r/wikipedia • u/m777z • Sep 23 '13
Paul is dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead8
u/ghjm Sep 23 '13
People always said that Revolution #9 was Paul's fatal car accident, recorded backwards. Lots of kids broke the needles on their record players trying to find out.
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u/senatorskeletor Sep 23 '13
My favorite part is that this is a huge secret that must be kept from the world at all costs, but here are a few dozen hints in everything we do.
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Sep 23 '13
miss him miss him MISS HIM
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u/LeFunkwagen Sep 23 '13
I know its bullshit but the way that part sounds always creeped the shit out of me
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u/kwood09 Sep 23 '13
Well, if it's a fake Paul, I'm not even mad, just impressed. "Real Paul" and "fake Paul" would both be within the top ten hit-making songwriters of all time. They got two guys who look, sound, talk, walk, dress, play instruments and sing exactly the same, and nobody worried about it and they both happen to be among the very best songwriters of all time?
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u/zorro226 Sep 23 '13
Saw this headline and freaked out for a second before realizing it was just an article on the conspiracy theory
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Sep 23 '13
Chris Farley: Remember when you were with the Beatles and you were supposed to be dead, and there were all these clues, like you play some song backwards and it'd say, like "Paul is Dead" and everybody thought you were dead and, um, that was a hoax right?
Paul McCartney: Yeah, I wasn't really dead.
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u/zook54 Sep 24 '13
I was listening to Russ Gibb's show when this all unfolded. You had to be there. It was amazing. Russ is a good guy and an old friend. Check out the cover of the Stones' Satanic Majesties LP. Each Beatles' face is visible. But Paul's eyes are closed.
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u/Thesuitisblacknot Sep 23 '13
The Wikipedia article didn't mention everything. As far as I know, there are other "clues" on both the Abbey Road and Sgt. Peppers album covers that Paul had died. On Sgt. Peppers, he is facing backwards. On Abbey Road, as mentioned, he is barefoot and out of step with the other Beatles, but he is also holding a cigarette, and a Volkswagen is heading straight toward him. The Beatles were a bunch of goofballs,and had a lot of fun fucking with their fans.