Posted on 09/04/2010 1:13:52 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
OXON HILL, Md. - It's a decades-old rumor few attending this weekend's Beatles tribute festival at National Harbor have any doubt putting to rest: is Paul McCartney dead? Their uniform answer is no! And yet, a new documentary that had its worldwide premiere at the festival Friday claims McCartney died in a car crash in 1966.
"They had covered up the death at the behest of her Majesty's government and the British intelligence service, MI5," said the documentary's director Joel Gilbert.
He says the British government was "afraid there would be a rash of suicides worldwide if Paul McCartney's death was made public."
Gilbert's documentary is called Paul McCartney Really Is Dead - the Last Testament of George Harrison. He says it is based on audio recordings Harrison reportedly made in which he spills the beans on the Beatles' death-denying coverup.
The filmmaker says the man we've celebrated the past 44 years is a guy named William Campbell, who was discovered during a secret Paul McCartney look-alike contest staged by Dick Clark's American Bandstand.
"The Beatles came out and denied it and then they broke up within six months," Gilbert said on the FOX 5 Morning News.
Bruce Spizer has researched and written several books about the Beatles.
"It's simply not true. Paul McCartney is Paul McCartney. He's not William Campbell in disguise or anything like that, said Spizer.
Gilbert says you can find evidence of Paul McCartney's death littered throughout the Beatles extensive body of work.
"Take a look at the cover of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. That scene is essentially a funeral for Paul McCartney. If you look at the lyrics at that time, they say 'he died at five o'clock on a Wednesday morning. We had a pool of tears,'" Gilbert said.
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Thanks, will do!
How about looking at the 200 #1 hits?
What’s that song, Per?
I believed it when someone told me all the signs pointing to the fact that he was dead. Then snack time was over and we got out the crayons.
Well that might explain all the crappy songs “Paul” put out post-Beatles. After all, could the same Paul McCartney who wrote songs like “I’m Looking Through You” and “Michelle” for the Beatles possibly attach his name to tripe such as “Silly Love Songs” and “Ebony and Ivory”?
I do agree with you on Lennon. Not to sound gushy but his “Across the Universe’’ helped me come to terms with my mothers death. I’d have to say though McCartney was a musical genius in his own right. Musically, that is.
BRAIN DEAD giving Hussein a BJ in the White House
>>> this band defined modern music
That would be referring to the Go-Gos of course.
200?
Googled and found this: "The Beatles actually had 27 songs that made it to the number one spot on the American Charts.... they have a cd out called 1, which is all of the songs that made it to the top spot....."
OTOH, if you're referring to Lennon's #1 hits in his post-Beatles days, I believe he got one #1 hit song that he co-sang with Elton John, and then a solo song from his last album that went to #1 after the news of his death.
Perhaps you were speaking metaphorically, as in "a gazillion #1 hits".
No way. That would be referring to Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, of course.
I dare you to name any other rock & roll band that yodeled! Go on, I'm waiting.
LOL!
>>> I dare you to name any other rock & roll band that yodeled!
pfffpt
Hard-rocker John Denver yodeled in “Calypso”, his love letter to Jacques Cousteau.
But the Go-Gos had the beat they had the beat they had the beat, ensuring their spot at the pinnacle of modern music.
But as I recall, they were an instrumental-only band (because their lips were sealed).
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