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Post by astro4 on Sept 1, 2014 17:22:17 GMT -5
None of the Beatles wrote autobiographies, nor even did Neil Aspinall – the story that could not be told! But let’s suppose for the sake of argument that this - in its 66 chapters of 666 pages – is the one and only autobiography of Sir Paul McCartney that will ever exist.  Yes, but it is encoded – it is authored by Thomas E. Uharriet, as the Encoder for the ‘Fictional protagonist, Billy Shears.’ It is written as if Sir Paul wants in his old age to tell us his extraordinary story of identity-swap. He so much wants to tell us – but, he cannot shed any light on who he was before the great metamorphosis. I think we can all understand the legal, social and financial reasons why this would not be possible. Encoder Mr Uharriet acknowledges: ‘A most special Thanks to Sir Paul McCartney for providing such fantastic material’ – plus, it is printed by Peppers Press a Subsidiary of MACCA Corp. That surely could not have appeared without Sir Paul’s approval. So who is he? The book has startling ‘I am’ affirmations I’m the urban spaceman I am the core of the Apple I am Billy Shears I am the most successful songwriter in history I am that one and only Sgt Pepper I am the man of a thousand voices I was transformed to mend that broken band I am the true messenger of Paul. (pages109,299,236,511,246, 140, 245) - reminding me of Jesus Christ in the Fourth Gospel! (‘I am the bread of life,’ etc.) It gives the date of September 11th, 1966 in the evening, as when the crash happened; then on ‘Stupid Bloody Tuesday' when Lennon in Hamburg was told about the catastrophe by Epstein, after which ‘Wednesday morning papers didn’t come’ – Brian Epstein had managed to stop a newspaper reporter from reporting the crash. So a drama is told about the sequence of days after the crash – which might sound pretty authentic. So, do we want to believe this? Herein is an epic of our hero, Paul McCartney, who entered the underworld, and then returned, by taking possession of me, an unknown session musician - William Shepherd I have put up a couple of posts tending to support this date: that JPM gave an interview in the first week of September, he was till around then (http://invanddis.proboards.com/thread/7688/last-interview ), whereas he was not present at the Melody Maker award ceremony on 13th September (http://invanddis.proboards.com/thread/7690/melody-maker-awards-mccartney ). Bill – William Shepherd, as he calls himself, says he was a versatile session musician before: ‘Before I joined the Beatles … I made albums that you have most likely never heard’ citing Cowboy Favourites, by the Maple Leaf Four, Bill Shepherd and the Ranch Hands’ (p69) – similar he claims to his ‘Rocky Racoon’ American-accent voice. Yes these albums were made by Allegro/Pickwick in London, but only in 1967 – a bit late for the story. He then tells us quite a bit about Billy Pepper and the Pepperpots, a session band whose album had one Beatles song on each side ‘followed mostly by my songs,’ plus his friend Jimmy Fraser did some others. They did a sequel album More Merseymania. So he felt that he wanted identification with Beatles music. His versatility earned him the title ‘man with a thousand voices’ Does this sound credible? Some people believe that the Bill Shepherd here employed in the Cricklewood studios was the composer who worked with the Bee-Gees. P.148:
Viv Stanshall
Wierdly, the narrator keeps claiming that he was Viv Stanshall, of the Bonzo dog band. Yes Viv Stansall did sing ‘Death Cab for cutie’ at the end of the Magical Mystery Tour - the most explicit song about the supposed McCartney car-crash - but he looks totally different, he’s much too big. Isn’t he? He claims to have disguises, fake teeth latex eyebrows, for his Viv Stansall persona. I doubt if anyone here will believe that story, I don’t, however there was surely some funny overlap with the Ruttles, the Beatles and the Bonzo Dog band. Well yes maybe his son does look like Viv Stansall – but the latter was a totally real person, a genuine English eccentric, as his biography Ginger Geezer makes plain. We’re not at all amused by Billy Shears’ claim to have created him as a role… He claims that once his wife Linda was dying of cancer, he was no longer in the humorous mood to play about as Viv Stanshall in the Bonzo Dog Band, so decided in 1995 to wind up that character. That is so outrageous! Mr Stansall died tragically in a fire in his flat in Muswell Hill, with relatives and friends grieving for him. This is a haunting book about stepping into another’s identity: Take these broken wings and learn to fly’ – but perhaps deliberately obfuscates everything about who he was and where he came from. |
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Post by linus on Sept 1, 2014 20:20:47 GMT -5
plus, it is printed by Peppers Press a Subsidiary of MACCA Corp. That surely could not have appeared without Sir Paul’s approval. Sir Paul McCartney (or whom ever one thinks McCartney is) is in no way affiliated with Macca Corp., nor therefore Peppers Press. From what I can gather, the only manner in which Macca Corp. and Peppers Press exist are either as Tom Uharriet's publishing company, or are fictional companies used in the presentation of the book. I've talked with Tom Uharriet a few times over the last year and he has openly stated a number of times that his Billy series is fiction. |
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Post by astro4 on Sept 2, 2014 6:14:47 GMT -5
Why what else could he have said?
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Post by astro4 on Sept 10, 2014 12:46:19 GMT -5
But, here is a thread arguing just what Memoirs of Billy Shears claimed: 60if.proboards.com/thread/2709/vivian-stanshall-mmt-billy-shears that 'Bill' was Viv Stansall in the MMT!
Wow, even Mr SunKing seems to agree... This was all way back in 2004. My AbbeyGuest reckoned: Lucy reckoned: PaulBearer helpfully commented: and SunKing replied Well, I'm gobsmacked. This changes everything. If that central theme of Memoirs of Billy shears is CREDIBLE - and even shown by voice analysis - then Mr Thomas E. Uharriet needs to be told, 'Sir, what you have written was not fiction.' |
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Post by astro4 on Sept 10, 2014 14:23:21 GMT -5
Here's another post about the two being the same, this time focussing upon the blue eye-colour: 60if.proboards.com/thread/2695/billy-shears-shame These Words of SunKing do seem to make sense - That's the Key. What colour were Viv Stanshall's eyes? I might re-check the book Ginger Geezer but the pictures of him in that book were black and white. The really distinguishing feature of his face I saw in that book, was his big, round chin. Whereas, the MMT singer doing the Elvis impersonation seemed to me to have a thinner, sharper chin. Here he is performing Death Cab for Cutie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbkdelZigwc - WHO IS THAT SINGING? (MMT:www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5rCc2bzFAs) This is the most overt and explicit song of all about the Urban Legend, of JPM piking up a hitchhiker and they both die in a car-crash - so why on Earth would Lennon and Harrisson be sitting in Raymon's Revue Bar listening to Viv Stansall singing it? It would make more sense for Faul to be singing (and to have composed) this haunting little ditty. Here to remind you is the guy with blue eyes in MMT:  Did V.S. have these blue eyes? And this is being compared to the 'early Faul' pre-plastic surgery:  Whereas it seemed to me from pictures in his bio that the real Viv Stanshall had a big, round chin like  or  |
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Post by astro4 on Sept 19, 2014 15:34:58 GMT -5
Three clues? Maybe we just have three clues as regards who Faul was beforehand. 1. A nice picture of him in his backyard, centre of the front cover on the 'Chaos and creation in the Backyard' album, 2005.  2. He was likely Billy Pepper in the Pepperpots' aka William Shepherd (I realise not everyone accepts this). This gives us the very strange scenario of him playing in 1964 in the Cricklewood road Pickwick Studios (39 Hanway Street, W1), covering Beatles songs, more or less next door to where the Beatles Book was being produced every month, presumably without the real Beatles getting to hear of it. 3. Faul purchased High Park farm in the remote Kintyre hills of Scotland, in June 1966, before the Replacement. Sorry I lost the ref for this, has anyone got it? This echoes that he was 'Born a poor young country boy' on the White Album (no one could say that of city boy JPM). |
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Post by LOVELYRITA on Sept 20, 2014 20:34:24 GMT -5
Uharriet....if that's not fake name...like Ian Iachamoe....Billy Shears...
Who knows, Paul Mc Cartney may be a fake name too....
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Post by astro4 on Sept 30, 2014 15:29:13 GMT -5
'Uhariett' is a nom de plume, invented just for the Billy Shears series of books.http://billyshears.com/
On a beach by L.A. Sir Paul supposedly met this fellow, an English and History teacher, who recognised him. They got talking and the PID story came up, and Sir Paul explained that it was actually true.The English teacher guy explained that he was good at encoding and encrypting material. So eventually they agreed to the big enterprise:
Hope that's clear. The book starts by saying, "Opinions presented herein are solely those of Billy Shears and do not necessarily represent the views or values of the Encoder" and I guess this is the Encoder (Uharriet) saying he has agreed to do the job, but may not agree with the views he is here recording, as expressed by 'Billy Shears' i.e. Sir Paul.
Sir Paul adds,
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Post by delysid on Sept 30, 2014 18:09:54 GMT -5
An excerpt from a little something I'm working up:
"In PID, what is grounded, which will not lend itself to wanton exchange, replacement, simulacrum, and falsification is to be eliminated at every turn for once we are in a realm of substitution, when language represents bodies, then bodies can be conjured up, named, clothed, characterised, and killed off, however you like."
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Post by beacon on Oct 1, 2014 3:56:32 GMT -5
'Uhariett' is a nom de plume, invented just for the Billy Shears series of books.http://billyshears.com/ Not sure Uhariett is a nom de plume, he seems pretty real to me, here is his Facebook page |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 6:42:01 GMT -5
Beatles Enlightenment builds on Billy's Back!, but takes you deeper psychologically, not only exposing the "Paul is Dead" meanings in "Let It Be," "Within You and Without You," “Across the Universe,” and “The Long and Winding Road,” but also revealing the emotional anguish and ultimate spiritual breakthroughs behind these and other songs.
This book contains selections from The Memoirs of Billy Shears that are too philosophical, or spiritually esoteric, for the general readership of Billy's Back! If you enjoy books by illuminaries such as Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, or Marianne Williamson, you will love reading some of their favorite concepts behind Beatles songs.
When The Memoirs of Billy Shears began to be shared in 2009 and 2010, it became apparent that most readers were more interested in the details surrounding Paul's death and replacement than in the Beatles' philosophical breakthroughs. Furthermore, The Memoirs are too long for most readers. Giving the public what they want, Billy's Back! became the flagship, providing the information that was the highest in demand; and Beatles Enlightenment (although likewise packed with "Paul is Dead" clues, insights, and implications) became the vessel of their more spiritual contributions.
Paving the foundation for Beatles Enlightenment, we highly recommend that you first read Billy's Back! The painful introspection and joyous liberation reflected in Beatles Enlightenment will make more sense after you are sure of Paul McCartney's death and replacement, and after you understand the intense internal struggles that those circumstances caused "Paul" (William).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 7:16:10 GMT -5
The Talent Contest -- The Final Chapter of The Memoirs of Billy Shears www.billyshears.com/4.html Our manager paid handsomelyand threatened to do harmIf they did not deliver mestraight to this berry farm.That’s when I heard the flies swarmingOr maybe they were bees.It doesn’t really matter herein fields of strawberries.Over the fence – Strawberries – grow – Over the fence – I could climb – if I tried, I know – lol  |
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Post by astro4 on Oct 1, 2014 14:30:57 GMT -5
Wow, I'm wrong again - thanks Beacon for correcting me! (http://uharriet.com/)
OK, So Tom Uharriet is a real person....
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Post by hotman637 on Oct 1, 2014 17:05:02 GMT -5
Ironically the "illuminaries" Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer were also replaced! I think the word "ironic" descibes the universe far better than ANY OTHER WORD! Anyone have a better one.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 22:37:11 GMT -5
Wow, I'm wrong again - thanks Beacon for correcting me! OK, So Tom Uharriet is a real person....
passing through the door to eternity
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 22:53:01 GMT -5
Ironically the "illuminaries" Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer were also replaced! I think the word "ironic" descibes the universe far better than ANY OTHER WORD! Anyone have a better one ?lol |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 22:58:33 GMT -5
unus "one" (see one) + versus, past participle of vertere "to turn" (see versus).
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Post by hotman637 on Oct 2, 2014 17:00:46 GMT -5
Ironically the "illuminaries" Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer were also replaced! I think the word "ironic" descibes the universe far better than ANY OTHER WORD! Anyone have a better one ?lol Wouldn't it be ironic if irony did not describe the universe? |
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Post by astro4 on Oct 4, 2014 7:39:24 GMT -5
I searched for the name Thomas Uharriet on ancestry.com, just to make quite sure he's real (excuse my doubt!). He says his Mom was Charlene Heiss (January 29, 1937 – August 23, 2014)See uharriet.com/ but I didn’t quite find him - it wanted his year of birth. Both of them produced edifying, enlightenment-type books - such as Billy Shears! |
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Post by LOVELYRITA on Oct 15, 2014 16:36:23 GMT -5
Me tarzan, U...Harriet......
Sorry, I just had to do it.
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Post by astro4 on Nov 26, 2014 14:37:04 GMT -5
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Post by silverbeatle on Dec 1, 2014 15:07:58 GMT -5
Has anyone ever read the below article? Just wondering on it's authenticity. I've included the link below. Apparently it's from a WINGS fanzine and it talks about BILLY SHEARS as someone who replace Paul. RAT SUBTERRANEAN NEWS “It’s High Time Our BILLY Received The Credit He Deserves” - DAD (Editors' note: Lee Merrick, an old friend of ours, sent this RAT exclusive by cable just a day before publication.) by Lee Merrick London - October 26. Paul McCartney is dead. All the Beatles, of course, know it but they aren't talking. All the insiders at Apple Corporation have known it for a long time without ever leaking a word. It's been the world's best-kept secret. But, in the last few days I have discovered absolute proof of Paul's death; and I think it's time that the world knew the truth. The hoax has gone on long enough. I have gotten to know a lot of people at Apple Corp, pretty well during the six months that I've hung around jamming and doing various studio gigs. I had seen the Beatles, including ‘Paul’, many times around the studio and offices. Rumors about them are a dime a dozen. I had heard the one about Paul's death, but it was just one of scores that went around. Even when the death rumor received international press coverage, I didn't take the whole thing very seriously. But my opinion changed radically as a result of a party I attended last Wednesday. The party, at the house of a London rock musician, included the usual assortment of hip writers, rock-stars and hangers-on. Several Apple friends also showed up. The latest Beatle rumor was, of course, the main topic of conversation. Everyone there considered himself to be very in with the Beatles, and they all joked about the obvious foolishness of the latest out-cropping of Beatlemania. After a while, several of my Apple friends and I decided to split to one of their apartments to smoke a little dope and check out some new tapes that had just come in. People eventually drifted off to crash or ball, living only myself and my friend. I had noticed earlier that the light talk about Paul's rumored death had put him very up tight, and the idea to leave had been his in the first place. In the past few months we had grown pretty close - and we were pretty stoned - so I began to question him about the whole affair. The story I drew out of him over the next few hours went like this: Remember the first cut on the Sgt. Pepper album? The one with the line "And now we introduce to you the one and only Billy Shears"? Did you ever wonder just who ‘Billy Shears' actually was? Of if he even existed? Billy Shears was a young London rock musician who did short gigs in London nightclubs and occasional tours, waiting for the chance to make it big. As the fifties rock-and-roll craze spread across to Europe, he got a chance to play various clubs on the Continent. In 1962 Shears played on the same nightclub bill as Paul McCartney. In fact, he was virtually a dead ringer for Paul. Of course, you could tell the difference if they stood side by side. Billy had a somewhat over-sized, beak-shaped nose. But in photographs or at a distance, they were absolutely indistinguishable. Their friendship remained intermittent over the next year or so as their respective tour paths occasionally crossed. When fame came to the Beatles in 1964, however, they lost touch with obscure Billy who drifted from small bandsman to studio musician. In November, 1966, Paul McCartney was involved in an auto accident - a fatal accident. John, George and Ringo first wanted to stage a gigantic funeral in memory of Paul. But super-sharp manager, Brian Epstein, feared that Paul's death would destroy the Beatles mystique and managed almost entirely to suppress the news. Epstein's calculating mind had already devised a scheme for keeping the Beatles intact - at least for the public. With a minor nose job, Billy Shears would make a perfect replacement for Paul. Though hesitant at first, Shears soon accepted Epstein's offer. What musician could resist the opportunity to step into the shoes of one of the superstars of the rock world. In the first album after Paul's death, Sgt. Pepper, the Beatles cryptically introduced the new "Paul" in the first cut. The album closes with "A Day in the Life", the story of Paul's death. (" ...He blew his mind out in a car/He didn't notice that the light had changed/A crowd of people stood and stared/They'd seen his face before ... ") Knowing perhaps that the ruse couldn't last, the Beatles have hinted at the truth in every successive album. On the Sgt. Pepper album centerfold, only 'Paul' faces away from the camera. Epstein did not want a large close-up of 'Paul' to be shown until people became accustomed to the slight difference from the deceased Beatle. On the Magical Mystery Tour insert, only 'Paul' wears a black rose. "Revolution Number Nine", on the double album, contains the phrase "I buried Paul" when played backwards. The cover picture of the most recent Abbey Road shows the Beatles walking single file. The first two, Ringo and John, wear mourning clothes; 'Paul' is barefoot and dressed as for burial; George follows in the work clothes of an English gravedigger. Even though I knew that my friend, who asked to remain un-named, had known and worked with the Beatles from the early days in the fifties, his story seemed almost too fantastic to believe. And certainly people who did not know him would have no reason to believe that Billy took Paul's place three years ago. So, for the next few days, I searched for evidence to absolutely confirm the story. My search ended in the quiet Chelsea section of London where I talked with Philip Shears, father of the new Paul McCartney. At first, Mr. Shears hesitated to discuss the matter. He had kept his lips sealed for three long years in the pleasant, middle-class home his son had bought for him. But after I repeated the story my Apple friend had told me, the elderly Mr. Shears relented and confirmed the facts. "Mums and me always knew that it couldn't stay secret forever. The Beatles are a bunch of wonderful lads and have made a whole new world for us." But, he added, "It’s high time that our Billy received the credit he deserves." And now he has. www.wingspan.ru/bookseng/hisown/hisown02.html |
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Post by linus on Dec 1, 2014 16:01:30 GMT -5
RAT Subterranean, an underground paper. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_(newspaper)"Paul's Lookalike Billy Shears" was on the cover of the Long Tall Sally ep?  But, Brian Esptein, there IS a close-up of Paul On the Sgt. Pepper album. "In the Sgt. Pepper album centerfold, only 'Paul' faces away from the camera. Epstein did not want a large close-up of 'Paul' to be shown until people became accustomed to the slight difference from the deceased Beatle." Paul faces away on the back side. But not the front or in the gatefold.  And isn't the big deal that you can tell it's 'Faul' by the beak nose? "Billy had a somewhat over-sized, beak-shaped nose. But in photographs or at a distance, they were absolutely indistinguishable... Epstein's calculating mind had already devised a scheme for keeping the Beatles intact - at least for the public. With a minor nose job, Billy Shears would make a perfect replacement for Paul." Can't find any info on Lee Merrick or a British musician named Billy Shears from the early-60s. After this article was printed wouldn't people have flocked to find Philip Shears in the Chelsea district? I'm almost certain those are from the same photo shoot, in '65.  Seems like a poorly-written fan-fiction. Or, as Big Bob/Delysid would say... well, I can't get away with saying the things he does. |
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