Tuesday, March 21, 2017

An Addition To My Previous Post

[Note:  The information about a detail of The Beatles' history that was going to be this post will be the next post.]

In my preceding post about our Paul's song, "Eleanor Rigby", I was saying that a September 18, 1966 Sunday London Times interview was, apparently, with the third Paul--the Paul that surfaced publicly in late 1966 and has been Paul ever since.

As I've said several times, I have found NO credible photos of our Paul past late June or early July, 1966.  I have been looking for more supporting information that the man in the September, 1966 interview was not our Paul.  I believe this is called internal evidence and I have found some.

In the September, 1966 interview, "Paul" supposedly describes how he got the idea for "Eleanor Rigby":  "I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it.  Just like Jimmy Durante. . . . I was in Bristol when I decided Daisy Hawkins [which might have been our Paul's first idea for the title woman's name] wasn't a good name.  I walked round looking at the shops and I saw the name Rigby.  You got that?  Quick pan to Bristol.  I can just see this all as a Hollywood musical."

Jimmy Durante, mentioned by "Paul" in the interview, was an all-around entertainer: a pianist, comedian, actor, composer, singer, and songwriter who appeared on stage, radio, television and in clubs and films and whose career spanned seven decades from the 1910's through the 1970's.

Contrast the bombastic statements by "Paul" with a YouTube audio I found of our Paul being interviewed for the BBC program, "Pop Profile."  He was interviewed May 2, 1966.  You can hear Paul's interview at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBRQN1-tKY   .

At 4:52-5:43 in the interview Paul says:  "The whole idea of making films is good. . . . But, no, I don't mean very big, expensive films, but films that you sort of just make because you fancy making a film.  But I mean, the only thing is that already having got, umm, the kind of, sort of, image that we've got, if any of us wanted to do anything like that, we would tend to get sort of beaten down because people would say, 'Ah, look, he's not tryin' that old trick of making a film or, you know, he's not going classical.'  You know, and it sounds like that.  But the only thing is--and I thought exactly like that about people who did that, too--I always used to think, you know, 'There he goes, going the same old path they always go--all-'round entertainers, you know.'  But, ah, it's just that you find that there are some things just as interesting as what you've been doing, you know, for a certain amount of time."
Does THIS sound like the man in the September, 1966 interview?