Did Sweet write this song about Faul?

[Deleted]

In Dec 1973, Band on the Run was released. A year later, Dec 1974, the British band Sweet released Fox on the Run.
According to the book Memoirs of Billy Shears, most of the bigger bands knew about Paul's death and about Faul taking his place.

The song was apparently written about a groupie. See a vague interpretation here link.
However, the slang "fox" for a woman is not British; it's North American. Although, the band would have probably picked up this American slang while in the states.

I could be reading too much into this. Then again . . . 

Fox as a noun - a cunning or sly person.
Fox as a verb - baffle or deceive (someone) or behave in a cunning or sly way.

Fox on the Run by Sweet (Released Dec 1974)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBdFA6sI6-8

I don't wanna know your name
'Cause you don't look the same
The way you did before
Okay, you think you got a pretty face
But the rest of you is out of place
You looked alright before

Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a running
Take a run and hide yourself away
Foxy on the run
F-foxy
Fox on the run
And hide away

You, you talk about just every band
But the names you drop are second hand
I've heard it all before
I don't wanna know your name
'Cause you don't look the same
The way you did before

Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a running
Take a run and hide yourself away
Foxy on the run
F-foxy
Fox on the run
And hide away

Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a running
Take a run and hide yourself away
Foxy is on the run
F-foxy
Fox on the run
And hide away

[B]

It's a possibility. Not too much to go on in the lyrics, though.

We have a thread full of possible PID/PWR songs by groups other than the Beatles here: invanddis.proboards.com/thread/4165/pid-pwr-songs?page=1

It does seem that many groups tried to get the word out.

[ekauqodielak]

I don't think anyone but Beatles wrote any songs about Paul. The idea that all these hard living, vagabonding, drug addicted, enthusiastically promiscuous,
rich, famous artists had nothing to write about other than a random musician who died -- and whom most of them never even met -- is ridiculous.

[B]

Certainly their songs weren't limited to songs about Paul, but remember there was no internet or other viable way to get messages out
to the masses BUT songs and records in the 1960s and 1970s. I mean, there were books - of course - but the ears and attention of the
generation that grew up with the Beatles was on records and rock stars. Only three or 4 TV networks (channels) in much of the country.
And those were run by the 'grown ups' who liked Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra and big band music, so yes, there was some exposure, but
not much opportunity to promote a "Paul is Dead/Paul was Replaced" message, other than through music. When the 'rumor' finally broke
across the US in October of 1969, radio jocks like Roby Yonge who broke the story paid for their 'foolishness'.

But I say you've missed the big picture. Even from the Beatles themselves. I believe they were meant to be a 'wake up call' to the generation
they spoke to. "Paul is dead" is part of a riddle. It is meant to make you think and search for answers. Why wouldn't others want to join in?

If you choose to ignore 19 pages of possibilities, that's your prerogative. Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
Does that sound like I'm being 'holier-than-thou'? It probably does, and I probably am, but there are songs that fit PID like a glove.
It's not my problem if you choose to ignore them because of your belief that it couldn't be so. It certainly could, and it's not ridiculous
to think that it could. You have ignored that many of "these hard living, vagabonding, drug addicted, enthusiastically promiscuous,
rich, famous artists" HAD met Paul, and would have known about a replacement, and much more. And those who hadn't still might have heard
through the grapevine. Would that be 'the news' that 'all the young dudes' were supposed to carry? I don't know, but it could be.
Just sayin'.

[ekauqodielak]

    An outsider with an agenda inventing alternative meanings to dozens of random song lyrics is “evidence” of a conspiracy to “get out the word about Paul” in the same way seeing forms in the constellations is “evidence” of a pantheon of real sky gods.

    If The Beatles’ peers wanted to “get the word out” that a colleague had died and other people might be in danger, it would seem far more efficient for those in the know to oh I don’t know tell their friends what they suspected was going on while they were hanging out or you know to call each other on the phone or even write a letter maybe stating the explicit concern as opposed to couching these urgent warnings in lyrics so deceptively cryptic that only you, fifty years later, have managed to figure out what was “really being communicated”. Not everything is a magic eye puzzle and, frankly, this whole subfocus of “GunsNRoses reveal the truth about Paul in Illuminati Mastercard commercial!!!!!!!!!” plays as either the delusional fixations of a lunatic or intentionally ridiculous disinfo intended to tarnish the entire line of inquiry into Paul’s replacement.

    It’s the same garbage as flatearthers invading and usurping the conversation about “How’d we get to the Moon if NASA admits we can’t safely traverse the Van Allen Belt?” CIA paintbythenumbers bullshit.

[beatlas231]

Aug 30, 2018 11:49:37 GMT -5 ekauqodielak said:

An outsider with an agenda inventing alternative meanings to dozens of random song lyrics is “evidence” of a conspiracy to “get out the word about Paul” in the
same way seeing forms in the constellations is “evidence” of a pantheon of real sky gods. If The Beatles’ peers wanted to “get the word out” that a colleague had
died and other people might be in danger, it would seem far more efficient for those in the know to oh I don’t know tell their friends what they suspected was going
on while they were hanging out or you know to call each other on the phone or even write a letter maybe stating the explicit concern as opposed to couching these
urgent warnings in lyrics so deceptively cryptic that only you, fifty years later, have managed to figure out what was “really being communicated”. Not everything
is a magic eye puzzle and, frankly, this whole subfocus of “GunsNRoses reveal the truth about Paul in Illuminati Mastercard commercial!!!!!!!!!” plays as either
the delusional fixations of a lunatic or intentionally ridiculous disinfo intended to tarnish the entire line of inquiry into Paul’s replacement.
It’s the same garbage as flatearthers invading and usurping the conversation about “How’d we get to the Moon if NASA admits we can’t safely traverse the Van Allen Belt?”
CIA paintbythenumbers bullshit.

So John Brennan, Paul Manafort & Roger Stone walk into a bar......






LOL jk that sounds way too obvious (or is it?)