Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: paul has been dead for ages, honestly.
From: nihil@oread.cc.ukans.edu
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:40:15 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Serces

In article <1992Dec21.165005.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au>, c9119870@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (ANTIGONE) writes:
> **Have no idea who this Marek guy is, but I feel obligated to tell what
> I know about the McCartney Dead thing.
> 
> The rumour was started by a DJ in (I think) Canada. For what reason, I don't
> know. Anyway, he had a number of theories why McCartney was dead (supposedly
> in a car crash somewhere). Paul had died and the rest of the Beatles, still
> wanting to remain a king band, which they were in `68, kept Paul `alive' by
> using a double in photo promos etc. The evidence by this DJ are as follows:
> 
> 	1. I Am The Walrus. The walrus supposedly dies at the end of the song.
>            The song is on the album 'Magical Mystery Tour & Other Titles' 
> 	   (1967) - actually the soundtrack from the film of the same name, 
>            which was originally an EP. On the same album was a song called
>            `Strawberry Fields Forever'. Forever was an A Side single in 1966,
>             a lead-up to Sgt. Pepper. On Forever, the lyrics go "Let me take
>             you down 'cos I'm going to S.F." S.F. was a cemetary, thus the
>             graveyard analogy. At the end of Strawberry Fields, John says,
>             if you listen very closely, "I bury Paul."

   actually Strawberry Fields was John's orphanage, where he grew up.
> 
>          2. The rumours came out in `68 after the White album. 'Glass Onion'
>             does say "the walrus was Paul". Also on the White Album, Ringo
>             says on "Don't Pass Me By" : "You were in a car crash, and you
>             lost your hair"
> 
>          3. On Revolution 9 from the White Album, John says, if you run the
>             disc backwards, "Turn Me On Dead Man".

   i always thought it said, "Paul is a dead guy, miss him miss him."
> 
>          4. On Sgt Pepper, the cover is further evidence: In front of the
>             group on the ground is a bass guitar formed in flowers.
>             Also. on the back cover, Paul is the only one with his back to
>             the camera. There is also an Egyptian sign of the dead on the
>             inside cover.

   and someone has a hand over Paul's head, an obscure symbol of death.
> 
>          5. On Abbey Road, the cover is further proof. Paul is walking
>             out of step compared with the other guys. He is holding a
>             cigarette in his right hand even though he is left handed.
>             The scenario on the said album cover: Paul as the corpse
>             (bare-footed); John as the minister; George as the grave digger;
>             Ringo as the undertaker. In the background is also a volkswagen
>             with the number plate 28IF, meaning Paul would have been 28 if
>             he'd lived.

   there are a couple others too, like "good ol' flat-top" in "Come Together,"
'cause Paul died in a car wreck that decapitated him.  same goes for "i read
the news today oh boy/ about a lucky man who made the grade/ he blew his mind 
out in a car."

c.j.
nihil@oread.cc.ukans.edu