Then I was listening to Manfred Mann's Fox On The Run. Manfred Mann was a popular British pop/rock band of the 1960's (for those of you who don't know.) The bass player of the group Klaus Voormann was a friend of The Beatles. He designed The Beatles' Revolver album cover. His friendship with The Beatles spanned from their early days in Hamburg through the group's break-up, so obviously he had some knowledge about what was happening with them.
Fox On The Run was released on November 29, 1968 and was basically a lament about a young man brought down by a girl. The lyrics:
She walked through the corn leading down to the river.
Her hair shone like gold in the hot morning sun.
She took all the love a poor boy could give her.
And left me to die like the fox on the run.
Everybody knows the reason for the fall:
When woman tempted man down in paradise's hall.
This woman tempted me all right, then took me for a ride.
But like the lonely fox I need a place to hide.
Come take a glass of wine and fortify your soul.
We'll talk about the world and friends we used to know.
I'll illustrate, a girl put me on the floor.
The game is nearly up, the hounds are at my door.
Like the fox on the run.
Listening to the song in reverse, I found three runs--beginning at 0:16, 1:27, and 2:20 where Manfred Mann sings the words: PAUL FORGOT.
The group wouldn't have been talking about Paul Jones, their former bandmate, who, from my research, was "scandal"-less.
An interesting note on the imagery in the song: The Rolling Stones had a promotional video filmed for the 1967 song We Love You I wrote about in my last post. Take a look at the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF5sDwYSTCM . From 2:32-3:08 in the video, there is a sequence where Marianne Faithfull presents an animal skin--a fox or wolf--to the "judge" at the "trial". Then later--at 3:32-3:49--the animal skin is laying on a table and Mick Jagger (as the defendant) comes out from underneath it and looks at the camera.
Another interesting note on the song. The area around Milton Keynes-Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire has been a rural area and was definitely one in 1966. I found an internet listing for a 1965 sale of an estate in the area and the farm land on the estate was sown to corn: http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/hav/docs/linhistory/llsale1965.html . At the edge of Bury Field, Newport Pagnell, by the River Ouse, is a street called Mill Street, named after the corn mills that were once located there. So a woman walking through cornfields in Newport Pagnell in 1966 is very much a possibility.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Other Voices, Part 2
(Note: My last post was published on April Fool's day (just noticed that), but the post wasn't meant as a joke: backmasking is real.)
Now . . . I started listening to songs from 1967-on backwards to see if there were "echoes" of references to Paul and I found five of them. I was going to put them all in one post, but I'm pulling out the first one (chronologically) that I found because it involves The Rolling Stones and the replacements for Paul and John and, from the backmasking I found, was not about what was going on with The Rolling Stones, but, instead, was definitely about Paul.
The song is We Love You, that the Stones recorded as a single on June 12, 1967 and released on August 18, 1967 in the UK and September 2, 1967 in the US. There was a promotional film made of the single that supposedly depicted the problems the Stones had with a drug bust in 1967. But when I listened to the song backwards, I found them singing:
at 2:22: "he walrus"
2:53-2:58: "Paulie"
3:01-3:07: "Here Paulie"
3:26-3:30: "Paulie"
3:33-3:39: "Who's Paulie"
And at the end of the mono version of the song:
0:02-0:11: "Paul . . . ah, he's dead."
The B/Featles' I Am The Walrus was recorded September 5, 1967 and released as a single November 24, 1967, so the Stones song was out before The B/Featle's song was even recorded.
Also, the replacements for (our) Paul and John sang background on We Love You.
The promotional film was about an arrest of a man and a trial. Some of the lyrics played forward are:
We don't care if you hound we
And lock the doors around we . . .
My theory is that Paul was being forced out of the group and was planning an exit in the way of an escape. I think he had an accident--whether it was a real accident or whether he was forced off the road remains to be seen--and I think the English "authorities" got their hands on him and never let go.
Now . . . I started listening to songs from 1967-on backwards to see if there were "echoes" of references to Paul and I found five of them. I was going to put them all in one post, but I'm pulling out the first one (chronologically) that I found because it involves The Rolling Stones and the replacements for Paul and John and, from the backmasking I found, was not about what was going on with The Rolling Stones, but, instead, was definitely about Paul.
The song is We Love You, that the Stones recorded as a single on June 12, 1967 and released on August 18, 1967 in the UK and September 2, 1967 in the US. There was a promotional film made of the single that supposedly depicted the problems the Stones had with a drug bust in 1967. But when I listened to the song backwards, I found them singing:
at 2:22: "he walrus"
2:53-2:58: "Paulie"
3:01-3:07: "Here Paulie"
3:26-3:30: "Paulie"
3:33-3:39: "Who's Paulie"
And at the end of the mono version of the song:
0:02-0:11: "Paul . . . ah, he's dead."
The B/Featles' I Am The Walrus was recorded September 5, 1967 and released as a single November 24, 1967, so the Stones song was out before The B/Featle's song was even recorded.
Also, the replacements for (our) Paul and John sang background on We Love You.
The promotional film was about an arrest of a man and a trial. Some of the lyrics played forward are:
We don't care if you hound we
And lock the doors around we . . .
My theory is that Paul was being forced out of the group and was planning an exit in the way of an escape. I think he had an accident--whether it was a real accident or whether he was forced off the road remains to be seen--and I think the English "authorities" got their hands on him and never let go.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
The Reality Of Backmasking--A Short Note
People reading this blog will generally be in agreement that something went wrong with The Beatles in 1966. If you read some of the skeptical comments on this, though, you may shy away from exploring the reality of it. I haven't and that's why I'm plowing into every aspect of bizarreness connected with The Beatles during that time. One aspect was the backmasking that happened on their songs and other groups' songs. There have been attempts to steer people away from the truth by casting doubt on the reality of backmasking (putting messages in songs that are heard when the songs are played backward.) I've been listening to songs backward for several days now I can assure people that The Beatles and others put very clear backmasked messages in some songs. Backmasking is real.
