In my last post I described The Bonzo Dog Band's track, Trouser Press and how it connected to The Beatles' '67 Christmas Record mini-drama about--I'm guessing--Paul's car accident. Fans will remember that The Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band was involved in the new, new Beatles 1967 "extravaganza" Magical Mystery Tour movie when Vivian Stanshall sang the Paul-Is-Dead/Replaced song, Death Cab For Cutie. You can listen to Trouser Press on Youtube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoWs8ER6PJo . The laughter and "raw meat" comment I mentioned in my last post is at the end of the song at 2:16-2:19 in the video. I am working on getting an uploaded reversal of that passage. Again, the reversal says "Hey, Paul" and then the laughter.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Connecting The 1967 Christmas Record To Paul's Accident
I've found alot of information connecting the events described in the Beatles' 1967 Christmas record and the rumor I've been exploring that Paul was involved in an accident near the M1 highway by Milton Keynes, England.
First, I found a track from The Bonzo Dog Band's 1968 album, The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse that connects to the '67 Christmas record. The track is called Trouser Press. Some of the lyrics are:
Well, do the trouser press, baby!
. . . .
Give it all you can.
It's much better than
A pre-fabricated concrete cold bunker.
In the Christmas record, they sing a jingle:
"Get wanderlust for your trousers, get wanderlust for your hand. (Hand is singular: not hands.)
At the beginning of Trouser Press, there is a spoken word introduction beginning:
Come on everybody, clap your hand. (Again, singular.)
But the most telling part of Trouser Press is at the end where you can here laughter and then the spoken word ending:
Raw meat!
I reversed the song, and the same passage has:
HEY PAUL! and then the laughter.
I'll have a link to the song and (hopefully) the reversed passage and much more coming up.
--- paulumbo
First, I found a track from The Bonzo Dog Band's 1968 album, The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse that connects to the '67 Christmas record. The track is called Trouser Press. Some of the lyrics are:
Well, do the trouser press, baby!
. . . .
Give it all you can.
It's much better than
A pre-fabricated concrete cold bunker.
In the Christmas record, they sing a jingle:
"Get wanderlust for your trousers, get wanderlust for your hand. (Hand is singular: not hands.)
At the beginning of Trouser Press, there is a spoken word introduction beginning:
Come on everybody, clap your hand. (Again, singular.)
But the most telling part of Trouser Press is at the end where you can here laughter and then the spoken word ending:
Raw meat!
I reversed the song, and the same passage has:
HEY PAUL! and then the laughter.
I'll have a link to the song and (hopefully) the reversed passage and much more coming up.
--- paulumbo
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Of Manual Exchanges and a Green DB6
I have been exploring the rumor that Paul had a car accident near the English town of Milton Keynes. As I talked about in my post of March 12, 2011, the direct emergency number in England at the time was 999. In the Beatles 1967 Christmas record, whoever was doing the narrating on the record (you can make out George and Ringos' voices and there are others) does a Paul-Was-Replaced mini-drama where Paul and someone else are calling to get help because of an emergency. Listen to it on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0p7Wfm5KbI at 4:17-4:30. They do not dial the 999 number directly, but, instead, go through an operator -- a manual system. According to the book, The Plan For Milton Keynes (v.2, Milton Keynew Development Corporation, 1970), "A building is in course of erection at Newport Pagnell to house the new automatic exchange replacing the existing manual one . . . ."(p. 345). So Newport Pagnell in 1966 had a manual exchange-- one that went through an operator. And the Christmas record is describing an interrupted emergency call made through a rural, manual system.
Paul bought a new Aston Martin DB6 in March, 1966. The color of the car was Goodwood Green, a leafy green color. Paul could have had any color car, even a custom color, no doubt. It could very well be that Paul chose the green color so the car could blend in with a rural, green background--his version of US Army camouflage.
Paul bought a new Aston Martin DB6 in March, 1966. The color of the car was Goodwood Green, a leafy green color. Paul could have had any color car, even a custom color, no doubt. It could very well be that Paul chose the green color so the car could blend in with a rural, green background--his version of US Army camouflage.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
(Straw)Bury Field(s) Forever (continued)
In the last post I was talking about Newport Pagnell (near the old and new town of Milton Keynes) as the possible site of Paul's car accident.
The song Penny Lane--the first song out of the gate in 1967 with the new, new Beatles--has several references to a fireman and the relevant line to Paul's accident would be:
Then the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain
Very strange.
As I said in my last post, the Newport Pagnell fire department website said the fire crew "have been first on the scene at numerous incidents on the M1 Motorway. These have included road traffic collisions where persons are trapped in their vehicles. . . ."
The "trapped in a vehicle" clue comes from the backmasked lyric in Revolution #9 that had sounds of a traffic accident with a voice crying:
Let me out! Let me out!
I also think that if the "authorities" got there hands on Paul after the accident, the "Let me out" lyrics could pertain to that, too.
The song, The Long and Winding Road hints at an accident with the lyrics:
The wild and windy night
That the rain washed away.
Has (left a pool of tears OR filled us all with tears)
Crying for the day.
And the song, Day In the Life, talks about a man who "blew his mind out in a car."
So there are persistant clues that a Beatle was involved in a car crash, and a credible rumor that it happened in the area of Milton Keynes.
The song Penny Lane--the first song out of the gate in 1967 with the new, new Beatles--has several references to a fireman and the relevant line to Paul's accident would be:
Then the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain
Very strange.
As I said in my last post, the Newport Pagnell fire department website said the fire crew "have been first on the scene at numerous incidents on the M1 Motorway. These have included road traffic collisions where persons are trapped in their vehicles. . . ."
The "trapped in a vehicle" clue comes from the backmasked lyric in Revolution #9 that had sounds of a traffic accident with a voice crying:
Let me out! Let me out!
I also think that if the "authorities" got there hands on Paul after the accident, the "Let me out" lyrics could pertain to that, too.
The song, The Long and Winding Road hints at an accident with the lyrics:
The wild and windy night
That the rain washed away.
Has (left a pool of tears OR filled us all with tears)
Crying for the day.
And the song, Day In the Life, talks about a man who "blew his mind out in a car."
So there are persistant clues that a Beatle was involved in a car crash, and a credible rumor that it happened in the area of Milton Keynes.
Monday, March 5, 2012
(Straw)Bury Field(s) Forever?
For the past two months I have been exploring the rumor posted on a French blog that Paul was involved in a car accident on a secondary road near Milton Keynes. I was focusing on the Pennyland area north of the old town of Milton Keynes, but I was looking at the maps in the book, The Plan For Milton Keynes (Milton Keynes Development Corporation, 1970) and I noticed an area on the outskirts of the new town of Milton Keynes. It is a ~ 183 acre site that has been used for centuries by the people of Newport Pagnell as a community farming site. It is called Bury Field.
In the 1960's (and decades afterward), the field was used in August as a site for Stanley Thurston's Fun Fair--a British equivalent of American carnivals and amusement parks. (See the website: http://oktrivia.com/REAL_WEBSITE/A_BURY_PARK_CHILDHOOD.html ) Quite close by is the North Bridge that goes over the River Ouse.
On the right is a painting of Bury Field and you can see the North Bridge at the far right, near the bottom of the photo. Just south of the North Bridge at 3 Ousebank St., was the Newport Pagnell Old Fire Station 1 that was in use from 1939-1974. I checked out the website for the Newport Pagnell fire department (at www.bucksfire.gov.uk/BucksFire/Fire+Stations/Newport+Pagnell ) and they said the fire crew "have been first on the scene at numerous incidents on the M1 Motorway. These have included road traffic collisions where persons are trapped in their vehicles . . . " I will add all the audio references that link this information with Paul's possible accident in the next post.
In the 1960's (and decades afterward), the field was used in August as a site for Stanley Thurston's Fun Fair--a British equivalent of American carnivals and amusement parks. (See the website: http://oktrivia.com/REAL_WEBSITE/A_BURY_PARK_CHILDHOOD.html ) Quite close by is the North Bridge that goes over the River Ouse.
On the right is a painting of Bury Field and you can see the North Bridge at the far right, near the bottom of the photo. Just south of the North Bridge at 3 Ousebank St., was the Newport Pagnell Old Fire Station 1 that was in use from 1939-1974. I checked out the website for the Newport Pagnell fire department (at www.bucksfire.gov.uk/BucksFire/Fire+Stations/Newport+Pagnell ) and they said the fire crew "have been first on the scene at numerous incidents on the M1 Motorway. These have included road traffic collisions where persons are trapped in their vehicles . . . " I will add all the audio references that link this information with Paul's possible accident in the next post.
---paulumbo
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Faul and Fohn On Paul and John
I listened to Paul's replacement sing a song, There You Are Eddie that he recorded at Apple Studios in January, 1969. Listen to it on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwI7wgXbxE .
At the beginning of the song, Faul sings about Eddie as a dog:
You pretend to be in with the in-crowd,
And you think [later in the song, Faul says "pretend"] that you want other boys.
But you know that you've been barking too loud, [the John replacement interjects: "Asking me for money"]
And you know that I can't stand the noise.
At 1:48 into the song, the John replacement says in the background: "Yeah, cause it's there you go, Bernard: he was given away." So Faul starts the song again with:
There you go Bernard, Bernard, Bernard,
I'm so sad to see you go, Bernard,
Bernard, you dog.
Beatle fans remember that Paul wrote the 1966 song, Woman under the pseudonym Bernard Webb.
So Faul's smirking song was about Paul, and John as Eddie.
Further proof of this comes in a film called Imagine John Lennon released in 1988. The relevant part of the video can be seen at: www.veoh.com/watch/v27957045jwnXjr?h1=Beatle+Ed .
George and the John replacement are talking about "Beatle Ed":
George: I saw Beatle . . . Beatle Ed.
Fohn: Beatle Ed. How is he?
George: Oh, he's alright. But he was just going off on a tour.
Fohn: Beatle Ed's not doing so well these days, is he? Beatle Ed.
George: Oh, he's #5 in Sweden.
Fohn: Oh, in Sweden, I see . . (Then he gives a big wink for the camera.)
George: (Makes a barking noise.) Just like the old days, isn't it?
Fohn: Yes.
George: (Makes a little howl.)
If our John wasn't the original John, his real name could very well be Edward.
At the beginning of the song, Faul sings about Eddie as a dog:
You pretend to be in with the in-crowd,
And you think [later in the song, Faul says "pretend"] that you want other boys.
But you know that you've been barking too loud, [the John replacement interjects: "Asking me for money"]
And you know that I can't stand the noise.
At 1:48 into the song, the John replacement says in the background: "Yeah, cause it's there you go, Bernard: he was given away." So Faul starts the song again with:
There you go Bernard, Bernard, Bernard,
I'm so sad to see you go, Bernard,
Bernard, you dog.
Beatle fans remember that Paul wrote the 1966 song, Woman under the pseudonym Bernard Webb.
So Faul's smirking song was about Paul, and John as Eddie.
Further proof of this comes in a film called Imagine John Lennon released in 1988. The relevant part of the video can be seen at: www.veoh.com/watch/v27957045jwnXjr?h1=Beatle+Ed .
George and the John replacement are talking about "Beatle Ed":
George: I saw Beatle . . . Beatle Ed.
Fohn: Beatle Ed. How is he?
George: Oh, he's alright. But he was just going off on a tour.
Fohn: Beatle Ed's not doing so well these days, is he? Beatle Ed.
George: Oh, he's #5 in Sweden.
Fohn: Oh, in Sweden, I see . . (Then he gives a big wink for the camera.)
George: (Makes a barking noise.) Just like the old days, isn't it?
Fohn: Yes.
George: (Makes a little howl.)
If our John wasn't the original John, his real name could very well be Edward.
