paul and Jane seen together.)

For example, they were supposed to have gone to the Royal Court Theatre on ~July 22, 1966 to see a play.  I have not found any photos to document this.

But, most importantly, Jane acted in two theater roles in the Edinburgh (Scotland) Festival from 8/21/1966-9/10/1966.  She played the role of Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and she played Cassandra in a Jean-Paul Sartre adaptation of The Trojan Women (!).  Even if you allowed for Paul being on tour in America until the end of August, 1966--and I don't--he still would have had nine days to see her at the festival.  I have not found any documentation that he was ever in Edinburgh to see her.  And, remember, Paul had bought a farm in Scotland in June, 1966.

But, of course, there is more.  Jane finished the festival on October 10th. and then opened in the same role of Perdita at the Cambridge Theatre, London, twenty days later, on 9/30/66.  During November, 1966, the play was filmed, but never theatrically released.  As I mentioned in my September 17, 2010 post, Jane was in London in November, 1966 and NOT from 11/12/66 to 11/19/66 with our Paul's replacement in Kenya as authors Bill Harry and Barry Miles claim.  And--once again--I could find no photos of Paul attending any of Jane's London performances.

We know that by October 17, 1966 when a Paul replacement was photographed working on the score for the film The Family Way, our Paul was permanently out of the public picture.  That puts the time frame for our Paul's disappearance in August-September, 1966.

Narrowing Down When Paul and George Met Bobby Moore

In my last post I wrote about Paul and George going to English composer and writer Lionel Bart's house sometime in August, 1966 as was listed in one of the Beatles' "itinerary" books.  Well, it is easy to narrow down the time frame of their visit:  George (but I do not believe our Paul) left for the US on the 1966 American tour, arriving at Logan Airport, Boston on Thursday, August 11, 1966.  They arrived back from the tour on August 31, 1966, so that leaves a window of August 1st. through possibly August 10th. for George and (our) Paul to have visited Lionel Bart's home.

What I am trying to do is map out where our Paul was from day to day during the critical months of mid-to-late, 1966 and every point of reference helps.




                                                    ---paulumbo

Widening our Paul's Still-Public Presence to August, 1966

I was reading Piet Schreuder's (et al) 1994 book, The Beatles' London:  A Guide To 467 Beatles Sites In And Around London and I found a listing for Paul and George visiting English song-and-playwright Lionel Bart's home sometime in August, 1966.  As I said in my March post, I'm trying to track down when Paul disappeared from public view.

In the listiing, it said that soccer player Bobby Moore was also at Bart's house that night.  So I went looking for a book about Moore and found he wrote one, in 1970, called England! England!.

He wrote an entire chapter on England's first World Cup win in 1966.  He was a member of the winning English team and they won in England, giving a special meaning to the title and the players amongst the English.

They won the match and trophy on Saturday, July 30, 1966.

The team was treated to a special banquet in their honor the evening of July 30th.  Moore said:
          "No wives or girl-friends were invited to the banquet and as finally we took our various presents up to our rooms in the Royal Garden when the feting was over, we all then split up into our parties with our wives and others to disappear into the night here, there and everywhere to continue our various junketings."

And, later in the chapter, Moore said:
          "This last event [the World Cup] in a way, of course, helped to widen my horizon, change my social life and make it busier.  I found myself being feted and asked out here, there and everywhere, making personal appearances."

I found a 1994 book written by David Roper called Bart! The Unauthorized Life & Times Ins And Outs Ups And Downs Of Lionel Bart that states that the 1966 World Cup-winning squad had their post-match party at Bart's house.

So, since Bobby Moore was introduced to Lionel Bart's night scene on July 31, 1966 and since Moore mentioned our Paul's Revolver album song, "Here, There and Everywhere" twice in describing his widening social life, I think it's a good guess that he met our Paul some night at Lionel Bart's house in August, 1966.  But, again, no photos.

Is This Our Paul at the Ivor Novello Award Ceremony, July 12, 1966?

I found an extremely short video on Youtube that is supposed to be our Paul accepting two Ivor Novello awards for his and John's 1965 songs, "Yesterday" and "We Can Work It Out."  You can see the whole video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=INvqw4qKjF8 .

As I said in my last post, I've been searching unsuccessfully for photographs of Paul past early July, 1966. The award ceremony was held July 12th.

Again, I have not found any photographs of Paul from the awards ceremony.  ???

Also, see my next post because it's very possible that Paul was around London laying low, so to speak, as late as August, 1966.

No Credible Photos of Paul Past July,1966

I have been searching unsuccessfully for ANY credible photo of our Paul past the photo of him that was taken in early July, 1966 when he was in India.  (See photo in my post of October 10, 2010.)

Paul was supposed to have attended a performance of experimental music at the Royal College of Art in London on September 15, 1966.  There was a group of musicians and the composer Cornelius Cardew and about a dozen people in the audience but I have not found one photograph from the concert.

Paul (and Ringo) were supposed to have accepted an award from the English pop music magazine Melody Maker on September 13, 1966.  A very hazy short film from the awards ceremony and several photographs have surfaced.  I always thought the photos looked doctored and then found another photo from a English music photographer, David Redfern.  (See right.)  THIS Paul looks like one of the 1966 American tour look-alikes.

Since I do not believe our Paul was in the 1966 American tour group I'm seriously thinking that all the chatter from the new Beatles and the other musicians was about things happening to our Paul beginning some time after early JULY, 1966.

Several Clues That The Real John Survived, But Was Crippled

I mentioned in my post about the "personnel changes" in The Beatles that I had found some strong hints that the real John lived, but ended up (somehow) in a wheelchair.  Here are the clues.

1.)  Bob Dylan recorded a song for his Blonde on Blonde album called "4th. Time Around."  The song was  recorded in February, 1966 and released in May, 1966.  It was supposed to be Dylan's satirical jab at John Lennon and his supposedly borrowing Dylan's songwriting rhymes and rhythms.  The relevant lyrics are:
               And I tried to make sense
               Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair.
                        -    -   -   -
                I never asked for your crutch  [meant literally]       
                Now don't ask for mine.         [meant figuratively]

2.)  The real John Lennon's son, Julian recorded a song called "I Don't Wanna Know" and made a video to go with it.   Late in the video, it shows one of The Beatles in a wheelchair.

I think that was supposed to be his father.









3.)  I described in other posts the clues in the 1978 mockumentary about The Beatles, All You Need Is Cash.  Well, another clue for us all came in the "What Became of The Rutles" segment when the commentator described the John character:  "Nasty turned his back on the world, and sat for many years with his thoughts and his memories."  And here is how Nasty is shown:

Did Our Paul Ever Make It To France in November, 1966?

I looked into our Paul's purchase of an Aston Martin DB6 in 1966.  According to the Aston Martin website:  www.astonmartins.com/db4_5_6-s/db6.htm , Paul took delivery of the car in March, 1966.  There is also a mention in Maureen Cleave's article about our Paul published in The London Evening Standard, March 25, 1966, that Paul was driving his new DB6.

I've searched Google images, though, and I have not found a credible image of our Paul in or near that car.  However, I have found several images of Faul in and near the car, including Mal Evans' home video shots of Faul in Spain (probably) or Kenya.

Which begs the question:  Was the future Beatle Faul given Paul's car or was the DB6 purchased for Faul?  The car made it over to France in November, 1966, but it looks like Paul was not with it.