The concept of duality has been around much longer than 1966. So has the concept of... growing a beard. Quite a few people have done it. The word "fool" has been around in the English language for a while too. I'm not sure where you're getting this Peter Hammill/"Faul" connection. I can give countless examples of words from Beatles songs being used all over the place, like "fool", "hammer", "magical", "the", "is" and so on. Plus, I think he looks more like
John Cleese in that pic than Paul.
Obviously there are a million songs with lyrics like "I was a fool for you".
What makes Peter Hammill interesting to me is the confluence of Beatle lyric "coincidences" that
relate to his work, as well as his appearance resembling Faul, and how well it all seems to
work, in his case.
It is interesting, isn't it, that the Scorpio symbol he uses just happens to look like "Mc", isn't it?
The Scorpio symbol in astrology tends to look like an M with an arrow at the foot of the M, sort of
like this:
M_> yet for some reason he chooses to use the "Mc" one on his albums.
I find the resemblence to Faul on the album cover above to be quite remarkable, and for my
two cents it seems as "Faulish" as "John Cleese-ish".
One could say that what I've written so far is "just coincidence", but look at the album cover
for "The Fool's Mate", and what do you see? Not just some clown face, but a chessboard, with a plane
apparently crossing the sands of time, back to a place in antiquity,
perhaps the orient or Egypt. The suggestion is that there is something of a puzzle here. A riddle to be solved.
Now it is interesting to me that in addition to doing the Wings song "Spirits of Ancient Egypt",
Faul did a song about his "Ever-present Past", which, if you listen to the lyrics, has him speculating
about things he might have done as a kid, but which aren't clear in his memory.
Is that how you remember your childhood? Perhaps to some degree, but most of us have
relatively clear memories of our childhood. He mentions not understanding what was said.
That seems odd.
I'll have more to say about that momentarily, but the point is that "the fool" may be connected
to time travel, in some way.
Curiously, Peter Hammill toured with the group Marillion, as the warm up act.
One of Marillion's albums is called "Misplaced Childhood" and features a kid wearing a Sgt
Pepper-like uniform on the cover.
Sort of like the childhood that Faul just can't quite seem to remember in the song "Ever
Present Past". Notice, btw, that the kid is also barefoot, for what it's worth, like Faul on Abbey Road.
He wears a prominently placed heart on his chest. Like "Kid Sgt. Pepper" you might say.
Just another coincidence, I'm sure.
Another Marillion album is called "Script for a Jester's Tear", which features a fellow in a joker's
costume playing a fiddle on the cover.
It is not clear in the image, but the lyrics shown on the paper are actually for one of the Beatles' songs;
"Fool on the Hill" if I'm not mistaken. JoJo posted a thread about it somewhere here.
Just another coincidence.
Peter Hammill's second solo album was called
Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night .
Does that sound as if it might be a description of Faul?
I think so, but you don't have to.
How about his album called
The Fall of the House of Usher which is based on the short story
of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe?
I think of the line, "Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe".
Just another "coincidence", I'm sure.
And when I see the Hammill album with pillows on the cover, I think of the line, "You never give
me your pillow". It seems that Hammill is deliberately linking his works with Beatle-esque references.
Or it's all just a coincidence.
But what might this all be telling us?
I think it might be telling us that Faul is from the family of Peter Hammill in some way.
And I'll go a bit further with the speculation.
If Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash in 1966, and this was in some way inevitable; FATE as it were,
and you wanted him to live on, what you might do, if you had the ability to do it, was find out who
he had been in a previous life, and clone a body from that person, so that he (Paul) could
continue his life this time around, even though he had been killed in a car accident, being as the
clone would presumably be the same soul, expressed as two living individuals.
Therefore, I think what the suggestion here might be is that someone who knew that Paul McCartney
was (possibly) someone like 'RAMses the 2nd' in a previous incarnation, could create an
embryo from that mummy and have it implanted into a 20th century woman, who would then
bear a child who was, presumably, the same soul as Paul McCartney.
That way he could "live on" even though he was fated to die, and did.
This may be who/what Faul is, and it may explain why his childhood is "misplaced" and hard
to remember, because it was from ancient Egypt.
But what if that isn't what happened? What if, instead, there was no embryo cloned and
implanted in modern times, but rather, Ramses the second was simply transported from antiquity
and brought into the present in some sort of time-warp magic?
What if Faul is Ramses the second, and Paul was taken back in time to take his place in antiquity?
I realize that is REALLY a stretch, but that could be what "Can You Take Me Back where I came from?"
is actually about. The old switcheroo. Maybe that's what Iamaphoney and others have
been suggesting happened. And of course, if you were Ramses, you would need to have a mate
to be your buddy to acclimate you to the present, and perhaps the Hammills were the family
that acted as your hosts.
All of this, I realize, is science fiction in the truest sense, but when you are hearing about
"Starship 21zna9" and "Venus and Mars are alright tonight",
then - I'm sorry, but this is the
the kind of story being told.
I don't know what, if anything I have posted here, might be true,
but if I had money to wager,
I would have to feel that the Peter Hammill connection is a pretty safe bet.
And with songs by the Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crowe, David Bowie and others about travelling
through space, I have to wonder if we aren't being told, indirectly, that someone like
Paul, or Faul, has done this. Have you seen the stars tonight?