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14 June 2016
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Hey look, it’s Billy Shears with ghost Paul McCartney .
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11 November 2010
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4.09pm
22 January 2016
Offline Isn’t it true that his brother had to take a DNA test?
9.52pm
15 May 2015
Offline This is related to this topic. There’s a video of a guy in London who looks amazingly like Paul. I’ve always noted that Paul has a unique physiognomy — until I saw this guy. What I’d like to know is, what the hell he is saying? I can’t make out any of his sentences; a combination of the accent and the poor sound quality (and the people talking and laughing over his words).
Can anyone help me and tell me what he’s saying?
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5.59am
27 March 2015
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Oh dear, you’ve tumbled down the ‘John Halliday’ rabbithole. Alright, so John Halliday is a Scouser (not a Londoner), who has worked for the National Trust as the live-in tourguide of Paul’s childhood home at Forthlin Road. He was sacked years ago for being drunk on the job. Some PID/PWR believers have gotten it into their heads that John Halliday actually is Paul, who left the Beatles because he couldn’t handle the stress of fame. Now, on first glance, there might be some superficial similarities between this man and Paul. However, it soon becomes obvious he has made his Paul imitation into a schtick he put on for the tourists. Looking at him more closely, or even listening, instantly reveals this man’s resemblance to Paul is only very fleeting.
I’d be able to transcribe part of the video for you, but the sound quality is too poor to make much of it. Basically, he’s boasting about not having paid for a TV license and how he managed to fool the licensing company, but it doesn’t matter anymore because his TV went on the blink anyway. What you can clearly tell, though, is that his Scouse is off. That is to say, he sounds like he grew up in Speke, since his accent resembles George’s a bit. Though Paul did live in Speke as well, he never had that distinct accent, or that heavy an accent at all, even. All four Beatles sounded different because they grew up in different areas of Liverpool. How anyone can fall for this man’s act is beyond me.
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1 November 2013
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Also Paul is different cause his mother tried getting him to speak the Queen’s English.
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9.48am
14 December 2009
Offline Starr Shine? said
the Queen’s English.
Yes, she is!
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10.57pm
15 May 2015
Offline Thanks Mademoiselle Kitty, interesting stuff. I never knew that Liverpool accents were so granularized that they could be that distinct. It also takes an ear and culture to detect it, I suspect. They all sound alike to me! I still think he looks a lot like Paul, unlike anyone else I’ve ever seen.
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5.14pm
15 May 2015
Offline What, no thanks for poor little ol’ me…?
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5.21pm
15 May 2015
Offline P.S.: Googling around, I find it odd that no photos of this John Halliday exist taken when he was a teenager or young man in, say, his 20s. You’d think it would be easy for those who would wish to demolish this nuisance of a man to find such pics and publish them (with proof of their authenticity).
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5.25pm
1 November 2013
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What, no thanks for poor little ol’ me…?
Thanks are forever, the world is fickle.
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6 July 2016
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I remember some years ago watching a series of youtube videos about the “Paul is dead” myth and there were maybe 30 parts or more. I remember they were quite convincing and also very creepy. I sat up in the early hours watching them once and got really creeped out. I can’t find them on youtube now. Anyone know the videos I mean?
Incidentally I don’t believe in the myth but I wanted to show someone who is interested in it. They had good entertainment value.
PS I just read Joe’s article on this which is very good. https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..l-is-dead/
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6.13pm
19 May 2016
Offline They should’ve called it Is Paul Dead instead of Paul Is Dead because they had no concrete proof that Paul was dead and Faul was Billy Shears.
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17 December 2012
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They should’ve called it Is Paul Dead instead of Paul Is Dead because they had no concrete proof that Paul was dead and Faul was Billy Shears.
Ask anyone who believes, and no matter how many holes, they’ll give you concrete proof. It is surely we who get it wrong for not believing that their badly painted chipboard is a marble temple entrance which should drop our jaws in the revelation it offers.
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7.48pm
14 June 2016
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Ask anyone who believes, and no matter how many holes, they’ll give you concrete proof. It is surely we who get it wrong for not believing that their badly painted chipboard is a marble temple entrance which should drop our jaws in the revelation it offers.
Obviously Paul is dead, the moon landing was fake, and the earth is flat. In the words of Alfred Yankovic “Everything you know is wrong”.
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11.04am
27 March 2015
Offline Leppo said
I remember some years ago watching a series of youtube videos about the “Paul is dead” myth and there were maybe 30 parts or more. I remember they were quite convincing and also very creepy. I sat up in the early hours watching them once and got really creeped out. I can’t find them on youtube now. Anyone know the videos I mean?Incidentally I don’t believe in the myth but I wanted to show someone who is interested in it. They had good entertainment value.
PS I just read Joe’s article on this which is very good. https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..l-is-dead/
You probably mean the Rotten Apple series, which is infamous for making much ado about nothing. Loads of snippets that mean nothing, but are made to look or sound like something by endlessly repeating and/or slowing them down.
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17 January 2016
Offline Leppo said
I remember some years ago watching a series of youtube videos about the “Paul is dead” myth and there were maybe 30 parts or more. I remember they were quite convincing and also very creepy. I sat up in the early hours watching them once and got really creeped out. I can’t find them on youtube now. Anyone know the videos I mean?Incidentally I don’t believe in the myth but I wanted to show someone who is interested in it. They had good entertainment value.
PS I just read Joe’s article on this which is very good. https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..l-is-dead/
Yeah, Joe’s article on PID is really good. 
This is basically describing me. I don’t believe this codswollop for a second. However it’s my favorite urban legend just because it can be so creepy and some of the clues quite convincing. I love looking up stuff sometimes late at night and creeping myself out. 
Here’s the channel with the Rotten Apple / PID stuff on it:
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15 February 2015
Offline @Pineapple Records said
I never knew that Liverpool accents were so granularized that they could be that distinct. It also takes an ear and culture to detect it, I suspect. They all sound alike to me!
Mostly you need to pay attention. I’m American, but I always have an ear peeled for accents of all kinds. I’ve long noticed the difference between the Beatles’ accents — it’s one way I can always tell their voices apart. Paul’s accent is certainly the poshest and least Scouse, and what Liverpool he had has gotten a bit worn away over the years. (Ringo as well: he speaks a slightly jarring combination of Scouse and Los Angeles, but his accent was more Scousey to begin with.)
As you can see, I 
accents 
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9.13am
2 November 2016
Offline I find it endlessly amusing when people cite the change in Paul’s accent as evidence for this conspiracy. Accents develop over time depending on where you live or the people you talk to the most. Personally I find Scouse very easy to understand, and actually have some trouble understanding Ringo now that he sounds a bit more American-ish. I’m not sure what I’d call Paul’s accent now, but I certainly wouldn’t call it evidence.
I definitely don’t believe this theory to be true, but it can be fun to keep up with just to see how dedicated people are to it. Some of the “clues” are just too silly (or show a fundamental lack of understanding of how humans develop as they age) for me to take seriously at all.
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27 March 2015
Offline Living in London and spending the majority of his time with Americans definitely changed his accent. I’ve noticed the Scouse has been making a comeback these past years, though. It’s especially noticeable in the hard, drawn out g at the end of some words, which gives them that typical Northern sound. But yeah, accents do change and I’ve often wondered why people put so much emphasis on it.
What I love, though, is how you can watch an interview with ‘old’ Paul, and then out of nowhere you see ‘young’ Paul popping up in something he says, or a smile, or a gesture. No matter how old the man gets, ‘our kid’ is still in there somewhere and it’s always fun to get a glimpse of him. Funnily, those PID folk never appear to notice that…
Then again, they also can’t explain how James ended up with eyes that are the exact same shape as Paul’s. Even those little wrinkles and his eyelashes are identical. But then, those people have a habit of ignoring the countless identical features and prefer to get hysterical over a different facial expression….
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