
Indeed, one of the reasons the Beatles ended touring was because their final American tour was marked by violence and record-burning, after John claimed that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Lee Bailey conducted on RKO TV), but LaBour was on to something when he wrote that the Beatles had a religious motive.
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LaBour later admitted it was all made up (at the mock television trial attorney F. This masterly speculative essay, purporting to be a review of Abbey Road, laid out many of the details that became the cornerstone of Paul is Dead or PID. In the annals of college newspaper writing, surely Fred LaBour’s essay for the University of Michigan’s The Michigan Daily ranks near the top.

The Beatles may have had a lot to say about social changes of the early 1960s, but new political realities were more intractable the Beatles, with their wives and mansions, must have appeared quite tame by then. In late 1969, American college campuses were roiled by the anti-war movement, facing consequences of the election of Richard Nixon and the inevitability of the draft, at the same time as various liberation movements were finding their feet. Rumours that Paul McCartney was replaced by a lookalike in the sixties does, at some level, reflect society’s struggles with political changes Numerous ‘forensic’ analyses compare the pre-1966 Paul with the post-1966 Faul.

The man we know today as Sir Paul McCartney is actually Faul who has done an outstanding impersonating job for twice the length of the original Paul’s lifespan. This new ‘Faul’ turned out to be an even better musician than the original Paul, but the Beatles, struck by bad conscience, kept strewing their albums, both aurally and visually, with a multitude of clues about what had happened discerning Beatles fans would therefore know the truth. The British MI5 believed that hundreds would commit suicide if the shocking news were revealed, and besides the Beatles were a national treasure bringing in untold revenues, so a man named Billy Shears (or William Campbell), a Scottish lad, was made to fill in, after quick plastic surgeries. It was a rainy night and after a late session at their Abbey Road studios, ending in an argument amongst the Beatles, Paul got into his Aston Martin and picked up a girl named Rita (of ‘Lovely Rita’ fame) along the way, before crashing his car. Pepper which was a commentary on counter culture and another cover which according to PID theorists was rich with clues.įifty years ago, on Novem(9/11 in British usage), Paul McCartney was decapitated in a car crash, and was soon replaced, unbeknownst to the public, by a look-alike with equal or better musical abilities, the impostor ‘Faul’ we have lived with till today.
