Post by astro4 on May 30, 2014 10:49:09 GMT -5
On 26th November 1966, the New Musical Express (NME) had this rather dark image of the ‘new Paul’ with the caption:
PAUL McCARTNEY returned to London this week from a nine-day holiday in Kenya. He is pictured above with the moustache and slightly shorter hair he used towards his disguise.
It’s hard to believe that any NME reader could suppose that this person was James Paul McCartney...
That’s my favourite image of the new Faul, as he emerges from Nowhere, and steps into History. Yes, he’ll do it! He will even forsake his own identity, to rescue The Beatles.
A month later, the weekly Disc & Music Echo had this even more unlikely image of ‘Paul McCartney’ (Dec 24)
Then on December 24th the NME had Faul composing at the piano, subtitled “GEORGE MARTIN and PAUL McCARTNEY (dig the Pancho moustache) at work in EMI’s studios during the recording of George’s United Artists single of Paul’s film music.”
Much the same pic appeared in the Daily Mirror on 22nd December "Shhh! Composers at Work", with the explanation that George Martin was writing down what Paul played, for a film score. Again we see the long, thin face and wonder how anyone could have believed this was JPM?
A week later (December 31) the NME had a full-page interview with the Beatles, and its images showed Faul looking radically different from the others. Its subtitle said, “On the left Paul sports a new fashion – a jacket with silk lapels and a big floral tie-at the premier of Hayley Mills’ film, “The Family Way” for which he wrote the music.”
In contrast with these weekly British music mags, the ‘official’ monthly Beatles Book kept using images of the old (real) Paul right through the year 1966 as if nothing had happened, and my impression is, that they may have slightly elongated his face in their pictures through that year (I’d appreciate comment here). Its pics achieved a kind of artful melding of the two faces.
A new era in PID-ology dawns as newspaper databases become online-accessible: tho many don’t yet reach back to the 1960s.
I hope its of interest, if these are 'the' four published images of the new artist, in the year 1966. If you know of any others, -please put them in - or just cite the paper, I'll find it.
PAUL McCARTNEY returned to London this week from a nine-day holiday in Kenya. He is pictured above with the moustache and slightly shorter hair he used towards his disguise.
It’s hard to believe that any NME reader could suppose that this person was James Paul McCartney...
That’s my favourite image of the new Faul, as he emerges from Nowhere, and steps into History. Yes, he’ll do it! He will even forsake his own identity, to rescue The Beatles.
A month later, the weekly Disc & Music Echo had this even more unlikely image of ‘Paul McCartney’ (Dec 24)
Then on December 24th the NME had Faul composing at the piano, subtitled “GEORGE MARTIN and PAUL McCARTNEY (dig the Pancho moustache) at work in EMI’s studios during the recording of George’s United Artists single of Paul’s film music.”
Much the same pic appeared in the Daily Mirror on 22nd December "Shhh! Composers at Work", with the explanation that George Martin was writing down what Paul played, for a film score. Again we see the long, thin face and wonder how anyone could have believed this was JPM?
A week later (December 31) the NME had a full-page interview with the Beatles, and its images showed Faul looking radically different from the others. Its subtitle said, “On the left Paul sports a new fashion – a jacket with silk lapels and a big floral tie-at the premier of Hayley Mills’ film, “The Family Way” for which he wrote the music.”
The Beatles Book
In contrast with these weekly British music mags, the ‘official’ monthly Beatles Book kept using images of the old (real) Paul right through the year 1966 as if nothing had happened, and my impression is, that they may have slightly elongated his face in their pictures through that year (I’d appreciate comment here). Its pics achieved a kind of artful melding of the two faces.
A new era in PID-ology dawns as newspaper databases become online-accessible: tho many don’t yet reach back to the 1960s.
I hope its of interest, if these are 'the' four published images of the new artist, in the year 1966. If you know of any others, -please put them in - or just cite the paper, I'll find it.
Lennon: ‘Man you’ve been a naughty boy, you’ve let your face grow long’ – Magical Mystery tour 26 mins.