Paul McCartney Death Conspiracy

[Eve]

Only just heard off this via a link on another post in here.

Have had a look at some websites but many seem to be biased towards believers with all kinds of hidden clues and such.

Was this a big thing at the time and was there ever any kind of outcome one way or the other?

I'm intrigued as never heard this conspiracy before.

[-Zorro-]

I heard that a couple of years ago. did it relate to the 70s

[Ctrak]

Yeah, I think part of the reason is because McCartney himself had pretty much locked himself away at the time (late 1969). Eventually he did an interview to say, "I'm not dead, honest!" and everyone pretty much accepted it.

It was to do with the Beatles, so yes, it was huge.

Much of the "evidence" is pretty daft and it's only there if you deliberately look for it. It was the height of the Cold War, I suppose...

[Eve]

Thanks for that Ctrak :)

Zorro, more info here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

In the 60's by the looks of it so well before my time.

[bobtheduck-]

apparently someone suggested he wasnt an egotistical tosspot which was proved to be nonsense

[Ctrak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UVDlg4x468

Amusing, but most of these you'd never actually hear unless the words were in front of you.

[whiffey]

Paul McCartney has written some of the most hauntingly beautiful music of this age. My favourite is "We can work it out", with that lovely insistent harmony. The most beautiful of all is "If I Fell", a John Lennon song. Vocal harmonisation and emotion don't get better than this.

[-Zorro-]

Oh The Frog Corus....hauntingly beautiful music

[crete]

hey jude by far the best ever written by mr. mc.

[whiffey]

What's a corus ?

Yes crete, the tight harmonies in Hey Jude make my skin tingle.

[curlyfilm]

its, across the universe.....for me

[noxlumos]

One of the most God awful overrated load of 3 chord predictable rubbish ever to have the misfortune to be recorded. Now if you want a band contemporary to the Beatles who really are important then there's Jethro Tull. The Beatles wouldn't know intelligent music if it smacked em in the gob.

[whiffey]

noxy, please tell me you are joking ? The Beatles took music away from 3-chords !! That was one of the essential reasons why they were and still are so important. Some of their chord progressions are still startling. (The best of all time however is Elton John's Funeral for a Friend)

3-chords ? Stick with Status Quo.

[-Zorro-]

I never "got" the beatles...never "got" Oasis either....both equally talentless.

Bring on Metallica......metal rules !

[naz_nomad]

Possibly the best example of hyped-up music ever ... the stuff he did with the Beatles was ok, but it took a good sorting out by George Martin and his son Giles recently to turn it into excellent music.

I just say that McCartney is one of the least talented musician / songwriters we ever had.

And whiffey, take back everything you said about the Quo, Francis' family made superb ice-cream, so nyaaah.

[Eve]

Oooh I can't choose!

In my Life, Let it Be are way up there though. Went to the Mathew Street festival in Liverpool in the summer to see the Mersey Beatles who were fantastic. My date knows them so got to meet some of them too :)

Whiffey I grew up on Elton John as my mum adores him and with you on that one, he's fantastic :)

[whiffey]

naz, 3-chords are great in the hands of Quo. I was astonished that the Beatles could be labelleled as 3-chord, which is exactly what they were NOT !!

The best recording of all from that era however was "The Miracle" by The Shadows. I'll bet nobody except me knows it. It has a clarity and beauty that needs a quiet room and candles and lots of staring into space.

[Eve]

Anyone got any more thoughts on the conspiracy theory?

[naz_nomad]

It's better to be able to play 3 chords excellently, than 33 chords poorly, and out-of time.

I do know 'The miracle' ... if I remember correctly it was a B-side ...so not good enough for an A-Side ... lol
If you want a good Shads B-side, try 36-24-36

[WaldoMcFroog]

I remember entertaining myself at lunchtimes with a forum set up by some of these loonies a few years back. They were completely closed to the notion that possibly, just possibly, Macca wasn't actually dead and hadn't actually been replaced but was - shock horror - still alive.

It was patently nonsensical stuff - they had the most bogus comparisons of photographs superimposed on each other and blatantly manipulated/ dishonestly used to provide the effect they desired, with lots of power tripping from ego-tripping web geeks who had never seen a naked lady and actually, whilst it was quite entertaining dangling occum's razor before them for a while, ultimately they were slightly pathetic.

[andy-hughes]

Conspiracy theories have existed for as long as people have been able to talk to each other - they are part of human nature. In receiving and passing on a theory, people are bonded together, sometimes to extreme lengths as some kind of brotherhood.

As far as the McCartney myth goes - part of the 'evidence' was the '28 IF'registration of the Volkswagen Beatle seen on the 'Abbey Road' sleeve. Some bright spark decided it was a hidden message - Paul would be twenty-eight, IF he had lived, and not 'died' and this was a message to tell people.

The truth? The car belonged to an office worker who worked around the corner from Abbey Road and had parked there in the same spot for months!