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Post by jerriwillmore on Sept 16, 2009 16:55:25 GMT -5
Paul was arrested in Japan and later wrote a book about it, "Japanese Jailbird". He then put it in a safety deposit box, not to be released till after his death.  I read that in a bio. Also that after the Japanese arrested him they asked him questions about his earlier life. PID related possibly? |
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Post by 8749 on Sept 16, 2009 17:00:33 GMT -5
I just read something about that in Bill Harry's The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia. He never published the book; he had one copy made for himself, but he did make some of the information from the book public. I'll get that info for you tomorrow.
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Post by 8749 on Sept 17, 2009 16:08:01 GMT -5
Actually, he made observances of his detention public, but it is unknown if that is part of what's in his book.
According to the Bill Harry book, Sir Paul said in an interview for the 1989 radio series McCartney on McCartney that he wrote the book for his children: that when his son is 30 [two year's ago, in fact] and asks what happened, he can give him the manuscript to read. Maybe his kids have read it and commented on it.
The only rumor I heard about the Japanese questioning Sir Paul is that they checked his fingerprints against a set of real Paul's taken when The Beatles were in Japan in 1966 and (of course) they didn't match.
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Post by revolver on Sept 19, 2009 13:42:37 GMT -5
The only rumor I heard about the Japanese questioning Sir Paul is that they checked his fingerprints against a set of real Paul's taken when The Beatles were in Japan in 1966 and (of course) they didn't match. The problem with that story is why would Japan have a copy of JPM's fingerprints if he hadn't been arrested for something? It's not like they take fingerprints of every visitor to their country. |
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Post by puzzled on Sept 30, 2009 13:33:04 GMT -5
The only rumor I heard about the Japanese questioning Sir Paul is that they checked his fingerprints against a set of real Paul's taken when The Beatles were in Japan in 1966 and (of course) they didn't match. The problem with that story is why would Japan have a copy of JPM's fingerprints if he hadn't been arrested for something? It's not like they take fingerprints of every visitor to their country. What about passports? Didn't you have to put fingerprints on your passport back then? |
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Post by 8749 on Nov 18, 2009 17:25:19 GMT -5
The problem with that story is why would Japan have a copy of JPM's fingerprints if he hadn't been arrested for something? It's not like they take fingerprints of every visitor to their country. What about passports? Didn't you have to put fingerprints on your passport back then? I've been looking into British passport information. Fingerprints weren't in passports, so it might have been a Japanese regulation in order to receive a visa to the country. The British regulations in the 1960's were that the first passport was good for 5 years with a renewal for 5 more, before a Brit had to get a new passport. BUT, according to one regulation, if at any time the passport contained no further space for visas, a new passport would have to be issued. The old passports had 32 pages, but since The Beatles were traveling a lot of the time, Paul would have had several passports between 1960 and 1966. I read in the book, Tracing Missing Persons: An Introduction to Agencies, Methods, and Sources in England and Wales that passport registers (at least in 1986) are made available for public inspections when the registers are 30 years old. The information in the registers include(d): 1.) the date issued; 2.) the number of the passport; and 3.) the surname and initials of the applicant. If the information available hasn't been superceded by the FOIA Act, it would be interesting to see if two J.P. McCartneys show up on the passport registers (one of Paul's, one of Faul's.) |
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Post by chica on Jun 8, 2017 12:20:23 GMT -5
The only rumor I heard about the Japanese questioning Sir Paul is that they checked his fingerprints against a set of real Paul's taken when The Beatles were in Japan in 1966 and (of course) they didn't match. The problem with that story is why would Japan have a copy of JPM's fingerprints if he hadn't been arrested for something? It's not like they take fingerprints of every visitor to their country. The Japanese didn't have a copy of JPM's fingerprints, it was Interpol. |
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Post by ekauqodielak on Dec 28, 2018 6:04:48 GMT -5
So does Interpol also make that info available after 30 years?
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I read that in a bio. Also that after the Japanese arrested him they asked him questions about his earlier life. PID related possibly?
