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Post by beacon on Dec 5, 2013 10:36:11 GMT -5
The Hebrew word APL means “sudden death” and “thick darkness" and, as expected, also has the Gematrical value of 111. Thick Darkness is one translation of the names for the Egyptian Underworld, where Osiris dwells and is redeemed nightly by Ra who is reborn as Keph-Ra the Scarab Beetle; as is written in The Egyptian Book of Caverns. APL also closely resembles the Greek name Apollo and the English word Apple. (Apple Records) Beatles Bentley
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Post by beacon on Nov 29, 2013 4:29:54 GMT -5
After John's Uncle Charlie, the RAOB member, and Paul's acting cousins, the Robbins, here is another delve into Beatle family connections.... ... Uncle Albert - The Code MakerIn my book, The Sgt. Pepper Code, I talk about a hidden code that appears to have been embedded into the lyrics of the song ‘She’s Leaving Home’ that I christened The Y Code. The code can be revealed thusly. Firstly, take a pencil and paper and, starting at the beginning of the song lyrics, search for the letter Y. If you then go back three letters from each Y, and jot down that letter, you will begin to reveal the hidden code. Example: "Wedne(s)daY morning at five o'clock as th(e) daY begins. Sile(n)tlY closing her bedroom door. Leaving the note that she hoped woul(d) saY more. She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief. Qui(e)tlY turning the backdoor(r) keY". SENDER. Ok, that doesn’t mean too much, so let us carry on with this experiment, ignoring any lyrics in brackets, and we will also find ... MARY. SENDER MARY. So, could this be a reference to Paul’s mother Mary? Well, it is interesting to note that Mrs. McCartney had some interesting relatives, one of whom, her uncle, invented the gas meter – the original meter maid? – whilst another, Paul’s cousin, Bert Danher was a famous creator of crosswords. It appears a Beatle had a code maker in the family? According to Danher’s obituary in the Daily Telegraph he was the “greatest inventor of anagrams” and “He particularly enjoyed linking two clues together so that the solutions created a homophone; thus the clues "fairy-like" and "ghost" made "elfin" and "spectre", or "botanical gardens" and "beast" made "Kew" and "brute”. Bert Danher Perhaps the most telling tribute is “Danher also liked to signal his authorship in cryptic puzzles by beginning 1 Across with a musical clue”. Ok, so I exaggerated the title a little for effect, call it poetic licence, but Cousin Bert the code maker doesn’t have quite the same ring! Sources: Bert Danaher Obituary John Walter Danher
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Post by beacon on Nov 20, 2013 4:57:43 GMT -5
Ah, from 1947-1949, two people known as The Lonely Hearts Killers, murdered young women who replied to their personal ads. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Fernandez_and_Martha_BeckInterestingly, Jared Leto plays Raymond Fernandez, the murderer, in the film Lonely Hearts. Jared Leto also plays Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27. He also plays Paul Allen the murder victim in American Psycho, and plays Paul Gardener in Urban Legend. Remember the Sgt. Pepper drum not only points to Paul with implications of death, but also encodes Lennon's death: the L and H of Lonely Hearts are 12 and 8 alphanumerically. He died on 12/8. Leto also plays Nemo in Mr. Nobody. Nemo is Latin for "no-man" and can also mean "no one". Nowhere Man? Fernandez was born on December 17, 1914 in Hawaii. Chapman had been living in Hawaii in the years leading up to 1980. Nearly works!!
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Post by beacon on Nov 15, 2013 4:52:23 GMT -5
How does one find out if Jessie Robbins was related to McCartney? Is there a source on this? In the book Many Years From Now, McCartney states that he found Robbins in a list of actors. Very interesting point. Paul is related to a family of Robbins who do act. The actress Kate Robbins and her brother Ted are both first cousins once removed of Pauls. Kate Robbins wiki linkThat these 'flock' of Robbins are related to Jessie I do not know, however, Jessie spelt her name with a single B, so, I guess not. She did, however, appear in Billy Liar and in the film 'Up The Junction' she played Fat Lil! Presumably, the acting Robbins sprung from the nest of Paul's cousin Bett. That spring of 1960, John and I went down to a pub in Reading, The Fox And Hound, run by my cousin Betty Robbins and her husband. We worked behind the bar. It was a lovely experience that came from John and I just hitching off down there. At the end of the week we played in the pub as The Nerk Twins. We even made our own posters.
Paul McCartney AnthologyAlso, there was a writer under the pen-name Billy Shepherd writing articles for the Beatles Monthly Magazine as far back as 1963. The magazine was launched with the permission of Epstein & The Beatles. Articles were also written by Evans & Aspinall. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_BookAspinall was Billy Shepherd
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Post by beacon on Nov 14, 2013 5:30:27 GMT -5
Apropos of nothing in particular - and Linus may have mentioned this already - but there is a link between Keith Moon and this picture from the 'We'll all be Magick Supermen' thread.... The guy trapped on the right, General Zod, is Terence Stamp, - Terry meets Julie, Waterloo station, every Fiday night - whose brother Chris managed The Who. Chris Stamp, who along with Kit Lambert, also managed Jimi Hendrix at one point, stole The High Numbers, who became The Who, from their then manager Pete Meaden after being advised that the band's managment contract wasn't legally binding. This extremely profitable bit of advice came from the Beatles' attorney, David Jacobs, who would later 'commit suicide' having been threatened with retribution by the Kray twins. A friend of the Krays, and former armed robber, Bill Curbishley would go on to manage The Who from the 1970's and would also manage both Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, indeed reuniting them for the first time since Led Zeppelin. Oh, the wonderful Magick Circles we weave.
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Post by beacon on Oct 24, 2013 10:04:28 GMT -5
The printed lies! Sound like whoever made this chart is pretty slow (lol)... looking at this chart and comparing it to how I know The Beatles (the originals, at least) REALLY looked, it looks as though this info is WAY off. Always happy to share my sources - this comes from Tiger Beat magazine April 1966 Also contained this interview
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Post by beacon on Oct 24, 2013 8:31:19 GMT -5
Wow! Do you have this book? I wish! I remember when it came out, but the price tag even then was too much for a kid with a paper round. The best bet anyone would have truly was a suggestion at the page I found the snippets --- public library might have it. Which I think I should check, because a friend of mine was hounding me last night that I lived in London and had never been in a single library since my arrival. I take it this is my cue. The British Library has a copy, I work very close by so I may have to pop in. Seems odd that if Taylor had such a problem with Paul in 1968 that he would agree to come back to work for Apple?
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Post by beacon on Oct 24, 2013 5:13:51 GMT -5
Bailey and Donovan weren't the only photographers on the guest list that night.
The following snippet comes from Mim Scala's book Memoirs of a Teddy Boy. Scala, incidentally, founded the Scala Browne Agency with Sibylla's director Sir William Piggot-Brown.
Vic Singh, who had shot the credits for Alfie, was one of the most remarkable photographers of the early Sixties, the first Asian to break into the mainstream fashion world. His experimental pop videos for Island Records were to set trends. Vic and a young film editor with a promising reputation called Keith Green persuaded the Beatles to let them make a documentary based on the song A Day in the Life, commemorating the untimely death of the Byronic ('He didn't notice that the lights had changed') Tara Browne, a friend of mine as well as theirs. But Vic and Keith never came back from this project, or were so radically changed their careers just seemed to stop. They both suddenly withdrew from the scene, renouncing the material business world. These were heavy psychedelic times, and there were casualties. Vic withdrew to dedicate the next decade to the study of time and light, in search of the perfect photograph, destroying much of his fabulous archive of images which had capturd the major happenings of Sixties fashion and the evolution of the King's Road.
Another interesting tale from this book is Scala's claim that Denny Cordell, who produced the Moody Blues when Denny Laine was a member, was involved in Seltaeb with Nicky Byrne. Seltaeb, of course, was the company formed to licence Beatles merchandise and that was such a disaster that it irrepairably damaged Brian Epstein's reputation and that of David Jacob's too.
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Post by beacon on Oct 24, 2013 5:05:03 GMT -5
Interesting snippet from Derek Taylor's Fifty Years Adrift. View AttachmentWow! Do you have this book?
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Post by beacon on Oct 24, 2013 4:52:40 GMT -5
And his son married the daughter of an "Austrian baroness". Yes, and another who would grace the cover of a Process magazine Though, by this point, she had left Dunbar for another Process star. Mindbending indeed!!
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Post by beacon on Oct 24, 2013 4:39:09 GMT -5
Brief article on Millionairess Charwoman Works in London Home: news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19620308&id=9ERjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RHQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3242,1380862 She being Sibylla Edmonstone, the great granddaughter of Marshall Field. Other Field Facts: Marshall Field's, the eponymous department store he founded. Field Enterprises, holding company for newspapers and TV stations. Marshall Field III (1893–1956), publisher, Chicago Sun founder, investment banker, bankrolled Saul Alinsky Marshall Field IV, publisher, owner of the Chicago Sun newspaper Frederick "Ted" Field (founder of Interscope Communications and co-founder of Interscope Records) Saul Alinsky seems to me to be a very interesting dude. Here's a picture of Sibylla with her boyfriend. And his singing partner. View AttachmentPeter And Gordon Off To U.S.A.: Pop stars Peter and Gordon flew off from London airport today to New York for engagements. Photo shows. Peter (left) and Gordon at London Airport today. In centre is Sibylla Edmonstone (girl friend of Gordon). Very interesting! I did not know this. It is amazing how, that in a city of eight million or so inhabitants like London, the Beatles and the Stones could operate in such a small circle of associates!
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Post by beacon on Oct 24, 2013 4:33:45 GMT -5
Moreover, it would seem that if Elton John was also on the books of Dick James, then it would be natural that as the end of The Beatles coincided with the rise of Elton John's career, so in his early years as a songwriter he quite possibly could have been "ghostwriting" songs for others, including Lennon/McCartney and I would postulate that others may have been as ticket2ride stated; possibly Burt Bacharach and Donovan and others. Also, it follows that if both JPM and Lennon were replaced by Bill and Fohn; then that would explain those shares being sold without bothering to inform the writers, as the songs were not owned by Lennon/McCartney anyway. It would appear that Brian Epstein also owned the Lennon/McCartney songbook together with Dick James but John and Paul (the originals) never owned their own material. Could it be another reason for The Beatles decision to stop touring as they were not making the money people thought they were and had become disenchanted with the whole thing? Apologies for the length of the following tract, however, this what I wrote in the Beatles Book of Revelations and it is a lengthy passage:- The origins of this tale can be traced back to early 1963 when George Martin advised Brian Epstein to find a good publisher as Epstein had been disappointed that EMI's Ardmore and Beechwood publishing company had done almost nothing to promote the release of Love Me Do. Martin recommended three publishers who, in his opinion, would be fair and honest, and this led Epstein to the doors of Dick James. James had been a singer himself originally but had turned to publishing when his singing career began to wane. Following George Martin’s advice James was contacted by Brian Epstein and agreed an appointment for eleven o'clock the following morning. Having arranged a prior meeting at 10.00, Epstein left in disgust at 10.25 when the executive he was due to meet failed to appear and arrived at James's office at 10.40. Epstein apologised to the receptionist for being early and offered to wait until 11.00; nevertheless, the receptionist contacted James who promptly ushered Epstein into his office. Having heard Please, Please Me and telling Epstein it was a number one James immediately picked up the phone and called Philip Jones, the producer of the prestigious TV show, Thank Your Lucky Stars, playing him the acetate over the phone, and saying the song was "a guaranteed future hit".
Fortuitously, Jones agreed, and promised the Beatles a spot on the show. Epstein, suitably amazed at the speed of the booking, decided that James was a man he could trust and he was immediately invited to publish and promote the record.
On 22 February 1963, James suggested to Epstein that forming a company with John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Epstein would accrue more money in the long run. Lennon and McCartney, apparently, thought they would own the whole company, but were, in fact, given 20 shares each, Epstein had another 10 shares whilst and James and his partner, Charles Silver, controlled the remaining 50.
In his autobiography All You Need Is Ears, George Martin recounts the moment Dick James signed the band. “Dick was delighted. Straight away he agreed to take the publishing and in so doing made a very clever deal. He suggested to Brian that a new company, to be called Northern Songs, should be started, of which he would own 50% and the Beatles and Brian the other 50%. It was clever because in offering as large a slice as 50% he ensured that he would sign a contract for a long period of time, during which all their works would go to that company”.
The company's shares were to be owned for a period of 10 years and the company controlled the copyrights to 56 songs. The agreement further stipulated that a minimum of six new songs by Lennon and McCartney were to be written each year. A separate company, Maclen Music, which published Lennon and McCartney's music in the United States, was also controlled by Northern Songs with both companies being administered by Dick James Music. Northern Songs also published George Harrison's early compositions, as well as Ringo Starr's.
McCartney would later claim that they signed all the contracts Epstein presented to them without reading them first, with Lennon adding, "We had complete faith in Brian when he was running us. To us, he was the expert”. Dick James offered George Martin shares as well, but these he turned down, stating that it might well be unethical as he was employed by EMI. A noble, but possibly foolhardy, sentiment given the money he could have made and given the pittance that EMI then paid him.
The monies Northern Songs accrued were then channelled into a second company, Lenmac Enterprises; owned by Lennon and McCartney (40% each) and NEMS (North End Music Stores) 20%. The company would collect profits from the UK sales only.
By 1965 it was decided that to make Northern Songs a public company would save on capital gains tax. 1,250,000 shares were floated on the London Stock Exchange at a value of 17 pence each, however, they were offered for sale at 66 pence each. Although this offer was derided by various financial institutions, it was still fully expected that the application lists would not remain open for more than 60 seconds,which is what duly happened. After the offer was closed, Lennon and McCartney retained 15% each, with a value of £195,200, NEMS had a 7.5% interest, and James and Silver, who became Northern Songs' chairmen, controlling 37.5%. Harrison and Starr would have to be content with a measly 1.6%.
The remaining 23.4% of the shares were owned by various other financial institutions.At the same time, Lennon and McCartney renewed their previous three-year publishing contracts, in the process binding themselves to Northern Songs until 1973.Harrison also signed with the company in 1965, for a period of three years. Dick James clearly realised what his two most important assets were and so, to protect his interests, James took out a life insurance policy on Lennon and McCartney worth £500,000.
We will discuss later the most famous Beatle conspiracy of all time, namely the Paul is Dead rumour, but, it is curious that if; and I do not ascribe to this theory, if Paul McCartney had died in 1966 that this policy was not cashed in by Dick James.
However, by the summer of 1966, there were some 88 songs by Lennon and McCartney that had been recorded and released, which amounted to an incredible 2,900 versions by different artists. George Harrison founded his own publishing company, Mornyork Ltd. in September 1964, and had its name changed to Harrisongs by December of that year whilst Ringo Starr formed a publishing company called Startling Music.
Harrison wrote Only a Northern Song, which was then due to appear on the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where the lyrics express his disappointment with his publishing contract and with the company's handling of his songs. The song was left off the album, but later appeared in the 1968 film Yellow Submarine and its soundtrack.
After Epstein's tragic, but hugely suspicious, death on August 27, 1967, Lennon and McCartney sought to renegotiate their publishing deal with Dick James. In 1968 they invited him for a meeting at Apple Records; filming the encounter and acting brusquely towards him. Whatever outcome the Beatles thought they could attain from this meeting appears to have failed spectacularly as, early in 1969, James and Silver abruptly sold their shares in Northern Songs to ATV for £1,525,000 giving the band no notice, or indeed, the chance to buy them out.
As a matter of fact John Lennon only learned of the sale from a morning newspaper during his honeymoon with Yoko Ono and he immediately called McCartney. The ensuing meeting of minds yielded an initial plan of action whereby Lennon and McCartney would make efforts to secure ownership of the publishing rights,but their bid to gain control, part of a long and acrimonious fight, would be ultimately doomed to failure. The financial power of television impresario Lew Grade, their adversary in the bidding war, ensured that the music written by the two Beatles passed into the control of ATV. Lennon and McCartney were offered £9,000,000 for their remaining shares by ATV on 5 April 1969, but turned down the offer.
This failed attempt would ultimately cost Paul McCartney dearly, however, John Lennon, who was by now being held very firmly to the bosom of one Allen Klein, along with Harrison and Starr, instructed Klein to attempt to set up a deal for Apple Corps to buy ATV out. This was stopped by attorney John Eastman—Linda McCartney's brother, and son of McCartney's future business manager, Lee Eastman—who sent a letter to ATV informing them that Klein was not authorised to act on Apple's behalf.
Although this was technically true, Klein was the de facto manager for Lennon, Harrison and Starr, and he also had McCartney's verbal go-ahead for the deal. ATV backed out rather than risk being pulled into litigation, so next, a block of investors who owned a small, but crucial, percentage of shares was lobbied by both sides to sell out or cooperate with them to take control of Northern Songs.
Any Beatle hopes of success via this route were scuppered however, when John Lennon, never slow to express an opinion, stated during negotiations, "I'm sick to death of being fucked about by men in suits sitting on their fat arses in the City!" Whilst this admirable sentiment remains as true today as it was then it served merely to push the investors to ATV's side.
Under the terms of their publishing contract with Northern Songs, Lennon and McCartney were legally bound to continue their song-writing partnership until 1973. The solution they reasoned, if they could not gain control, was to sell out to ATV, while still receiving the writer's royalties from their published songs. Lennon and McCartney sold their stock in October 1969, for £3.5 million. Starr chose to keep his shares (0.8%), but Harrison had already sold his 40,000 shares (0.8%) in June 1969.
An interesting side note, and a pointer to the way in which McCartney was already working, was that by the time of the sale McCartney had accumulated 751,000 shares in Northern Songs compared to Lennon’s 644,000 as he had been secretly buying up additional shares.
Throughout the Seventies and indeed until after the murder of John Lennon in 1980 this state of affairs would be retained. In 1981 however, McCartney attempted to make a joint purchase of the ATV music catalogue with Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono. At a 1990 press conference, McCartney indicated that he had been offered the opportunity to purchase the songs for £20 million. Apparently he did not want to be perceived as being "grabby" for "owning John Lennon's bit of the songs" so he asked Ono if she would make a joint purchase with him, sharing the cost equally.
According to McCartney, Ono thought they could buy it for half the price being offered and he agreed to see what could be done about that. Bizarrely, McCartney then let the deal fall through as they were not able to make a joint acquisition.
Possibly even more bizarre is quite how, if Lennon and McCartney’s 40% holding was valued at £9 million in 1969, it was deemed feasible that Ono and McCartney could buy the entire catalogue in 1981 for £10 million. Whatever the truth of this issue, once again McCartney’s reluctance to splash the cash would come back to haunt him.And enter Michael Jackson.... The real issue, if Paul, and indeed John, died or were replaced or whatever, is that the Lennon and McCartney song-writing partnership remained in place. Whatever the terms of the royalties contract the songwriters were always Lennon and McCartney. If Bacharach, Donovan, George Martin, Theo Adorno or even Elvis Presley ghost wrote songs for the Beatles then they did so without receiving a penny piece.
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Post by beacon on Oct 22, 2013 10:07:47 GMT -5
The Beatles timeframe Sept 66 - Jan 67 according to Barry Miles; some highlights -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Post by beacon on Oct 22, 2013 9:47:24 GMT -5
26th December 1965. That Moped Accident(what follows is just brainstorming.) It's the stories told about that Moped accident. He did an interview in June 1966. He stated that he'd just bashed his tooth in, and his appearance looked a bit down, because they had been recording that spring for the album. On the 18th May they recorded Got To Get You Into My Life until 2.30am. Then on the 19th started filming the Rain and Paperback Writer videos. But it's the 20th at Chiswick House filming videos for the same songs that his lip looks agitated and puffy, and his appearance looks ill. He said he started growing a moustache, because the scar was embarassing and he knew he'd be appearing in magazines and such. But you can find so many photos posed for and sent to magazines between Dec 1965 and May 1966. He didn't think about that at all when posing for those, nor to get the tooth fixed. The rest started growing moustaches like I did. Well, not until December 1966 at best. George in India yes. Ringo apparently too, but they'd been back from Spain and India since November at the latest. And they (John, George & Ringo) do appear unshaven before the 20th December 1966 filmed interviews where they all have moustaches. In fact, Paul was the only one for a short time. The story just does not add up. Coupled with the appearance in Feb 1967 in Beatles Book Monthly of 3 articles all placed together. Mopeds (john + ringo) Moustaches (all 4) Car Crash Black Mini (Paul's Death Rumour) -- it's just odd that these 3 stories appear on the same page of Beatles Book Monthly. It's almost like it's telling you something. The Mini Paul had was Green, not Black. Paul says he started growing a moustache to cover the scar, but the scar was already a year had, and the chipped tooth for 6 months. John & Ringo Moped story. Is this telling us the Moped accident killed him? January 21st, 1966, Paul is best man at George's Wedding -- he has the chipped tooth. Is that too soon to make an appearance for a double? Was the double in place already? Was the chipped tooth/lip scar just a cover story? There is just something about that Moped accident that bugs the hell out of me. The story told does not match up to the timeframe or incidents that followed. 3 deaths occur in 1966. Alma Cogan, Kevin MacDonald, and Tara Browne. There's also a member of the Fourmost that dies in March 1966. Millward I think his surname was. But it's these 3 deaths that bug me as well. Cogan died of stomach cancer. Suspected cause of this was a highly experimental weight loss drug she was injecting. Kevin MacDonald was co-owner of Sibylla's with Tara Browne. Harrison had a 10% shareholding in Kevin MacDonald Associates Ltd. MacDonald threw himself off a roof. Did he fall or was he pushed. Don't know. Don't know what happened to Harrison's share in Sybilla's OR KMA Ltd. Tara Browne died in a fatal car crash. Coroner's report states there was nothing in his system at time of death that suggested reckless or lack of reaction skills -- he saved his passenger's life with his quick reaction to the oncoming parked vehicle. These happened within a very short time span October - December 1966. MacDonald first, then Cogan about 11 days later, then Browne in the last month of 1966. (But it doesn't stop there -- you then have Joe Meek, Joe Orton, Harry Epstein, Brian Epstein ... it keeps going. Moped. Hmm. June 1966 Beatles Monthly Six months after the alleged date and note, the story does not say anything about Christmas 1965.
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Post by beacon on Oct 22, 2013 9:36:39 GMT -5
Now we head back to LSD, and The Process Church. A Processean questionnaire, interesting second question! Which leads us to perhaps the most famous proponent of brainwashing, and, another Process 'celebrity' interviewee McCartney quote from Process Fear magazine - note the three 'celebrities' quoted; Paul, Jane and Roy Boulting, producer/director of The Family Way Talking of the Family Way Note how they insist the moustache is real! It's all brainwashing.
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Post by beacon on Oct 22, 2013 9:14:27 GMT -5
Right now I'm going through all images 1967. You know another thing that bothers me? Guess. The moustaches! When did everyone grow theirs and how long did it take. We see in December 1966, all four Beatles had a moustache. On November 11th, 1966 the Daily Mirror reports The Beatles at a crossroads. Harrison is the only one sporting a moustache. In-between this time, Harrison shaved his off, and the one Ringo was growing on holiday was shaved off as well -- so by November the only Beatle with a moustache was ... Paul. There is a picture of George & Ringo entering EMI without moustaches, so in-between India and the December 1966 interview outside of EMI, George re-grew his moustache. As did Ringo. Paul disappears sometime after the MM awards ceremonies, around 19th September 1966, correct? The next time you hear about him seems to be leaving England on the 6th November for France. The next footage of him surfaces with moustache somewhere in-between the 13th - 18th November, 1966. So really what you'd want to find is: Images of him between September 1966 thru to November 1966 while he's growing that moustache. And you know what? I've never seen anything like that in all the photos I've ever seen of things called Beatles. No mid-stage, almost grown McCartney moustache leading up to Pepper. The Beatlemania haircut, into the Pepper haircut --- nope, not that either. No transitional stage documented. There's this nearly two month gap where this guy just drops off the face of the earth. Which is why everyone comes here saying Paul Is Dead! I get that. But how can the most photographed band of its time, just have a member vanish and not be in the public eye? Surely there must be some coverage of him or some archive of his whereabouts? No pictures of him at all? Nothing? The whole moustache thing, especially with drawing them in on George & Paul in The Beatles Book Monthly, does this not seem odd to you how much this hair growth was being pushed through the media. I understand that's how pop news works, oh look they have earwax now! Wow! I get it. And it must have been quite a shock for Beatlemaniacs, so i can see why it was so newsworthy in that kind of treadmill of BeatleNews things. It's just something that occurred to me really. How long does it take to grow a moustache, well til it's not stubble, and actually resembles something. I'd say a good 3 to 4 weeks. Everyone's different though. I have to find that picture showing George & Ringo in late 1966 both without moustaches.
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Post by beacon on Oct 22, 2013 9:07:46 GMT -5
More printed lies
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Post by beacon on Oct 22, 2013 8:51:06 GMT -5
Paul is interviewed in this months copy of Mojo magazine in which he claims he is 5'10" with hazel eyes and that he is/was as tall as John. The printed lies!
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Post by beacon on Oct 21, 2013 10:10:59 GMT -5
My latest blog piece about Sibyllas nightclub. Too long to reproduce here and it isn't really anything to do with PID. Anyway, it is an interesting read about the club that George Harrison was involved in and, I hope, at least voodooguru will be interested!
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Post by beacon on Oct 10, 2013 3:29:20 GMT -5
Anyone know what the 'Tara Boys' sign means? I would love to think it had a Tara Browne connection, but, it is probably quite innocent. This is a 1964 photo of the Tara Boys Band from Ireland. My guess is it is something like that, but hope I am wrong.
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Post by beacon on Oct 2, 2013 4:24:45 GMT -5
To mark the launch of his NEW album, Paul is to give his first-ever live Twitter Q&A this week.
NEW, Paul's first studio album of brand new solo material in six years, sees him working with producers Mark Ronson, Paul Epworth, Ethan Johns and Giles Martin.
Paul will take to Twitter to answer questions about his forthcoming release and the recording process. Fans can send in questions via Twitter by using the hashtag #askMacca.
Fantastic opportunity for someone to ask the questions we all want answered...who will take up the challenge?
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Post by beacon on Oct 2, 2013 4:22:03 GMT -5
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Post by beacon on Oct 2, 2013 4:01:13 GMT -5
Interesting NME cover for all you replacement theorists 'A portrait of the artist as a new man' You would almost think he were perpetuating a myth or something!
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Post by beacon on Oct 2, 2013 3:44:11 GMT -5
Many thanks for taking the time to explain. I think your research on this is very interesting and seems to support the theory that, in the studio at least, it was always the same McCartney. I guess, if it were possible, the thing to do would be to compare your evidence with that that Dr Henry Truby compiled back in 1969 for the famous Life magazine article. Details of which can be found here and here. Truby alleged that there were differences in McCartney's voice. Quoting from the second source above... Voiceprints have been used to detect Faul, the imposter. In 1969, Dr. Henry M. Truby of the University of Miami used samples from three Beatles songs sung by Paul McCartney (Yesterday, Penny Lane, and Hey Jude) and produced three very different sonagrams. If you could debunk that research that would be hugely significant. One question though. If your theory concerning the stroke is correct, would that not have possibly permanently affected McCartney's voice?
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Post by beacon on Oct 2, 2013 3:34:05 GMT -5
Beacon, wasn’t the ’66 Melody Maker awards in September? Linus, I stand corrected.
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