The Paul McCartney Is dead Hoax 1969 Part 2

on October 21, 1969. WABC-AM (New York City) DJ Robey Younge remembered receiving mysterious calls from some of his listeners begging him to help get the tragic story to the outside world. WABC-AM was a powerful station, especially at night, and could sometimes reach forty states with its broadcast signal. In an exclusive interview with my friend Joe Johnson for his syndicated Beatle Brunch radio program, Younge recounted his role in the McCartney mystery. "'Paul McCartney dead' is something I did one strange night after some kids had called me up from the Midwest, 'cause I was on the late night show and the signal went all across the country. They said this, that, and the other. They said, 'Here are the clues,' and I laughed at them. I went on the air that night and I laughed at them. I said, 'This is ridiculous.' That night I went home and couldn't sleep. I couldn't get any rest. I thought, 'What are these kids talking about? What clues?' So, I went to my record cabinet and I started playing these records backwards as they had instructed me to and, sure enough, there emerged some very strange stuff....It was a big game in those days to uncover the clues. The kids told me, 'We hear you coming through loud and clear, why don't you blow the whistle on this?' So, I did. Oddly enough, on that same night somebody at The Tonight Show taping blurted from the audience, 'Paul is dead.' I was the first one to broadcast it to a lot of people. The switchboard at WABC was jammed. The program director came down in the middle of the night in his pajamas with an armed guard saying, 'Robey, you're creating a national panic! Get off the air!' I said, 'Fine! Fine! It's all right with me.' I said, 'By the way, this is going to be one heck of a station promotion for Halloween.'"

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[BlazeandGrave]

why did he spend hours, risking his job, building all this hype and controversey. and at the last 7 seconds, he says they were untrue?!?!? Did the Beatles like go in and put a gun to his head and force him to falsify his claims? or did his bosses walk in on the broadcast and he tried to be slick and try to get away with it?

[bulchit48]

That was a different DJ taking over for him at the end.

[byrdsmaniac]

Thank you for posting the rest of this, bulchit48! As I said, hearing this in real time was both shocking and strangely exhilerating. There must be 1000s of people who remember this night. It was one of those experiences that stay with you forever after.

Robey caught some flack for what he did, but as he said,

"Maybe someday it will all come out." - Robey Younge

Yes, maybe 'someday' it will. I'm quite sure of it!

And "With A Little Luck", "It Won't Be Long" ! ;-)

[PhantomOfPoison]

Wait so your saying this REALLY happened????

[AchrisH]

Here's what I don't get - someone correct me if I'm wrong: At around 1:25 (and other parts as well) Roby talks as if he had just learned of it the previous night or earlier that morning. Then at 2:35 he claims to have called Capitol Records and ordered every Beatles' album and bought a $450 Hi-Fi amplifier 2 weeks prior. It kind of sounds like Roby may have been in on the hoax as well and made a bit of a slip up during his show. Unless, like I said earlier, maybe I'm missing something...

[abnerj88]

so paul mccartney is dead and 2pac is still alive.....who knew?

[bulchit48]

@beatlesfan465 for rambling on so long about the hoax

[mlmr11]

Man the music this guy was playing was legendary !!

[mlmr11]

@WintersweetPhoenix Well it's kind of like controlling the opposition before the opposition is out of control. They create this entire hoax in a very ambiguous way so as to be able to say that anyone that believes in the conspiracy is just seeing things. Remember , they've never admitted to these anomalies that are clearly there.

Whatever the case The Beatles were being very deceptive .

[MarvelFan206]

i like how he is telling us to get high to figure out somthings on the magical mystery tour

[WintersweetPhoenix]

If they went through all the trouble of replacing him with a lookalike and pretending as is nothing was different - then why put all of these 'clues' on album covers?!

Surely they would have replaced him to avoid people knowing? So trying to tell people that Paul is dead through signs and hidden lyrics makes no sense.

[PaulisWilliam]

@faulconandsnowjob Lol, Ya, XD