References in song
The Beatles were said to have referred to the death a number of times in their songs.
The list below is just a taster. Particularly in the case of ‘Revolution 9’, there have been a huge number of interpretations, hidden meanings and fanciful explanations, many of which deserve to remain in the minds of the beholders. In short, any mention of death or cars in Beatles songs (‘Eleanor Rigby’ and ‘Good Morning Good Morning’ proved particularly fruitful) can be shoehorned into the myth.
- The opening words of ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’: “I was alone, I took a ride, I didn’t know what I would find there”.
- The line “He didn’t notice that the lights had changed” from ‘A Day in the Life’.
- The opening line of ‘She’s Leaving Home’, which highlighted the moment of the accident: “Wednesday morning at 5 o’clock as the day begins”.
- The suppression of the story in the news found its way into ‘Lady Madonna’: “Wednesday morning papers didn’t come”.
- At the end of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, Lennon can be heard muttering “cranberry sauce”. This was misheard as “I buried Paul”.
- “Bury my body” and “Oh untimely death” appeared in the radio feed towards the end of ‘I Am The Walrus’, taken from a BBC production of King Lear.
- At the end of ‘I’m So Tired’, John Lennon mutters “Monsieur, monsieur, monsieur, how about another one?” When played backwards, this was interpreted by some as “Paul is dead, man, miss him, miss him”.
- “I’m sorry that I doubted you, I was so unfair/You were in a car crash and you lost your hair” – from Ringo’s ‘Don’t Pass Me By’.
- The line “Find me in my field of grass” in ‘Mother Nature’s Son’ was taken as a reference to a cemetery.
- There is the sound of a car crash, followed by an explosion, in ‘Revolution 9’.
- The same song, when played backwards, is said to contain the repeated phrase “Turn me on, dead man”.
- “And so I quit the police department”, a line from ‘She Came In Through The Bathroom Window’, supposedly referred to William Campbell’s alleged former career in Ontario, Canada (see the Sgt Pepper visual clues in the next section).
A number of visual clues were also said to be found in the group’s record releases.
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- The front cover spells the word ‘Beatles’ in flowers. Some, however, took this to say ‘Be at Leso’, a reference to the Greek island the group were considering buying (actually called Leslo).
- An arrangement of yellow flowers below this is of a left-handed bass guitar, the instrument most associated with Paul McCartney. Some saw the flowers as spelling out the name ‘Paul’.
- A toy Aston Martin car sits atop the rag doll on the right hand side of the cover.
- If a mirror is placed horizontally across the middle of the Sgt Pepper bass drum, so it bisects the words ‘Lonely hearts’, the phrase “I ONE IX HE DIE” can be seen. This was taken to mean “11 9 HE DIE”, a reference to the supposed date of death, 9 November. Another interpretation of this is that “1 ONE 1” represents the three other Beatles, and the X represents the dead McCartney. A diamond symbol between HE and DIE points upwards to McCartney.
- The album cover shows an open hand above McCartney’s head, which in some religions is a symbol of death, signifying that someone will die or has recently died.
- At the bottom of the image is a statue of the Hindu god Shiva, the destroyer. His hand is pointing directly at McCartney.
- The gatefold sleeve shows McCartney wearing a badge on his arm appearing to say OPD. This actually said OPP, and stood for Ontario Provincial Police, though some people took it to mean “officially pronounced dead”.
- Original pressings of the album had the lyrics of the songs along with a photo of The Beatles. In the photo George Harrison’s thumb points to the line “Wednesday morning at five o’clock,” the alleged time of Paul’s death.
- On the rear cover McCartney has his back to the camera, suggesting that he is hiding his identity. Turning one’s back is said to be a symbol of death in certain cultures.
Magical Mystery Tour
The original Magical Mystery Tour double EP (and LP in the US) was released with a booklet. This contained a number of cartoons, song lyrics and photos from the film.
- The front cover spelt the word ‘Beatles’ in stars. Held up to a mirror, this reveals a telephone number, 2317438, said to have belonged to a London mortuary.
- A number of photos in the booklet show McCartney without shoes, said to signify death: people tend to be buried without them.
- McCartney is shown in military uniform in one picture, behind a desk on which sits a sign saying “I was”.
- Ringo’s drum head, in a still from the ‘I Am The Walrus’ sequence, appears to say “Love the 3 Beatles”. Next to the kit are McCartney’s boots (as on Abbey Road, he is barefoot), covered in what appear to be blood stains.
- A still from the ‘Your Mother Should Know’ sequence shows all four Beatles in white suits, dancing. McCartney is the only one to have a black carnation in his lapel; the others all have red ones.
- A cartoon of Paul labelled ‘The Fool on the Hill shows him with a crack in his head.
Abbey Road
- The cover of Abbey Road is said to make reference to a funeral procession, with John Lennon dressed all in white as a priest; Ringo Starr in a black suit as an undertaker; McCartney being barefoot, as many corpses would have been buried; and George Harrison following as a gravedigger. McCartney was also out of step with the others, with his eyes closed.
- In the same picture, McCartney is holding a cigarette with his right hand. However, it was well known that he was left-handed, suggesting that an impostor was in his place.
- A Volkswagen Beetle car in the background has the numberplate LMW 28IF. LMW was taken to mean ‘Linda McCartney weeps’, and 28IF was interpreted as referring to Paul’s age if he had lived. However, at the time of Abbey Road’s release in 1969 he would have been 27, rather than 28.
first of all…if there was any question about his death being real and this hoax did take place, they would of dug up the body and did dna on it…..remember we live in the 21st century and have numerouse technology ways and means…
Mr Scott, you just can’t go into cemetaries and start digging bodies up and performing DNA tests… They have a certain protocol for that and if it is true, do you think that the ‘powers that be’ would just allow that?
wait, you CAN’T just go into cemeteries and start digging bodies up? CRAP! I better go hide that shovel. . .
Who is “they” who would dig up bodies? People who want to protect the fortunes and embarrassment and loyalty? Or police? If you mean the latter: a double requires intel and police complicity (a few persons, as with media censorship: it’s partial but effective).
I saw a photo where ‘Faul’ was clearly wearing a prosthetic ear piece and I got to tell you, that was the smoking gun that started my research and in other photo’s you can clearly see that Paul 66 and prior had nice, smooth rounded ears with connected ear lobes and ‘Faul’ (after 67) does not. I doubt we will ever be told in a straight forward way but it certainly makes you go, ‘hmm’.
Enough of this limping dog of a story.
Also: what of this claim by C. Bowin, about totally different earlobes (among other changes) makes you so defensive as to ignore the point? Or did you not bother to check it out? Look it up. I posted a link above, for part of that info, with more links given inside that page, as well.
It is interesting to me that it never occurs to any of you conspirecy nuts that the simple explanation for different ear lobes is the result of modern technology. This technolgy is at the finger tips of all who have a computer. It is called Photoshop.
Actually, no. The images are from different eras and part of the general record. There are falsies on Sir Paul most of the time, but there are some ears the forensic scientists showed in Wired Italia 2009 in the midst of their rather extensive study of the case, and these vary not merely in lobes. Sorry.
We have indeed been told the turth “in a straight forward way”. It all started as a joke that got out of hand. The man did not die. His ears did not change between ’66 and 67. People who continue to push forward this myth need to seek therapy.
You might wish to have a look at the upper leg of the antihelix, which, without intense foreshortening, is quite different after 1966. But let’s say there were massive foreshortening: it would still contradict. It is wider, not narrower than the 1966 leg of the antihelix; foreshortening narrows, it doesn’t widen. Also (as if there were more difference one needed as proof, but of course different ears will have many different features), it is further back than Paul’s upper leg of antihelix, pre-1966. Go to the link I just posted.
I don’t believe in this PID rubbish, but it’s interesting to read about it. I doubt Jane Asher would feel comfortable being with a look-alike, and the band wouldn’t carry on with the Beatles, even if they were paid to. They nearly broke up after Brian’s death, and Paul is more important than money.
Tasha, I hear you. However, when one is familiar with the case (and has seen forever the difference, not in some haphazard way — though some people really are only seeing it that way), one looks at Asher and the post-Epstein death differently. It would, instead, seem as though Jane did a charade for a while, perhaps even turning for comfort to the new man. Who knows, but one way or another, left. We don’t know on that one, but it’s not impossible that behind the scenes things were messy. My own guess is that they were going to reveal things and the charade got out of hand — which also addresses your claim that at the intense height of their initial career, they would not have been wanting to quit but overwhelmed with Paul’s death as well. About Epstein: it may well have been pressures about Paul’s death also pushing that near break-up. One way or another, there is a 5th Beatle, friend and interloper at the same time.
I wonder why it is so imporatnt for some of you to believe this myth. It confounds me that people feel absolutly no shame in calling Sir Paul a fraud. I wonder how any of you would feel if a group of delusional individuals decided to take it upon themselves to strip any of you of your identiy. Shame on all of you.
Not a myth. Research bears it out. That’s why. Beyond mere belief opinion; but as long as it was, the case remained hypothesis as much as PIA is an hypothesis, strictly speaking. Without proof either way, both were.
ringo is the last beatle alive.paul died /many years ago /remember the words.jane asher knew that is why linda was choosen to replace her.with linda dead the secret will be forever.ringo is the only one left./jls
In my opinion, acid head people are also called “dead people”; when Paul finally took LSD, John probably said “now, Paul is dead, at last” or something, hã?
Here’s a theory: The Paul Is Dead myth, was a hoax, actually thought up by Paul, “Hey Lads, let’s make up I’m dead!” and the rest went along not realizing how big the gag would get – all of this fueled Paul’s overbearing ego – eventually they were too dug in to get out of it – and I it became a major element in leading to disharmony and the eventual break-up and the other 3 becoming “fed up with being sidemen for Paul” – that’s John’s quote.
Actually “Doctor” Robert (ha ha): Per the Mal Evans single page shown in “The Winged Beatle”, John was distraught that “it was really happening” & how good the surgery was, that Paul had been to “the clinic in Kenya” which “had done a good job”. The purported Mal Evans “Living the Beatles Legend” (supposedly lost book) page in TWB is at 1:01:00 (overall page shown but bottom blurred), and then 1:01:07 bottom of page shown only, but unblurred.
As to John’s public statements: 1. J claimed on TV he’d heard it first from “the newspapers … or uh …” & looks very nervous for a split second (you can see the clip on Youtube or in “The Winged Beatle”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsPCQ932vlU at 40:05. 2. In a radio interview from 1970 about the Beatles breakup, J talks briefly ostensibly about Epstein’s death, then says the album they made after the trauma (& lowers his voice and Yoko laughs) was “Sergeant Peppers, oh I’m not sure”: joke for no-one but Yoko, or revelation going by so fast it’s almost unnoticeable by mixing stories? In same interview J later talks more directly of Epstein’s death & completely naturally speaks at length about Magical Mystery Tour (the real album made after Eppie’s death) & his reaction to the death. Seems to be mixing griefs about Paul & Eppie for those in the know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=317yvBXrXjw 3. In 1971 movie “Imagine”, perhaps freed by USA breaking story of PID, George corrects J jokingly, a bit nervously, hiding his mouth with his napkin a bit, saying “The Fab 3” when J had been riffing on “The Fab 4”. J jumps out of his seat, then realizes it’s okay now to say that and calms down. (In “The Winged Beatle” the clip is shown, though for effect (and thus makes a literal untruth in the edit, unfortunately) the maker of the movie edits in J winking, which is from later in scene. See TWB (link above) at 45:00. 5. J drew an extremely macabre drawing in late 1971, when PID story was already out, but gave it to someone who wouldn’t be in a position to make a bigger PID ruckus; thus = a privately public PID clue. It does not prove Paul died, but it is a PID-style clue. (Its poignancy also, however, would on its own indicate something serious might be real about PID clues overall.) Yet of course, a PID case is made on facial and earlobe forensics, not clues.
The Paul is Dead myth started in America. A listener called into a radio show and put forward his theories based on album covers. A local journalist was listening to the show and then wrote a tounge in cheek article putting forth this “theory”. He intended it to be a joke, but sadly many took him seriously. Paul had nothing to do with this myth being started.
No, it did NOT. The earliest reference is in text, a disclaimer in England’s then UK-only Beatles Monthly in February 1967. The idea was started publicly by the Beatles themselves. And it’s no joke at all, though that is a fine postulate while learning about it, as long as one decides it is true long enough to truly look for the right info to see if it is or not (as police work would).
Ok – so in one of the forums on this topic I said a few months back that I thought the Paul is Dead Rumor began in 66 or 67 and if they didn’t start it, the Beatles jumped on it. I was challenged to show one piece of evidence that any of this happened in that time period – thank you Clare for providing that evidence.
Your link from Beatles Monthly shows the Paul is Dead stuff began (at least) in February 1967 – plenty of time to use Pepper, MMT and the White Album to fuel the rumor.
I don’t think Paul is dead, but I do think the Beatles added fuel to the fire.
I feel vindicated.
The Mohammed Hadjij incident is mentioned in this article. McCartney wasn’t even there; he wasn’t driving the car. The only anomaly seems to be that the Beatles Book Monthly claimed that the car was in McCartney’s possession, despite apparently being written off. My guess is the press office wanted to downplay things as much as possible, or didn’t have the full info. Besides, if they were trying to plant clues, why would they slap down a rumour that was being spread around London that they wanted to perpetuate?
There are tons and tons of clues and they’re thematically tight. There are FOUR provably planted clues in the simple sense — including the disclaimer (or fake-disclaiming) above.
That story about the Moroccan student doesn’t even make sense — from the claims the student makes — came out way later, could be a cover story, could be an unrelated incident, etc.
Point is: just the claim that there are no items CALLED CLUES, and it was MADE UP, is false.
Also: PID happens to be true. But anyway:
We are not debating a single clue here; we are pointing out that THE ITEMS ARE NOT MADE UP (largely). Now: get more informed. Go to the article I wrote. It’s undergoing rewrites. Big mistake re. posts above: NOT allowed to take things out of context in a case. Can make those points, but they’re isolated; the disclaimer was being discussed as an item for the public; it is not the only one. And there are many reasons to have or to fake or to misrepresent a crash — if ALSO Paul died, possibly in a crash. (He did; but I’ll leave it at if.)
Sorry, I really can’t be bothered. You have no proof, only conjecture, and this has been going nowhere for far too long. I’m going to close comments on this article to try to preserve some sanity.
You can believe what you want, but this article is titled “The ‘Paul is dead’ myth” because that’s exactly what it is.
Life’s too short (though Paul’s hasn’t been).
Both the writer of this article and the commenters deem themselves experts on the PID subject. Dates, times and brand of car, it is all nailed down to perfection. Yet in this rumor there is huge discrepancy in the “facts.” I cannot think of any historical recounting that has so much certainty as to facts and what did or did not happen to Paul. One thing is for certain that I know as a fan, the rumor was going round in London in 1967. It was because of the end of the 45 rpm record played up high with the end of strawberry fields song where John clearly says “I buried Paul.” When the rumor got to America the new pressed editions of that song said “cranberry sauce.” But rock stars were going down by the bucket if not by drugs then by accident. It would have been perfectly logical that Paul would be replaced by the English in light of all the money they were bringing into the Sterling crisis. EMI would not have allowed him to die either. It is more likely than not that Paul died and was replaced.
Here is the solution. Before 1966 Paul had dark brown eyes. After 66 Faul has green eyes. Game Over
It really happened.You can’t just read about the theories,because it is fun.Someone’s death it is not funny thing.They covered his death.Can you believe how many girls would kill themselfs if they knew the truth?For this reason the truth was ”hidden” in songs,albums,photos… They hide the truth and putted it in so many songs,just for the real fans,because the real fans would know that nobody can replace their favourite singer and they would know,that something is not quite right.As i see here,the big part of people can’t call themselfs:”Real fans of The Beatles”,unfortunately.
I have a stupid questions why did the beatles stop touring if paul McCartney is still very much alive maybe somebody can answer me that
The usual answer is that their music became more studio based and they were afraid of the tour brouhaha and tired.
Oh man I just got 30% stupider reading all this.
Learn about the ears, the height, the teeth. Then learn the other circumstantial arguments either way. Now that we have good comps on the forensics, it must be done that way. You will not be dumber but smarter. It is mere emotion which drives your comment.
People do not understand just how crucial the Beatles were to the economy of Britain at the time. If you understand that then you can start to see how if Paul died the truth would not necessarily have come out.
The Beatles were also far more ‘managed’ than people thought and think. They were a real group who honed their skills during countless nights in Hamburg but there seems little doubt that George Martin had a lot to do with their songwriting.
I am not sure the Theo Adorno or whatever his name is theory is credible but I have always wondered how Michael Jackson got to buy the Beatles back catalogue when McCartney had far more money than him and far more clout in the industry by virtue of his status. And the fact he wrote those songs either by himself or with Lennon and with more than a little help from George Martin to begin with.
I was a skeptic until I started reading various articles and watching various clips on youtube. I am old enough to remember the Beatles in the few years before their breakup and I remember even then thinking of how Paul had changed in the space of a few short yrs.
We’re not talking about the changes that usually happen in people’s physical features when they are in their late 30s and after. His face changed in the space of a couple of years when he was in his twenties.
The drugs he was taking do not seem to explain those changes, he was not ravaged by them the way young people who change dramatically under their effects change their features.
Now that writers have the background information about Tavistock (the actual facts and not some right ideas) and how it was definitely about social engineering, now that we know Jane Asher’s father kept company with doctors who abused hypnotherapy to perform deep sleep hypnotherapy on unsuspecting victims and killed himself, now that we know of the Beatles’ links with those closely connected with Manson etc, we know there is more than meets the eye to all of this.
Truthteller though John Lennon was, he did lie and all his dismissal of song lyrics as just playing with words or with fans does not ring with the truth. Clearly there are references that are not there to mock the fans or the world. And why would such images as have been pointed out in the Free as a bird video be shown? It is clearly McCartney’s image in a video supposedly only about John.
I have one foot firmly planted in the PID camp. Thanks for all the work, keep it up on that website about something can be know or whatever.
Since I am one of the people and since you seem to know, please inform us of the ratio between the Beatles income as compared to the GNP of Great Britain during the years in question.
John Lennon said it best:
“Those FREAKS was right when they said you was dead”.
Not a clue, a condemnation. I’ll let you judge who he is condemning though
New clue: “Flowers In The Dirt” by “Faul” is a reference to Paul being dead, and the red background signifies the dirt of mars, which is a reference to the moon landing, which was obviously faked. Meaning Paul McCartney is buried at the site of where the “Moon landings” were filmed. The flowers signify where he was buried. Oh you don’t believe me? Neil Armstrong alluded to it in this interview he gave upon “returning” to earth (insert some link to an obscure site that no one has ever been to, trust me though, its legitimate). Just follow that link, you’ll see he is buried next to Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa.
My oh my, the vitriol. Anyway, you emphasize freaks over right, of course …
as Lennon would have intended if the whole thing were true, No? In fact, he may have enjoyed very much getting the truth out, even with the putatively joking “freaks” in the line. So you have no proof of his intentions. In fact, the intention fits without stretching it at all, in the other case. Do you know how argument of two cases at a time works, say, in a law court? It works this way. You may be well aware of that, but it does need to be pointed out in general.
Now, Lennon said “freaks” …
despite the fact it was the Beatles who put the clues in there — starting with a disclaimer (yes DIS-claimer), but it’s very early, i.e., Feb. 1967 and the items continue (either as jokes or not) for some years. In fact, they continue up to the Love album recently, but more obviously were on Anthology 5.
Clues and the drawing and even false ears on Sir Paul after 1966 do not limited-case prove anything. Anyone would know that. Forensics on the real person would prove it, if the right kinds were/are available.
That is, if you don’t see a/the difference. — But it’s also true that some who see differences in things are patently wrong. So conviction itself (even if it IS right, that he looks the same or different) is not PROOF formally.
Nevertheless: learn about the REAL cartilage of the ear; assess the heights and changed look early on and how filler would/could help more — by a year and a half after the putative death, i.e., in May 1968 when the earliest false ear evidence is from (before, the false ears were known from very late 60s and early 70s).
You might want to at least start to wonder. The real ear cartilage is an exact proof, however, even if you don’t see a difference in the men.
The upper leg of the antihelix is straight and toward the rear of the ear, in Sir Paul, whereas it is forward and rounded, and front of the midline (plumbline at the middle) of the ear in Paul.
As to your implication that ANYTHING CAN BE INTERPRETED AS A CLUE:
Let’s look at that: one can of course take anything and MAKE it have meanings of wild associations, but the PID clues, in the main, are pretty obvious: they repeat and have direct reference to Paul at some point.
For instance, the disclaimer (or “disclaimer”) in Feb. 1967 mentions car crash, Paul, death (and some wrong and deflective info). The Walrus and Paul are directly linked, and the disclaimer of Walrus and John (who was in the mask) started on liner notes for MMTour album’s “I am the Walrus” listing, by having “No, you’re not, said little Nicola” scrawled under it. In “Come Together” a reference to “Walrus gumboot” on the man with the “disease”, spine cracked, ju-ju eyeballs, flat-top, monkey finger, and so on, link that apparition with Walrus AND with Beatles (Beatle Boots are little black gumboots they popularized early on). An “egg man” and Walrus figure into the very same song which gets the “No, you’re not” reference, as does a quotation from the BBC King Lear, “Is he dead? / Sit you down, father; rest you.” And so on. And the gumboots are off — on Abbey Road album — if gumboots were what Paul wore and got partly pulled off in a crash or other damage.
By 1995, a death head as leafy reflection is added to a police van in Free As A Bird, but the reflection has no blur, so it’s optically impossible with a camera pan.
A drawing now being made more well known, by John, shows severe head injuries (including an “eggshell” flat-top, ju-ju wonky dissociated eyeballs, much gore and brain matter, a side-to-side split as well, no mouth injuries as a walrus image might conjure but the drawing gets sympathetic below the 2 upper head injuries so mouth damage may be normalized, not shown, and a set of GUMBOOTS, dissheveled, possibly ready to fall off).
So cut the crap about “anything goes” here. Some people are uncareful, or had to ask about everything, but most clues are rather obvious in context of each other, with a few which are very obvious.
If the first mention of PID wasn’t until 1969: WHY were so-called “Clues” being “planted” in/on albums BEFORE 1969 (“Sgt. Pepper”: “HE DIE”; “Magical MysteryTour”: “I WAS”) + lyrics (“Glass Onion”: “HERE’S ANOTHER CLUE FOR YOU ALL: THE WALRUS WAS PAUL”)?? (SOMEBODY created them, and SOMEBODY (probably Lennon) had to “ok” them for inclusion in the album packages (and then set about to orchestrate their “discovery” as a way to generate interest + sell more albums?); “green eyes” aside (from LSD use?), to think that “PID” is ‘interesting-but-ludicrous’ (where on earth would you be able to find a left-handed bass guitarist/acoustic guitarist/pianist/singer in time for “Hello/Goodbye” and “Let It Be” filming?; in “The Beatles Recording Sessions” (by Mark Lewisohn; Harmony Books/1988) the entry for the 11/24/66 recording session of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ (Take 1)” notes “…scat harmonies by John, Paul and George.”
You are wrong re. left-handed in time for Hello/Goodbye. HE DOES NOT PLAY. Nor do the others: they mimic, in Hello/Goodbye (and I am the Walrus, in MMT film, earlier). For a year and a half or almost two, he does NOT PLAY on camera.
On the other hand (pun intended), he lightly plays in India left-handed, maybe. (There is some debate on that.) But it’s picking around, not playing seriously and it’s brief.
As to the rest of the info: of course they used Paul’s name for the recording harmonies. Why is everyone so shocked they called him Paul?
And — it was done. He is a talented man (some say not so, but I prefer to recognize that though different, it made the Beatles’ “trajectory” what we have in the end, and it worked out). But he is not Paulie.
I just wish detraction statements would be more carefully thought through. Problem is: most who post them would not do the deep thinking on the issue required to really find out or think through whether such things really are “alibis” or impossible, or really have to be interpreted in a PIA — Paul is Alive — way. (A “silly” issue often gets short shrift, unless one’s name is Sherlock Holmes.)
It turns out that not only is it POSSIBLE — an important point!!! — but it was done — a different point.
This is so funny – to think some people believe you can pull a lookalike / soundalike Beatle out of the space where the sun don’t shine and fool every sane person on the planet for 45 years.
Wait, this is a hoax? When did Paul is Dead become a hoax?
He doesn’t look ALIKE; he looks relatively similar, as some people do, especially if they learn body language and some vocal habits; he does not sound ALIKE; he sounds similar in some song moments and different in others.
However, until you learn how your brain actually processes information, you may not understand how it can fool you. In this case, you are fooled; some are not. Oh well.
I do SO want to believe Paul is dead and Faul took his place. It’s so much more entertaining than the Kardashians.
Unless I missed it, no mention of the F> Lee Balley TV special about the “Paul is Dead” situation; broadcast in November 1969, we wonder if the film of this TV program still exists?