Faul/Bill vs. Paul

[lili]

I saw these photos & they made an impression on me. Bill vs. Paul:




I really do see two different people in these photos.

[revolver]

Thanks lili. I just noticed that Bill's lower lip protrudes out more than Paul's. You rarely see a photo of Paul with his lips pursed like that. That's Bill's trademark facial expression, usually when he's concentrating on something.

[lili]

Revolver, I never noticed that ! I wonder if that is what was bothering me about those photos !

[luvleerita]

Maybe because Bill has to concentrate more on playing bass, he has to make a more concerted effort and makes facial contortions. Whereas JPM is doing what is natural.

[DarkHorse]

revolver said:

Thanks lili. I just noticed that Bill's lower lip protrudes out more than Paul's. You rarely see a photo of Paul with his lips pursed like that. That's Bill's trademark facial expression, usually when he's concentrating on something.

That's a good way of telling them apart.

[lili]

Paul & John
Bill & John

[luvleerita]

It's possible that the pursed lips are the result of the extensive plastic surgery to try to imitate JPM's lips. While the pic that Lili posted, Bill's facial filler resembles someone who's had oral surgery and his face is a little swollen, or looks like cotton inside the mouth too. Note: I said looks like.

[lili]

I somehow missed your last post, Rita. Sorry about that. I have to agree that in quite a few photos, Bill's face appears somewhat swollen.

Bill
Paul

Any questions ?

[LOVELYRITA]

Bill looks sick in that picture? Is that from India? Perhaps it's the curried Chicken, and perhaps that is why he turned vegetarian? That suits looks like his India days...

My question is this, when were they in India? How soon after his trip to Kenya with Mal? Maybe this was not that soon after his surgery....and he was recuperating...Just curious.

[lili]

I've read that it was Linda who turned him vegetarian. Maybe he was in India recuperating. [img src="http://galeon.hispavista.com/akostuff/img/Dunno2[1].gif"]

[eyesbleed]

Might as well post more pics here once in a while.... ya think?

Paul

Bill

[lili]

The photos of Paul & Jim vs. Bill & Jim are a very powerful visual clue as to the differences between the two men. Paul & Bill couldn't look any more different ! Paul is not much taller than his dad Jim. Bill towers over the man !
In the last photo comparison above, Paul's face appears to be swollen, his eyes puffy. I have a feeling that Paul was unwell during the last two years of his life. I believe that he was suffering both mentally & physically. The clues are in the songs from Rubber Soul & Revolver. If you go along with him having a relationship with Sylvie Vartan, one can only imagine how Paul felt when she married Johnny Halliday on April 12th, 1965.

By 1965, Sylvie had become a French idol in the truest sense. She married rock n'roll pretty boy, Johnny Halliday (often dubbed the "French Elvis") at an extravagant wedding reception with over 2,000 people in attendance, and hundreds of fans loitering outside the church. She toured Japan, South America, and the United States. And by the end of '66, she gave birth to her first child, David. Sylvie Vartan lived the picture perfect life- that is until February 1970 when she was seriously injured in a car accident with hubby Johnny Halliday. Johnny came out of the crash unharmed, but Sylvie required major plastic surgery to rebuild her damaged face.

Right !!! My guess is that is when Fylvie #2 hit the scene.

Back to the subject at hand. I think that these two photos are a great comparison:
Paul
Bill

[noodles]

Is it just me or has someone blacked his eyes out and painted a black lline between his lips?

[lili]

I didn't notice it until you blew it up. That sure looks bizarre !

[DarkHorse]

...and the nostrils.

[eyesbleed]

Someone probably just adjusted the exposure.
It'll do that if ya decrease the black. The further ya drop the black exposure, the more areas will turn solid black.

[lili]

Thanks, eyesbleed. With the advent of digital technology we forget how the older cameras used to work.

[noodles]

eyesbleed said:

Someone probably just adjusted the exposure.
It'll do that if ya decrease the black. The further ya drop the black exposure, the more areas will turn solid black.

That's what I thought at first. But the black areas look very unnatural. And why would the whites of his eyes go black ahead of much darker areas on his face? The shine on his nose suggests the sun/major lighting source was behind the photographer and it's broad daylight. I don't see how less exposure would make his eyes black like that.

[lili]

I don't know, Noodles. It surely does look strange. [img src="http://galeon.hispavista.com/akostuff/img/Dunno2[1].gif"]

[LOVELYRITA]

The caption at the top of the magazine says something right there, "The New Far Out Beatles"....
They were not the Beatles that recorded Revolver or Rubber Soul....
with the death of JPM, the remnants of the group were never the same.....


I can see where people questioned if this picture was in fact, wax dummies.

Something that strikes me odd with this picture is that the heads of John, George and Ringo looked like they were interposed there on bodies of stand ins, it doesn't look right to me. The lighting on the three of them has their appearance different than on "Paul's" head.

Maybe it's just me, but seeing some of these pictures being touched up, I'm suspect of many of them from this period of Beatles' history.

[plastic paul]

lovelyrita said:

Something that strikes me odd with this picture is that the heads of John, George and Ringo looked like they were interposed there on bodies of stand ins, it doesn't look right to me. The lighting on the three of them has their appearance different than on "Paul's" head.

Maybe it's just me, but seeing some of these pictures being touched up, I'm suspect of many of them from this period of Beatles' history.

It's bizarre that you should say that because i've seen this pic many times before and thought nothing was odd about it (bar a man pretending to be JPM who clearly isn't), but when I saw it then, before reading your comments, I thought exactly the same thing, you can particularly tell with Ringo's face against "John's" outfit.

[lili]

That's true, PP. Faul's head looks like it belongs in the photo. The other heads look faded compared to the rest of their bodies.
I have also noticed that John looks terrible in this photo. He looks like he's exhausted & as if he'd been crying. [img src="http://galeon.hispavista.com/akostuff/img/Dunno2[1].gif"]

[Red Lion]

[lili]

They all look positively funereal !

[lili]

I was looking through one of my photobuckets & found these two photos:

Paul
Faul from the Free as a Bird Video ( I think that's where it's from [img src="http://galeon.hispavista.com/akostuff/img/Dunno2[1].gif"] )

Faul's whole face is bigger. I also noticed that his ear looks different from Paul's.