On Friday, May 10, 2019 at 8:44:05 PM UTC-4, blu...@comcast.net wrote:
> HERE’S ANOTHER CLUE FOR YOU ALL…
>
> (The Beatles planted clues on purpose. Here's what convinced me)
>
> I've been fascinated with this rumor since I was a teenager in 1969.
> The P. McC we all know and love is undoubtedly the same guy he's
> always been. The replacement theory is laughable BUT the question I've
> been wondering is: Did the Beatles really plant some clues themselves
> and then leak it to the media soon after Abbey Road's release??
>
> It seems to me that the majority of ‘”clues" are in the eye/ear of the
> beholder. Those of us who remember when the rumor first appeared will
> remember that the rumor came with a convenient ready-made list of
> clues: Turn me on dead man, Paul is a dead man miss him, “You were in
> a car crash and you lost your hair”, not to mention all the stuff in
> Rev 9. So all of the sudden, some mysterious person supposedly called
> some DJ and laid out all these clues.
>
> I believe The Beatles did start to plant little hints around the time
> of SP with the idea that they would eventually have some Apple
> employee call that radio station and kickstart the “Paul is Dead"
> phenomenon. What convinced me is a clue that I've never seen mentioned
> anywhere. On the Sgt. Pepper cover, there are the wax figures of the
> earlier Beatles. Look at Ringo's expression as he looks down at the
> “grave". He is clearly sad. Paul has his hand on Ringo's shoulder to
> comfort him. That's not what the Tussaud's Wax Museum Beatles looked
> like. Their expressions were altered for the cover!!
>
> The Beatles led the pack because they were by far the cleverest boys
> on the block. They had the highest collective musical IQ. I could
> definitely see them planning this and pulling it off. I'm sure they
> were quite amused by the reaction. Although they didn't need gimmicks
> to sell records, the rumor definitely didnt hurt the sales of Abbey
> Road.

I sort of bought the stuff about John saying 'I buried Paul' at the end of 'Strawberry Fields' because it sounds like that...until you hear it isolated.

I halfway bought the talk about 'clues' that could be heard when you play 'I'm so tired' and 'revolution 9' backward...because I had no way of playing them backward and hearing them for myself.

And the mumbling at the end of 'So Tired' does sound kind of creepy as it is.