The Fake Death of Tara Browne

Lotus of Tara Browne at time of accident

A rather obscure figure from the drug drenched 1960s allegedly died December 19, 1966 from wounds of a car accident in London, in search of food with his girl friend at the blistering speed of 120 miles per hour. The only problem with the foregoing story is that it is entirely a lie. We explain why it matters.

 

For those who have never heard of Tara Browne, he is supposedly the subject of the hit Beatles song, A Day in the Life, telling cryptically the story of how the Guinness fortune heir died in a tragic automobile accident.

 

According to lore, Browne, 21 years old, had left the house of a friend around 1 am, on the early morning hour of December 18, 1966, with his girl friend Suki Poitier in search of food. The friend is never identified.

 

Not long after leaving the "friend", Browne was careening through densely populated Chelsea and South Kennsington, where he failed to notice a stop light through which he ran, swerving around a Volkswagon Beetle, before slamming into the side of a white van at 120 mph. He was driving a light blue Lotus which he apparently wanted to use in his new racing career.

 

The reason Browne is interesting, aside from the fact that he died so young and wealthy, is that as British aristocracy, he was friends of the glitterati and Royalty of England, including the likes of Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, and The Beatles.

 

Tina Foster, who is arguably the most competent authority on the Paul Is Dead movement, wrote a fascinating article describing why the death did not occur as described, and even leaves open the possibility that he did not die at all, a point with which we deal below.

 

One of the primary reasons Browne did not die as reported is that the thin bodied Lotus he drove would have had no chance of surviving a crash in the side of a 1960s van. Now clearly the car is a wreck, but not the kind which would result from a crash at 120 mph in the side of a 1960s van. The front end is in fabulous condition. True, there are parts strewn over in the photo,  but Foster makes the sound case that the damage was staged with a sledge hammer.

 

However, the most damning fact of the event is the survival of Poitier, who escaped largely unscathed, something which would only happen in a Warner Brother's Looney Tune cartoon. Furthermore, there is no blood at the alleged scene of the accident. Thus it is most emphatically the case that Browne did not die in the vehicle, nor was Poitier in it when it allegedly slammed into the side of a van - a 1960s van at that.

 

The following day, Browne is said to have died of his injuries. Whatever. However, if he did not die because the accident was faked, can we believe that he lived for some time after? The simple answer is no.

 

Poitier ironically died in a car accident 10 years later, but it was most likely to ensure her silence about the faked death scene.

 

Our belief is that Browne was murdered in a Satanic ritual abuse for which British royalty are famous, and was quite de rigeur along with drugs in swinging 1960s London. It hasn't gone away, but lost some of its fashionableness in the ensuing years. However, Browne was very much apart of that scene, and his youthful vitality was no doubt an attractive incentive for a ritual sacrifice. Film director John Huston called his mother Oonagh a witch, an appellation which should be taken literally.

 

However, we believe that the most urgent motive for the murder of Tara Browne was his association with The Beatles and his knowledge that Paul McCartney had been murdered on September 11 of that year. Apparently Browne was too much of a risk, so the Satanic MI6 and other assorted spooks murdered him in order to keep the lie alive.

 

As A Day in the Life implies, the official story was as full of holes as Blackburn, Lancashire. Thanks to Ms Foster for another outstanding excavation in The Beatles lies.

Reference
Tina Foster, Tara’s car crash… real or faked?, Plastic Macca website, plasticmacca.BlogSpot.com, December 16, 2014, accessed 12/25/2014.

Copyright 2014 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Murdering Paul McCartney (1942-66)

After outlining the major theories regarding the replacement of Paul McCartney of The Beatles in 1966, we would like to progress to a tentative theory of our own regarding his murder. We admit that the physical evidence is slim, but there are other sources of evidence which lead one to piece together a plausible narrative of his assassination.

 

The Evidence

We acknowledge that there is no corpse, making a case of murder a bit more challenging than usual. The primary fact is that Paul was replaced in 1966, a fact confirmed by the forensic work of Carlesi and Gavazzeni published in 2009 showing that the individual masquerading today as Paul McCartney is indeed a different person than the Paul of 1966 and prior.
 

The evidence that we have about the circumstances of his death relies in part upon the lyrics and clues from Beatles albums beginning with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Although many so-called clues are ambiguous and could have alternative interpretations than those put forth by the Paul Is Dead community, we believe that their cumulative weight, bolstered by various statements of former Beatles, Heather Mills, and Sir Paul McCartney support the thesis that Paul is Dead.

The Publicity Stunt

There are many who claim, frothing at the mouth and shaking their heads more violently than Baby ever shook It, that the Paul Is Dead rumor is a gigantic publicity stunt. That allegation is a complete and total non-sequitur.  We could concede that someone perpetrated a publicity stunt without at all undermining our contention that Paul is dead.

Did the Beatles really need a publicity stunt c. 1967-69 when Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, and Abbey Road albums had rocketed the Beatles to the apex of their fame?

The bottom line is that a publicity stunt neither proves nor disproves death – the argument is almost infantile.

The Theory

The theory we maintain concerning the sequence of events preceding and following McCartney’s death may be briefly stated. McCartney was assassinated sometime between August 25 – 27, 1966, somewhere between Seattle and Los Angeles – our hunch being San Francisco - and returned to England where the body was staged in a fake automobile accident discovered September 11.

Beginning as early as August 28, McCartney imposters were used until a permanent replacement could be doctored to resemble the dead McCartney, the switch operation completed in late November by the time recording for the Sgt Pepper album began.

The Explanation

The last known appearance of Paul McCartney was at the August 25, 1966 Seattle concert, after which date he is seen no more. What the public does see is a cavalcade of Paul imposters all of whom look distinctly different from the others. This person is often known as Faul, but we will identify his real name following.

If Paul was last seen on August 25, it would be reasonable to assume that he died near the place of his last known presence. He was en route to Los Angeles that evening, where on August 28 a fake Paul gave a press conference with the other Beatles.

That his managers had an imposter in place so quickly suggests that certain parties had planned the murder well in advance. And the fact that a fake one was seen landing in San Francisco suggests that he had died August 25-27. But of course this is not necessitated by any of the facts - simply a reasonable conjecture.

The Dates

We are aware of other dates given for his death, especially the one provided cryptically in the drum on the cover of Sgt Pepper. The drum date is said by many to be November 9, 1966, but others argue that the day and month should be flipped to give 9/11/1966, a matter to which we shall return.

The Body

Some allege that the walrus reference by John refers to Paul’s body, to which a rescue worker likened Paul’s condition when it was recovered from its death scene. While the story is certainly apocryphal, we could run with it by stating that a body submerged under water would bloat, coming to resemble a walrus, meaning that Paul was dead quite a few days before being discovered.

More critical skeptics will dismiss the walrus clues as merely a reference to Lewis Carroll’s poem, but we will show how Beatles’ communications are layered with meaning, making fixation on a singular interpretation fraught with error.

We accept the 9/11 argument because it corresponds with the time of decomposition required to assume the state of a “walrus”. Brian Epstein also announced on October 3, 1966 that The Beatles would tour no more, meaning that the November date of death is too late.

Why would a manager announce to the world that a band of monumental popularity would stop touring, especially when Paul commented that they would continue to play before fans? Was he lying? Certainly life on the road was a pain, but to abruptly state that the band would stop touring when it had heavenly bills to pay is absurd. The only reasonable explanation is that Paul was dead.

Death of The Beatles

Not only was he dead, but so were The Beatles. The difference between 1966 Beatles and 1967 Beatles is stark and chasmic, the two irreconcilable. Clearly someone wanted the band and its influence for reasons other than entertainment.

The Beatles were a shock and awe band, inspiring and promoting behaviors in teenagers which were alarming to older generations. They were the wedge which higher powers wanted to embed in the social structure of America - and the world - for divide and conquer tactics. Besides, the world needed to be distracted from the murder of President Kennedy.

Some say that the Beatles were a product of the Tavistock Institute founded in part by Aleister Crowley. Although a reasonable proposition, one which we have come to endorse, it has limited evidence. Yet it is hard to imagine such young men wielding so much power without a wizard behind the curtains pulling levers. Indeed there is abundant evidence showing that crowds were paid to show up for The Beatles appearances, especially in America, meaning that these powers were very anxious for this band to succeed.

Our best guess is that Tavistock gained control of the second, post Paul Beatles.

The Rosetta Stone

Wizards there were indeed as one sees on the Sgt Pepper album cover. Perhaps the most disturbing figure on the cover is that of Aleister Crowley. Why would a monstrous, vile, Satanic person such as Crowley appear on the cover of the Beatles’ album?

The standard and best answer is that the cover represented favored characters of the Beatles, the cover designers, and perhaps some executives at record publisher EMI. Numerous accounts given by John Lennon and George Harrison support the claim that these persons were heroes of the band members. Supposedly the album cover was the brain child of Faul who also claimed that the characters on the cover were band picks. Adolf Hitler was dropped at the last minute as too controversial.

As such, it is very clear that the Beatles – certainly John, George, and Faul – were Satan devotees to varying degrees, the most convincing evidence being their endorsement of Aleister Crowley, a somewhat remote figure today, but even more obscure, especially to American audiences, in 1967. We suspect that the Beatles thought that they were being clever with their veiled references to Satanism, but time has divulged fully the truth of their loyalties.

Now there are those who say that the characters on the cover also represent those which the band disliked, but this is a stretch belied by the statements of the various Beatles and an eisegetical reading of the event. Redwel Trabant, author of the Sgt Pepper Code, stated consistently in his essays that the persons selected were those whom they admired in some fashion, Adolf Hitler included.

An argument against our Satanic readings of the Beatles’ religion is that their interests were more those of dabblers and curiosity seekers than that of true believers. More importantly, we would argue that Faul was the prime mover of this development – the true believer.

Paul the Satanist

Now regarding Faul, there is one argument that he was Ian Iachimoe, an owner of the occult art gallery Indica where Yoko Ono exhibited and met John Lennon. William Shears Campbell is said to be Ian Iachimoe, and Billy Shears is the band leader introduced at the beginning of the Sgt Pepper album, which in turn would be Faul McCartney. Lennon, incidentally, publicly met Ono in 1966 at Indica around the time of McCartney’s death. Did he know her prior to his public meeting with her? Ono is a witch and intelligence agent – making her a perfect Tavistock client or agent.

The Motive

Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the McCartney murder is motive, of which many have been put forth. We believe that The Beatles’ apparent opposition to the Viet Nam war is a plausible explanation for his death, but we think it is too shallow.

Others have noted that Paul, after an encounter with Mark Lane, became convinced that President John Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy rather than through the idiotic lone nut theory manufactured by the perpetrators.

Offering to lend his talents to a musical on the subject, authorities may have feared that the popular entertainer would open way too many minds; so they murdered him as they did so many other witnesses.

The realization that a band this powerful needed to be controlled probably inspired the Powers That Be that they could hijack the group for their own needs. In particular, with the Viet Nam war escalating, and the Bush Crime Syndicate needing a market for its drugs being shipped out of the Golden Triangle, the Beatles’ advocacy of drug use could be a huge boon to their trade.

Thus Faul’s interview in 1967 admitting that he used LSD was basically a paid advertisement for drugs being sold by the US government imported from Southeast Asia.

As we have noted elsewhere, the post 1966 Beatles were worlds apart stylistically and musically from the pre 1967 band. This difference, then, is what the cover of Sgt Pepper symbolizes – the death of the old Beatles and the birth of the new, an evolution which probably could not have occurred with Paul still in the band.

There were also the messy underworld connections of the Beatles, due in part to manager Brian Epstein’s heavy gambling habit, wherein ownership of the Beatles may have passed into new hands as a settlement of debt. Perhaps Paul was the fly in the ointment whose presence and objections were no longer needed.

While all of the above are probably part of the stew, we believe that Faul’s lust for fame and fortune fueled his conspiracy to remove Paul from the band in order to remake it into a blatantly Satanic outfit to lure millions into the dark world of Lucifer.

In any event, unless Paul was a human sacrifice, his elimination may have been required because he would not go along with the new direction the band’s handlers wanted to take it. He was the fool on the hill thinking he could chart his own course.

The Beatles ended their US tour in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, San Francisco being the frothy home of Anton Lavey, Ken Anger, and the Church of Satan.

The Culprits

So where are we? We are at the point of nominating a murderer – if not a group of murderers. We believe that Faul was the front man of the coup who was assisted by Paul’s brother who has gone along with the conspiracy for pecuniary and religious reasons. Both are Satanists, and human sacrifice is part and parcel of that occultic faction. The motive was fame and money for their part, and for the handlers, a vast new drug market whose supply was brought under the control of the Bush Crime Syndicate.

Many state that Beatles’ albums and lyrics are replete with clues about the murder of Paul. To a point we agree, though many are intentionally misleading and may well reference the death of Tara Browne. But the scariest part of that phenomenon is that there are so many knowledgeable clues that one must wonder how anyone but the murderers could know so much. And we cannot rely upon them to be entirely truthful – only half truthful as a good Satanist would be.

One of the principles of the occult is to hide meaning in symbols which only the initiate knows. Speaking forward and backward was one of the many skills Crowley urged upon his adepts. Indeed the Beatles albums are replete with these artifacts, a fact which Faul acknowledged in the Beatles Anthology.

We don’t expect many supporters of our view, to put the case mildly. The details are gruesome and a shock to at least 2-3 generations of music lovers. However, we must follow the facts and fit them most consistently with the personalities and actions of the people involved. To suppose that Faul murdered Paul seems an outrageous claim to most Beatles fans and observers, but Satanism, to say the very least, is entirely outrageous itself.

The Art

Thanks to Clare Kuehn, we discovered an astonishing work of art, executed by John sometime during 1966 – 71, in which he depicts a dead man bludgeoned death, holding a shovel, attended by his dog, on a bright sunny day. Kuehn likens the drawing to the fool tarot card, linking it to The Fool on the Hill song.

We agree that the picture sympathetically depicts the death of a loved one. We would argue also that the picture evokes painful loss and clues relating to the death. The shovel in our mind indicates that Paul dug his own grave, so to speak, by attempting to defy powers who had other ideas for his life or band than what Paul may have had in mind, or broached subjects they wished to remain covered up.

In short, the art work was John’s extraordinary record to us about the events on and around September 11, 1966 which took from the world The Beatles and gave it Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

The only point upon which we are dogmatic is that Paul McCartney was murdered on or before September 11, 1966. Others are subject to new interpretations, and new clues. The power of the media is enormous, and we are gullible to its seductions. What the media gives, the media takes away.

Reference
Clare Kuehn, Mass Shootings & Paul Is Dead, http://youcanknowsometimes.blogspot.com/2013/12/paul-is-dead-new-j-lennon-clue-ignore.html, accessed 2/21/2014
Copyright 2014 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

John Lennon the Satanist

[Editor's Note: 5/23/2021: In the years since publishing this Chronicle, we have come to believe that Lennon was not assassinated as reported, and that his alleged occult activity was part of British-US intelligence.]

During our research of the controversial Paul Is Dead theory, we came across much evidence demonstrating that John Lennon was a committed Satanist, making him a person of interest in the murder of Paul McCartney (1942-66)

 

Family history

 

Several sources of evidence hint that Lennon had early childhood exposure to Satanic teachings and practices possibly from his Uncle Charlie who was a long time member of the Royal and Ancient Order of the Buffaloes, a reference to which appears on the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Redwel Trabant, author of the Sgt Pepper Code, found evidence suggesting that Uncle Charlie was introduced to the cult through Lennon's Uncle Albert, whom we surmise may have been the Uncle Albert of the Admiral Halsey track by Paul McCartney and Wings.

 

Thus there were at least two Lennon family members who would have introduced John into the occult which he seems to have pursued throughout his life. Now the RAOB is not, contrary to the glib mendacities of its apologists, a harmless organization like the Flintstone’s Water Buffalo fraternity, although it would not surprise us if that club were indeed a reference to the RAOB. The RAOB as we understand it is synonymous with the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, an organization with connections to the Satanist Aleister Crowley (1875-1947).

 

Friends of Lennon

 

Lennon moved in the very hip and swinging crowds of 1960s London whose members were devotees of the occult. Trabant identifies some of these persons as Robert Frasier, Anita Pallenberg, John Dunbar, Marianne Faithful, all of whom were avid practitioners of pharmacological and religious teachings advocated by Crowley.

 

During the 1960s London was possibly the epicenter of the Satanist movement although it undoubtedly had stiff competition from San Francisco.

 

Sgt Pepper

 

The Sgt Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band album represented a re-invention of the Beatles on a massive scale, bringing to the public elements of Eastern mysticism, the drug culture, and the teachings of Crowley. It is difficult to overstate the change in group style and music with this groundbreaking record, the Beatles leading change rather than following it.

 

The most disturbing aspects of the album are the heroes of the Beatles who appear on the cover, the most arresting of which is Aleister Crowley, the famed British Satanist, who in 1967 was a cipher to most Americans.

 

But the occultic references do not stop there as many Masonic persons appear on the cover such as Aldous Huxley and H G Wells. According to Trabant, there are 11 such Masonic cues on the sleeve. Hitler and Jesus were left off the cover as being too controversial, but the important point is that anyone having an admiration for Hitler is completely disgusting but very consistent with Satanism. The Beatles stated publicly that, although the cover idea may have been Faul’s, they selected people who were their heroes, Aleister and Adolph included.

 

Another important feature of the album is the music itself where messages can be heard when playing the record backwards. This is no accident as Crowley urged upon his adepts to read and speak forward and backward. Thus the Beatles were following their mentor in such a practice.

 

Lennon statements

 

Lennon made numerous public statements confirming his Satanic beliefs, perhaps the most important being his paraphrasing of Crowley’s dictum, Do what thou wilt, when he said during one television interview that one should do whatever one wants as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.

 

Without getting into the details of the semantics of the statement, including its whitewashing, we point out this connection between Lennon and Crowley because Lennon was consciously quoting his mentor.

 

Lennon portrays the teaching as harmless, but anyone who knows Crowley’s life and his full teachings knows that he was anything but harmless. We quote him as follows:

But the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious; and for nearly all purposes human sacrifice is the best.

Lennon also spoke of demon possession, in which he described channeling music and writing under the influence of forces which can only be described as demonic.

 

There is much literature casting Lennon as an anti-war activist, to which there is some truth. However, we believe that he was an intellectual gadfly who engaged in a number of publicity stunts to undermine a serious antiwar movement, and to delegitimize it for many Americans by becoming associated with the drug culture.

 

Those who accept this theory also suspect Yoko Ono as being his intelligence handler.

 

Lennon gestures

 

Rob, aka eternalblackproject, an occultist who has produced an extensive documentary on McCartney’s death, argues that a brush or scratch along the right forehead is an illuminati gesture, one of which we see Lennon make in an interview with NBC’s Tom Snyder in 1975.

 

We also see Lennon in another picture with the Beatles giving the sign of the Baphomet which is also very popular among the so-called Illuminist entertainers.

 

Yoko Ono

 

One of Lennon’s more interesting alliances with Satanism comes from Yoko Ono whom many have connected with intelligence operations, in a manner similar to Crowley who was employed by British MI5/6 during World War 1.

 

The story is that Lennon met Ono in November 1966 by chance at the Indica Art Gallery owned by 3 investors, where the not so mysterious Ian Iachamoe operated a book store of – you guessed it – occultic literature. Other sources claim that Ono wanted to spend the night with McCartney a year earlier meaning that she most certainly knew of The Beatles before 1966. But anyone who thinks that the wealthy, well connected, intelligence operative Yoko Ono did not know who were The Beatles and John Lennon are a few bulbs short of a Christmas tree.

 

Ono is a self described witch who paid another one in South America 60,000 USD for a consultation shortly before John’s death in 1980 – assuming that John was indeed the victim. It is also interesting that they took up residence in the Dakota apartments where Roman Polanski filmed his notorious Rosemary’s Baby. The apartment building is a known center for occultic and intelligence operations.

 

Conclusion

 

It is abundantly clear to us that Lennon was involved in Satanic philosophy since childhood and that he maintained his beliefs in the occult throughout his life. We know that some misguided soul comes along every so often to claim that Lennon really was a Christian but they fail to understand the dual communications of occultic adherents who can talk out of both sides of their mouths with fluency. We filter people through their actions rather than through their words. There is a symbol which always has an innocent explanation, but another one with deeper meaning which only the initiates know, much as the case with the mystery religions of the ancient world.

 

If Paul did indeed disappear – perhaps through murder - what role and knowledge did John have in the disappearance of Paul?

References

Tina Foster, Plastic Macca, various articles 2009 – 2013

Redwel Trabant, Beatles Conspiracies, various articles, 2012 – 2013
eternalblackproject, Secret Code Of JABbErWOcky, 2012, accessed on Youtube January 2014
Godlike Productions, http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1977494/pg1, accessed January 11, 2014

Copyright 2014 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

When We Was Fab

Just when we thought we could not be shocked, we came across a number of theories claiming that James Paul McCartney of The Beatles fame was replaced in 1966 at the end of the US tour. While there are variants on the general thesis, we believe that there is much truth in the general claim warranting further consideration.

 

Some of our more learned readers will wonder under what rock we have been sleeping because the story and rumors about the death of Paul McCartney have been around since 1967-69. But with the advent of the internet, information has been assimilated in a way that makes the case more coherent and cogent, while exerting more centripetal pressures on it resulting in more confusion. Thus we believe that now is the time to make a general inventory of the various stories.

 

Perhaps the signal event in the resurgence of the Paul Is Dead inquiry was the ground breaking article in Wired Italia in the July 15, 2009 edition entitled Chiedi chi era quel Beatle?  by Gabriella Carlesi and Francesco Gavazzeni which provided the forensic evidence proving that James Paul McCartney was no longer present in the Beatles after 1966. Carlesi is a forensic pathologist and Gavazzeni a computer scientist who started their quest to disprove the conspiracy theories. After working with the evidence, they realized that the theories were indeed fact.

 

To distinguish between the true Paul McCartney and the fake Paul McCartney, researchers commonly use the name Faul – as fake, faux, false Paul, to designate the latter. While the mind willingly confuses the two images of Paul and Faul, when brought into juxtaposition, the differences become pronounced. For example, Paul had a round face whereas Faul’s is elongated. Carlesi examined confirmed photos of known dates to compare the two images using computer techniques applied by Gavazzeni. The cranial, facial, and dental characteristics of each person were startlingly different, proving objectively that Paul and Faul were two different people.

Disappearance By Death

It turns out that there is much disagreement among the Paul is Dead (PID) adherents regarding the nature of his disappearance. Three explanations are offered for his disappearance under the assumption that it was death. The vehicular accident theory usually states that Paul was involved in a fatal accident from which several additional strains thrive. Sometimes the accident involves a car and recklessness; other times it involves a helicopter.

 

The murder theory states that Paul was murdered, again with motive varying by story teller. The primary theory seems to be the one claiming that The Beatles made such outrageous comments that various groups conspired to kill Paul. One faction says that the Ku Klux Klan murdered Paul because of the statements made by John Lennon about The Beatles being more famous than Jesus Christ. Others say the KKK targeted Brian Epstein because he was Jewish, but got Paul instead. Still others opine that The Beatles had become too political in opposition to the war in Viet Nam that US or UK intelligence took out Paul to blunt the group’s influence.

 

Finally, the botched kidnapping theory states that Paul was kidnapped but that he died in custody due to health problems he suffered late in his life.

Disappearance By Vanishing

There is another school of thought to explain the replacement of Paul with Faul. This school generally believes that Paul wanted out of the band – again adorned with motives including time for greater artistic development and/or time for health concerns.

 

This theory states that Paul continued to play an active role in the band, being the creative force behind the Beatles, and even continuing with post Beatles projects such as Paul McCartney and Wings headed by Faul.

Places and Times of Death

The theories also vary widely in the location of death. The primary locations we have identified include the US, England, and France. And if geographical location is not widely dispersed enough, we can take comfort in knowing that the time of death is limited to a 3 month period between August and November 1966.

Sources of Information

The problem with all of these theories is that they rest upon tenuous sources of information. One of the death theories, known as 60IF, is based upon a confession allegedly given by George Harrison – sometimes before he died; sometimes after he died – explaining that Paul died in an automobile accident, but the group rallied to produce a look-alike to continue on as Paul. Apparently they were concerned that the public couldn’t handle the death of Paul or of The Beatles, so they carried on with an ersatz Paul.

 

The earliest and still prominent sources for the death theories come from the Beatles’ songs and albums which are said to be laden with clues about Paul’s disappearance, the most important being Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It is a veritable Rorschach Test of clues and symbols, oftentimes said to rest upon occultic principles of communication.

 

Frequently these narratives and hidden messages are dovetailed to create a theory. For example there is a series of “documentaries” – in some ways slick – which merge a collage of images, documents, and vignettes into a mind numbing montage which lets the viewer draw whatever conclusion he wants. Produced by IAmAPhoney, these videos rarely have a thesis or narrative – simply a lot of suggestions, implications, and nuances which are supposed to “prove” that Paul Is Dead.

A Cast of Thousands

If all of these variants described thus far are not enough, we have a special treat. There are numerous persons for Paul’s replacement, some of the more common being William Shepperd, Phil Ackerill, Denny Laine, Billy Shears, William Shears Campbell also known as Ian Iachamoe, and someone with the last name Pepper.

 

One theory says that the Satanist Aleister Crowley’s son is the one who took McCartney’s job. Others will admit that more than one person took the role until a permanent replacement could be found and facelifted into position.

The Gift that Keeps on Giving

But there is more, as they say in the late night infomercials. Not only was Paul replaced, so were all of the Beatles. Sometimes they were replaced entirely as in the case of Ringo, while in other cases they were replaced intermittenly as in the case of John Lennon. Again, there are many variations of this general theme.

What to Make of it All?

We believe that the foundational observation is completely valid, namely that Paul McCartney was replaced in late 1966. After examining the photos available on numerous websites, it is abundantly clear that Paul was played by different people and that 1966 marks the continental divide in Pauldom.

Even Faul, in numerous public faux pas - or is that faux pauls? - statements concedes that he is an imposter.

 

As to whether Paul died or went underground, we reserve judgment pending further exploration and analysis. We do admit that epistemologically the case of Paul’s replacement is crippled from the start by the plethora of stories and the exceptionally poor organization and communication of the various story tellers. Many of their websites seem to be the projects of early adolescent kids.

 

On the other hand, it is a simple mind which ignores evidence because it is not tied up in a bow to be presented by the Bubble Headed Bleach Blonde who comes on at 5 with a gleam in her eye. It is precisely this demand for simplicity and perfect consistency which leads the majority into lies.

 

Stay tuned – we plan to publish more on the Magical McCartney Mystery Tour and more Fab stories.

 

Copyright 2013 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.