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There has been some question about the number of fake Pauls that were photographed and filmed from 1964-on.  Paul must have been aware of attempts to introduce face-doubles and I have found a clue that suggests he did.

In a Youtube video:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OyoEcnuG5g  Paul, in an afternoon rehearsal for The Beatles' next appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show introduces the song All My Loving by counting off  "1, 2, 3, 4, 5!" [at 5:06-5:07 in the video].  What was he signalling?  It could be he was talking about a replacement Paul that showed up in beach photos during The Beatles stay in Miami in February, 1964.  Check out one of the photos at:  www.jeddy.org/paul/towelboy.jpg     I say that wasn't Paul.

Rehearsals for Replacement Paul

The man who replaced Paul appeared on stage for the first time--from what I can see-- in Hamburg, Germany on June 26, 1966.  You can see him in a Youtube video at the Hamburg press conference at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGzezaSkYQs .
There has been speculation among the Paul-replaced, Paul-dead investigators that replacement Paul had been in Hamburg as a musician in the early 1960's, so when there are reports about "Paul's Hamburg 'homecoming'", it very well could have been about fake Paul, too.

I believe both real Paul and fake Paul were in Japan in late June-early July, 1966.  I think real Paul played the first concert on 6/30/66, and fake Paul took over from there.

Fake Paul was at the first interview with The Beatles at the Tokyo hotel.  You can see that Youtube video at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou__mIGfimU.  He also took part in the famous four-part Beatles Tokyo painting.  You can see him in the Youtube video at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQkJLCrLr6o .  There are two images of Faul--fake or replacement Paul-- from 0:23-0:31.

The Rutles' All You Need Is Cash Clues

In 1978, Eric Idle (of Monte Python's Flying Circus comedy group) and Neil Innes (of Monte Python and Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band satirical groups) wrote and starred in a satire about The Beatles called All You Need Is Cash.  They covered the Paul Is Dead story with a  mixture of George, Paul and replacement Paul references.

In the video on YouTube:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PgzRizr6o  they cover the rumor that Stig--the George character--might have died.  At 0:06-0:16 in the video, the commentator (Eric Idle) says,
       "Stig had hidden in the background so much that a rumor went around in 1969 that he was dead.  He was supposed to have been killed in a flash fire at a water bed shop and replaced by a plastic and wax replica from Madame Tussauds."  My interpretation of this is that they were alluding to:  the Lotus hyperbaric chamber bed I've mentioned in previous posts; and to the man who replaced Paul who needed plastic surgery to resemble Paul enough to convince a world audience.

The movie talked about the Paul Is Dead clues.  Beginning at 0:27-0:30, they say :
      ". . . he'd not said a word since 1966."
At 1:30-1:38 (in a reference to, apparently, Linda Eastman, who married the man who replaced Paul):
      "He'd fallen in bed with Gertrude Strange . . . whose father had invented the Limpet mine." 
 Limpet mines were naval mines developed in England during World War II that were attached by frogmen (underwater divers) to enemy ships.  Again, I think this was an inside joke about Paul and the hyperbaric oxygen chamber.

What Was Paul Signalling?

The Beatles appeared before a huge audience in Liverpool for the premiere of A Hard Day's Night on July 10, 1964.  They went out on a balcony to wave to the crowd.  Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI6LAQB5b58.  At 3:20 and 4:06, Paul gives a thumbs up signal to the crowd.  At 3:09 and 3:53, Paul crosses his arms with his thumbs up and at 4:13 he crosses his wrists with his thumbs up.  I was reading a book, Underwater Swimming by George F. Brookes and Robert B. Matkin, in collaboration with the British Sub-aqua Club (1962) and the symbol for "wash out"--cease diving and return on the surface--made by the surface party lookout to underwater divers is that signal.  Again, it could be a clue that Paul was aware, or was learning, deep-sea diving.

Paul on Ed Sullivan Show, 1965

In the previous post, I posted the MBE interview of June 12, 1965 with "Paul" as Paul.  In the first video,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7YIaCaikAs they are discussing appearing on the Ed Sullivan program.  The Beatles recorded six songs before a live audience at Sullivan's studio on August 14, 1965 and their appearance was broadcast September 12, 1965.  Paul sang Yesterday.  (See the video at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms65JQTBCcQ .)  "Paul" at the MBE interview is talking to the camera and saying hi to Ed and at 3:10, he says, "Oh, hi, dead."  This could have been a slip of the tongue meant for Paul.

When Did The Replacement Do His First Public Interview?

I was looking at YouTube videos of The Beatles reaction to receiving their MBE's (Members of the British Empire) awards.  The interviews were taped June 12, 1965, and that may have been the first public appearance of Paul's replacement.
Take a look at two videos:   www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7YIaCaikAs  and www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJCTB3g9Xdw

On the first video (at 1:20), "Paul" looks as though his face is bruised and that it's been covered with makeup.  From the front, he looks like Paul.  But from the left side, it is clearly another man.

On the second video, there is the following exchange:
0:33-0:36 - Interviewer:  "Have any of you have any ambitions left at all?"
0:37-0:38 - George:         "Yeah, I want to be an astronaut."
   (Laughter)
0:40-0:43 - "Paul":          "Yeah, and I want to be a deep-sea fisherman."

Could this have been references back to the high-pressure oxygen Lotus bed that I have mentioned in earlier posts?  High-pressure oxygen is used in aeronautics and deep-sea diving.