Paul's face on Abbey Road??

[mciiii]

can anybody cheek the sources of this link?

For those of you who didn't see it, I should explain that, as well as having had what appears to be a rather scary amount of cosmetic surgery and forehead freezing procedures (he strongly resembles Mr Potato Head with all the plastic features in place), he has fallen into that terrible mantrap of going ginger on top to maintain a youthful appearance. In fact, he looks just like Bert Newton, but not nearly so natural

www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/22/1019441222084.html

[Doc]

mciiii said:

can anybody cheek the sources of this link?

www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/22/1019441222084.html

The world of media and entertainment is even stranger than I ever thought.
And that wasn't even a queen that wrote that.............

And, just what exactly is wrong with Sir Paul's hair color? Personally I think it's a rather savvy choice. ;D

[JoJo]

beatlies said:

Here's a thread on JPM being bald and wearing wigs:


[ftp]http://60if.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=Essential&action=display&thread=1088065816[/ftp]

I always had my doubts about the bald headed Paul business, and I'll post these still from the 1965 Paris performance BUT..

You have to be aware that stills this blurry are not the best for determining.. After seeing these, it made me wonder, I have to be honest.

[DarkHorse]

I think what was happening to Paul was he was developing a receding hairline. If you look at pics of him in '63 or '64 his bangs didn't look as long as they did in '66. You can see the starting point for the front hairs more towards the center and back of his head in the later pics which leads me to believe that the front hairline was receding.

This is a pic of JPM from 1966. Notice where the front bangs begin. Very high on his head...awfully long front bangs. Also, if you look at his bangs you can even see his forehead behind it. The hair was too thin to cover his forehead completely.



Notice the bangs in this earlier pic are thicker and therefore JPM could cut his front hair shorter.

[beatlies]

In both of the above photos his hair looks like wigs.

JoJo, that's a smoking gun video: JPM as he really is ....... The eggman !

[beatlies]

IS IT POSSIBLE TO EXPLAIN THE FIRST FOUR PHOTOS BELOW ANY WAY OTHER THAN PAUL BEING BALD?

jojo said:

beatlies said:

Here's a thread on JPM being bald and wearing wigs:


[ftp]http://60if.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=Essential&action=display&thread=1088065816[/ftp]

I always had my doubts about the bald headed Paul business, and I'll post these still from the 1965 Paris performance BUT..

You have to be aware that stills this blurry are not the best for determining.. After seeing these, it made me wonder, I have to be honest.

[plastic paul]

Balding my man, balding!

That's truly phenomenal....

Try paging up and down to create a movement effect and you see it incredibly well.

[beatlies]

Any possibility of a video of this Paris concert becoming available for viewing on the web? Not even the whole concert would be needed, just the flips- his-wig "France's Funniest Videos" part would be enough. "Les blippos, bloopers et beatles."

They have a video of that oops Janet Jackson's superbowl superbreast on the web, right?

[DarkHorse]

beatlies said:

IS IT POSSIBLE TO EXPLAIN THE FIRST FOUR PHOTOS BELOW ANY WAY OTHER THAN PAUL BEING BALD?

Do you mean he is completely bald and wearing a wig? If so, I disagree with that. Paul's hairline was merely receding backwards...it looks like it had receded by a few inches and that's quite a bit.

Therefore, JPM had to wear the hair on the top of his head very long to cover up this fact, as I stated before.

The length of the hair shows in this pic.

[JoJo]

beatlies said:

IS IT POSSIBLE TO EXPLAIN THE FIRST FOUR PHOTOS BELOW ANY WAY OTHER THAN PAUL BEING BALD?

You'll have to pardon my cautious manner of presentation, but I've seen too much:

1) Jumping to conclusions

2) Thereafter accepted as gospel..(so quickly at times some must need treatment for whiplash)

3) Repeat process..

Anyway, an animation is a good idea, I doubt it will get as widespread coverage as "nipplegate"

[plastic paul]

Thats why I said "balding" rather than "bald" because IMO it's all his hair, it just starts a wee bit higher than most others his age.

Still, it's mind blowing, i really didn't credit the idea of him balding, until i saw that series of pics, which are very hard to explain!

[DarkHorse]

plasticpaul said:

Thats why I said "balding" rather than "bald" because IMO it's all his hair, it just starts a wee bit higher than most others his age.

Yeah and you can imagine by age 30 or 35 he would be almost completely bald on top. He certainly would be bald if he were around today.

[LOVELYRITA]

No, if he were around today, he could get plugs.

I had read somewhere that someone had talked about him being thinning around the hairline and had to wear wigs. But I don't remember where, or else I would have added the link. If I do find that reference, I will add it.

But Paul did have a high hairline, if you look at the old pictures of his Elvis hair, you would see that.

Having a receding hairline would make it quite difficult to have a "mop top" style. THis was before they had hairweaves.

[lili]

Paul looked like his dad. His dad was going bald early. I know that they say that baldness runs on the mother's side.
All I can say is that Paul's pattern of baldness seems very similar to his dad's.
Some photos:





The last one is Jim with Bill. What I find interesting is that Bill looks so much older in this photo. Much older than Paul would've been.

[LOVELYRITA]

Thanks for the pics of JPM with his father and that last strange Bill shot.
Bill looks rather odd in that photo.
His lower lip seems fuller than his upper lip, his nostril, eyebrow, ear and jawline just looks really strange. He does look older than what JPM would have been.

[lili]

Your welcome. I enjoy posting photos, when I feel that they're appropriate to the discussion.

[noodles]

Just to return to the original topic for a moment his hair is very normal on the 'Abbey Road' sleeve. ilras just used a weird picture. This is scanned from the album sleeve.



There are a couple of odd lines on his face though. They both run parrallel from the corner of his mouth and nose.



Leftovers from the touch up?

[lili]

Most likely. Let's face it, they didn't have the technology back then that we have today.

[mciiii]

[JoJo]

I don't have a vinyl copy of that album or a cd for that matter, but a look around file sharing nets and Google images, a lot that look like Ilras's turn up, rather than your version. I'm wondering if all these scans floating around the net are from the cd version, which was perhaps released looking odd like that? (for whatever reason)

[il ras]

I have 3 AR LPs (1 Italian, 1UK first pressing, 1 UK 1st pressing with the "apple missalligned") and, just looking at them, seems there is no hair in those areas of the head... may be I should scan those.

[il ras]

mciiii said:

MCIII, tnx!
I wanted to upload that pic too, you saved me some work...

[lili]

Thanx, guys. I LOVE that photo of Paul !

[noodles]

ilras said:

I have 3 AR LPs (1 Italian, 1UK first pressing, 1 UK 1st pressing with the "apple missalligned") and, just looking at them, seems there is no hair in those areas of the head... may be I should scan those.

Yeah. Do it. I'd love top see a camparison. My copy is a UK pressing. Probably from the early Seventies but it's not listed in the book so I'm not sure exactly when.

[LOVELYRITA]

noodles said:

Just to return to the original topic for a moment his hair is very normal on the 'Abbey Road' sleeve. ilras just used a weird picture. This is scanned from the album sleeve.



There are a couple of odd lines on his face though. They both run parrallel from the corner of his mouth and nose.



Leftovers from the touch up?

The way it looks in these pics, that the sun is shining on his hair, giving the illusion that it's his scalp.

THe other pic, if it were windy, why weren't the other members' hair blowing? Unless they were not there at the same time and a composite, that was talked about on another thread. Which doesn't make alot of sense.
But this looks entirely different from the first pics posted. But that profile still looks like JPM and not Bill.

Look closely at the ear placement...is that JPM's ear? Look at the shadow below the ear....Is that JPM's face placed over Bill's, even in this particular picture....?