Conspicuous By Her Absence

I am reading English singer Marianne Faithfull's autobiography, Faithfull:  An Autobiography (with David Dalton; Little Brown, 1994).  She and her husband John Dunbar were friends of Paul. 
There is a story floating around that Paul had a romantic relationship with Maggie McGivern, who was, supposedly, a nanny for Faithfull and Dunbar's infant son, Nicholas.  Their son was born in November, 1965 and McGivern, according to the story, would have become the Dunbar's first nanny soon after that, because the story talks about Paul and McGivern's relationship turning serious during The Beatles' recording of the Revolver album, six months after Paul and McGivern's first meeting.
Interestingly, Faithfull never mentions McGivern in her memoir.  Since there are later photos with McGivern and the Paul replacement, who McGivern did have a relationship with, you wonder whether she pushed back the time of the relationship to give a continuity between Paul and the replacement.

The Lost Beatles (continued)

In the last post, I described the Bob Bonis photograph collection book I read.  Again, I don't think Paul or John came to America on the last Beatles tour of 1966. 
In my December 7, 2010 post, I told you about the website that has photographs from the book.  It's at:  http://www.nfagallery.com .  (And, again, this isn't an advertisement for the site or book.)
They've changed some of the photographs, but if you take a look at the Paul McCartney labeled photos [click on photographs on the left of the site and then click on Paul McCartney], you can see in photos #6 and 15 from Cincinnati; #17 from Philadelphia; and #25 from Detroit (all from the 1966 tour, although the Detroit photos are mislabeled at first as 1965), the subtle differences in the facial features of "Paul."  It wasn't  Paul.

The Lost Beatles

I recently read The Lost Beatles Photographs The Bob Bonis Archive 1964-1966 by Larry Marion (!t [HarperCollins] publ., 2011).  Bonis was the tour manager for all three of  The Beatles' U.S. tours.  He loved photography and took almost 900 photographs of John, Paul, George and Ringo.  I pored over the photographs and have grimly concluded that Paul (and John) never made it to America on the 1966 tour.
 
In the mockumentary about The Beatles, The Rutles All You Need Is Cash, they interviewed Mick Jagger.  He said that The Beatles played so far away from the fans that they could have put anyone on stage and who would know the difference?  I believe that is what happened to Paul (and John) in 1966.

The common timeline of Paul disappearing has been sometime in September, 1966.  From what I saw in these photographs, I would push back the date to AUGUST, 1966.