28 IF – THE LEGENDARY TALE OF PAUL MCCARTNEY’S APPARENTLY UNTIMELY DEATH IN 1966
“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Harvey Dent’s words from The Dark Knight always remind me of John Lennon and Paul McCartney – the musical legend tragically gunned down by a madman, and his songwriting partner, who these days works with Kanye West, Rhianna, Jamie bloody Oliver and seemingly anyone who gives him a modicum of relevance.
Except there is a school of thought that it was John who lived to become the villain. Because Paul McCartney died in November 1966 and was replaced with a lookalike.
Sure, it sounds crazy, until you read all the evidence… Then it sounds even crazier.
But it’s an impressive example of the way a rumour can get, like, seriously out of hand decades before social media’s inventors were a twinkle in their fathers’ eyes.
The rumour kicked off in 1969, based on a number of ‘clues’ that fans had picked up on various records.
Musically, there was the outro to the 1967 hit ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’. For those who have only heard the radio edit, the final minute or so of ‘Strawberry Fields’ is a hodgepodge of sounds – the annoying crap a bunch of twenty-somethings with access to an amazing music studio and a seemingly endless supply of mind-altering drugs might make while in the middle of changing music forever.
By: Joe Frost
Source: Techly
