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  • LETS OCCUPY FAUL STREET AND FORCE HIM TO TAKE DNA TEST

  • Thank-you!

  • Billy?? 

  • Where can I see all of this pub footage? I know I have seen a longer cut of this somewhere, but never been able to find it again. Thank-you so much!

  • @becomingalice watch?v=L5vkJ7RruBk

  • roar?

  • last time it's William..now it's Billy..

  • @Raidenace21 It's "Milly", not Billy. This video is pure fraudulence.

  • @Raidenace21 William=Will, Willy, Bill, Billy

    nicknames

  • do you really think zep needed a ploy to sell records?

    did robert johnson need a ploy? did jack white need a ploy? its vaudville folks! this is for your kids enjoyment...

  • @selenajezewskihill what does the great jack white have to do with this

  • do you really think zep needed a ploy to sell records?

  • I used to think it was all a hoax. I just watched on NetFlix,

    "Paul McCartney Really is Dead"

    "In 2005 2 audio cassette tapes labeled the Last Testament of

    George Harrison mysteriously turned up at an office in Hollywood.

    On them a voice claiming to be George (then deceased) related a

    fantastic story."

    See it and make up your own mind.

  • @EarthH2oLuma Mna, thats CLEARLY NOT george harrison in that tape

  • What happened to his Liverpudian accent? He talks like he has a sock in his mouth.

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  • "Hello Dad" could actually be, "Oh - Hello There!" Given the accent that he carries...

  • PAUL NOT DEAD!

    SHIT!

  • like he he actually knew that saying "yeah, i wasn't really dead" would turn out to be "We deluded some other guy" backwards.

  • @byemynameishi

    He wouldn't have. The theory of reverse speech is that it is a subconscious form of communication.

  • Why do some of these videos have a litter after the number? like the last one was 35 and this one is 36 n. whats the deal?

  • "that eludes another guy" - lol.

    well think a lil bit!

    so can you imagine "faul" (call him whatever you like to call him) sitting at his house before the interview and discovering if "i wasn`t really dead" is backwards for "that eludes some other guy"?

  • Hear him, Beausoleil

  • When are people going to figure out that funny, brilliant, charming Paul was replaCIAed by that wanker?

  • but do you think the beatles really needed a marketing ploy to sell records? c'mon..they're the BEATLES

  • they were not about selling records. in the occult its only about power, influence and hide knowledge in plain sight to rub it under peoples noses.

  • @oldchilltortoise It was a ploy to sell albums. Alot of their fans grew up and moved on. The music changed alot and most fans abandoned them. But I still think they were and still are the greatest ever.

  • This is comlete obsession for the conspiracy, really, the point of this video is to make us say "OMG it all makes sense" or something, along with stupid turn me on deadman repetitive sounds and putting in the background creepy music, when you guys know this guy got nothing to do than just reversing random clips...

  • Well, someone is saying "Hello Billy". What does it matter if the track is off a little. Why not "Hello Paul"?

    That's not Paul. It's not the same face and he definitely does not have the same personality.

  • This is grasping at straws...I highly doubt the producers of SNL designed it so it would say something else when it plays backwards

  • Paul (or whatever you want to call him) was heavily into a writer by the name of Aleister Crowley, part of his teachings are about learning how to speak backwards and shit.

  • R.I.P Paul i miss you.

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  • Paul is Dead Miss Him Miss Him Miss Him > Paul vs. Faul > PROOF Paul was replaced

  • How could Paul know that if he says "I wasn't really that", it backwards would be: That eludes some other guy

  • you can see the lady really didn't say hello billy...the audio doesn't match up. Even if it was off a few seconds her mouth is not saying that....

  • what? how did he plan that?

  • 36 of these fucking things down,

  • He said "Hello dad" to his dad. Yeah, that proves everything.

  • He sounds like he was joking.

  • And we should trust what you think he "sounds like", because???

  • he said "hello, lad!" not "hello, dad!"

  • Right, and since no one has ever called their father "lad" in the history of mankind, this proves without a doubt that Paul was replaced. Also, since "lad" generally refers to a younger man, we can deduce that Paul's replacement MUST have been older than Paul's father who at the time of this video was 71 years old. From that, we can say, without doubt that the current Paul McCartney is at least 108 years old.

  • FREAKY PSYKO!!!!! the only rotten apple around here is ur brain FREAKO!!! XDXDXD ... i think this paul is dead thingy can be used to find PSYKOPATS!!!

  • lol pshycopats lol

    NO BUT I AGREE PAUL ISNT DEAD AND THESE STUPID VIDEOS ARE A LOAD OF BULL!

  • Clip doesn't show it, but Faul made Paul's dad pay for drinks. That kind of seemed like it was in poor taste to me.

  • backwards.. is gibberish... you will hear what you are predisposed to hear.

  • omg, i could say like, i love you, and backwards it could say oh im dead or some bullshit like that

  • Reverse speech reveals the subconscious which never lies. It also speaks in code. google it. There's alot of research into it now.

  • Actually, the research shows that reverse speech reveals nothing other than the mindset of the person listening for something. Thre have been extensive studies done on this. Play reverse speech to someone and they'll hear nothing, but play the same speech with the lines that they are "supposed" to hear written out, and they will. This is why IAAP always writes out what you are supposed to hear - proof enough that he is misleading you.

  • Yeah, but cmon, there are much more clues than all that 'play it backwards' shit u.u

  • I was just responding to the reverse speech crap. But all the other "clues" are just as worthless, which is why the movement has to continually resort to deception like we are seeing in this video.

  • I don't see how some of these clues are worthless though. Why is it Paul always the odd one out? He's standing backwards on Sgt Peppers, he has the different background on Let it Be, he has the black rose in Magical Mystery tour, and he is out of step in Abbey road. It always seems that Paul is "different" like he isn't one of them. Some of these clues you could easily see are fake. Then there are clues that you can't deny. There's just too many of them to, I just dont have enough room to say it

  • Most unbelievers would tell you it's marketing and that's all it was. Well, if you were that money hungry record executive then yes it was marketing. But if you were a beatle then you are getting the word out. You see they had just out about everyone on Earth believing he didn't die. All the big magazines and tv shows did stories on it and it was always referred to as a "hoax" So why not put little clues in the song like glass onion to make people buy those records? Truth shouldn't be hidden.

  • He's always been the odd one out on album covers, even before he "died". But PIDers turn a blind eye to this stuff.

    PID is stuPID

  • wow now the clues are just bloody stupid

    how can u resort to a live telecast where its spontaneous its not like he couldve planned that

  • It has to do with some sub-concious thing called reverse speech. I don't really know what to think of it other than coincidence.

  • 0:50.

    That Beatles tribute, in Liverpool no less, is creepy. Even if I was a mainstreamer I'd be curious about it.

  • great...not real...legal...

  • This is one of IAAP's most spectacular examples of manipulation. I suggest viewing the original, which you can find on Youtube - under "James Paul McCartney 1973". The lady who has "Hello Billy" printed over her face is not the one who is speaking. Rather, if you look at the original video, you will see she is being spoken to. Her name is Mildred (which is conveniently edited out here) and the off-screen voice speaking to her is saying "Hello Milly". This here is outright manipulation.

  • This.

  • Why are you resorting to Saturday Night Live for these clues?

  • what's the imagin under "beatle street"?

  • it sounded like he said "hello lad" not dad, and maybe the lady was calling someone else billy

  • LOL, whats with all the growling, is that from Ghostbusters or something?

  • whats the deal with the lion rawring all the time?

  • This means nothing!!

    I don't understand why there are people who believe these stupid things!!

    Paul is not dead and I will marry him!!!

  • lol i agree

  • lol i agree

  • lol i agree

  • lol i agree

  • These things are just getting more and more stupid.

  • hey guys... fromn where is this video? the man who replaced paul for a few months was named william right? and paul's dad was dead... well, i'm sure paul is alive...

  • Because that video TOTALLY proves that he's dead

    sure, it was creepy, but not in the sense that people ACTUALLY think he's dead

    Holy shit! he got a scar on his lip! It must be an impostor!!!

    Give me a break...

  • Of course he's dead!!!! they even showed a bunch of nonsense backward speech!! i mean that proves everything!!!

  • u are an idiot

  • Thanks, and you sir are god almighty.

    Have a nice day.

  • You're all part of an experiment to see how people in the 21st century will react to an outrageous conspiracy theory being drudged up several decades after being completely discredited as the fantasies of weak and/or diseased minds.

  • So, do you think they passed?;D

  • dis-turbing

  • Though they may be parted

    (the beatles were splitting at the time)

    There is still a chance that they (the band) will see

    There will be an answer (to the theories)

    let it be

    the fans should let it be because there WILL be an answer

  • "there will be an answer... Let it be"

    was he telling people who found out that he wasn't the real Paul, Let It Be?

    ((omfg lol.))

    lol conspiracy theories. i am so bored...

  • my friend, you cannot backmask your own voice in a live interwiew

  • u might like the series-"reverse speach" u can find it pritty easy on ut

  • This really is grasping at straws, now. If you wish to persist in this demented conspiracy theory, I can't stop you.:D

  • First off how can you backmask in a interview

  • LOL sure on live tv he plans to give reasonable statemnet on this absurd question, designed to have a hidden meaning. IDIOTS !

  • I do not care if there was a first "Paul McCartney" who died in 1966. This Paul is the one who gave us the most great music for the last 40 years. The "other" Paul if true was around for only 3 years, and what did he give us, Yesterday and Eleanor Rigby. So, who cares? Its THIS Paul McCartney who is the great one.

  • Just not the honest one. And many of the songs atributed to the post-1966 Paul McCartney may well have been written earlier by the pre-1966 Paul McCartney. But "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" might have been written by someone more cold-blooded than the original PJM.

  • Oh shut up! Paul's been the best even without Lennon! It was Paul who put together all the pieces to make the best LP ever:Sgt. Pepper AND he was the most succesfull beatle after the break up with the wings and till 1998 with Linda!

  • ***** It was Paul who put together all the pieces to make the best LP ever:Sgt. Pepper *****

    "So Sgt Pepper took you by surprise" -- John Lennon

    To paraphras a line from a James Bond Movie...

    CookOfTheHouse might have a lovely pair of cheeks for all anyone knows. If only they were brains.

  • For instance try the letter "ouy kcuf". Record that forward and then reverse it and it will deliver a powerfull message. It sounds like a chinese man saying something offending.

  • whoa Billy Campbell goes Paul!

  • I have three words...

    Mark

    David

    Chapman

  • I have to admit that while I do enjoy these videos, I do sense a sort of "Must... Stop... Faul" feeling. Iamaphoney, if your reading this please listen, if your plan for stopping "Billy" involves violence, please think about this for awhile longer.

  • I've considered trying to contact Apple to let them know these are up. At worst they can get them shut down for copyright infringement.

  • Nah, let phoney have his fun for now. There is nothing TOO creepy going on here, at this point the RA series had not gone all "code" on us yet. However, it has been suspected that phoney is stalking Paul, since there was video he shot of Paul in Vegas in a RA from July.

  • Bwaa! Bwaa! Bwaa!

    MDC pretended to be a fan of John Lennon's; in fact, he may have been a fan of Lennon's in his own way. Lennon gave him his autograph.

    iamaphoney is not lying to False Paul; he is not pretending to be his friend, and therefore, he can be taken at his word.

    But I'll remember your rule that every dissenter might be an assassin. Be sure not to be critical of our president -- or under the rule that you laid out, you might be regarded as Lee Harvey Oswald.

  • iamaphoney is a twat. immature little fucktard

  • I bet your middle finger also represents your IQ too. People like you that revert to cuss words usually end up no where in life. I guess you are the real Nowhere Man, eh?

  • shirtessdotnet is a twat cunt fucktard

  • Thanks... youve proved my point.

  • ajajajajajajajaja... i can´t believe it!!

    did you put backwards even words that paul said in an interview???? you are truly crazy, man.

    paul is live, LOVE HIM LOVE HIM LOVE HIM!!!

  • He doesn't have that joyiest glow&smile as the original

    Paul had.He always has this serious stern,prideful look.

    It seems like after 1966, a healthy smile isn't part of his character.

  • THANK YOU for this OBVIOUS difference in Paul! Before 66, Paul was this bubbly, enthused, smiling guy. All of a sudden, and I mean suddenly within a couple of months, he becomes stern, prideful, and serious. He still acts like that today. These are clearly two different individuals.

  • I noticed this too.

  • Think about what the Beatles went through from 64-66. World tours. Two movies. Countless TV appearances. Averaged recording THIRTY songs per year. Millions of dollars. Women. Drugs. All when he was going from age 21 to 24 a time when you probably change the most in life. And then they stopped touring and no one knew what was going to happen.

  • Take a look at No. 30 in this series and see how much PJM changed physically and psychologically in just four short months from August 1966 (pre-death) to December 1966 (post-death). More change over those four months than in the three years beforehand.

  • Look at Lennon's in the same time frame. His head almost square before 67. Compare his face on Beatles for Sale to the SPLHCB cover. He slims down and his face is longer and leaner looking. Besides if you get wrinkles removed from around your eyes TODAY it's 2-6 weeks down time. Paul just wasn't missing long enough to have had SSSOOOOO much surgey done. He'd have had to been out of sight for over a year. In Dec of 66 he's at the premiere of "Family Way".

  • Beatles for Sale was released in 1964 - so you're talking about a three-year difference, not a three-month difference.

    Who talks about "Paul" having received surgery in 1966? The whole point is that the December 1966 version differs too much from the August 1966 version -- not only physically but psychologically. No surgery required to achieve what similarities actually are there.

  • That's part of the legend. Plastic surgey transformed Bill Campbell/Shears/Sheppard (according to some Neil Aspinall) into Paul McCartney virtually over night. Paul dies Nov 10th (according to the SPLHCB drum head) and an imposter is ready to be seen at The Young Rascal's concerts Dec 1 and 2. "They" (who is "they"?) find a replacement (who even has Paul's lazy eye) and have him in public in three weeks?

  • Regardless of what the "legend" is, the late-1966 Paul looks more like a replacement or a double than the original, so surgery wouldn't be necessary to accomplish that effect. People are divided over whether the clue in the Sgt Pepper Drum means "November 9" or "September 11". Paul largely drops out of sight after the August 29 concert at Candlestick Park and doesn't formally reappear until his January 18, 1967 interview with the BBC.

  • Nov 66. Paul, jane and mal Evans fly to Kenya. Evans home movies of the trip are now available o DVD.They return Nov 19th. Dec1 and 2. Young Rascals concerts. Dec 18th "The Family Way" premiere with Jane. Paul, George, Pattie, Eric Clapton ring in the New Year at The Lyons Center. Jan 8 Paul and John attend a fancy dress party. Jan 13. He and Ringo see Hendrix. He was NEVER out of sight.

  • heres a simple answer he was dropping acid and grew a frickin mustache. Drugs and touring and partying take its toll on a person and the stress can physically change them.

  • It was a fake mustache!

    It was a fake mustache!

    It was a fake mustache!  - "Sergeant Pepper's lonely...Sergeant Pepper's lonely...Sergeant Pepper's lonely..." in reverse

  • I will do my best to bring this horse shit to the attention of the copyright holders of these songs you people are deicrating so they can get a cease and disidt order filed for these stuipid film. That is my new mission in life.

  • *** I will do my best to bring this horse shit to the attention of the copyright holders of these songs ***

    Do so. I'm sure that you'll enjoy your stay with Michael Jackson at Neverland.

    ***That is my new mission in life.***

    More than anything else, that's a reflection on exactly how interesting and varied a life you've led up till now.

  • Arguing with you and the whole Paul is Dead craze is a losing battle simply because of the brainwashing that had occured in each and every one of you. It however does not mean you are right. It just means that its a waste of time. I have been a recoring technician for many years and none of that backwards crap holds up. Fist of all you need to spell the words backward 1st then look at it as you play it in reverse

  • ?noskcaJ leahciM ot su troper ot gniog uoy t'nsaw ,hU

  • There only three babies in the monument--signifying that death took one them.

  • I'm not saying this is false, but maybe the woman said hello billy to another person, she said "hello billy, are you gonna sit here?" and maybe faul or paul said "hello lad"

  • i dont get the part with his dad, I mean, so he said "hello dad" and i think that it is his dad..so whats the clue in it? why did he write it??

  • hes not dead but i get a kick out of all this

  • The point is SOMEONE called him Billy...

  • nobody called him billy, its just a bit of sneaky editing. the original TV special goes on to say 'Hello Billy - are you going to sit here?' Its directed at someone else. Somebody who's stood up

  • This video is weak evidence. It could have been edited. But how do you explain the grim reaper-looking thing holding only three babies with beatles signs over and below it saying "Beatle Street...4 lads who shook the world" at 00:50? Perhaps one baby was missing!

  • explain? its a monument to the beatles in liverpool and one of the four is obviously missing [presumably]. it just looks freakishly strange.. and you're right - this video is pretty weak evidence - and yes it was heavily edited

  • Yeah---what's with the GRIM REAPER statue holding three babies???? :o

  • ok, generally i dig the stuff you do iamaphoney - but this one's got me stumped: HELLO BILLY - watch her mouth move - its dubbed. the old woman just didn't say it

  • Okay, at about 50 seconds in...that statue under the sign that says "Beatle Street". WTF. Okay, out of all the weird things I've seen in these videos, that creeps me out THE MOST. D=

  • im with you guys!

  • Well, guys, think of this:from 1966 to this day all are trying to show us how Paul died. Hadn't other thing to do in their lives? Their only purpose is to put clues on records?

  • One should learn how to do things backwards. Walk backwards. Talk backwards. Listen to phonograph records backwards.

  • It is true that there is intentional backwards vocals on Rain...but then people thought he was saying some satanic message or something,but when you play it backwards,it's just part of the first verse.

  • what if they were all just drunk?

  • AAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!! (runs away)

  • I still think Paul is alive....but when the lady said "HELLO BILLY" A chill went down my spine... =|

  • the backwards smoke thing is pretty cool at 1:20

  • Billy Shears could have written a song about his mother who died from cancer as Paul did at "Let it Be"?

  • Let it be is only a subtle way for saying he's dead

  • Maybe it's not. It's written to indicate "Let it Be-the breakup of the Beatles". Listen, the whole thing was made up. Perhaps to increase the record sales.

  • by the way, did anyone understand the point of any of this? I can't imagine how any one part of this indicates anything in the way of proving mccartney's death.. and the countdown to what, exactly, begins with this one?

  • Suggestion is a powerful thing.

  • Either he DID die, or there was a hoax being perpetrated at every level, from the Liverpool lads themselves, to everyone else involved in production. That's just my opinion. I'm not comfortable with "it's all just coincidence". All of the old school clues...the Abbey Road cover, etc. People clung to those as evidence for years, but in my opinion that very well could have all been mere coincidence. It's all the unexplainables that have since been discovered that have caught my attention.

  • Hey listen, I've enjoyed our comment swapping. I've been a Beatle/Paul fan for 27 years so if anyone is a fanatic it must be me! LOL Read Pete Shotton's book "Lennon In My Life" (he was a close freind to John) about how Lennon deliberately put cryptic lyrics into songs just to mess with everyone (particularly "I Am The Walrus"). A Lennon prank that got out of control? maybe.

  • Interestingly enough, Lennon had said that "Glass Onion", which mentions the walrus, was written as a response to all the "gobbledegook about Pepper—play it backwards and you stand on your head and all that."

    No one even talked about playing Sgt. Pepper backwards to find clues until the following year, when all the PID madness began in the states. So why'd he say that? I'm probably just being paranoid...

  • Reading into Beatles lyrics and playing records backwards started long before PID in 69. You can trace John's comment about Pepper back to the inner groove track on the album where people swore they were saying "we'll f**k you like Superman". It was a pretty famous backwards message in 67. Once John put the backwards bit on "Rain" in 66, eveyone went nuts looking for hidden messages. PID was the culmination of that hysteria IMO.

  • Carry Faul's books home from school, ghostysshow. Allow your love to grow naturally.

  • Sorry. I've moved over to "The Beach Boys are Satanists" videos. Thanks anyway.

  • I'm actually a lot more skeptical, more open minded than you may think. I think I come across as sounding close minded and naive when I post about PID. Do I think it is probable that Paul McCartney died and was replaced with a sound alike? No. But I see all these weird little things like cars passing through his head in music videos, backwards messages suggesting Paul died, and many other things that I think, collectively are too odd a phenomena to ignore.

  • Alright, to the folks who are now trying to start a "Dylan Is Dead" rumour based on the "60's death hoax" comparison I offered. Please....I mean REALLY....please. (shakes head, sighs, walk away).

  • You know ghostysshow, I was thinking.....and I really wanted to say that, you know, I'm not really as cloak and dagger serious about all this as I may seem. Often I'll look at something I posted in one of our discussions and think "man, did I write that? He must think I'm fanatical". But I just like to defend what I believe. I think everyone does that to a certain extent. Some people are just more unwavering in their beliefs than others.

  • i didnt get the begining part, whats that for?

  • Whee, I watched them all 36 (althought no.25, 28 & 30 were nowhere to be found, perhaps because that makes 33 episodes; 3 times 3 = 9 and we all know what that stands for ;-) ) Anyway, I think you do a great job. Since a long time this myth sends shivers down my spine and it's nice to see them all in a row and see some new ones. Hilarious to see the many responses of pathetic crybabies "no no he's not dead, you're wasting your time". Their heads oughtta be chopped off, just like...

  • Why the lion roar? It sounds increasingly likely to me that your editing is done to unnerve people and render them more open to suggestion.

  • no doubt. he used that same roaring sound at the end of an earlier one. ..like after the 'rotten apple' logo appears.. just - really - to scare the shit out of you.. a bit of a cheap shot as you're already pretty unnerved to begin with what with all the eerie sounds and creepy images edited in with, you have to admit very subtle tact.

  • by the way, the one with the roar at the end is number 32

  • Great series. No question in my mind that the Beatles were planting clues. Why, now that's anybody's guess...divine intervention, I'll bet.

  • Paul sings. 'Find me in my field of grass,' couldn't that be a graveyard? He also sings, 'Swaying Daisies'-ever heard the expression 'Pushing up daises' used for being dead? George refers to 'Beatle Bill' indicating William Campbell. So John sings 'Bungalow Bill", meaning Paul. And the line, 'If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him' means someone died. Who? Bungalow PAUL! Ya know I'm beginning to think, naw.

  • Where did you come up with that theory? Sounds familiar....

  • Bill... William...

  • they have their own street?

  • Well.. I catched the entire series in one sitting! :)

    I guess you can never really know,..

    Maybe "Paul" will spill the beans on his death bed? XD

  • Still not *quite* as hardcore as what came later, though. The vocal range he displays in Why Don't We Do It In The Road is nothing short of incredible, in my opinion. But he still sounds like the same guy when he reverts to his normal style of singing, though. It's here that I'm still undecided. There are bassists that say Paul got dramatically better at playing bass in '67 and vocalists who say the same for his voice.

  • Paul's bass playing changed and in some ways improved after he heard The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" album. This was THE landmark rock album in 66. For the first time in pop music, the bass guitar was like a lead instrument and the playing was incredibly complex. In many ways, Sgt. Pepper was Paul's answer to Pet Sounds ("Fixing A Hole" is VERY influenced by "Here Today" on Pet Sounds) . The Beach Boys even beat the Beatles in NME's 1967 poll for best band. The Beatles had to top that record.

  • To appreciate the quantum leaps in music the Beatles were making you have to remember that a song like 68's "Why Don't..." would'nt have even been thought possible in '65. The Beatles were still teen pop stars and Paul's singing (while great) is unadventurous (he gets a bit daring on "The Night Before" off the Help album...a bit raspy) . Paul would'nt have felt the freedom to sing any way he pleased. He was a teen pop star. It would've hurt his image. Pepper started to change all that.

  • Here's an analogy to Paul's vocals and why he felt more free in the "anything goes" environment of the late 60's. John's eyes were opened by Dylan. Prior to hearing Dylan's "psychedelic" lyrics, John's songs wrote simple love songs. After hearing Dylan, he wrote "You've Got To Hide.." but this was 1965 and Lennon was still a teen idol. He could imitate the sound but going as far as Dylan (who was folk not pop) would've been commercial suicide....

  • ...in 1966 Dylan went electric and was making pop records. This caused the "hip" media to take pop music seriously (pre-66, groups like The Beatles were looked down upon by hip press). Armed with their new credentials, the Beatles started to get more way out on Revolver and John now had the freedom to beat Dylan at his own game with "Tomorrow Never..". The same happened with Paul and his writing and playing (listen to the bass guitar on "Rain"..summer of 66..sounds like the bass on Pepper).

  • The Beatles were certainly products of their time. As much as they are seen as "leaders" in music, they actually reflected what was happening around them (and vice versa). John is blown away by Dylan, Paul is blown away by Brian Wilson's bass on Pet Sounds and these are both incorporated into their sound. Privately (on bootlegs) Paul sang in every style you can imagine but it was'nt until the rock landscape changed that he felt free to explore his inner Fats Domino in public.

  • Another aspect of this is how fast pop music changed in he 60's, from "Love me Do" to "Eleanor Rigby" in 4 years...from "Surfin' USA" to "God Only Knows" in 3 years...from Lesley Gore to Jimi Hendrix in 4 years. These radical changes may seem lightning fast in today's bland processed pop world where it takes 10 years for anything new to happen (if we're lucky).

  • billy........billy shears!!!!!!!!!! OMG thats what they wer getting at in sgt peppers :O

  • As for his voice, my faith in Paul is Dead was weakened recently when I listened to Revolver for the first time. There more than any other album Paul sounds like he did in Sgt. Pepper. But the thing that really weirds me out is his singing style. In the White Album particularly, and for some bits in Abbey Road, Paul seems favor a much coarser, heavier style of singing voice. Songs like Why Don't We Do It in the Roa and Helter Skelter wouldn't even sound like Paul if you didn't know it was him.

  • Paul is a versatile singer, that's why. Listen to the Decca tapes (pre-62) where Paul sings in a heavy vibrato and does'nt at all sound like he would in late 62. Obviously he was influenced by Elvis Presley's heavy vibrato style but wisely dropped it as that style fell out of fashion. If you want to hear Paul singing in the coarser heavier style of Helter Skelter, listen to the early 1960 home demos.

  • Remember also that The Beatles were appealing to teenage girls circa 62 to 66 and purposely sang in a cheery high-pitched tone to sound younger (The Beach Boys did this too but went so far as to actually speed up the tapes!). By 66 the pop landscape changed (spurred by Dylan) and was now taken "seriously" hence the shift into more adult themes.