“Paul is Dead” is an urban legend and conspiracy theory that claims that English musician Paul McCartney of the Beatles died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a lookalike. The rumour gained popularity in September 1969 following reports on American college students. The Beatles were and still are big business, and conspiracy theorists around the world have pointed to this notion when surmising that the rumours are true. Fifty years later, “Paul is Dead” remains the weirdest and most famous of all music conspiracy theories.
The “Paul is Dead” myth began circulating in the late 1960s, claiming that Paul McCartney died in an automobile accident. The Beatles are said to have covered up the death, despite inserting a series of clues into their songs and artwork. Some people still believe that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by a lookalike, or clone, named William Campbell.
The Beatles were said to have hidden a secret: Paul McCartney got killed in a car crash back in 1966, and the band replaced him with an imposter. Theorists claim the other Beatles covered up his death by hiring someone who looked like him, sang like him, and had the brotherly relationship between Paul and John.
In October 1969, the western world was swept by the story that Paul McCartney had died in an automobile accident three years earlier. The truth about the urban legend is finally revealed by George Harrison in newly discovered secret audio tapes: Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash in November 1966.
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My favorite part of this conspiracy is that it implies that the Beatles, upon losing one of the best songwriters in pop history somehow managed to secretly discover and kidnap an even BETTER songwriter whom no one had ever heard before. It’s like that scene in Beerfest where landfill dies and they find out he has an identical twin who wants to take his place in the team and use his name in honor of him, it’s absurd lol
When I was a child on early YouTube, I remember stumbling upon a article “proving Led Zeppelin hid satanic messages in stairway to heaven” Hearing that creepy awful backwards gibberish with captions telling me what the gibberish “means”, terrified me to my core, even though I didn’t really hear the words they were telling me to hear. To the point where to this day, that creepy backwards gibberish still sends shivers down my spine. BUT, revisiting this article helps with that silly fear! Specifically, when you play All Together Now backwards, and we get CRANBERRY SAUCE!!
Fun fact: i tried to prove or disprove The Beatles’ backwards messages by singing the backwards messages and reverse them to see if i could get the original lyrics and all of them didn’t sound correct. Except for one… turn me on dead man. When i recorded myself saying “turn me on dead man” and reversed that i actually got the original lyrics. Which means turn me on dead man could’ve been an actual backwards message that they probably put in just for shits and giggles and since the white album was a pretty experimental album they probably did.