"Now and Then": The Original John Lennon 1978 Paean (A Mournful Dirge) for Paul,
Versus
The Completely Rewritten, New Song with The Same Title, Released on November 2, 2023
Paul Is Dead, or PID, is the idea that Paul McCartney died in late 1966.
The 1978 song, "Now And Then", by John Lennon, is a lovely, emotional song, fairly simple in lyrics, except for one section, which talks openly of conspiracy. The song session was labeled "For Paul".
Our main focus will be on the lyrics. The original lyrics in the second section of the real song are about a real conspiracy of some kind:
"Now and then, I miss you. /
Oh, now and then, /
I want it out eternally; /
I know they [the public] turn to me [to reveal it]."
Since the song was "For Paul", which Paul was it for? Was it John's last, simple, poignant cry about the real Paul's death?
A completely different song, a rewrite by the same title, was released on November 2nd, 2023. November 2nd every year is is the Roman Catholic Feast of All Souls, also known as the Day of the Dead, in Mexico.
It is the secret-conspiracy section which is emphasized in the new version, by repeating it, but it was completely rewritten each time. Not only that, the new version is not haunting. As well, the real song is now removed from almost every on-line location.
Beatle George Harrison officially had even refused to rewrite the song. Was he trying to protect the song and its mention of a secret? What is going on here?
Moreover, as mentioned above, November 2nd, the date of the release of the new song, is All Souls Day, a time to remember the dead in prayers, in the Catholic calendar. Paul was a nominal Catholic.
Aside: Paul McCartney was nominally Catholic. Catholics and traditional Jews of late Old Testament and Talmud, plus Martin Luther early on and many religions around the world pray for the saved, not souls damned to Hell, in a kind of Purgatory, for purging, purgation, purification. The idea is that Heaven cannot tolerate impurity, that is, any damage from sin; thus, saved souls would need a purgation on the way to purity in Heaven. For a discussion of this, see: https://youtu.be/6L5cJX5-eKI?si=RHGKG9rAfcDjdXf-
In Mexico and elsewhere , Catholicism is sometimes mixed with Aztec and similar practices. All Souls Day has come to be known as Day of the Dead there and the dead are supposed to return on that day, to visit families and friends.
Yes, John Lennon is dead, but the session was "For Paul" and the lyrics, including that key section are about a conspiracy in the context of Paul, now released without the proper section, on Day of the Dead. So it would seem to be a clue about Paul's death (or supposed death), while the direct clue of the poignant feel of the real song and the key section were removed.
Click on the image to read how George Harrison refused to "rewrite" the words, with an excuse. Why? PID theory would say that he was actually protecting the explicitly revealing section as long as possible. (The copy of the video shown in this slide is removed off YouTube, along with all other original copies, but anyone with a copy of the song can check the facts. Seek and save the original where you find it, while you can.)
No one in 2016 had a complete rendering of the section. This author listened again and again, realizing that the word "eternally" was clear. What were the other words? John's voice went gutteral for the "I want it out" section, which makes sense completely if Paul had died. But the words were clear otherwise. The only thing stopping the translation was that it made "no sense" without PID. She published the result.
Because Sir Paul (supposedly Paul's posthumous double, a fake Paul) is putting out this last John song and has completely changed the words to only this section and repeated the original passage, let us learn the new, fake words.
1. The new deception uses different words, but recognizable sound patterns. Here are the new words, twisting the segment, in part one:
"[Pause.] I know you're there for me, /
Always to return to me."
(The "you're there for me" is a stretched play on the syllables for "eternally" in the original. "Always to re-turn to" must be a play on "I know they turn to".)
2. And, again, the very same original segment is rewritten a different way, in part two of the new lyrics:
"I want you to be there for me. /
[Long silence, entirely missing line.]"
("I want you to be" is equivalent to the pattern of the "I want it out e[-ternally]." After this, the silence for the second line in the original, is the only indication of a climax, a difference with the rest of the new song. In the original, the key part was the climax by the crescendo of feeling in the singing and playing.)
Now let us remind ourselves of the real words, John's own words, in the key section:
"Now and then, I miss you. /
Oh, now and then, /
I want it out eternally; /
I know they turn to me."
It seems that the whole purpose of the remake of the original song was to redo the key section!
But had Paul actually died? That is a slightly separate question.
Indeed, the key segment about a secret is the only verse content in the new version and is repeated in the new version, where this original verse was the climax in the original and was only stated once in the original.
Let us consider the PID implications.
Yoko Ono, John's widow, gave the tape to the Beatles franchise some years after John's assassination in 1980. "Now and Then" was with "Free As A Bird", also part of the "For Paul Session". Free As A Bird was released in a fairly respectful remake. Now And Then was not officially released, until now, and it is completely rewritten. It is not a respectful remake by any stretch of the imagination, even without PID (Paul Is Dead) case theory.
If Paul died, it is John's last Requiem for him, a cry from the heart and, we will see, a plea for forgiveness for the entrapment John was in. Some people are now saying the song was about a woman, but it was always about Paul, in the "For Paul" sessions. Which Paul was it speaking of, the original or the double?
If Paul's death occurred, the victims of the cover-up, who also participated, would be expected to leave lots of diary-like clues in art and statements. But of all these, the most basic types of responses, non-hyped cries of loss, by Beatles and family and friends, would be expected to be the most expected to be evilly erased, as much obscured as possible.
Are Paul's death and even his actual existence, separate from another man, and John's desperate last sign of the conspiracy, being erased? Is Ringo Starr's "insider status" of knighthood, now obtained, obliging him to help Sir Paul and others cover up the last cry of help from John? The case for PID ("Paul Is Dead") would say so.
If there is an on-going conspiracy to cover up Paul's death, it is shown by changing these specific words of John Lennon, all the while hinting less explicitly that Paul died, by putting out cover-up lyrics on the very Day of the Dead. Could it be?
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How
Can We Think about Paul's Supposed Death? – And Some Photographs
In mid-September, 1966, something happened with the Beatles that would rewrite the history of music forever. James Paul McCartney was missing from media coverage for months.
When he supposedly appeared again in mid December, he appeared in all ways to be very different than he had been, just seven or eight weeks before.
When the film of the Beatles “Hello Goodbye” aired in November, 1967, on the Ed Sullivan TV show, the figure of Paul was extremely awkward and lanky. Why did they send a film instead of doing an in-person appearance, as before? He moved awkwardly, not with the effortless, fluid movements of Paul.
Numerous fake and distorted films began to appear; music was altered in pitch during remastering; cryptic comments were made. What had happened to the "beautiful boy"?
Putting it another way, why did John Lennon write his haunting song "Now and Then", saying it was "for Paul" and why was it completely rewritten recently? Originally, sung with heartfelt emphasis, it contained the section:
"Now and then, I miss you. /
Oh, now and then, /
I want it out eternally; /
I know they [the public] turn to me."
What is going on? The rumor that Paul died started almost immediately, we now know. Most sources say it was created in late 1969, but it was in print in early 1967.
If Paul was replaced in the public eye, some powerful people had to manage passports and legalities: the powerful economic export the Beatles represented had to be continued. Some people are now also considering that he was murdered, instead of dying in a natural accident. If he was murdered, some common suggestions follow.
This Overview
The case called “Paul Is Dead”
(“P.I.D.”) is something we can
think about, no matter what we assume. We can only cover the broadest outlines of the case,
allowing readers to fill in details and find some already-identified
complex references, themselves (that is, do more "personal research"
into the matter).
The
Claim
24-year-old
Paul McCartney of the Beatles died in late 1966 and was publicly
replaced by another man.
Simplicity
and Unusualness
PID
is, at root, a simple claim, but a permanent double is more complex
than a person who continued in a public life.
If PID is simplest to
explain all the evidence, PID does not break the principle of
simplicity. “Occam's Razor” is that principle.
Also,
while PID is extraordinarily unusual, it can require no extraordinary
evidence: evidence can only come in ordinary forms. The rest is mere
feelings of extraordinariness or ease of decision-making, using "best
evidence", preferred, simple forms, which are always missing in
cold cases.
All
Evidence is Bad Evidence?
Evidence
may be evidence points on a table, so to speak, but not "actual"
evidence, of the final kind. Perhaps some pieces indicate that unsure
directions become surer, when in combination.[1] Beyond
evidence and logic, court and history arguments are won by the quality of jury: the
equanimity of listeners' minds. What kind of listener are you?[2]
Because this is an overview, not every objection can be raised and answered, or answered in full here, but all have at least reasonable answers.
Paul and "Sir Paul"
To determine truth or falsity, we begin by categorizing henceforth historical figure “James Paul McCartney ” as “Paul” for the person in the period before the supposed death and as “Sir Paul” for the person after.
This is useful even if the designants are actually one real person. (The putative replacement claimant went on to be knighted, as well as seeming to be older than Paul, born about 1937, not 1942.)
Official
Forensic Scientists
As
we will shortly see, in part four of this article, two facial forensic
scientists did come out in support of PID, against their initial
assumptions.
But
there have been some others who did not use the extreme examples of
Sir Paul's seemingly different bone structure, nor account for any
fakery. They came out with a different result. Would they have, if
they had done so?[3]
Faces,
Sounds, Statements Both Ways
Some
people see two or more “Pauls” in historical evidence, some only
one. Perceptions can be shaped by emotions in either direction, yes.
If one is a proponent of either PIA (“Paul Is Alive”) theory or
PID theory, the opposite side comes into view only by resifting and
analyzing photos and all other evidence. Part three discusses the photos, but we will present some here.
Sorting Photographic Materials
One only has to take most of the early photos of Paul early and compare them to most of the post September 1966 photos to notice a problem. There are also some sure indications of photo doctoring (photo fakery), as we have seen.
Faces
The following photos are originals. Can you tell?
Paul, late 1965, through mid 1966 (including the time, December 26th, 1965 when he was likely beaten up, 9 months before being possibly murdered, per PID; it was claimed to be a moped accident):
Sir Paul, noting bone structure, not age:
PART TWO
First Principles: Nothing In the Way of the Claim – And Two "Now and Then" Songs
Safety
and Critical Thinking Skills
People
are wired to want truth with safety. When truth is scary, we tend to
avoid it. Some cognitive scientists have even warned people, who may
or may not have low skills, from applying classical critical thinking
skills to conspiracy theories, presuming a definition that the very
term means something scary, crazy or stupid, using biased methods.
Some
people are of low skill, it is true, but should not high-end skills
always be applied, in full-spectrum skepticism, so as to determine
dangerous tomfoolery?
PID
requires a conspiracy as a cover-up, whether Paul died naturally or
by murder. Let us build up the case and compare it to the opposing
side, calmly, reasonably.
Conspiracies
and Theories
Properly
defined, most of history and law is conspiracy theory.
It
may be necessary to reread that sentence.
Any
group activity can be called conspiracy by an opposite group, with or
without a plot. Explaining and defending claims, even after accepting
them, is the activity of theorizing. Theories, i.e., may be good, bad
or indeterminate – and unofficial or official.
The
phrase “conspiracy theory” goes back to the 1890s, not to the CIA
in the 1960s.
The opposites of the phrase are only lone-person theories or
no-event-at-all theories–not finality, reality or value. If Paul did not die, for example, positing and explaining that is a no-event-at-all theory.
From 1890 to now, "conspiracy theory" can be used neutrally, to mean a case or explanation of a conspiracy, or a posited conspiracy.
Similarities, or how many doubles?
Both subjects above are plausibly the same person, though one might "see" two; we can consider them as Paul only, or as Paul and a double. PID case theory points out that if we have lighting and "lens distortion" (perspective focal length distortions) at play, we can say they are plausibly the same.
PID theory says they are Paul and that the later double, "Sir Paul", is much different, but that he was chosen because he (only sometimes) resembles elements in the first photo. (We will get to focal length problems in part three.)
Could there be a conspiracy, a big and wide one?
Background
and Conspiracies of Silence: Official Mechanisms
Doubles
require legal help and passports, if we do not mean a mere
distracting decoy at a public concert, etc.
Such
means are acknowledged by intelligence agencies. If Paul died and was
replaced, to pull it off would require some “official”
involvement. Even if intelligence services helped after an accidental
death, a cover-up would normally continue to cover up the original
“help”.
Historical
Precedents, A Proof of Concept
PID
case theory hinges on known historical methods of spy-craft and
deception in war, and political usage of doubles for protection.
Still, permanent public replacement of a known figure seems to start with Paul.
Josef Stalin (USSR), had four doubles – long suspected. One major one has spoken out, who was “classified”, until recently.
By
the Second World War, British Intelligence used a long-term,
temporary, semi-public double for
General Bernard “Monty” Montgomery – not for safety, but to
trick the other side for battle plans.
In
1944 the Allies used a "Ghost Army"
of inflatable tanks and personnel carriers to fool German recon
missions.
WWII
British “Operation Mincemeat” disrespectfully used a poor man's
corpse, with fake documents and uniform, to trick German
intelligence, effectively speaking, “for grave reasons of state.”
Co-conspirators
As Circles of Silence
Family
and friends would have to be aides, co-conspirators (by name or not),
via threats, bribes, or half-truths. We have some evidence pointing
to each of these, but do not need to know specifics here, to
determine if Paul was replaced.
There
have been a few legal affidavits done by family and fans, about
various parts of the case. However, most back off, even if only
tangentially related to the case, and others say more publicly that
it is not up to themselves.
Are
they all lying?
Motivations
for a Cover-Up
British
Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government has been described as
"floating" the British Pound Sterling for four years "on
the back of" the Beatles, although this is a simplification.
News of Paul’s death could have affected the British economy.
Cover-up of a natural or an unnatural death could well have been
cobbled together for this reason.
In
1965, the Beatles were given an economic-military honor thanks to
Wilson, himself, who nominated them. Other recipients of the Members
of the British Empire (MBE) award complained. Wilson and the Beatles
are pictured above, in 1964.
Murder
by "the state" or "its" affiliates, for any
reason, would be further motivation for a state cover-up.
"Now and Then": The Original John Lennon 1978 Paean (A Mournful Dirge) for Paul,
Versus
The Completely Rewritten, New Song with The Same Title, Released on November 2, 2023
Paul Is Dead, or PID, is the idea that Paul McCartney died in late 1966.
The 1978 song, "Now And Then", by John Lennon, is a lovely, emotional song, fairly simple in lyrics, except for one section, which talks openly of conspiracy. The song session was labeled "For Paul".
Our main focus will be on the lyrics. The original lyrics in the second section of the real song are about a real conspiracy of some kind:
"Now and then, I miss you. /
Oh, now and then, /
I want it out eternally; /
I know they [the public] turn to me [to reveal it]."
A completely different song, a rewrite by the same title, was released on November 2nd, 2023. November 2nd every year is is the Roman Catholic Feast of All Souls, also known as the Day of the Dead, in Mexico.
In Mexico and elsewhere , Catholicism is sometimes mixed with Aztec and similar practices. All Souls Day has come to be known as Day of the Dead there and the dead are supposed to return on that day, to visit families and friends.
Yes, John Lennon is dead, but the session was "For Paul" and the lyrics, including that key section are about a conspiracy in the context of Paul, now released without the proper section, on Day of the Dead. So it would be about Paul's death or supposed death.
Aside: Paul McCartney was nominally Catholic. Catholics and traditional Jews of late Old Testament and Talmud, plus Martin Luther early on and many religions around the world pray for the saved, not souls damned to Hell, in a kind of Purgatory, for purging, purgation, purification . The idea is that Heaven cannot tolerate impurity, that is, any damage from sin; thus, saved souls would need a purgation on the way to purity in Heaven. For a discussion of this, see: https://youtu.be/6L5cJX5-eKI?si=RHGKG9rAfcDjdXf-
In Mexico and elsewhere , Catholicism is sometimes mixed with Aztec and similar practices. All Souls Day has come to be known as Day of the Dead there and the dead are supposed to return on that day, to visit families and friends.
Yes, John Lennon is dead, but the session was "For Paul" and the lyrics, including that key section are about a conspiracy in the context of Paul, now released without the proper section, on Day of the Dead. So it would be about Paul's death or supposed death.
Click on the image to read how George Harrison refused to "rewrite" the words, with an excuse. Why? PID theory would say that he was actually protecting the explicitly revealing section as long as possible. (The copy of the video shown in this slide is removed off YouTube, along with all other original copies, but anyone with a copy of the song can check the facts. Seek and save the original where you find it, while you can.)
No one in 2016 had a complete rendering of the section. This author listened again and again, realizing that the word "eternally" was clear. What were the other words? John's voice went gutteral for the "I want it out" section, which makes sense completely if Paul had died. But the words were clear otherwise. The only thing stopping the translation was that it made "no sense" without PID. She published the result.
Because Sir Paul (supposedly Paul's posthumous double, a fake Paul) is putting out this last John song and has completely changed the words to only this section and repeated the original passage, let us learn the new, fake words.
1. The new deception uses different words, but recognizable sound patterns. Here are the new words, twisting the segment, in part one:
"[Pause.] I know you're there for me, /
Always to return to me."
(The "you're there for me" is a stretched play on the syllables for "eternally" in the original. "Always to re-turn to" must be a play on "I know they turn to".)
2. And, again, the very same original segment is rewritten a different way, in part two of the new lyrics:
"I want you to be there for me. /
[Long silence, entirely missing line.]"
("I want you to be" is equivalent to the pattern of the "I want it out e[-ternally]." After this, the silence for the second line in the original, is the only indication of a climax, a difference with the rest of the new song. In the original, the key part was the climax by the crescendo of feeling in the singing and playing.)
Now let us remind ourselves of the real words, John's own words, in the key section:
"Now and then, I miss you. /
Oh, now and then, /
I want it out eternally; /
I know they turn to me."
It seems that the whole purpose of the remake of the original song was to redo the key section!
But had Paul actually died? That is a slightly separate question.
Indeed, the key segment about a secret is the only verse content in the new version and is repeated in the new version, where this original verse was the climax in the original and was only stated once in the original.
Let us consider the PID implications.
Yoko Ono, John's widow, gave the tape to the Beatles franchise some years after John's assassination in 1980. "Now and Then" was with "Free As A Bird", also part of the "For Paul Session". Free As A Bird was released in a fairly respectful remake. Now And Then was not officially released, until now, and it is completely rewritten. It is not a respectful remake by any stretch of the imagination, even without PID (Paul Is Dead) case theory.
If Paul died, it is John's last Requiem for him, a cry from the heart and, we will see, a plea for forgiveness for the entrapment John was in. Some people are now saying the song was about a woman, but it was always about Paul, in the "For Paul" sessions. Which Paul was it speaking of, the original or the double?
If Paul's death occurred, the victims of the cover-up, who also participated, would be expected to leave lots of diary-like clues in art and statements. But of all these, the most basic types of responses, non-hyped cries of loss, by Beatles and family and friends, would be expected to be the most expected to be evilly erased, as much obscured as possible.
Are Paul's death and even his actual existence, separate from another man, and John's desperate last sign of the conspiracy, being erased? Is Ringo Starr's "insider status" of knighthood, now obtained, obliging him to help Sir Paul and others cover up the last cry of help from John? The case for PID ("Paul Is Dead") would say so.
If there is an on-going conspiracy to cover up Paul's death, it is shown by changing these specific words of John Lennon, all the while hinting less explicitly that Paul died, by putting out cover-up lyrics on the very Day of the Dead. Could it be?
Note: Day of the Dead imagery in Mexico is now sometimes associated with dark arts, which is not the primary point made in this article. For more on that side of skeleton imagery, see:
PART THREE
The
Material Evidence: A Broad Historical Fit; A Surprise; Faces and
Music
Was
Necessity the Mother of Invention? A Sea-Change, 1967 Onward
Those
familiar with Beatles history and the personalities of the band
members, have remarked on the seriously striking changes which
occurred around early spring, 1967.
If Paul died, the sudden changes were necessary to distract from the new man playing Paul and to distract the real, remaining, three Beatles from their own anguish.
The
manic and depressive demeanor of all members of the band except the
replacement stood in stark contrast to earlier days. Wild styles,
colors, and facial hair became the vogue, tied in to the Beatles. Eastern "Meditation", occultism, drugs, loose living and a repudiation of
middle-class values became widespread, as the replacement’s
influence made the surviving Beatles more or less follow his lead.
This
was even as the youth culture of the world mimicked the mores and
concerns of the Beatles themselves.
Paul was a nominal Catholic, as George Harrison was raised also. Since Harrison posthumously published a song (called "P2 Vatican Blues"), on the famous 1970s Vatican bank infiltration by the Freemasonry "P2 Lodge", perhaps the then-little-known 1965 "Catacombs Pact" becomes relevant to the "culture wars" and Beatles:
Gaps
in knowledge, if embedded in contextual evidence, are perfectly
acceptable for consideration; sometimes, gaps are highly significant
to court case-making (theory) and history.
Absence
of evidence can be evidence of important absence. Defacement of
Cappadocian rock churches (Anatolia, Turkey) is determined by
specific areas missing: faces.
For
several months in fall, 1966, only two or three news references
Paul's supposed behavior and whereabouts exist – an extraordinarily
surprising gap.
Reports
in media recollect how “Paul” did not “look like Paul” to
some fans at the end of that period, about early November 1966.
The First
Printed Rumor: 1967, Not 1969
PID's
detractors state that the idea of PID was rumored first in 1969,
among “those crazy American college kids of the 1960s,” but the
rumor was in print by early February, 1967. Moreover, people credibly
state that they had heard or figured out that Paul had died, the
previous fall.
“Beatles
Book,” a Beatles-affiliated magazine, UK-only back in February,
1967:
This
first-known, in-print rumor was a surprise find. It was a discovery
based on the hypothesis that Paul may have died.
It
disinforms about timing, survival of Paul and exact place of the
events – but the basics confirm later case theory: Paul was the
only Beatle affected, a car seemed to have been involved and the
events occurred in England.
It
also seems awkward. Perhaps it was in response to real rumors. This
acknowledgement was never repeated.
Plastic
Surgery, Prosthetics, Hair, Moles, Hands
Some
suggestions exist of plastic surgery on Sir Paul, beyond any official
surgeries. The best indicators are too complicated to go into here;
they are that Sir Paul had his first surgeries in Kenya, in a
British-intelligence-affiliated hospital, in about October-November,
1966.
The
use of prosthetics occasionally by the supposed replacement,
especially on ears. Moles “move around” on Sir Paul. Hands are
sometimes similar (doctored?), sometimes not.
Hair
whorl and texture are also seemingly different on the putatively two
men, although some fake photos do exist and some contrary real ones.
When
PIA theory acknowledges any of this, it is explained as done for fun
and cosmetic surgery.
Body
Body
height is harder to determine than complexities of faces, because
very often a context for height references is needed. The Beatles
claimed to be what seems to be 2 or three inches taller than they
were and Sir Paul claims the same height: 5'11" for Paul and
John.
Because
of indications that Sir Paul is taller than was Paul, plus some
distorted photos, some PIDers now claim that Sir Paul is 6'3",
which is countered by good evidence. Without getting into the weeds
of this debate here, it is likely that Paul and John were about 5'9"
and Sir Paul is about 5'11'-12", with far bigger feet.
The
Hofner Bass and Body Height
For
upper body measurements, we could have used certain photos with the
Hofner bass in them, when it was held and photographed in a certain
angle. But Sir Paul officially "lost to theft" Paul's
extremely valuable Hofner bass and had it rebuilt. He had rarely, if
ever, used it after the supposed death of Paul. (PID case theory says
that this is because of photo comparisons and the fact that he is a
bigger man, preferring a bigger guitar.)
The
original guitar would form a measuring stick. He now uses it in
photos. PID theory suggests that he simply hid the valuable object
and had it rebuilt to make all relevant photographic internal
measurements more deceptive.
Doctored
(Faked) Photos
Mostly,
it is pictures of Sir Paul which are doctored. Some of Paul also get
doctored, but nowhere near as often. (Some fakes of Sir Paul are
paired below with Paul.) Can you tell?
Sir
Paul head with Paul face added in (below). Not a bad job, but left
eyebrow shows a break and long chin unnatural to mouth:
Older,
1968 Sir Paul with younger Paul face inserted, grey-reddened in color
to match general tones of old photo around it:
Typical slightly stretched photos of Sir Paul:
The
following example below should be obvious, but a few things which
were done – highlight added to nose, dark edge exaggerated;
contrast increased, showing more stubble information from original
negative. Bottom lip moved down, teeth inserted, lower cheek lines
near mouth and nose added:
Paul
on the left (below) is also seemingly doctored around the eyes. Sir
Paul with Paul's face inserted (right):
Sir
Paul on left, composite (below), with elements from Paul photo on
right, also probably using a Paul mouth from another photo. Highlight
added to nose on "Sir Paul", eyes darkened and points of
highlight added, shadow added to Paul eye ridge at nose. Areas of
change highlighted except eye ridge and irises:
Paul
(left). Mouth, nose bridge and Paul's right eyebrow, half of left
eyebrow, cheeks and mouth doctored into Sir Paul photo (right):
"A Hard Day's Night" Movie (1964) and "Hey Jude" BBC TV
Production (1968, "remastered" or faked, circa2015)
Careful
viewers will notice that some copies and broadcasts of "A Hard
Day's Night" movie have been slightly stretched. This is
especially true for scenes with Paul in them. Is this done to look
more like Sir Paul? Per PID theory, it is.
Others
may notice that the close-ups in "Hey Jude" have been
computer assisted (are a CGI, computer-generated image). It is as
though Paul and Sir Paul were morphed and laid onto the images, with
a computer. They are not limited to having a clearer face; it is far
more Paul-like in this 2005 "BeatlesVEVO" on-line release,
of circa 2015. Why?
Anyone
who looks for still photos from the "Hey Jude" television
release from 1968, will find very few available now. The following
one has the exact chin area and some other parts of a photo of Paul
in another photo; see below.
But
Sir Paul here, also known as "False Paul", "Fake
Paul", shortened to "Faul", still has a seeming
dissimilitude with Paul. This Sir Paul seems to be wearing prosthetics and the chin doctored.
If anyone has the original television film from 1968, it would be good to share the stills with PID proponents.
Why
all these fakes?
A
YouTube channel sounding like a spy channel, called "Jack
McFile" shows many, many hundreds of new fakes with real photos,
a few old fakes – and Paul with Paul photos (pre-1967). It uses
fades between them, to confuse the two faces as well, not
highlighting problems. Fades have usefulness in some contexts, but
not in most situations with fakes. Why such efforts, if not by a spy?
PID says it is because it is more deception.
Sir
Paul in Art
Artists
instinctively have to “morph” Paul into Sir Paul or draw them
differently, in many cases, it seems.
Moreover,
many ordinary fans, natural adherents of PIA theory ("Paul Is Alive" theory), who are not even considering PID,
have been upset at a computer airbrush artwork (done by AI, some say,
but it seems to be an artwork using computers). Why are they upset?
The artwork is typical of some photos of Sir Paul. If he is Paul,
there is no problem. Do they just find him ugly, and have been not
noticing his “change” from youth?
Could
Paul have grown from the following, into the previous?
To
be sure, many pictures of Sir Paul younger are doctored, but
certainly not all. He looked better, younger, in some photos, but not
in all angles.
In
other words, he seems to become more unlike Paul in how we notice
telltale features due to ageing, but he was always predictable for his own bone
structures.
Distortions
by Lens Focal Length and Curvature
To
be sure, distortion occurs in photography. Aside from photo
stretching and other fakery as seen above, natural uses of light also
distort what we perceive. The photos below are all plausibly the same
people in photos with cameras using different focal lengths in the
lenses.
Could
parts of the deception have been deliberate usages to deceive the
public using “lens distortion” (actually perspectival
distortion), plus the common occurrences of this phenomenon?
They
are plausibly one person. (Source for focal-length comparisons: here.)
Is that all that is happening for the
historical figure called “Paul McCartney”?
Sir Paul:
Note
that on the last Sir Paul image, there has been fakery using the Paul
photo: the lips are together, with the same little bulge in exactly
the same lower lip shape with the chin, as in the first photo. The
chin and ridge of the nose, with the brow, are grabbed from the Paul
picture. (Look closely.)
Other
than that doctoring of the last Sir Paul photo, are all of these,
above in this section, the same people with only lens distortion, or was only the second last Paul himself?
Music
Sir
Paul is known for being more of a piano player with talent. He does
“rock” hard on the bass at times, but Paul had more lilting
abilities on the instrument and tended not to look down. Body
language between the two persons, according to PID, is also quite
different, except when Sir Paul is putting in an effort to copy a
move, here or there.
Is Sir Paul left handed?
No. He does drum cross-overs differently in some rare photos, does not do the more complex guitar work Paul did on his own and rarely looked down for.
Although both men have been pictured using each hand in some situations, Sir Paul can be determined to be primarily right handed, not playing guitar on screen for one and a half years, and never with as much facility as Paul. He had help in studio and got good at more simple moves.
There are some who say differently handed playing is too hard. But it is not, with the considerations above.
Talent
is something that people often think is unable to be compared between
people, but that is not true, if we are careful. Sir Paul has
talents, but is not as free with his energy; he has more of a
driving, or awkward presence than Paul. Or does he?
Pitch
of Music and Spoken Voice
Various
songs by the Beatles, defined as Beatles by including Paul himself,
have been shortened by a few seconds during “remastering” and
raised in pitch; others are just slightly raised in pitch, to change
Paul's generally huskier voice into an “easier high note” like
Sir Paul, PID theory says.
The following video demonstrates voice types. Sir Paul is keeping his mouth and eye movements very controlled, for this early interview. Many early interviews have been doctored (faked a bit) now, but this one has his genuine face and his acting skills are evident; he did not always try so hard, PID theory says.
Posthumous
Tricks and Eulogies
Insertions
of older items also exist. PID theory says that these are to trick
the viewer and listener, but also to honor the dead friend, Paul.
The
giddy, younger Beatles in Magical Mystery Tour film (1967) “Wizard
Tower” scenes, are taken from lost footage, says PID, and added to
honor Paul posthumously in the film. Paul has makeup and a wig on,
so some think it is older Sir Paul, but his glowing, unique smile
indicates it is young Paul. (The movie includes many PID themes, as
well, including a "resurrection." with Sir Paul
presiding.)
Also,
songs sung by Paul were put on albums posthumously, to honor him and
to confuse the public, if PID is correct:
She's Leaving Home (Paul,
harp added later, with a false creation myth for the song),
Fool
on the Hill (a mix of Paul and Sir Paul),
Her
Majesty (Paul, originally planned to be the very last Beatles
release).
PART FOUR
Formal
Forensic Scientists
Photo-Forensic
Scientists Weigh In
As
mentioned in part one of this article, there are occasional photo-
and audio-forensic scientists who speak on this topic. For the
photo-forensic scientists, most use definitely flawed methodology,
whereby all photos were of Paul anyway, or no very different-looking
photos were used.
However,
the Italian version of the magazine, WIRED, in its August 2009 issue,
published an article summarizing claims of two scientists, who, using
photo comparisons, were baffled to discover that Paul seemed
definitely to have been replaced. The article was never translated or
promoted in English, which makes sense for PID theory. PIDers
have translated
it.
The
scientists have been mocked, ignored and the article untranslated,
officially. Note: they used a few slightly doctored photos in the
comparisons and still came to the conclusion.
The
WIRED Italia magazine article, August 2009:
Audio
Forensics
As
to the voice evidence: In 1970, an audial forensics professional from
Florida, named Dr. Henry Truby, commented publicly that detected
three “voices” for “Paul”, in post-1966 songs.
We
can now know, through careful PID work, that after 1966, posthumous
Paul recordings were interspersed with his replacement’s: it is a
way to honor Paul, by the surviving Beatles, and to confuse the
public.
In
addition, some songs are very processed. (Yet, there could be a third
actual singer, as well, on Sgt Pepper album, possibly Donovan Leitch,
seemingly referenced by music duo Simon and Garfunkel, in "Fakin'
It" single, 1967, which will figure into this article later.)
DNA
Some
people wait for DNA tests of family. If the cover-up is considered
“for grave reasons of state”, such tests would be scuttled.
However, a blood test did rule out Sir Paul as father of a long-known
illegitimate child of Paul. The court's compromise was to give her
legal state benefits, but not call her Paul's child and bar any
further court cases. PID says this is a clever international solution
to quiescence about a double.
Related
to these requests are that more people would do vocal analysis of
spoken and sung tones of voice. Unfortunately, other than one who
writes with a strong bias toward PIA, claiming he was neutral, very
few have done such analyses. The problem is extreme familiarity as
strong bias.
PART FIVE
Name
of Double; Place, Cause and Date of Death of Paul
Name
The
actual name of the replacement and the date and place of death for
Paul have been worked out. Although nicknames such as Shears and
Shepherd were used, his last name, “Campbell”, was inadvertently
leaked in an early paper in 1969, afterwards showing in historical
evidence and seemingly said by “Sir Paul”.
Much
evidence, some by “Sir Paul” and George Harrison themselves, says
the first name “Bill” or “William”.
So
Bill Campbell is the the likely name of the replacement, if he is a
replacement.
Death
As
might be expected, if PID is true, one of the areas most concealed
about PID, besides the double's name, would be the circumstances of
Paul’s death. Family, friends and colleagues could have been
subject to threats, bribes, and disinformation.
There
are always suggestions of a car “accident”. Some indications are
that a car hit him, rather than that he was in a car.
The
evidence also fits that he was pulled out and shot or bludgeoned in
the head. A car might have just been staged near the body or the
Beatles been told that he had been hit by a car.
The
supposed injuries, shown in increasing detail and once with forensic
accuracy, always show a serious or mortal head wound.
The author of this article discovered the following photograph in 2016, through some contacts, who had had it saved from years before. The story of how it was discovered is interesting, but more important is not that it has to be Paul dead, for it does not, necessarily, have to be; rather, it is suggestive of a quickly taken photo, leaked, and now available only in low quality. This at least gives us a feel for the way in which would be the only way Paul's body photos would reach the public.
Paul's own body was imaged in several ways in various evidence, too much to go into in this article. The damage may have been slightly different or this might have been Paul.
It also helps us image the kind of situation John Lennon would find himself in, with others, who saw any photos of Paul dead, if they did.
Note that some are now trying to claim that it is a painting or a computer fake; anyone with a sense of real photography and dead bodies in body bags, versus paintings, would tell that whoever this is, it is almost certainly some real person's body (RIP).
Where
All
of the serious, though little-known evidence points to Liverpool as
the scene of death, probably near Abbey Road in Liverpool.
The
Beatles studio near Abbey Road in London was named “Abbey Road
Studios” from “EMI Studios” after the album commemorating the
death of Paul. There are many mediaeval abbeys in England and many
such roads. If Paul was killed on one, the sad irony would be that
the Beatles had to walk on another every day at the studio in another
city.
Dead
Body
Burial,
or a funeral, was likely on the grounds at the government-affiliated
orphanage called Strawberry Fields. Whether the real body was put
into the casket is another issue.
Date
of Death: IIIX = XIII
We
do not need to know an exact date. However, there is a numeric,
hidden art clue supposedly left by the Beatles on the bass drum of
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album (1967). When it is
mirrored up and down, halfway down the normal lettering, it says
"IIIX HE ^ DIE". The "^" points to the "Paul"
figure (though it is actually Sir Paul on the cover).
Aside,
Sir Paul is holding a wooden English horn instrument in the image,
which is, like the oboe and bassoon, a double reed instrument; this
is significant as a pun, if he is a human double. The drum is a bass
drum and Paul was the bass guitarist.
PIDers
divided the numbers in the bass drum clue into two Arabic (11) and
two Roman numerals (IX = 9).
This
gave an American dating of November 9th, and a UK dating of
September 11th. Other evidence, including the period of a basic gap
in Paul's whereabouts, showed that sometime in September was the
more likely month.
However,
since 2016, the clue was reevaluated to be one simple Roman numeral,
XIII, but actually backwards,, not only upside down. If the only
numbers were backwards, they would be like many Beatles art clues.
The
numbers would therefore read not IIIX, but XIII.
This
death date would be Tuesday, September 13th, around midnight, UK
time.
This
explains all other evidence available, including several news items
– and is a simpler, more elegant form of clue.
The
drum-skin lettering style also fits this idea.
For
a tombstone, it would be:
IIIX
also probably means that three real Beatles were still alive and one
was X-ed out (dead).
Interestingly,
Paul is supposed to have been alive, at a public event, on that
specific date during the gap period. There are even specially
doctored images and a confused historical record for that date.
The 13 is also thirteen for 13 letters of "Paul McCartney", his name on the tombstone drum skin.
Was
the cover-up trying to mention him as being alive on the thirteenth,
specifically on that one date, to quell immediate rumors of his
death?
PART SIX
Murder
of Paul?
All
the evidence shows a supposed death of Paul, but none that he
survived.
Again, if Paul was replaced in the public eye, some powerful people had to manage passports and legalities: the powerful economic export the Beatles represented had to be continued. But some people now are considering that he was murdered, instead of dying in a natural accident. If he was murdered, some common suggestions follow.
Mark
Lane's “Rush To Judgment” Book and Movie on the JFK Assassination
One of the big theories of murder centers around the JFK assassination.
If he was murdered, the JFK assassination links may not have been the sole reason for Paul's death, but were, perhaps the final "nail in the coffin", making more people willing to "sign off" on killing the immensely popular British "cash cow," Paul McCartney. The evidence comes from two books. Mark Lane, the Washington lawyer who wrote the first bestseller on basic legal evidence and arguments surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald's defence, wrote later that Paul and he met in early 1966 and Paul read his manuscript for “Rush To Judgment” book (published summer 1966). He said Paul was convinced “Oswald couldn't have done it,” and wanted to write his very first film score for Lane's upcoming film of the same title. It started filming in Dallas, 1966, showing eyewitnesses and legal arguments. It was released in 1967, to far less fanfare than Paul's version would surely have been. PID theory says that Paul did not quite live to see the filming start.
Lane discussed his experiences with Paul (and the JFK movie musical score plans) in several interviews and two books:
“A Citizen's Dissent” (Lawrence Hill Books, 1968, pp. 56-57.
“Citizen Lane” (Hill Books, 2012, pp. 162-4, 174-6).
The
relevant sections from “Citizen Lane” are on line
at (live link): MattKProVideo.com/2021/12/31/Mark-Lane-Worked-With-Paul-McCartney .
Note: Lane makes an error in “Citizen Lane”: the early-1966
events he describes were when Paul was 23 years old in early 1966,
not 22 years of age.
Photos of relevant section of “A Citizen's Dissent” book:
Had Paul written his first film score and backed such a film, in the heady days for the Beatles, in 1966, and only three-and-a-half years after the assassination of JFK, the dam against JFK-assassination conspiracy case-making would have broken.
A beating (fake moped accident) seems to have happened before Paul met Mark Lane, however, in December, 1965. Although the exact timing of the first Lane meeting is unknown, it was likely in early 1966.
Other options for murder exist, as we will see below, perhaps in combination with the JFK-movie situation. All reasons to murder Paul could have played some role.
Mind Control: Sexual Liberation as a Form of Social Control
There are other plausible theories of Paul's murder, if he was murdered. Moreover, if he was, it may have been with many purposes in mind, depending upon the particular group signing off on the plot.
After Paul died, the members of the band, Sir Paul especially, became pawns in a more direct promotion of wild lifestyles. Paul had been loose, personally, but was not given to public extremes. In fact, although counter-cultural with longer hair and clever music, the Beatles were not publicly well known for drug and sex escapades, until after Paul died.
It may be that he was “in the way” of a more sinister destruction of society planned by social scientists, using the replacement.
In this theory of the death, a Freemasonic, “Enlightenment Liberal Atheism” agenda, along with politically weaponized social scientists and psychologists. Some were set to push a liberalized, false Christianity, to promote sex and drugs more than Paul himself really wanted to.
A replacement, instead of an announcement, would be to keep the money flow and the social power of the Beatles going, for promoting social liberalism. Other bands have been implicated in being spies or affiliates, as well.
Background:
David
McGowan, “Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert
Ops & The Dark Heart of The Hippie Dream” (Headpress, 2014).
Dr.
E. Michael Jones, “Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation
And Political Control” (Fidelity Press, 1999).
Catholics
debate modern church as End-Times
Apocalypse "Whore of Babylon" attribution: https://youtu.be/lZ2P79sOJTs
Satanism,
Crowley, Lennon, Satanic Backwards Music Clues?
The Beatles, as British subjects, were somewhat proud of their status as cultural changers. They might have dabbled in Freemasonry and been so upset at Christianity as an institution, that they temporarily became "anti Christ", as their press agent remarked.
Their feelings adjusted back and forth over the years, but they did not hang out upside-down crosses; the following is a doctored photo. The quotation is accurate, however.
They actually held out their Masters of the British Empire (MBE) awards in the original photo.
Others have said that the Beatles added hidden backwards phrases to their music. These were all done after Paul supposedly died. Because of their secret and creepy aspect, some called them Satanic.
It is a regular historical fact that the Beatles said they were inspired by Aleister Crowley, at some point, and that they were part of the counter culture of the time. The hype around the Beatles suggests that they were especially promoted when they were, to the USA, to distract from the assassination of JFK.
Sacrificial symbology present in the case evidence, has also suggested to some, that Paul died partly in Satanic style, gangland style.[4]
Crowley, possibly a British agent and spy, created his own branch of Masonry with thaumaturgy (supposedly real magic), called the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). Indeed, Crowley promoted backwards messages, to create mastery of nature and control of others. They are also used by intelligence apparatuses, in cryptography.[5]
PART SEVEN
Murder
= Redrum: The Art Clues of Beatles and Others
Beatles
Art and Music Clues
Clues
in art and music by Beatles number in the thousands. They interrelate
in constellations, concerning Paul as a dead or mortally wounded
body, grief and “resurrection”, “doubles” (clones, two Pauls)
themes, and details of the putative death scene. Song lyrics,
backward tracks, drawings, films all have such clues.
If
Paul died, this was a diary, a way for the Beatles to express the
secrets they knew and suppressed under pressure from the intelligence
services “helping” them to continue during the cover-up.
The
Beatles and others also spoke on the PID matter, giving conflicting
statements.
"Hey
Jude" song and PID
Paul
McCartney was (or is) a Roman Catholic, at least nominally. Sir Paul
uses Catholic references, as well as Aleister Crowley Satanic and
Egyptian themes, as well.
The
song is about stage fright, after talking about a woman in the first
verse. What if “Hey Jude” is referring to the most famous Jude in
history, the apostle of Jesus?
St
Jude is the patron saint of hopeless cases, which the apostolic
churches and many other Christians know of. Moreover, he is often
shown bearing the face of his Lord, Jesus Christ, on his chest. (The
image is derived from legends that St Jude carried a miraculous,
unpainted image of Jesus as a healing relic.)[6]
If
Sir Paul is referencing St Jude as a PID theme, it is for these
reasons:
Like
Sir Paul, Jude is an image-bearer of the face of a more venerable
person than he, at least in people's minds and in doctored
photography.
Paul
is "resurrected" (doubled, after death) via Sir Paul, in a
false parallel with Jesus' supposed resurrection.
Perhaps,
Sir Paul is making one of his typical religious, cryptic comments.
Beatles
“Art Clues” Are Maybe Like a Diary and Hints
When
we say that there are “art and music clues” to Paul's supposed
death, they cannot and do not stand alone. Some persons argue from
them and some argue to them, from other evidence. In balance, one can
do both, comparing and thinking about them and why they occur. That
way, one is considering that all, or some, instead, might be real;
this method also allows details to emerge which might otherwise be
hard to track. In fact, in the full PID case, even the most obscure
art clues fit with other evidence; very often, those art clues
spurred on other researches, which confirmed their substance.
Contrarily, a Paul-death art clue only became clear in richness, when
some other evidence was brought to bear on it. All such clues come in
interrelated themes, which are quite simple at root. Could mistakes
be made? Yes. But are they?[7]
Others'
Art and Music Clues
PID
theory posits that many would now know through professional contacts
about Paul's death, some rightly with fear of those who wield such
power over public perception, curiosity, disinterest, or pleased to
know the double. Clues about PID details continue in all media, in
different thematic uses, even if it was all a joke originally.
Many
art and music clues are backwards, but by no means all. Some are
truly heartbreaking. If Paul died, it might be that some want to tell
overtly, as the Beatles seemed to.
A
list of several: The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's “Death Cab for
Cutie” song (1966), also performed in the Beatles movie, “Magical
Mystery Tour” (1967). “The Prisoner” TV Show (1967). Doctor
Who TV Show (some episodes). “Rosemary's Baby” movie (1968,
opens with a white VW Beetle and dead person on the street in a
sheet). Elements in “James Bond” movie “On Her Majesty's
Secret Service” (1969). Don MacLean “American Pie” song (1971
and later video, after the section about Buddy Holly's plane crash,
with and without the “missing lyrics” section).
The
first tribute albums were by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
1. “A Hazy Shade of Winter,” seemingly adjusted to be about PID,
from an earlier Simon song. Recorded in sessions which lasted through
September, 1966.
It was released in a rush, as a single, on October 22, 1966,
two days before their new album came out on October 24.
The "France
CBS-2378" release has two Pauls (Paul Simon), three Arts (for the
three remaining true Beatles).
2. Another related, PID-themed song,
“Fakin' It”, came out as a single the next year, July 7, 1967,
referencing singer Donovan Leitch in the lyrics. He is implicated in helping Sir Paul in his early guitar sessions.
The cover on "The Netherlands CBS –
2911" release also had a related – still with two Pauls,
but now with two Arts, making four “Beatles” but two Pauls.
"The
Shining": Many PID clues are in the book by Stephen King
and in the movie by Stanley Kubrick, though there are differences in
the way these are handled. Both are titled based on a Beatles
song.
The book has a faceless boy, replaced, although the “accident”
dream is about the older character, not the younger one, plus music
themes, an old red Beetle and a bright new shiny one, a flying
glider with broken wings (like a dead beetle bug or a blackbird with
broken wings, like the Beatles song), and more.
The movie is filled
with PID themes. Other than a few references to Apollo supposed moon landings in the moview (which some link film faking to Kubrick), there are secret burials and doubles (which we will not demonstrate here), VW Beetle cars (including a crushed, blood-red one),
and much more:
Kubrick plays with film objects and timing.
This is in backwards numbers and doubles, including the famous "twins" and "two elevators", which Kubrick "inverted" from the book, where they were single, and he made single several doubles in the book.
Number games in the film are mostly:
12
= 1 person in 2.
21
= 2 persons in 1.
24 = double of 12.
42 = backwards 24 .
21
= backwards of 12.
42 is also Paul's birth year (1942) and 24 his age at death.
The
famous “Room 237” also resolves into a 12, if the numbers are
added together:
2+3+7
= 12.
The room has a keyhole, clue-like carpet design, and a dead-but-alive ghost (as a woman) is in there:
From
the movie, the maze model has three number fours (three Beatles left
of four), in light and shade, at the center of what is a British flag
linear pattern:
Along
with Mayan sacrificial pyramids, on the “altar” is the set of
three 4s in perfect light and shade:
Emphasis is put on the center of the maze, empty.
There
is even only one recognizable movie clip in the highly cerebrally
symbolic movie and it is from “Summer of '42”. It also happens to
be the scene at 24 minutes into the movie. Paul was not only born in
1942, but in the summer. He was 24 at his supposed death.
The
overt “42” on the shirt, implicitly mirrored backwards as “24”,
on the “innocent young man-boy,” like Paul:
This
is just scratching the surface.
Of
course, the Rolling Stones knew, says PID case theory. They Rolling
Stones put a tire, a “bleeding, squashed pizza”, Beatles-like
figures of themselves, a clock – indicating an event in time –
and red, yellow, green candy gummies for traffic light colors onto
the “Let It Bleed” (November, 1969) album. The album title was
also a word-play on the upcoming last Beatles album, “Let It Be”
(1970), not to mention "Ruby Tuesday" song, which PID says
it is likely superficially about a girl, but was about Paul's death
date and his blood, because of context and internal references. Back
and front of “Let It Bleed”:
Another
list, more recent: TV show “Fringe” (2008). Imagine Dragons
music video for “On Top of the World” (2013, with Kubrick “The
Shining” as PID, plus Apollo and “2001” movie references).
Disney's Pixar Studios “Coco” movie (2017). “Yesterday”
movie (2019). The list goes on and on.
PART EIGHT
Nuns,
Saints and Icons
A
Separate but Linked Case
PID
events had very awkward and difficult early cover-up. So did a famous
cloistered nun, very important to faithful and unfaithful Catholics
and many others. A plethora of permanent and semi-permanent doubles
has been proposed in the last decade, building on PID. The serious
cases are few and recent, with one exception, that of Sister Lucia of
Fatima. She was possibly the most famous supposed visionary seer in
history.
This
case has rich formal forensics support.[8] If
both Lucia and Paul were replaced, she was replaced in early 1967, or at least publicly replaced, several years
after her own death in 1957-8, but very early after Paul was
replaced.
If
she was actually replaced, it is the only other serious case for a
permanent public replacement, for decades. It was also was right
after that of Paul. In fact, the two cases are linked by a certain
date:
Sr.
Lucia's supposed replacement was first made public on the very day
when BBC radio played the still-unavailable "Sergeant Pepper"
album, for the first time. It was exactly seven months after Paul's
supposed death – on May 13th, 1967.
Are
the two cases linked? Was Paul's replacement a dry run for hers? Or
was hers an opportunistic copy-cat event, as success occurred with
Paul's? It is very hard to know.
Forensics:
SisterLucyTruth.com Note:
the handwriting analyst, for the "secret" itself, may have
been threatened to give a false report.
The
Value of The Paul McCartney Figure, Beyond Music: An Icon?
Paul
is like a secular saint, as a venerated "star" of music and
the life, in many supernaturally irreligious and atheistic circles.
In
1993, Sir Paul did a tour called “The New World Tour”. The
souvenir t-shirt was a black shirt with a print of a Byzantine
painting (a Christian icon) “Icon” on the front. It implied that
he is a “true image” of Paul, perhaps?
PIDers
have noted that almost everything Sir Paul puts out has an easy PID
theme.
The
literal meaning of “icon” is “true image”. By extension,
“icon” also means something revered. Is Sir Paul the true image
of Paul? If PID case theory is correct, no, he is not.
Paul
and Sir Paul as Secular Saints or “gods”
There
is a common overlap between famous secular modern figures and holy
saints, in the public imagination. Some people call musicians and
actors and actresses “gods”. The Beatles were really the first to
have a complete “cult” following of a mass proportion.
Votive
candles with Beatles on them are kitsch, but not ugly. There is a
kind of seriousness about the joke. All but one (top left) are false
Roman Catholic:
Left
to right, top to bottom – 1. Paul, 2. Sir Paul, 3. Paul, 4. Sir
Paul doctored, plus "lens" distortion.[9]
Real,
pictorial-style Roman Catholic votive candles (French language:
"Sacred Heart of Jesus – Pray for Us"):
PART NINE
Fall-Out
and Conclusion
New
PID-Derived Theories
Since
about 2005, but especially since 2010, some people have suggested, with increasing fervor, that:
Paul
survived, with Sir Paul or others replacing him publicly;
all
Beatles may have been replaced;
Paul
was replaced many times;
Sir
Paul had other public identities;
people
other than Sir Paul played Paul, here and there, or permanently;
Paul is another person (Keith Allison or John Halliday or another). These two (Allison and Halliday) have similarities, in certain angles or moments, with Paul, which Sir Paul has not, or has less of. Halliday was the custodian of Paul's house many years later and is a lively Liverpool native with a rounder head than Sir Paul has. Keith Allison, who played with many famous bands, won a 1965 "Tiger Beat" teenager music magazine "Paul McCartney lookalike contest, because of his sweet and rounder, flat face. Halliday and Allison follow:
lots of people other than Paul were replaced, as if it is easy to manage on the inside (which it is not). This position rides on the troubled photo analyses and the fact that the general public is too busy and generally unwilling to figure out a double's usage and is easy to fool. Somehow, then, there would not be much difficulty in the circles of real persons affected by replacement of a friend or family member (but there are such difficulties);
literal
clones or a lost family member, sometimes said to be "Paul's
twin", account for Sir Paul;
a
very early death date for Paul, in USA, discounting photos and difficulties with manager Brian Epstein's behavior later;
a late but non-November death date, or kidnapping, "because John Lennon was happy at filming in Spain in fall, 1966" (which the regular September theory of death explains as mania, attempting to cover for his devastating grief, plus some evidence he was actually depressed);
private "sources" for alternate readings and new inventions –without getting formal testaments (which may be impossible, due to reluctance), also without explicitly describing the claims, stripped of identifying elements (to protect "witness", who may be real but confused or may be disinformation agent), and without "source" information clearly delineated from the PIDer's own ideas;
the
Vatican itself had Paul killed (instead of the UK intelligence
service Mi6, in concert with others who also may be trying to damage the Vatican).[10]
the
Beatles could not and did not write most of their music, especially
the really innovative but catchy early tunes.
These
positions are all very much fought against, by most PIDers, but they
each have a certain representation.
Other
Replacement Cases with Some Heft
For
decades, public replacements were seemingly too awkward to do again.
Some strong, recent cases have been made, though:
Hillary
Clinton (2016, temporary, while poisoned, but recovered);
Melinda
Gates (2013, dead after complaining about Jeff Epstein, with double
to get major settlement of posthumous “divorce”, most
appearances 2020-2022);
Joe
Biden (2020 onward, temporary, interspersed with real but
hard-to-manage appearances);
American-football
star Damar Hamlin (2023, dead by Covid shot);
US
Congressman John Fetterman (2023, dead, possibly by Covid shot and
preexisting conditions).
Most
claims, though, such as about pope Paul VI and many more recent
figures, are either bad photo comparison mistakes or disinformation
to distract from much better cases.
Conclusion
Volumes
of details can be written about PID, to give answers to most
questions. In no legal case are all questions answered, but all the
significant answers have been accounted for in PID. Whether they are
satisfactory answers will be up to each person to decide, so it will
be up to every person to look further, or not, into whether or not
Paul is being erased – as our space here has run out.
Finis.
FOOTNOTES
[1] That is called a circumstantial case and all cold cases are
circumstantial. Note that even best forensic evidence is classed
circumstantial, touch-point corroboration of direct evidence, if
available. The latter is only ever any direct witnesses, if
available. Witnesses are not to be trusted, without testing,
including by using circumstantial forensics.
There
is no legal category called "hard evidence." And hearsay is
perfectly legal and historically valid as evidence. For courts, it
means someone cannot be called in to testify directly in a court. Any
kind of evidence is legal. On the other hand, it is always preferable
to look at what people said and did directly. PID theory does look at
both.
For
rumors, our point is going to be that we would expect rumors and some
kernels of truth might be in them; they do not replace direct
evidence from witnesses, where available.
[2] Jurors
are often instructed. “Direct evidence” is defined as direct
witnesses; forensics and other corroborative evidence are
“circumstantial”. Cold cases and history use mostly “touch
point”, circumstantial evidence.
Anything
at all may be held to be evidence. Testing the relevance is the key.
[3]In other words, one must bias the samples analysis different ways, deliberately, to show up (to test, to highlight) probable salient features out of the general noise.
By way of analogy: if one in a thousand particles is significant, but the sample size is 1000, that one may be missed, or counted but then dropped as noise. "Blind" studies are great, only if the materials put in and analysis afterward is appropriate for different hypotheses.
True
neutrality is to work at both sides, enough to perform not only
"blind" tests, which may miss or catch certain anomalies,
but where samples are not categorized to emphasize, to draw out
potential differences for further study. One forensic scientist
even compared all Paul photos, none of Sir Paul, if PID is correct.
Morphing and fading and measuring onto photos can also mislead, if
done or used incorrectly. A similar problem arises in most of the few
music assessments done by professionals. Neutrality must not be
merely claimed.
[4] Extreme
sexual liberation as a form of social control was growing in the 20th
century, even becoming industrialized. People have pointed out that
the Beatles hype was part of this before Paul supposedly died, but
afterwards, the damaged members of the band and Sir Paul, especially,
became pawns in a promotion of wild lifestyles.
Mind
control using “The Grateful Dead Phenomenon”, we could call it,
became far more prominent after Paul died. It may be Paul was in the
way of more direct destruction of society than Sir Paul allowed for
and was killed partly for this, because over-indulgence in human
passions inordinately ruin a moral order, natural higher instincts.
As
to a “religio-cultic” energetic or spiritual sacrifice: this
would supposedly be for bringing in a new “order”, as well. This
theory suggests that murderers used what they believe to be demonic
magic, as Aleister Crowley, and others, promote. It is true that Paul
was the “beautiful boy” ideal and one of the “biggest bucks in
the forest” to hunt, so to speak.
Backwards
messages in music are not too hard to do. One need only play a
desired phrase backwards, write a lyric phrase similar to it
forwards, then lay down both, chopping the backwards one a little, to
fit. A backwards track for instrumental and vocal effects when played
forward, was used before Paul died, at the end of "Rain"
(1966) and "Tomorrow Never Knows" (1966). Every thing
changed with the death of Paul, PID theory finds, but some things
were developed from before.
All
of the backwards music clues are about Paul's supposed death (until
much later Sir Paul music, long after the Beatles broke up).
Other
bands have taken the backwards cryptic messages as an idea and used
them for Satanic messages at times, it seems. Many bands would have
heard of Paul's death and chosen to keep quiet officially, for
various reasons. Certainly, even without being Satanic, the PID
backwards clues are creepy, if they are there – because of their
theme and hiddenness.
Masonry
and Satanism Themes
While
some PIDers have pursued the Masonic and Satanic threads in the case
theory, we may remark here, in brief, that Sir Paul, more than the
other Beatles, made several associations with the OTO. The other
Beatles used the backwards messages on their records merely to
cryptically mention aspects of Paul's death and their grief, not to
speak about the Devil. Nevertheless, other rock bands have used
backwards messages to suggest Devil worship, it seems.
In
addition, a book came out claiming that John Lennon's knowledge that
he was likely to be killed meant that he was in a pact with the
Devil. For our purposes, let us just note that with or without a
pact, the Beatles themselves were mostly interested in helping
humanity, as they saw it. The creepiness in their behavior takes a
leap forward with the death of Paul (if PID is correct).
Sir
Paul continued the theme of Satanism and "Illuminism", or
OTO, or Masonry, intensely. Why?
[6] Off-hand
comments about the "Jude" in "Hey Jude", by Sir
Paul (1969), have led some to conclude that John Lennon's son, Julian
was referenced in the song. "Jules" supposedly became
"Jude". On the other hand, because the song is not about a
child, though it is encouraging to someone upset, as Julian was, at
the time, we might consider something else.
St
Jude was a first-century-AD Israelite apostle of Jesus. He is often
shown bearing the “Image of Odessa”, an icon, meaning “true
image”, as a relic. It was supposed to have been an “unpainted,
miraculous image of Christ's face” on a cloth. Some say this was
the Shroud of Jesus, now in Turin, folded to show only the face.
There is an historical case to be made that the valuable Shroud
reappeared in Odessa, after it was hidden away. If so, it was carried
around Syria and Turkey in the first century, for the founding of new
churches, early on, and hidden in a wall in Odessa only after Roman
persecutions of Christians began in earnest.
Some
people see “clues” to a proposition everywhere, it is true. Maybe
PIDers see clues inaccurately or in too many places. So, before we
move on to other people's “Beatles clues” in art and music, let
us take a moment to mention inaccurate and accurate uses of assessing
art symbols.
The
following types of claims about certain religious imagery are in
vogue among certain circles. These are promoted as “meme”
pictures, by some Christians and non-Christians.
Historians
would note that all cultures use light around spiritual and godly
figures at times, to mean otherworldly or godly light. They would
also note that the Roman-Greek god “Apollo” was an early
representative method for Jesus Christ in certain parts of the Roman
empire very early, because of positive elements associated with that
pagan god. Jesus was also represented by the fish symbol and anchor
and cross and other figures, long before the Shroud of Turin-like
face became more known.
Be
that as it may be, Santa Claus as a concept developed from Saint
Nicolas and his red and white bishop's garments, plus an English
Protestant “Father Christmas” idea and a later,
nineteenth-century commercialization.
Extra
note on "Babylon" and "Temple":
The
association of the Catholic church with Babylon of St John's book of
Apocalypse or Revelation in the Bible is an old association. Two main
threads exist associating the Catholic church with this: the Catholic
interpretation and the Protestant interpretation. (Not all Catholics
or Protestants agree with these threads.) Atheists and neo-pagans and
Satanists have joined the ranks of the latter, at times, some arguing
for Jesus mythicism, as well, and some for Jesus historicism without
deity, godhead.
Various
Catholic thinkers have admitted the possibility that the “temple”
(see https://youtu.be/lZ2P79sOJTs)
and “Babylon” in the prophetic book may refer to the Vatican or
"Rome". Obviously, "Babylon" and "temple"
firstly refer to figurative and literal Old Testament passages about
persecution and corruption of the ancient Hebrew Israelites, when
exiled to ancient Babylon. As well, the Apocalypse book would refer
to pagan Rome in Nero's time, when the book was written.
But there
are those who also say that it is possible that in the supposed
Biblical End Times, an “ape of the Catholic church” occurs, with
a missing pope, or a secret one, or a persecuted one. They include
some Bible commentators (original Douay-Rheims, 1582 publication of
the New Testament, with the rarer unabridged commentaries, not the Challoner edition),
theologians, saints and mystics.
In
this view, this “Babylon” is an infiltrated, confused, “morphed”,
divorced, outward Catholic church in Rome, without correct dogma and
practice, while the true Catholic church becomes increasingly
divorced, shrunk, persecuted, “in eclipse”, but visible. It would
be the false church, they say, which would somehow participate in the
rise of a final “man of sin”, a final “Anti-Christ” figure.
Conversely,
various Protestant and now some Messianic Jewish thinkers have
suggested that the papist Catholic church, in her true normative
dogma and practices, is always the evil, pagan Babylon of
Apocalypse. This view was condemned at the Catholic council of Trent
(1500s), after Martin Luther's followers gained steam. In this view,
the regular Catholic church is waiting to play a role in the future
end-times events. The meme picture above plays on this meaning.
Whoever
is correct about End Times, if anyone is, imagery must not be
historically misinterpreted and lumped together, as was done in that
“meme” picture.
The
“all-seeing eye in the triangle” was first the eye of the
Christian God in a triangle for trinity. The eye over a pyramid,
however, derives from the Egyptians. The eye in a triangle can be
found on Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches and garments
far into the past. It was absorbed by the Freemasons of Britain for
their own purposes. The Jewish “star of David” and Mohammedan and
other symbols were appropriated by Freemasonry, as well.
[8] Lucia
and her supposed double were rarely seen. Her face is way less
recognized than Paul's. Lucia may well be easier for a few
professionals to take on as an honest study. Many forensic scientists
dare to support Sr Lucia's case, where PID seems to scare more people
to comment. Other forensic scientists might be paid off to stay
quiet, says PID case theory. Despite more support, Sister Lucia's
case is generally as ignored as Paul's is, of course.
[9] Note
that the bottom-right image is adapted from a photo which was
mislabeled – deliberately, per PID, as well as being contorted by
lens distortions and further manipulation. In the photographer's
collection, all other photos from that day are February, 1967, but
this weird and manipulated one of Sir Paul, to detract from how Paul
was dead and gone, was mislabeled as 1966.
[10] They
use a modern color photo, which is in a fake portion of a video, used
for effect, by the video makers. The exact forensics do not match
other clues. The supposed killers of Paul may have had ties to
evildoers in or around the Vatican, as we will see, without being it,
in the proper sense.
These
PIDers also use astronomical timing (meanings used by cults, as
astrology), to point to Paul's death date. However, Tuesday,
September 13 works as well, and fits all, not some, of the evidence.
