The name Lucy (or the variant, Lucie) is mentioned by Paul, John and replacement John [the man who replaced John Lennon beginning in 1966] from 1965-on:
1965: On the tape that had Paul's Christmas gift recording for the other Beatles (called Unforgettable), John recorded over it with a reading from children's author Beatrix Potter's book, The Tale of Mrs. Tigglywinkle which is about a little girl named Lucie who loses handkerchiefs and a pinafore and goes looking for them. (A passage from the book): "Lucie climbed upon the stile [a set of steps for passing over a fence or wall] and looked up the hill behind Little-town - a hill that goes up-up into the clouds as though it has no top!"
1966: Paul's quote from John Micheline's short story, "In the Bronx": "Lucy had no panties on." [Mispelled as "Lucie" in the article.] The boy in the short story goes to a playground and finds Lucy swinging on a swing. The air pushes her dress aside and she has no underwear underneath. He describes her as a wild girl. The boy takes her to a park and kisses her. She pulls away from him and tells him she will tell her boyfriend that the boy raped her. The next day, the boyfriend finds the boy and beats him up.
1967: Replacement John's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds about someone on an LSD trip and a girl named Lucy who appears and disappears throughout the experience.
1973: Replacement John's Bring on the Lucie (Freda People) which was supposed to be an anti-war song but has more personally-directed lyrics like:
[spoken word intro]: Alright boys, over the hill! . . .
We don't care what flag you're waving;
We don't even want to know your name.
We don't care where you're from or where you're going;
All we know is that you came.
You're making all our decisions . . . [This passage suggests that the B/Featles were not fully aware of who was behind the things happening to them; akin to Faul's Maybe I'm Amazed's lyric: "Maybe I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man who's in the middle of something that he doesn't really understand."]
Well, we were caught with our hands in the air . . .
We understand your paranoia,
But we don't want to play your game.
It's difficult to speculate how all the references connect, but it appears that Paul met a girl--or thought he did when he was in a hallucinatory state--possibly in a park--and something happened between them. An incident--or virtual incident--that could have been used against Paul.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Paul Was Trying To Tell Us Something (continued)
In the last post I quoted from a short story--"In The Bronx"--that Paul said he was reading when he was interviewed by journalist Maureen Cleave for an article she was writing. The paragraph in the short story after the one I quoted I think is also indicative of Paul's state of mind at the time:
"I walked wobbly with my head limp and I did not know why, but I walked and there was fear in me. I did not know what was good or bad. I did not know my mother, my brother, or my father. No one seemed to be real. Everyone seemed to be acting a part in a play. I did not understand the reason why life must be such a mystery."
In the short story, it was the boy's state of mind. For Paul, I believe it was a coerced state of mind.
"I walked wobbly with my head limp and I did not know why, but I walked and there was fear in me. I did not know what was good or bad. I did not know my mother, my brother, or my father. No one seemed to be real. Everyone seemed to be acting a part in a play. I did not understand the reason why life must be such a mystery."
In the short story, it was the boy's state of mind. For Paul, I believe it was a coerced state of mind.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Paul Was Trying To Tell Us Something
Maureen Cleave, a British journalist and friend of The Beatles, interviewed each of them starting in March, 1966 for The London Evening Standard newspaper. Near the beginning of the article she wrote:
I read the short story and, again, during this critical time period I think Paul was trying to clue people into what was happening in his life. The Lucy quote I'll write about in the next post, but there was a very interesting part of the short story that I believe reflected Paul's situation at the time.
First, background on the short story. The character Micheline was writing about was a boy growing up in the Bronx, probably in the 1940's. He was describing the boy's feelings and his surroundings.
The quote:
"This interesting and complicated young man arrived in the restaurant for lunch with a book he had just bought. A costly and significant-looking paperback entitled In The Bronx and Other Stories [story collection by Jack Micheline.] He opened it at random, composed his features and, in a solemn voice, began to read it aloud: 'Lucie (sic) had no panties on . . .'"
I read the short story and, again, during this critical time period I think Paul was trying to clue people into what was happening in his life. The Lucy quote I'll write about in the next post, but there was a very interesting part of the short story that I believe reflected Paul's situation at the time.
First, background on the short story. The character Micheline was writing about was a boy growing up in the Bronx, probably in the 1940's. He was describing the boy's feelings and his surroundings.
The quote:
I think Paul was bucking the system and I think they were not going to let him leave The Beatles quietly."All the time there were forces at work trying to shape my mind, to tell me what to do and how to think, to say this was good and this was bad, to tell me what to believe or disbelieve. Luckily I had a mind and I was able to hold just a little doubt in my mind. Otherwise I would have been crushed and shaped into a mind that was not mine."
Friday, July 22, 2011
Disinformation With Intent To Discourage
If you are reading this blog you are interested or at least curious about the mystery surrounding Paul McCartney and his disappearance around September/October, 1966. Theories abound and I'll be adding more information to them tomorrow or Sunday.
Let's take a look back, though, at The Beatles. They were 4 (or possibly 5 or 6) young working class men who were musically talented and wanting to make a name for themselves in England in the early-and-mid 1960's. They had working class parents who had limited educations. They had what amounted to high-school educations (and Ringo had less.) They were intelligent but because of the intensely hard work it took for them to establish themselves they had practically no time to add to their intellectual knowledge. They had working class sensibilities which means they were extremely down to earth, practical and literal. Because of the rough and tumble atmosphere they found themselves in at the beginning of their collective career they also were street-wise. They were very close knit and surrounded themselves with a very few men who had sensibilities like them (except in some senses, of course, for Brian Epstein.) They grew up in a country with an entrenched class system that was all about limiting or denying opportunities to anyone who did not have wealth in his or her background or some tie to a royal title.
They were interested in making music and making money.
So when you, dear readers, read about The Beatles' involvement in the occult, the illuminati, some cosmic conspiracy, reincarnation or a dozen other far-out ideas, I wouldn't believe a word of it. It's the kind of disinformation that is used to disgust people and get them to not look at what REALLY happened to The Beatles.
Let's take a look back, though, at The Beatles. They were 4 (or possibly 5 or 6) young working class men who were musically talented and wanting to make a name for themselves in England in the early-and-mid 1960's. They had working class parents who had limited educations. They had what amounted to high-school educations (and Ringo had less.) They were intelligent but because of the intensely hard work it took for them to establish themselves they had practically no time to add to their intellectual knowledge. They had working class sensibilities which means they were extremely down to earth, practical and literal. Because of the rough and tumble atmosphere they found themselves in at the beginning of their collective career they also were street-wise. They were very close knit and surrounded themselves with a very few men who had sensibilities like them (except in some senses, of course, for Brian Epstein.) They grew up in a country with an entrenched class system that was all about limiting or denying opportunities to anyone who did not have wealth in his or her background or some tie to a royal title.
They were interested in making music and making money.
So when you, dear readers, read about The Beatles' involvement in the occult, the illuminati, some cosmic conspiracy, reincarnation or a dozen other far-out ideas, I wouldn't believe a word of it. It's the kind of disinformation that is used to disgust people and get them to not look at what REALLY happened to The Beatles.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Another Bit Of Evidence That There Were Two Pauls
Cottages and Villas The Birth Of The Garden Suburb by art historian Mireille Galinou chronicles the development of the English Eyre estate that resulted in the area of Northwest London called St. John's Wood. Ms. Galinou spent five years researching the Eyre estate and the book is a thorough and detailed work [not an advertisement.]
St. John's Wood is where Paul bought his house so I was interested in what Ms. Galinou would write about him. This is what she wrote about Paul McCartney in the Appendix 10, Distinguished Residents section of the book:
Sir Paul McCARTNEY (born 1942), musician
The Liverpool singer, former member of the Beatles, has been based in St. John's Wood
for a number of years. He purchased his house there as early as 1966 but did not
immediately adopt it as his residence.
Paul, by all the accounts I've read, bought his house on April 13, 1965 and moved into it in late March, 1966. So Ms. Galinou is referring to the Paul replacement and not Paul.
St. John's Wood is where Paul bought his house so I was interested in what Ms. Galinou would write about him. This is what she wrote about Paul McCartney in the Appendix 10, Distinguished Residents section of the book:
Sir Paul McCARTNEY (born 1942), musician
The Liverpool singer, former member of the Beatles, has been based in St. John's Wood
for a number of years. He purchased his house there as early as 1966 but did not
immediately adopt it as his residence.
Paul, by all the accounts I've read, bought his house on April 13, 1965 and moved into it in late March, 1966. So Ms. Galinou is referring to the Paul replacement and not Paul.
