This rumor lasted WAY beyond the Beatles breaking up. I was just a kid at the time, but I REMEMBER people talking about it ("No - really, man! If you play "I am the Walrus" backwards. People used to get together and listen to Beatles albums backwards ALL the TIME, looking for clues to Paul's death. Those clues, so the story goes, involved things like cryptic statements heard in songs played backwards, and symbolic imagery on album covers (such as the fact that on the cover of the Abbey Road album, Paul is the only Beatle who's barefoot, and he's walking out of step with the others). However, the Beatles being who they were (particularly practical-joker John Lennon), they couldn't resist sneaking references to Paul's death into their albums. Terrified that they would lose their audience (and their income) without Paul, the surviving Beatles used their influence to keep the news of Paul's death secret, and they found a look-and-sound-alike to replace him in the group. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, got angry, stormed out of the recording session, got in his Aston-Martin, crashed it, and died. The story was that Paul, while working on the album Sgt. Rumors and conspiracy theories about the group permeated the news, but none more so than the "Paul is Dead" claim. The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr) pretty much dominated the entertainment news and music culture of the 1960s and early 1970s, even after the band officially broke up in 1970. Make yourselves comfortable, kiddies, and get a load of THIS whacky Batman story, from 1970.įirst, a little necessary background information, especially for those who aren't familiar with the weirder details of Beatles history:
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