you dont look different. 10 years ago you were hosing mythbusters. jks i would love to see a collaberation between all the bald, bearded, white, media star with glasses. or at least as many as you can get together. also your either big brain or are wearing a bald cap :p
yeah the history of tobacco eventually slowly getting to the point where it could actually be able to be inhaled through the lungs finally allowing for nicotine addiction because of passage through the blood brain barrier is FASCINATING. Its actually a recent thing only going back a few hundred years. Until then the nicotine content was so strong you couldnt inhale it and thus people weren't able to get addicted to it. It wasnt until mixtures between american colony tobacco with arabian blends that led to a tobacco you could inhale. finally allowing for nicotine addiction. its a CRAZY history EDIT: I believe the term you were looking for was nepotism : My old boss was famous for it....hiring family members at way higher than me who actual worked since he opened the company x.x
Although I do not know the truth or not and wasn't there I'm skeptical but there is a lot of strange evidence to suggest this conspiracy may be possibly 50/50 true/false. You're just touching the tip of the iceberg there's DNA evidence and a lot of strange lyrical and album art and strange things like George saying things like I'm not friends with Paul or he can't write a song or he didn't meet Paul till later and that Paul joined the band later when Paul was there before George and Paul not going to the hall of Fame thing and citing royalty disputes seems a bit strange. There's much more.
Considering that Charlie Chaplin LOST a lookalike contest for looking like Charlie Chaplin....just saying Paul looks different from one pic to the next means close to nothing.
@@jamesgornall5731 what part do you find confusing? There are lookalike contests where people compete to see who looks most like said celebrity..... occasionally the actual celebrity pretends to be a regular person and enters the contest (assuming they would win 1st place because they of course look identical to themselves) but they didn't win....in fact they didn't even come close. Because so many different things can affect how someone looks, and not just the obvious lighting or the magic that those color theory experts can do, but also things within the person's body can fluctuate (i.e. fluid retention and many others) can affect how much someone looks like themselves. So just because someone looks different from one pic to another doesn't hold much weight...... as anyone who has looked through multiple pictures of the same person over spans of time can tell you.
Whilst I was writing this one, I had an idea for a little competition to see who could spot exactly how many references to Beatles/McCartney songs or album titles I'd planted in the main script (excluding segment titles.) But then I completely lost count myself. Sorry. I reckon about 17. Or 64.
Simon, you are a man after my dad's heart. Our number was one digit off that of a local pizza parlor. Dad got tired of drunks insisting they had dialed correctly. Finally he gave in and took the callers' orders. He figured, let the pizza parlor figure it out.
I delivered for a pizza place in college. My junior year, I moved into a new apartment and was assigned a phone number one digit off from that of the pizza place I delivered for... I got pizza orders all the time, and I routinely answered the phone as if I was working and took orders. It always amused me when managers at work would complain about customers coming in insisting they'd placed orders that the store had absolutely no record of.
My dad once worked for a place whose fax machine number was one digit off from a prison's. they were sent a lot of sensitive data from idiot lawyers lol
Micheal Gambon who died recently, who played Dumbledore along with a lot other famous characters, loved to lie in interviews. He once told an interviewer that he was in the Royal Ballet and said he had to stop from a bad fall. He use to laugh how no one would even question what he said.
Was thinking the same lol. I’m a fan of the Beatles, but far from one of the super fans that know everything about their ridiculously huge catalog. Still, you can tell when Simon gets it, and the amount of times I caught him not, was fairly surprising. And I know I didn’t catch all of them. But some were literally very well known lines from some of their most popular songs. Props to Danny, not so much to Simon 😂
At this point, even if it was true, the “current” Paul has been around longer than the “dead” Paul. Also “current” Paul has had an illustrious career well beyond The Beatles fame so it doesn’t even matter anymore.
@@jamesgornall5731I mean he’s headlined two successful groups, one of which is absolotely legendary and the other was well received. I mean that’s pretty illustrious.
I had a college friend who worked as a paramedic. He once told us that the rules *required* that, even if a patient had bled out, they still had to perform CPR.
The only evidence one needs to, or ought to look at is whether the facial features and proportions of the "pre-crash Paul" match those of the post-crash one. You can alter teeth, re-shape eye-brows, bolster chins and cheeks and jaw-lines, but you can't alter the bone structure such that eyes are at different heights, oe angles, or are closer together, the ears can't be moved down half an inch, the skull can't be reshaped and re-sized. The forensic analysis has been done, you won't find it here for some reason...
I dunno…through most of this episode, the captions showed Paul’s name as “poor McCartney”…someone will probably claim that’s a result of YT’s translation software misunderstanding because of Simon’s accent but I think it’s pretty clear proof that the original Paul died and that we should all feel sorry for him 🤯
Listen. The powers that be are keeping things very hush-hush. They can't be obvious about it, but someone who knows the truth is trying to get it out there through whatever means they have. Obviously.
@@davidjacobs8558 d’oh! Yep, I used the wrong word 😖 You know the rest is a joke tho, right? Not tryna start beef, just not sure if you thought I was serious…
I must be from “back in the day”. I did actually know someone who died in a car accident. There was something weird having to do with music, too. The car was towed to a lot that was owned by the family of another member of our group. We all went down to see the car and support her brother as he collected her things from it. There was a cassette tape in the player and her brother wanted to know what the last thing she heard was. He hit the rewind for a couple of seconds then hit play. All of us turned went pale when the words “I am leaving you here” came out of the speakers. I can’t for the life of me remember the name of the song or who sang it but I will never forget her brother just crumbling. RIP Darla.
Yeah, guess my 50 years are showing. 1 of my old classmates killed himself in a solo crash at 25. Not that any of us were surprised, he was always very wild and drove both insane and insanely fast, from the moment he got behind the wheel.
@@JericaJeffrey-o4klot more rare these days, cars as designed to crumple, but protect the driver, older cars were rock solid, which would obliterate the driver and passenger if you got into an accident over 30, the difference in force is pretty amazing to be honest, I don't think the numbers of deaths per year has actually changed much, but the percentage has, since a lot more people are driving these days
@@JericaJeffrey-o4kthe amount of deaths has been decimated, it’s never been a safer time to be behind the wheel compared to a few decades ago where kids would sleep on the rear window shelf on road trips while their parents drank their road beer. Before that, seat belts didn’t exist.
Lyrically at the time they were streets ahead but their biggest advantage was the fact they had George Martin as their producer. That man truly was a genius and changed the way music was produced for ever. He took their decent and well written songs and turned them in to something truly ground breaking.
It was a marvellous mix of a classically trained producer and a bunch of scouse chancers with an ear for a tune. Why they created prog rock years before it actually happened, which was the phenomenon of classically trained musicians trying to be rock stars for the p and $.
The main reasons I never gave this hoax any credit is because It would be hard to believe they could find a double who looked enough like him let alone play all the instruments and be left handed etc.
“And be left handed” since the birth of man left handed people have been learning to be right handed, it would be harder to learn how to play an instrument than it would be to learn to become ambidexterous haha
@@maxstrong6915 Lefty here... just want to say I think most of us left handed people have a degree of ambidextrousness from having to grow up in a right handed world.
even if paul did die and get replaced I'm not even mad because the fake Paul according to Ringo was the one motivating them to keep making albums after Revolver
It's long been a well established fact that the original Paul McCartney was indeed replaced by a walrus made up to look like Paul. I don't know why this is still a debate.
@@levilandes1719 I think you're correct initially the intent was to replace Paul with a walrus but were unable to find one that could play bass left handed and eventually settled on the elephant seal. The song I am the walrus had already been written and I am the elephant seal didn't have the same ring to it so they left it as is hence all the confusion almost 60yrs later.
I swore I'd never travel down this 'Paul Is Dead' rabbit hole again, and then I saw that it was Simon doing a bit on it. And well, here I am! Thanks for the laughs, Simon and Danny! This is by far the best rabbit hole on the topic.
@@callofduty611you just don’t like to admit you’ve been fooled. Today’s Paul is the only one with real talent. The rest were a manufactured band. Tavisstock institute creation. Keep believing the Cinderella story though.
Responding to several different comments you made in the video: John was murdered on December 8th, 1980. He was 40 years old. I had a classmate who died of a brain aneurism when we were 15 or 16. It was caused by a congenital defect of the blood vessels in his brain. When this defect occurs it usually results in death at a very young age, and it's practically impossible to spot the defect in advance, even if you have some reason to look for it. The hiring of family members is called "nepotism."
A note: the "OPD" badge does not in fact say OPD but OPP (Ontario Provincial Police). If one is skeptical, they need only Google an image of an OPP patch to see that's exactly what it is. I have heard the band met an OPP officer by the name of Sgt Randall Pepper when they were in Canada but I don't know how accurate that bit is.
Books,even short stories,can take longer,, however, you won't have the Whistlers undeniably limited linguistic narration,,pls ignore this comment if you're from Blighty or Murca,,and thank the person who read this to you
@@thomasblake8903 Sadly, reading a book while driving is rather frowned upon in most places, so someone else reading the text is a nice way to avoid tickets. Also, have you ever actually opened a book? They typically use capital letters to begin sentences AND even appropriate punctuation.Try one of those books for beginner readers if you struggle too much and I'm sure you'll pick it up in no time. 😊
But he's a freemason liar&an imposter!Why not revealing the truth after all these years??and plaid allegeance to reptilians Windsor etc that's corruption :totally disgusting!
John Lennon died 15 years later, more than 10 years after the Beatles broke up, Simon. Also, while there weren't mass suicides when John Lennon died, it was a moment I still remember to this day. I was a child, but I still remember the exact place I was when I heard it on the news.
@@occamraiser None of us who grew up with John ever thought of him as “only a musician.” When he died, the better part of my childhood went with him. I became a musician because of the Beatles and made a career out of it. And John was like a tour guide, showing us what the world was and what it could be. I miss him a lot.
I remember when John was murdered. I was watching Monday Night Football and Howard Cosell announced it. It was well after Beatlemania was over so no suicides just tears and sadness.
My best friend of my high school/college/hippie years called me that day to say "they've shot John Lennon" and four months later he shot himself. That's the death I never got over. But they are always linked for me.
when it comes to lennon supposedly saying "i buried paul", that could actually be what he said but in the recording context it makes way more sense. if an instrument / vocal is way too loud so you can't hear paul over it, you might say he's "buried" under the sound of the other person, it's a saying which is very common in recording studios so probably nothing suspicious going on either way :)
He is saying both at the same time, The Beatles were students of Crowely, who taught this along with the law of reversal which they also mastered@@laustcawz2089
@@paperbackwriter64he does say cranberry sauce, but a few seconds before it sounds as if he said “I buried Paul” a few times. For all we know it could have just been “cranberry sauce” repeated multiple times
I got older, lost my hair, grew a beard, got glasses, fixed my teeth, I look different. Simon you are so fucken funny! Love the low key jokes. You are precious…
Absolutely the funniest episode for "Decoding the Unknown' yet. I've just finished eating when I turn this on and can't stop laughing, and now my stomach really hurts. And I look at how much of the episode I've watched, I still have more than half to go! Okay, so time to unpause and hope my tummy holds.
had an exceptionally shitty day today, but imagining the absurd picture how paul and his separated head were needlessly wheeled into hospital made me laugh more than it should have...:)
we live in back woods type of area so theres a lot of trails and stuff but some sickos will string wire across the path and one of my bros friends was nearly decapitated in this way, but he luckily he was saved at hospital but he wouldve died had he attempted to remove his helmet. this was 2000s.
@@JericaJeffrey-o4k wtf! there are people in this world that are just not worth the oxygen they're using up! i hope your bros friend is ok now. good he isn't famous, we would have another conspiracy theory on our hands:)
@@rubycelica oh tbh i think it a shame he isnt famous hed have a lot of stories to entertain the public so they wouldnt fall for this sort of thing. he just probably have too many facial disfigurements from all the dangerous stunt stuff hes done and accidents hes had
As a lofe long Beatles fan, and a musician, Paul is Paul. There's no way to fake that voice. I have seen the best Beatles tribute bands, they're close but not perfect. There's no mistaking his voice, intonation, timbre, and syllabic rhythm. There is a consistent evolution of McCartney's writing. You can't fake that. Even the biggest fan can't imitate that trajectory.
Also getting the exact way Paul played his instruments and wrote lyrics etc. I mean I'm by no means a super fan but I've seen and heard enough stuff to see that either they miraculously found someone who not only looked exactly like Paul but moved, acted and sounded exactly like him and also had his musical talent, presence, etc or and obviously this is more likely he never died. Also let's face it surly by now, this long after someone involved would have talked. I mean OK maybe not the people who had a invested interested in keeping it quite but what about the ambulance drivers, medics, funeral home people, etc. Just how many people, even if it was kept to the very minimum would have had to stay quiet. Either as soon as he crashed the first person to find out was someone who could ensure it was all it was all handled by a very small, very specific hand picked group or it didn't happen. Absolutely ridiculous to think that say the ambulance people who turned up at the scene never told anyone, no one despite the fact they could have made a fortune from the story.
I totally agree with you. THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL THEY CAN DUPLICATE ALL THE NUANCES OF THE REAL McCARTNEY INTO A CLONE OF HIM. His playing style, his quiet lisp, his intonation and the famous Paul scream. This is pure bullshit and Simon knows it.
Go listen to the Give my regards to Braoad street album. Those re recordings of songs like good day sunshine and Elanor Rigby could only have been sung by the original Paul mccartney.
Anyone who is a half decent musician finds this conspiracy theory preposterous. I always compare it to if you thought Michael Jordan died in 1993 and was replaced by a lookalike. The idea that he could not just look the same but have identical generational skills...I mean it's one thing if you think the President was replaced. He just stands around in a suit. To think someone of generationally elite skill was replaced is, to me, diagnosable as a mental illness. Anyone who believes that needs to get help.
It was the FBI at the time of his death with beetle mania so widespread, wanted a temporary replacement for fear of the potential suicides of young women if they knew the truth. It was meant to be temporary just during War in Vietnam to not add more tragedy. But as the lie went on the FBI then refused (violence & threats used) to let the news come out & the band was effectively held hostage to that. when they left, went to India, grew beards, & it was shocking in interviews how rude & arrogant Faul was, when he’d always been a kind humble man before that ..etc. They were threatened never to reveal it (George Harrison’s end of life tapes are very enlightening). Even Paul a few years ago said it an interview “there are at least 2 Paul McCartneys »
That's the funniest thing about conspiracy theories, you'll have people planning the eradication of millions of people, but they can't help but sign their crimes with cryptic riddles while giggling and twirling their Mason mustaches....Masetashes?
Ringo likely heard the term and wrote the song without knowing what it was. It is actually the phrase describing the area just outside of a crevice or other area an octopus makes its home and leaves the bones/shells of its prey. Basically if you are a resident of an octopus' garden, you were first an octopus' snack.
37:35 -- In the popular 1980s comic strip Bloom County, the putative metal band Deathtöngue (so named because the "bass" was actually Bill the Cat strumming on his tongue) put out an album with overtly Satanic lyrics. Milo Bloom in his character as a reporter thought he had a scoop when he heard there were secret messages audible by playing the album backwards. The messages turned out to be "Go to church.... say your prayers.... Tithe! Tithe!" His reaction: "I don't think I have a story here."
I've always just taken it as an in-joke with the band. Like they got wind of the theory at some point and were like "hey, you know how they think Paul is dead? Let's have him barefoot on the cover, they'll go nuts!" "Why barefoot?" "Who cares. They'll make it work."
Obviously, it’s absurd to suppose they were able to find, at short notice, another left-handed human being who not only played all the same instruments in the same unique style, but also both looked and sounded identical to the real Paul McCartney. Clearly, the new Paul is actually a lifelike robot.
And if we look at Jimi Hendrix, who was left handed, but played a right handed guitar normal and upside down and a left handed guitar normal and upside down, there is no merit to the whole "finding a lefty" part.
@@HappyBeezerStudiosit's much much more idiotic than that because whoever replaced Paul McCartney let's pretend that happened was an absolutely fucking mind-blowingly brilliant bass player and singer and composer and was musically in fact so unbelievably talented and you can hear it on the recordings that it's very difficult to imagine that they just dug someone like that up out of nowhere and got them up and functioning within a few days it's just the whole premise is so stupid
@@HappyBeezerStudios The (unrelated) lookalike competition had been won a year before the accident. Paul pre 1966 was RIGHT handed, the replacement is left handed & learned to play opposite for the comp (but doesn’t even hide his left handedness these days). Paul, a prolific writer at the time of death had a massive number of unrecorded songs, that have been used for decades. The guy gave his own mediocre identity up to become a loved Beetle & pop-icon he was already emulating for money, so not such a stretch. The competition winner just disappear without trace, there has been quite some research done into it.
The true believers are absolutely frightening though. It's one of those theories that only very troubled people can believe, while the rest of us find it amusing and somewhat entertaining.
I just can’t get over the conspiracy theorists going “ah ha, instead of debating us everyone we tried to contact just laughed for 3 consecutive hours! we’ve won the argument!” it’d be like if someone shouts about the sky being purple a scientist has to drive out to them and give a compelling explanation for why the sky is blue before god starts messing with the RGB settings.
My issue with all these conspiracies like this, despite the obvious facts that prove they're just dumb, is the fact that no one, not one person ever spilled the beans and admitted to their part in the cover up or whatever. I mean the moon landing, how many people were needed to fake it and not one thought to sell their very lucrative story, ever, not even all these years later, also Russia never desputed it and they'd definitely have had everything they had watching it and tracking it. In this case apparently the ambulance staff, medics, funeral people and all the many people who would have witnessed some aspect of the crash never, ever came forward to talk, to sell their story.
@@oscaranderson5719I'm up here cracking up thinking of the concept of the sky flashing random colors because God hooked up a colorimeter and started re-calibrating.
all conspiracy theories are bad. They legitimise the dangerous stuff that people use to try to take over the world, sadly the religious far right, MAGAs and GOP are real and supported on foundations of widely believed conspiracy nonsense. There are no 'fun' conspiracy stories in a world where truth matters.
Whatever happened this Paul was the most amazing musician and songwriter. He was basically the main writer and influence behind most of their songs. Watch the “Get Back” documentary and watch him fleshing out his ideas and new songs was amazing to see. I would recommend watching it for any Beatles fans.
38:13 well Simon... Here's a fact for you. It's quite some time ago, but in 1774 the German writer Goethe wrote "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" where the main character tries to get together with a girl but ends up failing. He feels rejected by her and by society at large, and sees killing himself as the only way out of his misery. The book inspired a cultural period in Germany and "Werther fever" throughout Europe, which caused a massive spike in suicides. Some countries actually ended up banning the book to stop this suicide madness. Perhaps a nice idea for a video ;)
I know this is primarily a podcast, but it would have been nice for images to be present when they were directly referred to, for those of us not intimately familiar with the details of various album covers and photographs. "You can clearly see he changed the least of the four of them." No, no I can't. Because the photo being referred to, despite being royalty free (like all album covers), is not in this video. I'd be less critical if the video was just Simon, but the editor has clearly gone to some trouble to find various photos of the Beatles and insert them at vaguely relevant points, so why actively choose to not put in visuals when they're being referred to and only insert visuals when they're not relevant at all? It makes no sense.
I would not be surprised if the editors used an overabundance of caution over using Beatles images that they could get copyright struck by someone on RUclips. Even if they were fully in the right, sometimes it's better not to tempt the corpos.
Fun fact: the largest crowd ever at Glastonbury was roughly 300,000 to see The Levellers...'94, IIRC. When it looked as though Paul might leave the band before they broke up, his replacement would have been Harry Nilsson. Harry was best friends with John and Ringo, and friendly with George and Paul. Harry was an amazing songwriter and singer.
Reminds me of that tweet that's along the lines of 'a Beatles album will have the most profound, heartbreaking piece of music ever written and the next track will be 'ha ha look at Mr Silly Sausage, he's wearing a funny hat!'
So fun fact a book has been blamed for suicides. The sorrows of young Werther by Goethe was blamed for suicide clusters. It’s what the Werther effect is named after.
The story does seem extraordinary, although I can't help but notice when comparing their facial structures, 1965 Paul's eyes are noticeably closer together than 1967..
Okay I asked my mother about it, my mother is a huge Beatles fan, she grew up listening to The Beatles, and her response was "they were all on drugs why are we taking this so seriously?"
gee your mum sure sounds intellectually curious 🙄 what a dopey thing to say. Why do we take anything "so seriously" or is she just a bummer about everything?
@@Plutonium.2i mean it’s silly i think is all. I wouldn’t think much of it really. they did a lotta drugs and if they weren’t baby-faced eggs they had goofy moustaches, so i think it’s funny and valid to point that out when people make these theories
They contacted the two stories. Tara's death was a cover for Paul's in this regard. The recording of A Day in Life was attended by many of the swinging London set, wearing animal masks. Bill was probably introduced for the first time and very nervous. All of the Beatles in suits. A memorial service perhaps? Very unlike their usual recording sessions, which were very private. A Day, Lennon's opus magnum, a beautiful and elegiac tribute to his dead best friend and collaborator. Same with his All Because of You. He sings it alone at the piano with Paul's photo hanging near by. It couldn't be more obvious.
I had a recycled phone number in the mid-1970's. Every 3 or 4 months I would get a call from someone who was drunk and trying to reach someone called Willy to come get him. He never said where he was, though. Evidently Willy was supposed to already know where to pick this man up from. There was no one called Willy living in my house.
That’s such a 70’s thing! That happened to a classmate’s family. They thought it was prank callers until someone called and kept saying they were lying and so on. Plus there were different callers.
@annenelson5656 not just the 70's. My old phone number apparently belonged to someone I knew vaguely. And I would constantly get calls from people trying to reach them. Once their kids got in trouble at rhe local library. 😂 I wonder how it went with the librarian when the kids realized that the fake number they gave didn't bail them out. This was all in the early 2000's
My parents had that problem back in the 80s, they got a new phone number and started getting calls from drunken ppl wanting a taxi - turned out, their new number was only 1 digit different from a taxi company. Coz drunken ppl never misdial!
It would be good to have a decoding episode on the conspiracy claim that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was actually coordinated by the state to gain the sympathy of the public. Making Guy Fawkes innocent.
FYI if you look at the Costuming for each Beatle on the Sgt. Pepper's Album Cover, each one has rank stripes on their jackets. Ringo in Pink has the 3 Stripes on his shoulder. 3 Stripes corresponds to the Rank of Sargent in Both the British and American Armies. Ringo Star is Sgt. Pepper.
I saw Billy Shears perform in 2019 and despite his age it was a spectacular show. He might not have sang "Love Me Do" but "Oh Darlin'" required way more talent anyway. Pretty insane that Billy has done what he did under a fake name.
I met Paul McCartney about ten or twelve years ago. He's a really cool guy. I asked him if he could play music with Dave Grohl as a favor and he said that he'd love to. Really cool guy.
@@jamesgornall5731 he played a track "Cut me some slack" on the album Sound City - Real to Reel. Dunno if that was the first time they played together, but I like to think that I played a part in them playing together.
Danny is EIGHTY?? Right on, Danny! What an achievement. Hope to hear your scripts for many more years to come! No wonder his scripts are so soothing. I have always been the type to thoroughly enjoy listening to the stories of my betters.
Paul McCartney died in 1966. Played by William Campbell Shepherd since then. Shepherd is a talented man, musician, comic impersonator, and artist. He played Vivian Stanshall in Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and also fronted Billy and the Pepperpots as Billy Shears.
I always like the fact for many of these theories are based around the fact that a group pulls off an incredible operation, and then immediately spend years leaving many, many random clues to what they did. " Thank God, we pulled it off no one will suspect what we did." "Hey, I was thinking of doing an entire album, music album cover, the whole thing just themed around the fact John is dead and no one knows." "...I think Paul needs to die again..."
Could you do one about Putin’s doubles, please? I keep seeing this everywhere from the more tame version all the way through to how he’s supposedly long dead 😂
As an American, I'm not surprised that this started in the United States, we seem to be the ones making up most of the conspiracies, both past ones and the new ones! Plus we seem to be the ones who believe more of them then most people in the world! Also I am definitely a bigger fan of Fleetwood Mac then The Beatles too, Simon!
It didn't start in 1969. It began in late 1966 when Paul, the only remaining bachelor living in London had not been seen for a while. He was a regular attendee of gallery openings, the theater and musical performances. People started to ask where he was, so in the publication of their early 1967 official fan club magazine there is a short paragraph. It read something like despite the rumors, Paul is alive and well etc.. You can see this in the documentary Good Ole Frida, about the NEMS employee who began as a fan and managed their fan club president and correspondences.
I didn’t have to watch this video. Go to the Wings of Pegasus, RUclips channel. He’s an awesome guitarist in a sound tech for Abbey Road Studios. He did a full video. Using modern digital technology and live track to find out if the same person sang who sang the songs in the early 60s sing those same songs in the late 60s and also was it the same person who was with wings who sang the same songs. There are certain markers in our voices that are like finger prints and are unique to us. Now the human ear can’t pick up those markers but modern computer sound technology can. Those tests concluded that the same man who sang with the Beatles in the early 60s was the same man who sang with the Beatles at the end of the 60s, and was the same man who sang with Wings. All the markers were identical. And bottom line is that the Paul McCartney death hoax was just a clever marketing scheme. And it worked. Everyone was buying albums to see if they could find clues to Paul McCartney’s death. But it all was just a hoax. Paul McCartney is still alive and kicking. Let’s face it, Liverpool is a small town, and the odds of finding two people that look almost identical to each other, and have the same talent is astronomical.
I'm a musician. I like yoko's music. She always does something i've never heard before, which is valuable to me. Familar can be good, but generic is always bad, and she's never generic. it feels like she makes music for herself, and i relate to that. art should challenge you.
Arguably the best use of backmasking ever was in the Mindless Self Indulgence song aptly named Backmask, where played forward it tells the listener to do frankly terrible things, but played in reverse demands the listen to do basic household chores.
After watching "Get Back" on Disney+ about the 60 hours of footage shot for The Beatles supposedly new album & "originally" was a TV special. Listening to these theories becomes infuriating (I mean I'm not physically mad but you get the point). In the series you can watch them improv & come up with these song titles, lyrics, instrumentation all on the spot. John writes a lot of lyrics and was definitely an eccentric individual, which is why you see these abstract lyrics & concepts. Anyway, these "reaches & stretched for" theories and examinations of their lyrics is just purely figments of the spectator's imagination LMAO. The idea that Paul isn't actually Paul just becomes more & more ludacris as the years pass by. I doubt anyone wanted my opinion, and yet here I am.... (didn't know those emoji's existed LOL) P.S. - Simon, you're greatest to ever do it. Well, you're up there with MrBallen, but keep up the good work Sir Whistler. Keep whistling...
In the click-bait photo comparison icon, the reason the right-hand image looks odd is that it is reversed R-L. The giveaway is the guitar strap - which should be over left-handed Paul's right shoulder!
To quote Bill Hicks, "The Beatles were so high, they even let Ringo sing a few songs. They had to pull him off the ceiling with a rake. 'Ringo, come down. Paul has a song he wants you to sing. Something about a yellow tambourine, or something.'"
True story I will preface with; I know nothing about the Beetles! But my mum as a young teen? Not 100% sure how old she was at the time, was at the Beetles concert where a girl fainted and the crowd stamped on her till she died 😬 My mum said the crowd was just pushing and pushing to get as close to the stageas possible and there was literally no space at all. She said she was about two metres away from this girl and saw her go down. As soon as a space opened up, dozens of people shoved forward to fill the space and just crushed the fallen girl to death 😬 My mum said she eventually got to the back of the crowd and when the concert was over there was a literal stamped as girls tried to leave the venue to try and get to the stage exit and try and catch a glimpse or get a signature from the Beetles. She and her friend who went with her had to leg it to get to a taxi cab as fast as they could because they knew as soon as everyone came out the concert hall there'd be no chance they'd be able to get a taxt back. Some of the girls had basically stripped off and were throwing their clothes on stage. Some had taken off their skirts, tops and thrown them or had kept those on and instead thrown pants and bras. Fangirls were crazy even back then 😬😬😬😬 My mum said on looking back, watching the girl go down was one of the most awful experiences of her life, like watching someone get pulled under the water by a shark. Her only "comfort" was that the girl was probably unconscious when she was killed 😬
Yea concert crowds can be dangerous! I refuse to go anywhere with big crowds and no seats. All it takes is a few idiots pushing forward to start the ol death squeeze.
How old is your Mum? I ws too young to go to Beatles' concerts and Im a grandparent with teenage grandchildren I think your Mum is thinking of another Concert as Ive never heard of anyone dying at a Beatles' Concert. Wetting their pants, maybe, but no kids got crushed.
Obviously it didn't. It was covered up, by the Government. The same Government that got Paul out of a Japanese jail when he was in Japan to perform a concert with his band Wings there.
@@SusanGoldberg-l9pThe story didn't "break" because McCartney didn't die! What possible reason would the Government have for covering up the death of a pop star? Even someone as famous and popular as Paul McCartney. And the notion that Britain's Security Service, MI5, would be involved in such a cover up stretches credibility to ɓreaking point.
I am amazed at the diversity of topics you cover on your many channels Simon!! All of it seemingly tailored to my exact tastes, I dont think Ive ever saw a thumbnail of yours involving a topic I was not fascinated with. Thank you!!
If Paul McCartney died in 1966, His replacement wrote and performed 2 of the biggest Beatles hits "Let it Be" and "Hey Jude", as well as the Abbey Road album etc. Meaning the replacement would be more talented than the original 💀
Actually Paul didn't die, in fact the real truth is that George Harrison was the one who died in 1966 and was replaced by an animatronic figure operated by roadie Mal Evans. His songs post "Revolver" were written by Eric Clapton who was pissed when he didn't receive what he thought he should from royalties. If you play the outro to 'George's' song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" backwards you can hear the words: "George was fake, I made him, made him. . . " The attempt on George's life in his home by some psycho was actually Clapton trying to destroy the robot George, but by that time the robot had achieved sentience and fought back, although his circuitry needed replacing in 'hospital'. (Clapton got away with it because who was going to believe some psycho's story about being paid by Clapton to kill George Harrison.)
On the thumbnail the first picture is after Sir Paul had probably just tried LSD for the first time, the second picture he had taken like 100+ hits in his psychedelic career, so who knows, because as psychedelic veteran myself, frequent LSD usage will change you quite a bit, life habits & diet, and other drugs or alcohol which can effect your appearance, sometimes significantly.
"Hold him and in your arms and you can feel his disease." I remember this story from way way back. Paul allegedly suffered a broken back (spine) so if you ran your hands down his back and feel that the spine was broken. "I am the walrus ker koo kachew...".
So I was 7 when all this was happening. My best friend Ginny and I were avid fans of both Scooby Doo and Nancy Drew, so we were convinced we could "solve" the mystery. We SO thought we were being stealthy in stealing our older siblings' teen fan mags to gather clues. We'd read about one, look at or listen to the relevant album, and then write it in a notebook and check it off as solved. We even had special sleuth outfits. They were basically our raincoats. Ginny's was yellow and mine was pink, and some weird hats we found in a bunch of costume stuff left over from Halloween. I have no idea what we thought we were solving, but we did this for an entire summer. Of course, in retrospect, I know it was all stupid AF, but at the time? We were going to be world famous for, I don't know, reading things and then looking at them?
Simon is obviously not a Beatles fan!?... "... let's see if we can work it out" and "do you want to know a secret", both dropped side by side in the script, and Simon didn't even notice! lol
McCartney is such a legend, as much as Lennon was a bit of a bellend (allegedly, in my opinion etc) having followed this channel for long enough, every thing I hear about McCartney cements him as a total legend in everything he says and does!
It's deliberate choices on the album covers and the lyrics, and is definite symbolism. The theory of Paul dying and being replaced is ridiculous though. If they deliberately alluded to Paul dying it would either have been a running joke, a marketing idea or a metaphor of being reborn with their religious experiences and drugs.
All of the "clues" pointing to Paul's death can be explained by the fact the Beatles knew about them, and it fit perfectly with their sense of humor to feed the idea.
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oh Simon i could tell you a 100% true story about religion vs heavy metal in the 80s that happened to me lol
Christ this is another Danny rant session. I was hoping it was under 3 years in length.
you dont look different. 10 years ago you were hosing mythbusters. jks i would love to see a collaberation between all the bald, bearded, white, media star with glasses. or at least as many as you can get together. also your either big brain or are wearing a bald cap :p
yeah the history of tobacco eventually slowly getting to the point where it could actually be able to be inhaled through the lungs finally allowing for nicotine addiction because of passage through the blood brain barrier is FASCINATING. Its actually a recent thing only going back a few hundred years. Until then the nicotine content was so strong you couldnt inhale it and thus people weren't able to get addicted to it. It wasnt until mixtures between american colony tobacco with arabian blends that led to a tobacco you could inhale. finally allowing for nicotine addiction. its a CRAZY history
EDIT: I believe the term you were looking for was nepotism : My old boss was famous for it....hiring family members at way higher than me who actual worked since he opened the company x.x
Although I do not know the truth or not and wasn't there I'm skeptical but there is a lot of strange evidence to suggest this conspiracy may be possibly 50/50 true/false. You're just touching the tip of the iceberg there's DNA evidence and a lot of strange lyrical and album art and strange things like George saying things like I'm not friends with Paul or he can't write a song or he didn't meet Paul till later and that Paul joined the band later when Paul was there before George and Paul not going to the hall of Fame thing and citing royalty disputes seems a bit strange. There's much more.
The same day the final Beatle track drops, so does a decoding the unknown about Paul being dead. Well played Mr Simon, well timely
He'll probably die today now. Thanks Simon.
@@TheCrone😂😂😂
The “last” beatle song dropped on their anthology album, who knows when the actual last song will be?
@@maxstrong6915 they released one today called now and then.
Coincidence? I think not…
Considering that Charlie Chaplin LOST a lookalike contest for looking like Charlie Chaplin....just saying Paul looks different from one pic to the next means close to nothing.
Dolly Parton also lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.
@@SoManyRandomRamblingscause her titties weren’t big enough (or so I heard)
@@SoManyRandomRamblingsI'm sorry, what did you say?
Charlie chaplin didn't even get in the top 10, and Dolly Parton got the least amount of applause.
@@jamesgornall5731 what part do you find confusing?
There are lookalike contests where people compete to see who looks most like said celebrity..... occasionally the actual celebrity pretends to be a regular person and enters the contest (assuming they would win 1st place because they of course look identical to themselves) but they didn't win....in fact they didn't even come close. Because so many different things can affect how someone looks, and not just the obvious lighting or the magic that those color theory experts can do, but also things within the person's body can fluctuate (i.e. fluid retention and many others) can affect how much someone looks like themselves. So just because someone looks different from one pic to another doesn't hold much weight...... as anyone who has looked through multiple pictures of the same person over spans of time can tell you.
Whilst I was writing this one, I had an idea for a little competition to see who could spot exactly how many references to Beatles/McCartney songs or album titles I'd planted in the main script (excluding segment titles.)
But then I completely lost count myself.
Sorry.
I reckon about 17. Or 64.
Right off the bat I noticed you were putting in little tidbits. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you Mr Danny
I thought I was mishearing things. Good work
The final words were gold, "Turn us on dead man"
17 or 64. Me guessing how much money is in my bank account. 😂
I don't agree with ypu on yellow submarine, jsyk. XD It's awesome. "I've got a hole in my pocket." 🤣
You didn't do much research; one doesn't get taller with age, age doesn't make attached earlobes become un-attached, for example
No the real Paul had ears that stuck out. Faul is the one that didn't.
Simon, you are a man after my dad's heart. Our number was one digit off that of a local pizza parlor. Dad got tired of drunks insisting they had dialed correctly. Finally he gave in and took the callers' orders. He figured, let the pizza parlor figure it out.
if this was our family we wouldve filled those orders
@@JericaJeffrey-o4kand then you charge the drunks twice the price. Who would know the difference. 😂
I delivered for a pizza place in college. My junior year, I moved into a new apartment and was assigned a phone number one digit off from that of the pizza place I delivered for... I got pizza orders all the time, and I routinely answered the phone as if I was working and took orders. It always amused me when managers at work would complain about customers coming in insisting they'd placed orders that the store had absolutely no record of.
My dad once worked for a place whose fax machine number was one digit off from a prison's. they were sent a lot of sensitive data from idiot lawyers lol
Micheal Gambon who died recently, who played Dumbledore along with a lot other famous characters, loved to lie in interviews. He once told an interviewer that he was in the Royal Ballet and said he had to stop from a bad fall. He use to laugh how no one would even question what he said.
I think that was Richard Harris.
@@duncancurtis5108 no that was indeed Michael Gambon!
@@RealElongatedMuskratYes MichAEl Gambon.
@@duncancurtis5108 Richard Harris was the original Dumbledore. Michael Gambon was the second Dumbledore and a world famous Prima Ballerina.
@@duncancurtis5108 Maybe, I might have got them confused.
The amount of puns Simon missed was amazing, kudos Danny
Simon just CAN'T read,,has problems emoting,,unless he's talking about Nazis 🥰,,
Was thinking the same lol. I’m a fan of the Beatles, but far from one of the super fans that know everything about their ridiculously huge catalog. Still, you can tell when Simon gets it, and the amount of times I caught him not, was fairly surprising. And I know I didn’t catch all of them. But some were literally very well known lines from some of their most popular songs. Props to Danny, not so much to Simon 😂
At this point, even if it was true, the “current” Paul has been around longer than the “dead” Paul. Also “current” Paul has had an illustrious career well beyond The Beatles fame so it doesn’t even matter anymore.
He's had a career, whether to characterise it as illustrious is fairly debatable however
@@jamesgornall5731I mean he’s headlined two successful groups, one of which is absolotely legendary and the other was well received. I mean that’s pretty illustrious.
@@dsly4425Neither anywhere near a good as Fleetwood Mac though. 🙂
@@TheOneandOnlyD-R-Ereported for misinformation 😂
@@TheOneandOnlyD-R-Elol way better than Fleetwood Mac
I had a college friend who worked as a paramedic. He once told us that the rules *required* that, even if a patient had bled out, they still had to perform CPR.
To squeeze out the last drop?
The only evidence one needs to, or ought to look at is whether the facial features and proportions of the "pre-crash Paul" match those of the post-crash one. You can alter teeth, re-shape eye-brows, bolster chins and cheeks and jaw-lines, but you can't alter the bone structure such that eyes are at different heights, oe angles, or are closer together, the ears can't be moved down half an inch, the skull can't be reshaped and re-sized.
The forensic analysis has been done, you won't find it here for some reason...
Puberty was still in play in 1966
When you start applying advanced facial comparison techniques to disprove the inane ravings of lunatics... you've already lost.
I dunno…through most of this episode, the captions showed Paul’s name as “poor McCartney”…someone will probably claim that’s a result of YT’s translation software misunderstanding because of Simon’s accent but I think it’s pretty clear proof that the original Paul died and that we should all feel sorry for him 🤯
Listen. The powers that be are keeping things very hush-hush. They can't be obvious about it, but someone who knows the truth is trying to get it out there through whatever means they have. Obviously.
transcription, not translation.
and the software was probably developed by Chinese firm.
@@davidjacobs8558 d’oh! Yep, I used the wrong word 😖 You know the rest is a joke tho, right? Not tryna start beef, just not sure if you thought I was serious…
@@davidjacobs8558 Would that by The 'Hoo Phlungh Pu Transcription Organisation' wholly owned by the Chinese Govt??
So it can't translate well spoken English?
I feel like a lot of these episodes could just start with “no“ and then have about an hour of Simon just sipping coffee.
I fr think I would enjoy this more lmao
Isn't this just a mukbang with an extra step?
I must be from “back in the day”. I did actually know someone who died in a car accident. There was something weird having to do with music, too. The car was towed to a lot that was owned by the family of another member of our group. We all went down to see the car and support her brother as he collected her things from it. There was a cassette tape in the player and her brother wanted to know what the last thing she heard was. He hit the rewind for a couple of seconds then hit play. All of us turned went pale when the words “I am leaving you here” came out of the speakers. I can’t for the life of me remember the name of the song or who sang it but I will never forget her brother just crumbling. RIP Darla.
Yeah, guess my 50 years are showing. 1 of my old classmates killed himself in a solo crash at 25. Not that any of us were surprised, he was always very wild and drove both insane and insanely fast, from the moment he got behind the wheel.
i really dont understand this thread or im misunderstanding. but young people still die in car accidents js.
@@JericaJeffrey-o4klot more rare these days, cars as designed to crumple, but protect the driver, older cars were rock solid, which would obliterate the driver and passenger if you got into an accident over 30, the difference in force is pretty amazing to be honest, I don't think the numbers of deaths per year has actually changed much, but the percentage has, since a lot more people are driving these days
@@JericaJeffrey-o4kthe amount of deaths has been decimated, it’s never been a safer time to be behind the wheel compared to a few decades ago where kids would sleep on the rear window shelf on road trips while their parents drank their road beer. Before that, seat belts didn’t exist.
Marc Bolan was killed in a car accident, driven by his girlfriend into a tree (accidently).
Lyrically at the time they were streets ahead but their biggest advantage was the fact they had George Martin as their producer. That man truly was a genius and changed the way music was produced for ever. He took their decent and well written songs and turned them in to something truly ground breaking.
It was a marvellous mix of a classically trained producer and a bunch of scouse chancers with an ear for a tune. Why they created prog rock years before it actually happened, which was the phenomenon of classically trained musicians trying to be rock stars for the p and $.
Thumbs up for streets ahead.
@@OffRampTourist if they have to ask they’re streets behind
RUclips channel Justice for Paul McCartney
that channel is a joke
The main reasons I never gave this hoax any credit is because It would be hard to believe they could find a double who looked enough like him let alone play all the instruments and be left handed etc.
“And be left handed” since the birth of man left handed people have been learning to be right handed, it would be harder to learn how to play an instrument than it would be to learn to become ambidexterous haha
Growing up they had a best friend that looked just like Paul McCartney he disappeared 3 months before Paul McCartney died
@@maxstrong6915
Lefty here... just want to say I think most of us left handed people have a degree of ambidextrousness from having to grow up in a right handed world.
even if paul did die and get replaced I'm not even mad because the fake Paul according to Ringo was the one motivating them to keep making albums after Revolver
The guy who replaced him is 1000x more talented
It's long been a well established fact that the original Paul McCartney was indeed replaced by a walrus made up to look like Paul. I don't know why this is still a debate.
I know!!! I said that in my own post!🤣
It was an elephant seal, this is why people still ask. Ffs.
They even made a song about it... So obvious
@@levilandes1719 I think you're correct initially the intent was to replace Paul with a walrus but were unable to find one that could play bass left handed and eventually settled on the elephant seal. The song I am the walrus had already been written and I am the elephant seal didn't have the same ring to it so they left it as is hence all the confusion almost 60yrs later.
@@user-wj9xq7ig2v Walrus' are all right handed, nothing they could do about it.
I swore I'd never travel down this 'Paul Is Dead' rabbit hole again, and then I saw that it was Simon doing a bit on it. And well, here I am! Thanks for the laughs, Simon and Danny! This is by far the best rabbit hole on the topic.
Same here, it gets so damn tiring. Amazing job to both Danny & Simon who kept me laughing all the way throughout the video.
@@callofduty611you just don’t like to admit you’ve been fooled. Today’s Paul is the only one with real talent. The rest were a manufactured band. Tavisstock institute creation. Keep believing the Cinderella story though.
Responding to several different comments you made in the video:
John was murdered on December 8th, 1980. He was 40 years old.
I had a classmate who died of a brain aneurism when we were 15 or 16. It was caused by a congenital defect of the blood vessels in his brain. When this defect occurs it usually results in death at a very young age, and it's practically impossible to spot the defect in advance, even if you have some reason to look for it.
The hiring of family members is called "nepotism."
A note: the "OPD" badge does not in fact say OPD but OPP (Ontario Provincial Police). If one is skeptical, they need only Google an image of an OPP patch to see that's exactly what it is. I have heard the band met an OPP officer by the name of Sgt Randall Pepper when they were in Canada but I don't know how accurate that bit is.
Precisely.
That’s one of the weakest of a thousand clues though. Everyone got fooled. Beatles are frauds and didn’t even write the majority of that stuff.
The letters OPP are also clearly visible in other photos taken during the same photoshoot.
You have the right of it.
Hi Simon. Thanks for the longer episodes on this channel. Twenty minutes isn't long enough to learn as much as I usually want to.❤
Books,even short stories,can take longer,, however, you won't have the Whistlers undeniably limited linguistic narration,,pls ignore this comment if you're from Blighty or Murca,,and thank the person who read this to you
@thomasblake8903 wow, funny but harsh
Longer videos mean more tangents too!!
@@davidt3563 More tangents =more fun
@@thomasblake8903 Sadly, reading a book while driving is rather frowned upon in most places, so someone else reading the text is a nice way to avoid tickets. Also, have you ever actually opened a book? They typically use capital letters to begin sentences AND even appropriate punctuation.Try one of those books for beginner readers if you struggle too much and I'm sure you'll pick it up in no time. 😊
Even if the real Paul really died this new guy went on to do some amazing things.
But he's a freemason liar&an imposter!Why not revealing the truth after all these years??and plaid allegeance to reptilians Windsor etc that's corruption :totally disgusting!
Absolutely
The fake Paul wrote Helter Skelter so he gets a free pass from me 😎🤘
@@SkinnyLuthor... and many other songs like "Yesterday" that had John's name on them too!!
@@jjohn4874 Yesterday would have been the "original" Paul in this fantasy tho
No mention about how Paul McCartney taught Michael Jackson how to buy the rights to the whole Beatles catalog? That's the real story here.
We made a Brain Blaze on that story a few years back.
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I heard Paul McCartney begged Michael Jackson to sell the right to "Yesteryday" to him, but Michael Jackson said no.
John Lennon died 15 years later, more than 10 years after the Beatles broke up, Simon. Also, while there weren't mass suicides when John Lennon died, it was a moment I still remember to this day. I was a child, but I still remember the exact place I was when I heard it on the news.
It was sad, but most of us don't remember in that way because he was only a musician.
@@occamraiser None of us who grew up with John ever thought of him as “only a musician.” When he died, the better part of my childhood went with him. I became a musician because of the Beatles and made a career out of it. And John was like a tour guide, showing us what the world was and what it could be. I miss him a lot.
I remember when John was murdered. I was watching Monday Night Football and Howard Cosell announced it.
It was well after Beatlemania was over so no suicides just tears and sadness.
My best friend of my high school/college/hippie years called me that day to say "they've shot John Lennon" and four months later he shot himself. That's the death I never got over. But they are always linked for me.
I was 21. I remember that like it was yesterday. I had to go to work, choking back tears all day.
when it comes to lennon supposedly saying "i buried paul", that could actually be what he said but in the recording context it makes way more sense. if an instrument / vocal is way too loud so you can't hear paul over it, you might say he's "buried" under the sound of the other person, it's a saying which is very common in recording studios so probably nothing suspicious going on either way :)
Lennon stated that he said
"Cranberry Sauce".
He is saying both at the same time, The Beatles were students of Crowely, who taught this along with the law of reversal which they also mastered@@laustcawz2089
It's Cranberry Sauce, listen to the mono mix and you can clearly hear him trill the R, going Crrranbery sauce
@@paperbackwriter64he does say cranberry sauce, but a few seconds before it sounds as if he said “I buried Paul” a few times. For all we know it could have just been “cranberry sauce” repeated multiple times
@@nolanwolfe It's both, Crowley taught say two things at once
I got older, lost my hair, grew a beard, got glasses, fixed my teeth, I look different. Simon you are so fucken funny! Love the low key jokes. You are precious…
Absolutely the funniest episode for "Decoding the Unknown' yet. I've just finished eating when I turn this on and can't stop laughing, and now my stomach really hurts. And I look at how much of the episode I've watched, I still have more than half to go! Okay, so time to unpause and hope my tummy holds.
had an exceptionally shitty day today, but imagining the absurd picture how paul and his separated head were needlessly wheeled into hospital made me laugh more than it should have...:)
With the sophisticated medical technology of 1967 at that lol. I love a good conspiracy theory but this is just funny. 😂
we live in back woods type of area so theres a lot of trails and stuff but some sickos will string wire across the path and one of my bros friends was nearly decapitated in this way, but he luckily he was saved at hospital but he wouldve died had he attempted to remove his helmet. this was 2000s.
@@JericaJeffrey-o4k wtf! there are people in this world that are just not worth the oxygen they're using up! i hope your bros friend is ok now. good he isn't famous, we would have another conspiracy theory on our hands:)
@@rubycelica oh tbh i think it a shame he isnt famous hed have a lot of stories to entertain the public so they wouldnt fall for this sort of thing. he just probably have too many facial disfigurements from all the dangerous stunt stuff hes done and accidents hes had
25:22 Paul is not the only left-handed member of The Beatles, Ringo is left-handed as well, he just happens to play drums right handed
As a lofe long Beatles fan, and a musician, Paul is Paul. There's no way to fake that voice. I have seen the best Beatles tribute bands, they're close but not perfect. There's no mistaking his voice, intonation, timbre, and syllabic rhythm. There is a consistent evolution of McCartney's writing. You can't fake that. Even the biggest fan can't imitate that trajectory.
Also getting the exact way Paul played his instruments and wrote lyrics etc. I mean I'm by no means a super fan but I've seen and heard enough stuff to see that either they miraculously found someone who not only looked exactly like Paul but moved, acted and sounded exactly like him and also had his musical talent, presence, etc or and obviously this is more likely he never died. Also let's face it surly by now, this long after someone involved would have talked. I mean OK maybe not the people who had a invested interested in keeping it quite but what about the ambulance drivers, medics, funeral home people, etc. Just how many people, even if it was kept to the very minimum would have had to stay quiet. Either as soon as he crashed the first person to find out was someone who could ensure it was all it was all handled by a very small, very specific hand picked group or it didn't happen. Absolutely ridiculous to think that say the ambulance people who turned up at the scene never told anyone, no one despite the fact they could have made a fortune from the story.
I totally agree with you. THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL THEY CAN DUPLICATE ALL THE NUANCES OF THE REAL McCARTNEY INTO A CLONE OF HIM. His playing style, his quiet lisp, his intonation and the famous Paul scream. This is pure bullshit and Simon knows it.
Go listen to the Give my regards to Braoad street album. Those re recordings of songs like good day sunshine and Elanor Rigby could only have been sung by the original Paul mccartney.
In that Broad Street movie there is a scene where the guy introduces Paul as William. WHY???@@chrisbooth3417
Anyone who is a half decent musician finds this conspiracy theory preposterous. I always compare it to if you thought Michael Jordan died in 1993 and was replaced by a lookalike. The idea that he could not just look the same but have identical generational skills...I mean it's one thing if you think the President was replaced. He just stands around in a suit. To think someone of generationally elite skill was replaced is, to me, diagnosable as a mental illness. Anyone who believes that needs to get help.
Question: Having gone to a great deal of trouble to replace Paul, why would they then plant "clues" to point out their fakery?
It was the FBI at the time of his death with beetle mania so widespread, wanted a temporary replacement for fear of the potential suicides of young women if they knew the truth. It was meant to be temporary just during War in Vietnam to not add more tragedy. But as the lie went on the FBI then refused (violence & threats used) to let the news come out & the band was effectively held hostage to that. when they left, went to India, grew beards, & it was shocking in interviews how rude & arrogant Faul was, when he’d always been a kind humble man before that ..etc.
They were threatened never to reveal it (George Harrison’s end of life tapes are very enlightening). Even Paul a few years ago said it an interview “there are at least 2 Paul McCartneys »
That's the funniest thing about conspiracy theories, you'll have people planning the eradication of millions of people, but they can't help but sign their crimes with cryptic riddles while giggling and twirling their Mason mustaches....Masetashes?
Nope....MI5 and
@@philippawallace-dunlop5582Source “I made it up”
@@philippawallace-dunlop5582silly goose
Ringo likely heard the term and wrote the song without knowing what it was. It is actually the phrase describing the area just outside of a crevice or other area an octopus makes its home and leaves the bones/shells of its prey. Basically if you are a resident of an octopus' garden, you were first an octopus' snack.
37:35 -- In the popular 1980s comic strip Bloom County, the putative metal band Deathtöngue (so named because the "bass" was actually Bill the Cat strumming on his tongue) put out an album with overtly Satanic lyrics. Milo Bloom in his character as a reporter thought he had a scoop when he heard there were secret messages audible by playing the album backwards. The messages turned out to be "Go to church.... say your prayers.... Tithe! Tithe!" His reaction: "I don't think I have a story here."
When Simon got confused and thought that Ringo Starr was on “Friends” I literally laughed so hard I injured myself.
I've always just taken it as an in-joke with the band. Like they got wind of the theory at some point and were like
"hey, you know how they think Paul is dead? Let's have him barefoot on the cover, they'll go nuts!"
"Why barefoot?"
"Who cares. They'll make it work."
Obviously, it’s absurd to suppose they were able to find, at short notice, another left-handed human being who not only played all the same instruments in the same unique style, but also both looked and sounded identical to the real Paul McCartney. Clearly, the new Paul is actually a lifelike robot.
And if we look at Jimi Hendrix, who was left handed, but played a right handed guitar normal and upside down and a left handed guitar normal and upside down, there is no merit to the whole "finding a lefty" part.
And who was also willing to give up their life to pretend to be someone else.
@@HappyBeezerStudiosit's much much more idiotic than that because whoever replaced Paul McCartney let's pretend that happened was an absolutely fucking mind-blowingly brilliant bass player and singer and composer and was musically in fact so unbelievably talented and you can hear it on the recordings that it's very difficult to imagine that they just dug someone like that up out of nowhere and got them up and functioning within a few days it's just the whole premise is so stupid
And could write songs etc well enough to create and front 2 bands after the Beatles.
@@HappyBeezerStudios The (unrelated) lookalike competition had been won a year before the accident. Paul pre 1966 was RIGHT handed, the replacement is left handed & learned to play opposite for the comp (but doesn’t even hide his left handedness these days). Paul, a prolific writer at the time of death had a massive number of unrecorded songs, that have been used for decades. The guy gave his own mediocre identity up to become a loved Beetle & pop-icon he was already emulating for money, so not such a stretch. The competition winner just disappear without trace, there has been quite some research done into it.
This has always been my favourite conspiracy theory. It's goofy af but at least it's fun.
The true believers are absolutely frightening though. It's one of those theories that only very troubled people can believe, while the rest of us find it amusing and somewhat entertaining.
I just can’t get over the conspiracy theorists going “ah ha, instead of debating us everyone we tried to contact just laughed for 3 consecutive hours! we’ve won the argument!”
it’d be like if someone shouts about the sky being purple a scientist has to drive out to them and give a compelling explanation for why the sky is blue before god starts messing with the RGB settings.
My issue with all these conspiracies like this, despite the obvious facts that prove they're just dumb, is the fact that no one, not one person ever spilled the beans and admitted to their part in the cover up or whatever. I mean the moon landing, how many people were needed to fake it and not one thought to sell their very lucrative story, ever, not even all these years later, also Russia never desputed it and they'd definitely have had everything they had watching it and tracking it. In this case apparently the ambulance staff, medics, funeral people and all the many people who would have witnessed some aspect of the crash never, ever came forward to talk, to sell their story.
@@oscaranderson5719I'm up here cracking up thinking of the concept of the sky flashing random colors because God hooked up a colorimeter and started re-calibrating.
all conspiracy theories are bad. They legitimise the dangerous stuff that people use to try to take over the world, sadly the religious far right, MAGAs and GOP are real and supported on foundations of widely believed conspiracy nonsense. There are no 'fun' conspiracy stories in a world where truth matters.
I love this theory because it means new Paul has been performing longer then old Paul lived, even starting his own band.
Yes ,,, Paul McCartney was never in wings
Yeah and Wings sucked.
Also fun a 24 year old man, beloved by people around the world and his friends couldn't admit or reveal it?
Whatever happened this Paul was the most amazing musician and songwriter. He was basically the main writer and influence behind most of their songs. Watch the “Get Back” documentary and watch him fleshing out his ideas and new songs was amazing to see. I would recommend watching it for any Beatles fans.
My brother said it was great. Oh, that's right, that was Billy Shear.😃😄😃 1:19:38
38:13 well Simon... Here's a fact for you. It's quite some time ago, but in 1774 the German writer Goethe wrote "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" where the main character tries to get together with a girl but ends up failing. He feels rejected by her and by society at large, and sees killing himself as the only way out of his misery. The book inspired a cultural period in Germany and "Werther fever" throughout Europe, which caused a massive spike in suicides. Some countries actually ended up banning the book to stop this suicide madness.
Perhaps a nice idea for a video ;)
Ad then they brought out a range of original sweets.
Ringo Star was the conductor in shining Time station. I remember watching it as a little kid and not realizing that he was one of the Beatles
I know this is primarily a podcast, but it would have been nice for images to be present when they were directly referred to, for those of us not intimately familiar with the details of various album covers and photographs. "You can clearly see he changed the least of the four of them." No, no I can't. Because the photo being referred to, despite being royalty free (like all album covers), is not in this video. I'd be less critical if the video was just Simon, but the editor has clearly gone to some trouble to find various photos of the Beatles and insert them at vaguely relevant points, so why actively choose to not put in visuals when they're being referred to and only insert visuals when they're not relevant at all? It makes no sense.
Hyacinth? here's a daffodil
I would not be surprised if the editors used an overabundance of caution over using Beatles images that they could get copyright struck by someone on RUclips. Even if they were fully in the right, sometimes it's better not to tempt the corpos.
Yes a few would have been nice. I kept pausing to look them up.
this is suspiciously perfect timing Simon. what do you know that we don’t?!
Fun fact: the largest crowd ever at Glastonbury was roughly 300,000 to see The Levellers...'94, IIRC.
When it looked as though Paul might leave the band before they broke up, his replacement would have been Harry Nilsson. Harry was best friends with John and Ringo, and friendly with George and Paul. Harry was an amazing songwriter and singer.
Simon is right they’re not the best, but when he said Fleetwood Mac I gagged, almost dry heaved, and then laughed out loud.
😂😂😂
Reminds me of that tweet that's along the lines of 'a Beatles album will have the most profound, heartbreaking piece of music ever written and the next track will be 'ha ha look at Mr Silly Sausage, he's wearing a funny hat!'
So fun fact a book has been blamed for suicides. The sorrows of young Werther by Goethe was blamed for suicide clusters. It’s what the Werther effect is named after.
Absolute classic. Well done Danny and Simon ...., or the guy who's taken Simon's place after ............
If you look back at Simon's older vids you can tell when the imposter took over, but like fake Paul, he does such a great job nobody even cares
Simon's writers need to start dropping cryptic clues across all his channels so Simon can have his own conspiracy theory later in life
The story does seem extraordinary, although I can't help but notice when comparing their facial structures, 1965 Paul's eyes are noticeably closer together than 1967..
Okay I asked my mother about it, my mother is a huge Beatles fan, she grew up listening to The Beatles, and her response was "they were all on drugs why are we taking this so seriously?"
Maybe because the rumor is true? Paul was replaced.
@@SusanGoldberg-l9p HEY WHATS THAT IN THE SKY?!?! GULLIBLE IS WRITTEN IN THE SKY!! LOOK UP
gee your mum sure sounds intellectually curious 🙄 what a dopey thing to say. Why do we take anything "so seriously" or is she just a bummer about everything?
@@Plutonium.2i mean it’s silly i think is all. I wouldn’t think much of it really. they did a lotta drugs and if they weren’t baby-faced eggs they had goofy moustaches, so i think it’s funny and valid to point that out when people make these theories
@@Plutonium.2believe what u want to believe man
It was Tara (Guinness) who died in the car crash. He was on LSD and did not, in fact, notice the light. Very sad.
They contacted the two stories. Tara's death was a cover for Paul's in this regard. The recording of A Day in Life was attended by many of the swinging London set, wearing animal masks. Bill was probably introduced for the first time and very nervous. All of the Beatles in suits. A memorial service perhaps? Very unlike their usual recording sessions, which were very private. A Day, Lennon's opus magnum, a beautiful and elegiac tribute to his dead best friend and collaborator. Same with his All Because of You. He sings it alone at the piano with Paul's photo hanging near by. It couldn't be more obvious.
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I had a recycled phone number in the mid-1970's. Every 3 or 4 months I would get a call from someone who was drunk and trying to reach someone called Willy to come get him. He never said where he was, though. Evidently Willy was supposed to already know where to pick this man up from. There was no one called Willy living in my house.
That’s such a 70’s thing! That happened to a classmate’s family. They thought it was prank callers until someone called and kept saying they were lying and so on. Plus there were different callers.
@annenelson5656 not just the 70's. My old phone number apparently belonged to someone I knew vaguely. And I would constantly get calls from people trying to reach them. Once their kids got in trouble at rhe local library. 😂 I wonder how it went with the librarian when the kids realized that the fake number they gave didn't bail them out. This was all in the early 2000's
I’ve been getting weekly calls for Mr Green for the past 17yrs! Whoever Mr Green is, he seems to be on a lot of scammy telesales lists.
My parents had that problem back in the 80s, they got a new phone number and started getting calls from drunken ppl wanting a taxi - turned out, their new number was only 1 digit different from a taxi company. Coz drunken ppl never misdial!
If this happened Paul had not yet met or married Linda in 1965-1966
John Lennon was shot in 1980. Which, I guess, is "not that long" after the late 60s compared to now, but was well after the breakup of the Beatles.
"Have you been taking acid again John?"
The answer to this is always "Yes!"
Regarding the "OPD" arm badge: It actually is a "OPP" badge, and stands for Ontario Provincial Police.
So there...
Did Simon's article even mention how different Paul McCartney looks in photographs that are only a year apart?
But he doesn't look different. You are fooling yourself.
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Simon I can't believe your writer didn't reach out to Paul for a comment on this video 😂😂
It would be good to have a decoding episode on the conspiracy claim that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was actually coordinated by the state to gain the sympathy of the public. Making Guy Fawkes innocent.
FYI if you look at the Costuming for each Beatle on the Sgt. Pepper's Album Cover, each one has rank stripes on their jackets. Ringo in Pink has the 3 Stripes on his shoulder. 3 Stripes corresponds to the Rank of Sargent in Both the British and American Armies. Ringo Star is Sgt. Pepper.
I saw Billy Shears perform in 2019 and despite his age it was a spectacular show. He might not have sang "Love Me Do" but "Oh Darlin'" required way more talent anyway. Pretty insane that Billy has done what he did under a fake name.
U do know that billy wasn’t Paul. It was ringo
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I met Paul McCartney about ten or twelve years ago. He's a really cool guy. I asked him if he could play music with Dave Grohl as a favor and he said that he'd love to. Really cool guy.
Did it take place? I'd look it up but, mehhhh, go on, you tell me
@@jamesgornall5731 he played a track "Cut me some slack" on the album Sound City - Real to Reel. Dunno if that was the first time they played together, but I like to think that I played a part in them playing together.
@@danpavelko8414 aaah man, that's awesome!
You met a walrus dress up to look like Paul.
Danny is EIGHTY?? Right on, Danny! What an achievement. Hope to hear your scripts for many more years to come! No wonder his scripts are so soothing. I have always been the type to thoroughly enjoy listening to the stories of my betters.
What? No, I'm barely out of short trousers.
Well, he’s from the North. It ages one 😂
McCartney is 80, I think it said at the beginning.
Calling George Harrison “the other one” was like a knife to my heart
This guys a moron
Paul McCartney died in 1966.
Played by William Campbell Shepherd since then.
Shepherd is a talented man, musician, comic impersonator, and artist.
He played Vivian Stanshall in Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and also fronted Billy and the Pepperpots as Billy Shears.
I always like the fact for many of these theories are based around the fact that a group pulls off an incredible operation, and then immediately spend years leaving many, many random clues to what they did. " Thank God, we pulled it off no one will suspect what we did." "Hey, I was thinking of doing an entire album, music album cover, the whole thing just themed around the fact John is dead and no one knows." "...I think Paul needs to die again..."
Just so Simon can know, champagne and orange juice is called a mimosa in the US.
The real Paul McCartney shaved his head, grew a beard, donned some specs, and changed his name to Simon Whistler.
I love Danny's use of Beatles' song titles to break up the segments in this video. Well done.
Could you do one about Putin’s doubles, please? I keep seeing this everywhere from the more tame version all the way through to how he’s supposedly long dead 😂
Or, Putin is just a paranoid dictator who doesn't trust anyone to not try to shoot him.
As an American, I'm not surprised that this started in the United States, we seem to be the ones making up most of the conspiracies, both past ones and the new ones! Plus we seem to be the ones who believe more of them then most people in the world!
Also I am definitely a bigger fan of Fleetwood Mac then The Beatles too, Simon!
It didn't start in 1969. It began in late 1966 when Paul, the only remaining bachelor living in London had not been seen for a while. He was a regular attendee of gallery openings, the theater and musical performances. People started to ask where he was, so in the publication of their early 1967 official fan club magazine there is a short paragraph. It read something like despite the rumors, Paul is alive and well etc.. You can see this in the documentary Good Ole Frida, about the NEMS employee who began as a fan and managed their fan club president and correspondences.
Yeah, The Beatles never actually met until they were at John's funeral.
I didn’t have to watch this video. Go to the Wings of Pegasus, RUclips channel. He’s an awesome guitarist in a sound tech for Abbey Road Studios. He did a full video. Using modern digital technology and live track to find out if the same person sang who sang the songs in the early 60s sing those same songs in the late 60s and also was it the same person who was with wings who sang the same songs. There are certain markers in our voices that are like finger prints and are unique to us. Now the human ear can’t pick up those markers but modern computer sound technology can. Those tests concluded that the same man who sang with the Beatles in the early 60s was the same man who sang with the Beatles at the end of the 60s, and was the same man who sang with Wings. All the markers were identical. And bottom line is that the Paul McCartney death hoax was just a clever marketing scheme. And it worked. Everyone was buying albums to see if they could find clues to Paul McCartney’s death. But it all was just a hoax. Paul McCartney is still alive and kicking. Let’s face it, Liverpool is a small town, and the odds of finding two people that look almost identical to each other, and have the same talent is astronomical.
I'm a musician. I like yoko's music. She always does something i've never heard before, which is valuable to me. Familar can be good, but generic is always bad, and she's never generic. it feels like she makes music for herself, and i relate to that. art should challenge you.
yes art should challenge you however Yoko has noreal talent its ugly her voice screeching is not singing it does not sound good and she is a would be
I'll never forget the one where she was making animal like noises. Beautiful!
@@Zezumii hey, someone's gotta do it first lol
Arguably the best use of backmasking ever was in the Mindless Self Indulgence song aptly named Backmask, where played forward it tells the listener to do frankly terrible things, but played in reverse demands the listen to do basic household chores.
After watching "Get Back" on Disney+ about the 60 hours of footage shot for The Beatles supposedly new album & "originally" was a TV special. Listening to these theories becomes infuriating (I mean I'm not physically mad but you get the point). In the series you can watch them improv & come up with these song titles, lyrics, instrumentation all on the spot. John writes a lot of lyrics and was definitely an eccentric individual, which is why you see these abstract lyrics & concepts. Anyway, these "reaches & stretched for" theories and examinations of their lyrics is just purely figments of the spectator's imagination LMAO. The idea that Paul isn't actually Paul just becomes more & more ludacris as the years pass by. I doubt anyone wanted my opinion, and yet here I am....
(didn't know those emoji's existed LOL)
P.S. - Simon, you're greatest to ever do it. Well, you're up there with MrBallen, but keep up the good work Sir Whistler. Keep whistling...
*ludicrous
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In the click-bait photo comparison icon, the reason the right-hand image looks odd is that it is reversed R-L. The giveaway is the guitar strap - which should be over left-handed Paul's right shoulder!
To quote Bill Hicks, "The Beatles were so high, they even let Ringo sing a few songs. They had to pull him off the ceiling with a rake. 'Ringo, come down. Paul has a song he wants you to sing. Something about a yellow tambourine, or something.'"
Simon, I can’t get the image of you with long hair smoking a GIANT hand-rolled cigar out of my head 😂😂😂
True story I will preface with; I know nothing about the Beetles! But my mum as a young teen? Not 100% sure how old she was at the time, was at the Beetles concert where a girl fainted and the crowd stamped on her till she died 😬 My mum said the crowd was just pushing and pushing to get as close to the stageas possible and there was literally no space at all. She said she was about two metres away from this girl and saw her go down. As soon as a space opened up, dozens of people shoved forward to fill the space and just crushed the fallen girl to death 😬 My mum said she eventually got to the back of the crowd and when the concert was over there was a literal stamped as girls tried to leave the venue to try and get to the stage exit and try and catch a glimpse or get a signature from the Beetles. She and her friend who went with her had to leg it to get to a taxi cab as fast as they could because they knew as soon as everyone came out the concert hall there'd be no chance they'd be able to get a taxt back. Some of the girls had basically stripped off and were throwing their clothes on stage. Some had taken off their skirts, tops and thrown them or had kept those on and instead thrown pants and bras. Fangirls were crazy even back then 😬😬😬😬 My mum said on looking back, watching the girl go down was one of the most awful experiences of her life, like watching someone get pulled under the water by a shark. Her only "comfort" was that the girl was probably unconscious when she was killed 😬
Yea concert crowds can be dangerous! I refuse to go anywhere with big crowds and no seats. All it takes is a few idiots pushing forward to start the ol death squeeze.
How old is your Mum? I ws too young to go to Beatles' concerts and Im a grandparent with teenage grandchildren I think your Mum is thinking of another Concert as Ive never heard of anyone dying at a Beatles' Concert. Wetting their pants, maybe, but no kids got crushed.
I know someone has said this already but, if Paul had died, the story would have broke before he made it to the hospital.
Obviously it didn't. It was covered up, by the Government. The same Government that got Paul out of a Japanese jail when he was in Japan to perform a concert with his band Wings there.
@@SusanGoldberg-l9pThe story didn't "break" because McCartney didn't die! What possible reason would the Government have for covering up the death of a pop star? Even someone as famous and popular as Paul McCartney. And the notion that Britain's Security Service, MI5, would be involved in such a cover up stretches credibility to ɓreaking point.
@@SusanGoldberg-l9p😂😂😂😂😂The same Government.😂😂
Paul died on 9/11/66 at 3:30 am
I am amazed at the diversity of topics you cover on your many channels Simon!! All of it seemingly tailored to my exact tastes, I dont think Ive ever saw a thumbnail of yours involving a topic I was not fascinated with. Thank you!!
I had a schoolmate who used to talk my ears bloody about how Paul was dead. I never got those hours back, and now I'm livid.
last time I was this early Paul McCartney was alive
Or was he? 😂
If Paul McCartney died in 1966,
His replacement wrote and performed 2 of the biggest Beatles hits "Let it Be" and "Hey Jude", as well as the Abbey Road album etc.
Meaning the replacement would be more talented than the original 💀
Actually Paul didn't die, in fact the real truth is that George Harrison was the one who died in 1966 and was replaced by an animatronic figure operated by roadie Mal Evans. His songs post "Revolver" were written by Eric Clapton who was pissed when he didn't receive what he thought he should from royalties. If you play the outro to 'George's' song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" backwards you can hear the words: "George was fake, I made him, made him. . . " The attempt on George's life in his home by some psycho was actually Clapton trying to destroy the robot George, but by that time the robot had achieved sentience and fought back, although his circuitry needed replacing in 'hospital'. (Clapton got away with it because who was going to believe some psycho's story about being paid by Clapton to kill George Harrison.)
Wasn’t it Clapton’s evil twin?
Lol
On the thumbnail the first picture is after Sir Paul had probably just tried LSD for the first time, the second picture he had taken like 100+ hits in his psychedelic career, so who knows, because as psychedelic veteran myself, frequent LSD usage will change you quite a bit, life habits & diet, and other drugs or alcohol which can effect your appearance, sometimes significantly.
"Hold him and in your arms and you can feel his disease." I remember this story from way way back. Paul allegedly suffered a broken back (spine) so if you ran your hands down his back and feel that the spine was broken. "I am the walrus ker koo kachew...".
So I was 7 when all this was happening. My best friend Ginny and I were avid fans of both Scooby Doo and Nancy Drew, so we were convinced we could "solve" the mystery. We SO thought we were being stealthy in stealing our older siblings' teen fan mags to gather clues. We'd read about one, look at or listen to the relevant album, and then write it in a notebook and check it off as solved. We even had special sleuth outfits. They were basically our raincoats. Ginny's was yellow and mine was pink, and some weird hats we found in a bunch of costume stuff left over from Halloween. I have no idea what we thought we were solving, but we did this for an entire summer. Of course, in retrospect, I know it was all stupid AF, but at the time? We were going to be world famous for, I don't know, reading things and then looking at them?
Simon is obviously not a Beatles fan!?... "... let's see if we can work it out" and "do you want to know a secret", both dropped side by side in the script, and Simon didn't even notice! lol
McCartney is such a legend, as much as Lennon was a bit of a bellend (allegedly, in my opinion etc) having followed this channel for long enough, every thing I hear about McCartney cements him as a total legend in everything he says and does!
People forgetting George Harrison's name pains me.
The moment I saw the title of this one, I had to watch - I KNEW Simon would have a field day with it. And I was not disappointed!
I'm not sure how reliable this can be, considering that your script says Paul was the founder of the Beatles when he joined John's band.
It's deliberate choices on the album covers and the lyrics, and is definite symbolism. The theory of Paul dying and being replaced is ridiculous though. If they deliberately alluded to Paul dying it would either have been a running joke, a marketing idea or a metaphor of being reborn with their religious experiences and drugs.
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Short answer: It has always been the same Paul McCartney.
All of the "clues" pointing to Paul's death can be explained by the fact the Beatles knew about them, and it fit perfectly with their sense of humor to feed the idea.
Why did PID continue into solo work?
30:58, Suddenly reminded of "The coffee has been sipped."
lol :)
Seeing him create songs in the Let it Be sessions out of thin air, more than debunks this stupid conspiracy.
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