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Post by Goldfinger on Nov 4, 2004 10:20:36 GMT -5
There was a RIngo look-alike contest.. for Girls.. strange but apparently true.. so there is a girl out there somewhere that looks like ringo Really? You have any information on that? I would love to see the winner.
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Post by Goldfinger on Nov 3, 2004 9:40:33 GMT -5
Wasn't there one for Ringo also? Ya know? When I was writing my post above, I thought I remembered seeing about a Ringo look-alike contest and seeing a picture of the winner. I have no memory on where I saw that, though. I don't remember seeing anything about contests for John and George, though.
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Post by Goldfinger on Nov 3, 2004 9:38:29 GMT -5
Ya, exactly... misinformation put out there to throw off lots of people like you. Beatle Bill's last name never was cambell, but there IS a "Beatle Bill". Say what you will about fades and all, but don't misrepresent what happened. Mr. LaBour was an arts critic for a college newspaper in the midwest U.S., and admits he made it up as a gag. Don't try to turn him into some sinister figure putting out misinformation to "throw people off." He was a regular guy having some fun with a story. Misinformation? Absolutely. Purposely put out there to throw people off the real story about Paul's death? No.
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Post by Goldfinger on Nov 2, 2004 22:42:42 GMT -5
Nobody said there weren't look alike contests for the others. He was asking about Paul.
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Post by Goldfinger on Nov 2, 2004 16:58:19 GMT -5
There was indeed a Paul lookalike contest, sponsored by Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" in 1965. The winner was Keith Allison, who joined Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1966. There is no known Paul lookalike by the name of William Campbell; this was a radio invention in the early days of the hoax by a man named Fred LaBour. He originally wanted to call him Glenn Campbell but thought that would be too obvious.
To get a paper trail, I guess you could look up the history of the "American Bandstand", or Keith Allison.
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Post by Goldfinger on Nov 5, 2004 17:11:34 GMT -5
The Beatles didn't need the publicity. They were already almost too popular. For example the screaming girls were one reason they stopped touring. I find it very hard to believe this was used to sell records because their record sales were quite good and the majority of people still didn't believe the rumor even at its height. For the Beatles themselves? No, I agree. Also, if you are involved in a cover-up and trying to quash rumors of Paul's death, this would hardly be the album cover to choose. But the record company distributing the album in Canada sure had a monitary interest in the album, sort of like Capital in the U.S. I know that they were many times at odds with the Beatles and it was because they were try to make as much money as possible off the Beatles.
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Post by Goldfinger on Nov 5, 2004 16:56:50 GMT -5
Ah, here they come... According to the info I have, this was a Canadian release in '69 by Polydor records... Don't you think they could have been SUED for such a stunt? And since the Beatles were (usually) referred to as "John, PAUL, George, Ringo"... whose candle would appear to be extinguished? Ya know, I am not an attorney so I don't know if anybody could have been sued. But it seems reasonable that if someone was trying to profit from the rumor, they would make it as obvious as possible. And if Apple was trying to cover-up the fact that Paul was dead and trying to quash the rumors, would they let loose such an obvious clue? I doubt it.
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Post by Goldfinger on Nov 5, 2004 16:35:35 GMT -5
Yes, anything, like this album, that came out after the PID hoax broke is likely to be trying to profit from publicity.
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Post by Goldfinger on Dec 17, 2004 15:20:41 GMT -5
Probably this meant nothing, but a lyric goes, "you live with straights who think you are king, jump when your mamma tells you anything." I almost jumped myself. I thought that Paul's mother is supposed to be dead! If he is alive, I wonder what that means. Another lyric says, "all you've ever done is yesterday." Most people take it to mean the song, but I think it could mean the past, i.e. work with the Beatles. That is without someone to watch over him, Paul (or Billy) won't write at top capacity. Alas, seems to be true. I think the ""mamma" is Linda. As far as "yesterday", it is a play on words. Of course it means the song when you consider he next references "another day" which was one of his solo works. It is a reference to the song and to time.
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Post by Goldfinger on Sept 7, 2004 7:43:58 GMT -5
Actually, I'm not surprised by this in the least. It has been stated many times in the past that it IS a grave, but not for Paul. It was said to be a symbolic burial of The Beatles mop-top image. So his mention of a grave is not a confession that PID.
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Post by Goldfinger on Nov 3, 2004 2:45:35 GMT -5
Actually, people have it all wrong.
Truth be told, Paul was a walrus!
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Post by Goldfinger on Aug 18, 2004 14:31:49 GMT -5
Welcome aboard Vaggie!
Nice friendly group of people here. I have some Bailey's at home. Think I'll hit it when I get there.
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Post by Goldfinger on Apr 22, 2004 15:02:19 GMT -5
Guten tag, Herr LarryC. I took German in high school too many years ago.
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Post by Goldfinger on Sept 29, 2004 15:27:09 GMT -5
A losers only way to build himself up is to tear others down. This is a real loser.
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Post by Goldfinger on Oct 27, 2004 15:03:40 GMT -5
Any comments about the pics I posted? I think the Kenny Rogers photo was the comment on your pics, although I don't think it answers the question.
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Post by Goldfinger on Oct 27, 2004 15:01:51 GMT -5
The "lighting/camera angles" argument was worn out a lonnng time ago. (And my brother is a professional photographer ) You are saying that lighting/camera angles along with facial expressions can't make someone look different? I've seen it myself with photos of my own family members. And I do think the other Beatles look different in different shots, but nobody does the comparisons like they do with Paul.
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Post by Goldfinger on Oct 27, 2004 9:10:23 GMT -5
It's easy.... just take a pic of person A & a pic of person B & then ask how they could be one or the other. No fades needed. I know you guys like posting pics of person A & person B where they seem to look alike, but most of the time they don't. No we take pictures of person A and person A and compare them when the expressions and angles are similar so that you are comparing apples and apples. We have photo ID cards here at work, and looking at some of the pictures, I would have no idea that it is the same person as the one wearing it. I know beyond doubt that two pictures of the same person can look drastically different depending on facial expression, lighting, the type of lense, angle and so on.
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Post by Goldfinger on Oct 26, 2004 15:38:16 GMT -5
How can this possibly be the same man? [img src="http://galeon.hispavista.com/akostuff/img/Dunno2[1].gif"] How can someone compare these? Different angles, different facial expressions, different hair styles, different distance from camera, probably different lenses. Sometimes pictures just come out bad. Just look at drivers license photos. Jeesh, they almost never look like the person.
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Post by Goldfinger on Oct 19, 2004 10:58:07 GMT -5
The William Campbell clue was invented by Fred LaBour who was an arts reviewer for The Michigan Daily, student newspaper at the U. of Michigan.
From the history of the PID story: "A followup article, printed in J. Gray's underground journal "Big Fat Magazine", gives the date of Russ Gibb's broadcast (12 October 1969), the date of Fred LaBour's tongue-in-cheek response (14 October 1969), and even details some of the clues invented by LaBour---the invention of William Campbell, Paul's "look-alike" (LaBour originally wanted to call him Glenn Campbell but thought that would be too obvious); the statement that a walrus was a Greek symbol for a corpse (this seemingly derived from the Harper/Ulviden clue that the walrus was a Scandinavian or American Indian sign of death!)."
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Post by Goldfinger on May 25, 2004 9:01:39 GMT -5
Yes, I see the same guy. The facial expression is different which makes the nose look different, but other than that--same.
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Post by Goldfinger on Dec 28, 2004 11:31:05 GMT -5
Hey FP, the entire world thinks a LOT of things are true that really aren't. If you keep this up, yer gonna be the KING of naivety! Wake up. If you don't drink coffee..... start. I believe FP has done a great deal of good work. His fades do show that the eyes, nose, mouth and ears line up. Scaling would not cause those to match if they didn't match to begin with. I know also that FP holds his tongue and has been very civil while presenting his point of view. I don't see the need to belittle him and go after him personally.
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Post by Goldfinger on Nov 18, 2004 8:32:25 GMT -5
The red pepper pic used by Sun Thing and Uber-Oberkinder has been stretched...period...and here is the proof utilizing a scan of the very same image from a copy of the Sgt Pepper CD: Watch the eyebrows of John, Paul, and George go up and down while the rest of their bodies remain consistant throughout the overlay... CASE CLOSED!
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Post by Goldfinger on Sept 17, 2004 12:43:55 GMT -5
I think the more interesting comparison is the one between the original LP and the CD release. They are much different.
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Aha!
Sept 7, 2004 13:06:38 GMT -5
Post by Goldfinger on Sept 7, 2004 13:06:38 GMT -5
Another FP
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Post by Goldfinger on Oct 21, 2004 15:17:39 GMT -5
That is so cool how you got the words to link to the other forum. I like that. **edited to remove hotlink. Please do not hotlink to 60IF from this forum. Thanks. No problem, but I still think it was cool how it was done.
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