I had a feeling The Bee Gees would comment on Paul's situation and I found backmasked references to him in The Bee Gees song, I Started A Joke, recorded on June 25, 1968 for their Idea album.
The forward lyrics suggest that the Paul-Is-Dead rumor was a joke but that Paul did die sometime between the beginning of the "joke" and the recording of the song--a variation on some of the theories. The lyrics say Paul "fell out of bed, hurting his head." I'm staying with the theory that Paul suffered some sort of accident, but survived it.
The backmasked lyrics say:
0:07-0:26 Paul, he moptop
0:44-0:47 Given up [his?] quest
1:15-1:17 He moptop
1:36-1:38 Given up [his?] quest
2:06-2:08 He moptop
2:32-2:33 He moptop
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Somebody Else Had Other Ideas
I read an interview of (our) John and Ringo that appeared in the British pop/rock magazine Melody Maker on July 9, 1966. Journalist Alan Walsh asked them ten questions. The most interesting question was number 7:
7. Could The Beatles cut out personal appearances and just make records, with the occasional big TV appearance?
John: Not the way the fans keep moaning about not seeing us all the time.
Ringo: No.
What's interesting, of course, is that after our Paul and John were replaced in 1966, that is exactly the plan the new, new Beatles followed--they never toured again, they made studio albums, and in the history of the group from 1967 to the break up, they had two big TV appearances: the first was the live appearance on the international television "spectacular" Our World that was broadcast on June 25, 1967 and featured a live performance by The B/Featles doing All You Need Is Love with a boffo back-up chorus of The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Moon and Graham Nash--truly a big TV appearance. The second was their Magical Mystery Tour film first broadcast by the BBC on December 26, 1967. After 1967, the friction between the artificially assembled members started wearing on them and--except for an occasional promo film for a new song--the only other big appearance they could put together was the rooftop concert of January 30, 1969.
Also interesting was that the Melody Maker journalist was aware that somebody had ulterior plans for The Beatles and it looks as though John and Ringo were not aware of the plans, given their answers. So it looks as though John and Ringo were interested in keeping The Beatles together as they were and sometime between about June and August, 1966 they were informed that their plans were being changed. Ringo and George went along with the Brits that be and John and Paul did not.
7. Could The Beatles cut out personal appearances and just make records, with the occasional big TV appearance?
John: Not the way the fans keep moaning about not seeing us all the time.
Ringo: No.
What's interesting, of course, is that after our Paul and John were replaced in 1966, that is exactly the plan the new, new Beatles followed--they never toured again, they made studio albums, and in the history of the group from 1967 to the break up, they had two big TV appearances: the first was the live appearance on the international television "spectacular" Our World that was broadcast on June 25, 1967 and featured a live performance by The B/Featles doing All You Need Is Love with a boffo back-up chorus of The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Moon and Graham Nash--truly a big TV appearance. The second was their Magical Mystery Tour film first broadcast by the BBC on December 26, 1967. After 1967, the friction between the artificially assembled members started wearing on them and--except for an occasional promo film for a new song--the only other big appearance they could put together was the rooftop concert of January 30, 1969.
Also interesting was that the Melody Maker journalist was aware that somebody had ulterior plans for The Beatles and it looks as though John and Ringo were not aware of the plans, given their answers. So it looks as though John and Ringo were interested in keeping The Beatles together as they were and sometime between about June and August, 1966 they were informed that their plans were being changed. Ringo and George went along with the Brits that be and John and Paul did not.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Was It A Dream?
(Note: I'll comment on my last post in a future one.)
The New Musical Express is a British pop/rock magazine. In the summer of 1966, they ran a series of interviews with each of The Beatles where they each talked about his "night dreams." Paul's interview by writer Alan Smith--a Liverpudlian who later became editor of NME--was published July 29, 1966, within the time frame of our Paul's life and public presence, assuming it took several weeks for an interview to be published. It is difficult to verify the validity of the interview because it's a print interview as opposed to a filmed interview, but I'm assuming it was mainly our Paul's words.
In my post of June 19th. (2012), I wrote about three songs that I think were written about events in Paul's life. Two of the songs have a lyric line that talks about someone running around in his underpants in public. In the NME interview Paul says:
"'I also have normal ones [dreams] everybody has, about being caught in the street in my underwear.'"
The question is: was this a dream Paul had or was it something that he had done in real life? My guess is that he was, in fact, caught in public in his underwear. In one of the songs, Procul Harum's Lime Street Blues, he would have been in disguise with blonde hair.
The interesting aspect of this is that there have been accounts of "doings" by Paul that were effectively hidden from the public-- that he fathered at least one child, that an underage girl was found in The Beatles' hotel room on one of the American tours .
If the "Brits that be" were hell-bent on getting Paul out of the group, something as simple as being seen in public in his underpants--in whatever context it happened--might have been their excuse for getting their hands on Paul--and not letting go.
The New Musical Express is a British pop/rock magazine. In the summer of 1966, they ran a series of interviews with each of The Beatles where they each talked about his "night dreams." Paul's interview by writer Alan Smith--a Liverpudlian who later became editor of NME--was published July 29, 1966, within the time frame of our Paul's life and public presence, assuming it took several weeks for an interview to be published. It is difficult to verify the validity of the interview because it's a print interview as opposed to a filmed interview, but I'm assuming it was mainly our Paul's words.
In my post of June 19th. (2012), I wrote about three songs that I think were written about events in Paul's life. Two of the songs have a lyric line that talks about someone running around in his underpants in public. In the NME interview Paul says:
"'I also have normal ones [dreams] everybody has, about being caught in the street in my underwear.'"
The question is: was this a dream Paul had or was it something that he had done in real life? My guess is that he was, in fact, caught in public in his underwear. In one of the songs, Procul Harum's Lime Street Blues, he would have been in disguise with blonde hair.
The interesting aspect of this is that there have been accounts of "doings" by Paul that were effectively hidden from the public-- that he fathered at least one child, that an underage girl was found in The Beatles' hotel room on one of the American tours .
If the "Brits that be" were hell-bent on getting Paul out of the group, something as simple as being seen in public in his underpants--in whatever context it happened--might have been their excuse for getting their hands on Paul--and not letting go.
