In 1967, that all changes suddenly with the emergence of Penny Lane. Rumours declined after Life magazine published an interview with McCartney in November 1969. How could the Remaining Beatles, especially John not feel the sense of betrayal and abandonment towards his deceased best friend Paul. [67] In his 1971 song "How Do You Sleep? Glad most people here are awake to the false reality which surrounds us. Don't want to say much about who we know today as Sir Paul except that there does appear to be some legitimate questions about changes in his appearance and personality and his relationships with his former bandmates. I mean, it's just a bit of poetry. [69] The rumour was also cited in the hoax surrounding the Canadian band Klaatu,[70] after a January 1977 review of their debut album 3:47 EST sparked rumours that the group were in fact the Beatles. What an exemplary life! Nobody will argue with that. The John is dead fake was set up years in advance. [38] In Canada, Polydor Records exploited the rumour in their artwork for Very Together, a repackaging of the Beatles' pre-fame recordings with Tony Sheridan, using a cover that showed four candles, one of which had just been snuffed out. If Billy Shears legally but silently changed his name to Paul Mccartney years ago it wouldn't be considered fraudulent would it? Theres a lot we dont get told and you morons believe the mainstream media by calling people who can reason, morons. Also named his 1st biological daughter Mary after his departed Mother? [75], During the 1970s, the phenomenon became a subject of academic study in America in the fields of sociology, psychology and communications. The Beatles never played live again nor come to US for awhile. [44] According to the scientists' findings, the man shown in the post-November 1966 images was not the same. The replacement, originally called William Campbell or, more recognizably, Billy Shears, according to Salon, and known as "Faul" to true believers of the theory, has, if the story is true, written some of the Beatles' greatest work, fathered four children with Paul's first wife, Linda McCartney, went on to establish the mega-popular band Wings, and had success with 20 solo albums, all under the moniker of the tragically deceased songwriter he replaced on the fly. I work in the music industry and have played with Billy many times over the years and he sometimes slips up with his accent. There are some other good sites, like the Sage of Quay & a.d. Clarke. 1 Jimmy McPerson; 2 Blue Mamba; 3 The Fire Witch; Explore Wikis . [1] At the time, Barrow was the press officer for the Beatles and was responsible for fielding calls from fans and the media. He supposedly looked enough like PM to sit in with the other Beatles for photographs, sometimes even fooling the photographers. My husband, he didn't believe me for the longest time. There is no such force named the "Ontario Police Department". It took some real effort, but I finally saw them as 2 separate, individual guys. Mr. Starr alleges that the group did send out a lot of hidden messages through the years to prepare the population for the truth. Anyone that truly believes this is easily led, there is no proof that cannot be explained logically, little hidden messages on an album isn't proof someone has died, the Japanese test that said it's not the same person well we all know face recognition isn't reliable even today, his fingerprints not being recognised at the airport, if I play guitar for days on end my phone won't turn on with fingerprint recognition let alone a bass when you're fretting with right hand, and for him looking at the fretboard more they are comparing basic rock n roll songs with clips from wings with complex bass lines, and why would John Lennon write a song in 1972 called how do you sleep saying the only thing you done was yesterday referring to his song, which was written in 1965 by Paul, did he write it to annoy someone who is supposed to be dead. His picture is included on the poster that came with the White album in the lower right-hand corner. Maybe bought off. After a firecracker was thrown onto a stage, the Beatles were pretty much done with live performances. No matter what the truth is, it doesn't really matter if they're wrong, they're right, where they belong. Imagine why we never saw the bruises etc. I can't go on like this. To all the sane people out there that know that Paul never dies and that he is alive and well still making music,don't bother saying anything to the comspiracy brigade as You Can't Argue With Stupid!!! [60], In November 1969, Capitol Records sales managers reported a significant increase in sales of Beatles catalogue albums, attributed to the rumour. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.. Charlotte A's comment on Ringo's singing. [9] Psychologists Ralph Rosnow and Gary Fine attributed its popularity partly to the shared, vicarious experience of searching for clues without consequence for the participants. You should read the expose in Italian Wired Magazine where scientists proved beyond a shadow of a doubt with facial recognition software that there are/were two Beatles who went by the name Paul McCartney. There are dozens of people involved in a death, certainly in the case of an accident, Police, Ambulance and hospital staff, fire brigade, Breakdown men, registrars, NHI and loads more including family, friends, business colleagues, studio staff and, of course, the Inland Revenue responsible for the collection of income tax and death duties. McCartney parodied the hoax with the title and cover art of his 1993 live album, Paul Is Live. Looks like Paul with glasses, mustache, and combed back hair. [26] Vin Scelsa, a student broadcaster in 1969, later said that the escalation was indicative of the countercultural influence of Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, since: "Every song from them starting about late 1966 became a personal message, worthy of endless scrutiny they were guidelines on how to live your life. [63], A television special dedicated to "Paul is dead" was broadcast on WOR in New York on 30 November. He faked his death do he could run an ice cream van back in Liverpool. Harrison would replace Yoko and Shears could go back to being just Paul, who was the richest of his personas. A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project, http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/chaplin2.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:William_Shears_Campbell&oldid=920583797, This Beatles-related redirect is within the scope of, This redirect does not require a rating on the project's, This page was last edited on 10 October 2019, at 17:42. The final clues came with the Beatles last album Let It Be. The sleeve is black - an appropriate colour for a funeral card. In many ways the identity of Billy Shears is clear enough. While John, George, and Ringo are all looking to the side, Paul is looking frontward. [7] According to music journalist Merrell Noden, Harper's Drake Times-Delphic was the first to publish an article on the "Paul is dead" theory. The photograph of the Beatles on the zebra crossing on the sleeve of Abbey Road is meant to represent a funeral procession. Billy had been filling in for Paul periodically at least since 1965. My basic premise in believing the information in the book is because it all makes sense and explains to me why everything happened the way it did within the Beatles circle of friends. [20][21] It identified various clues to McCartney's alleged death on Beatles album covers, particularly on the Abbey Road sleeve. Well, that's not completely true. Somewhat improbably, McCartney was said to have been replaced by a lookalike, called variously William Shears Campbell or William Sheppard. [73], Author Peter Doggett writes that, while he thinks the theory behind "Paul is dead" defied logic, its popularity was understandable in a climate where citizens were faced with conspiracy theories insisting that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 was in fact a coup d'tat. Screw the eye Color, you'll be able to see it in black & white, as well. At that time of night, WABC's signal covered a wide listening area and could be heard in 38 US states and, at times, in other countries. Lennon later said that the words were actually "Cranberry sauce", and that the words "number nine, number nine" in "Revolution 9" (from the "White Album") became "turn me on, dead man, turn me on, dead man" when played backwards. [22] Noden writes that "Very soon, every college campus, every radio station, had a resident expert. [4] MacDonald groups it with the "psychic epidemics" that were encouraged by the rock audience's use of hallucinogenic drugs and which escalated with Charles Manson's homicidal interpretation of the White Album and Mark David Chapman's religion-motivated murder of Lennon in 1980. They have had to keep the fraud covered while Faul reaped the benefits of the fraud. Follow Billy online for tour dates, news and more! Right from the beginning of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band it is obvious that the Beatles are pretending to be other people - Were Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band they sing. [61] Rocco Catena, Capitol's vice-president of national merchandising, estimated that "this is going to be the biggest month in history in terms of Beatles sales". There must be articles about the car crash ( if there ever was one) in local newspapers??? The myth of Paul McCartney's early death is traceable to a couple of disparate sources. If someone names William Spears Campbell really won a Beatles look-a-like contest and then dropped off the face of the earth, that would be weird. His classic song "Yesterday" hints that maybe Paul was being chased by self-created demons. [29][nb 2] On Halloween night 1969, WKBW in Buffalo, New York broadcast a program titled Paul McCartney Is Alive and Well Maybe, which analysed Beatles lyrics and other clues. According to Tony Barrow, who wrote about it in his book "John, Paul, George, Ringo and me," the rumours about McCartney's death started circulating in September 1966. Since then you were just a man named William Shears Campbell! To make William Shears Campbell look like Paul McCartney then was impossible. Neither is the story", Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, "Why fans think Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by a clone named Melissa", "The Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory returns", "The Four-Color Adventures of the Fab Four: The Beatles and Comic Books", "The Beatles flesh out zombie mash-up craze", "George Harrison Stabbed in Chest by an Intruder", https://twitter.com/JoelSGilbert/status/1648738007577669633, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/latest-from-the-trump-conspiracy-factory-bill-clintons-black-son/2016/11/01/d05e321e-a070-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html, "EL VY post lyric video for new single 'Paul Is Alive', "Paul Is Dead A Comedy Short Film Inspired by the Classic Bizarre Rock & Roll Conspiracy Theory". So he did what he does best and retired and died two weeks later. I'm not writing this review to sway anyone's beliefs on how you view Mr. William Shepherd or the author of this book. Can reports of his belief in an early death be substantiated? Billy's Back! In early 1967, a similar rumour circulated in London that Paul McCartney had been killed in a traffic accident while driving along the M1 motorway on 7 January. I believe John wrote the song The Greatest making fun of Faul's ego and it is really meant to be how Faul feels about himself. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. They are two different people fact, the dna proves it..why do you think Heather Mills is banned from ever telling the truth? Trying to prove or disprove anything from these albums is a waste of time. It was supposed to last only a week or two, but time went by and nobody seemed to notice, so we kept playing along. Faul has admitted that Paul died before during concert. It was Paul the first time, but Billy the second time. And Listen. By the fall of 1969, Beatle fans finally stumbled upon the mystery and . I spent much of the past year researching this, and even saw Paul in concert in Green Bay last summer. It takes a special kind of person: a person who seeks and WANTS truth, even when it embarrasses, hurts or is painful. [8] Gibb and other callers then discussed the rumour on air for the next hour,[18] during which Gibb offered further potential clues. Anyone that cared at all for James Paul McCartney should look. "Suddenly I was half the man I used to be, theres a shadow hanging over me, oh I believe in yesterday" the clues are there. The original Beatle Paul Was most certainly replaced. Plastic surgery was in it's infancy stage in 1966. Then there is George, who was brought into the Beatles by his childhood friend, Paul. Whoever really believes that crazy crap is a moronic fool. Pepper. Cookie Notice Paul Ramon, Carl Harrison and Long John Silver! If you can think of any ways to improve the article, why not create one? And what about police reports? Mirkin, David (2005). But I thought that you might like to know During the song Ringo, for the benefit of the numbnuts out there, confirms the true identity of Billy Shears. Has he ever re-surfaced anywhere? [25] Although the Beatles' press office denied the rumour, McCartney's atypical withdrawal from public life contributed to its escalation. Lennon himself dismissed any deep meaning to the mysterious lyrics: > I threw the line in "the Walrus was Paul" just to confuse everybody a bit more. I do not know the Truth here just like most of us, parts of the story seems believable and then again, you catch your self doubting they can pull off such a hoax on the entire world for so damn long. We stuck a vinyl copy of Sgt Pepper on the turntable and asked Steve to tell us all about it. But Paul was 27, when Abby Road was released. "Paul is Dead" redirects here. [24] This scenario was facilitated by the Beatles' recent retirement from live performance and by their choosing to present themselves with a new image for their next album, Sgt. I also get the difference in the Eleanor Rigby song that the real Paul McCartney sang and how your voice is completely different from his when you sing Penny Lane. The WKBW DJs concluded that the "Paul is dead" hoax was fabricated by Lennon. This show has been called "infamous", a "fraud" and a "mockumentary". These include messages perceived when listening to songs being played backwards and symbolic interpretations of both lyrics and album cover imagery. To spare the public from grief, the Beatles replaced him with a man named William Shears Campbell, who was the winner of a McCartney look-alike contest and who happened to have the same kind of. Now go back and listen to Paul's lead vocals on any work from 1962 to 1966, and look out for those same distinctive vocals I mentioned. This site is no longer updated. Not to mention he would be charged with fraud ad well as all the other Beatles and employees, family members and friends as well.as well. The fact that Paul (i.e William Campbell Shears) is barefooted confirms it! They saw the Sgt Pepper album as yet more proof of the on-going speculation that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash on Wednesday, November 9th 1966 and replaced with a look-a-like, sound-a-like called William Campbell Shears a.k.a Billy Shears born in Shreveport, Louisiana on September 16th, 1940. [20] The number plate of the white Volkswagen Beetle in the photo containing the characters LMW 281F (mistakenly read as "28IF") was identified as further "evidence". Persons whom have not honoured their contracts or whom have had doubts seem to have died or mysteriously disappeared. [56] Part of the interview was first broadcast on Radio 4, on 26 October,[57] and subsequently on WMCA in the US. If there's any actual evidence of this person's existence it would be good to post references here. You can find more information about the Paul is Dead conspiracy in The Great Beatle Death Clues by R. Gary Patterson published by Robson Books. And Sgt. In 1977 John Lennon wrote a song for Ringo and recorded it with him. The winner of this 1965 contest was Keith Allison, who had a brief brush with fame on teen shows such as "Where The Action Is" and apparently later joined Paul Revere and the Raiders, circa 1966. But remember, Paul was no saint. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. Gibb ran with the story on-air for several hours, treating his listeners to backward snippets of supposed hidden messages. For more information, please see our "[77], "Paul is dead" has continued to inspire analysis into the 21st century, with published studies by Andru J. Reeve, Nick Kollerstrom and Brian Moriarty, among others, and exploitative works in the mediums of mockumentary and documentary film. "Thank you very much". The line is preceded with "Well, here's another clue for you all". How can the McCartney's (Brother Mike & Father Jim) be convinced to go along with this morbid and sinister cover-up. Introducing Billy Shears Campbell - a world-renowned musician, singer and icon. I think that theory was started because Americans don't like it that there is no American Beatle. (Officially pronounced dead VS. Ontario Provincial Police), has anyone dared to ask the Question what Canada has to do with the British Pop Band, The Beatles? Then Paul McCartney introduces the singer coming up on the next song So let me introduce to you the one and only Billy Shears and Ringo starts to sing. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (which began recording later that month). has the best of the Memoirs' "Paul is Dead" material (excluding those . By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Then again, like Lennon, Paul McCartney never really diedgenetically speaking. Listen carefully. It is he, too, who invented the details of the death that conspiracy buffs still cling to till this day: "Paul McCartney was killed in an automobile accident in early November, 1966 after leaving EMI recording studios tired, sad, and dejected. The replacement, originally called William Campbell or, more recognizably, Billy Shears, according to Salon, and known as "Faul" to true believers of the theory, has, if the story is true, written some of the Beatles' greatest work, fathered four children with Paul's first wife, Linda McCartney, went on to establish the mega-popular band Wings, That's a little eerie All aside, I feel like sharing George Harrison's last testimony. I was wondering about that, a moped accident that chipped his tooth answered that question. I'm 27 and most of the Beatles music doesn't impress me, except for Yesterday, Penny Lane and Hey Jude which are exceptionally good songs. Duh. Thanks everyone. How could they find a musician that looks,sounds just like him & be accepted by the other 3,his family & girlfriend Jane Asher? In fact, if you listen to all Beatles songs between 1967 to 1970, Paul breaks out that particular voice a lot (not always). That's because William Campbell is McCartney. Whereas all the other Beatles are facing to one side Paul (i.e Billy Shears) is looking directly at the viewer against a blood red background. He was and still is 5'11" hazel eyes. Amusingly, though, during the height of the BeeGees' popularity in the seventies, Barry Gibb lost a Barry Gibb look-alike contest! When that guy stabbed him, Campbell realized that he should get while he could and killed off Harrison too! According to Gadfly Online,the night was very icy, which may have put the rumor in the heads of some London journalists, who were always keen for a Beatles story. Ring it and you will hear a true account of Pauls death. Billy Shears was Ringo Starr's alias on The Beatles 1967 album Sgt. The 'Paul McCartney is dead' myth. Eric , george parasol and Paul , Macharmley, A.K.A. Watch later interviews with Fail and other Beatles members. William Shears Campbell is the Billy Shear people were going after to support the Paul is Dead theory. John also says the line, "I buried Paul," at the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever." The photos of Paul, Billy and the Fake Paul after 1966 were the clincher for me not to mention the subtle changes in behaviour. [10] On 10 October, the Beatles' press officer, Derek Taylor, responded to the rumour stating: "Recently we've been getting a flood of inquiries asking about reports that Paul is dead. William Campbell allegedly became Billy Shears on Sgt Pepper , while William Sheppard was supposedly the inspiration behind 'The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill' (actually an American named Richard . According to them there is a secret phone number hidden in the stars making up the title on the sleeve of the Magical Mystery Tour album. well sorry i am CONVINCED and why did Ringo come out and say that Paul did pass away in 1966, Hello, I am a film maker and making a documentary about this conspiracy (partly because my name is William Shears..). Those who were alive during the Beatles days recognized that an older replacement(s) was present with SGT Pepper. The white VW Beetle in the background with the number plate 28 IF suggests that Paul would have been 28 years old - IF he had survived. After doing a little reading and seeing all the talk about O.P.D. .. There have been many references to the legend in popular culture, including the following examples. "[8], In late September 1969, the Beatles released the album Abbey Road as they were in the process of disbanding. He told me (as a hamster, of course.). Pepper recording session and drove off angrily in his car, distracted by a meter maid ("Lovely Rita"), not noticing that the traffic lights had changed ("A Day In The Life) crashed, and was decapitated ("Don't Pass Me By"). Embarrassed by his fat lip he began to grow a moustache. Maybe the trip to India and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi made him a believer. "We didn't know what to do, and Brian Epstein, our manager, suggested that we hire Billy Shears as a temporary solution. The story goes, basically the real Paul McCartney died in a car crash in 1966 and was replaced by a very talented musician called William Shepherd (Billy Shears) (son of a very high up freemason - alistair crowley?) William Campbell does not exist A-Stupid-Redditor Think for yourself 'cause I won't be there with you.
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