It’s chock full of clues and miscues, but it’s a fun watch for the maniacs.
I am a Beatle Geek, say it three times and I appear.
I was a Beatle baby.
The Beatles were innovators.
My real immersion into the Beatles was when they went dark.
The Beatles could be very dark.
They could also be very funny.
The Beatles established themselves as comic actors inA Hard Days NightandHelpand on TV skits.
Their natural humor came out in interviews and was often caustic and dark.
Lennon acted in the dark comedyHow I Won the War.
It could be that they were just as innovative with their comic artistry as with their music.
Director Joel Gilbert establishes George Harrisons voice in the beginning in a vintage interview about jelly beans.
You dont have to be familiar with Georges voice from interviews to hear the difference.
Highway 61 Entertainment received an unsolicited package from England.
A week later he was dead.
They saw Pauls head sitting near his decapitated body, his hair burnt off and an eye popped out.
He had picked up a hitchhiker named Rita who went hysterical and drove him off the road.
Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach.
The MI5 used their best plastic surgeons to transform the contest-winner into a perfect double for Paul McCartney.
They called him false-Paul, Faul.
Ringo called the new bassist Rubber Paul.
So they named an albumRubber Soul.
The album actually came out before the accident, but thats just one flub the filmmakers make.
They set out to fool the poob lick.
The band considered the new Paul to be soulless and that he had no heart.
The design for the wordsRubber Soullooked like an upside down heart.
Theres an open palm over his head.
This wasnt some Hindu sign of death, as it has been rumored.
We see a photo of Paul screaming in agony.
Theres a little figure sitting in Pauls ear, which tells us to listen to the clues.
Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach.
The songs continued to clue us in.
Paul was the Nowhere Man.
Im Looking Through You is spooky when you think of it as a song about replacing a beloved bassist.
I thought I knew you, what did I know?
The only difference is youre down there.
Eleanor Rigby was about the secret funeral.
Ah, they were very lonely people without Paul.
The next album, which was released only in America, wasYesterday and Todayand it had stronger clues.
The original artwork showed The Beatles sitting in the middle of baby doll parts along with bloody butcher meat.
Two decapitated dolls flank Pauls head.
George is holding up a severed dolls head with its hair burnt off right next to Pauls head.
The filmmaker doctored the album cover to make it look like Paul has no teeth in his mouth.
His teeth are on his arm.
Theres an eye somewhere in the shot.
Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach.
Dr. Robert tells the story of the plastic surgeon who made the fake Paul a new and better man.
Yesterday was John being sorry that Paul had to go.
We Can Work It Out tells how they would deal with the change in lineup.
The band had to Act Naturally to keep the ruse alive.
They should have run for their lives.
The album was filled with clues.
The album cover is a funeral.
All the people Paul would have liked to see at his funeral.
Jayne Mansfield had also been decapitated in a car crash.
Yellow flowers form a left-handed bass with three strings, meaning the three remaining Beatles.
you’re free to see the words Here Lies Paul if you stand back from the cover.
You also see blood stained driving gloves and a doll with a split head.
Stephen Crane holds his hand over Pauls head.
The inner and back sleeve looks like it is soaking up red blood.
The words Without You are seen by Pauls head.
George is pointing to the words Wednesday morning at five oclock, the time Pauls accident apparently occurred.
The songs also have their clues.
You also screw up your needle, according to George Carlin at the time.
Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach.
TheMagical Mystery Tourcover and the booklet that came along with the album is chock-full-of-clues.
Paul has a hole where his heart should be.
A photo in the back of the booklet spells out RIP.
Horse doctors must have been popular at one time.
You also hear Bury my body and Untimely Death in the fadout.
The recorded George claims he said them.
They were from a BBC performance of King Lear.
Its still kind of strange to put in a pop song.
you might hear the words I buried Paul in the second fade-out of Strawberry Fields.
Hello Goodbye is a song about the change of Pauls, You say goodbye.
I say hello and you hear kindly somebody.
Get me out if you play it backwards.
The band figured the spies would see the album cover, be satisfied and throw it out without listening.
The clues would be hidden only in the songs.
Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach.
At the end of While My Guitar Gently Weeps George sings Paul Paul mournfully.
The walrus was Paul.
Dont Pass Me By tells the story of someone who was in a car crash and lost their hair.
Revolution 9 tells the story of the crash if you play it backwards.
The words number nine, when played backwards clearly sound like Turn me on Dead man.
you could hear someone screaming Help.
On the cover of theYellow Submarinealbum you see the Lord Mayor pointing heavenward.
The other Beatles point to the ground.
The old group is buried right next to the Yellow Submarine.
Yellow Submarine is a coffin buried in a sea of green, the grass that covered it.
George tells about John singing the bands not quite right in his song Its Only a Northern Song.
Its a George song.
They really should get their shit together.
The cover ofAbbey Roadshows a funeral procession.
George is dressed as a grave digger.
Paul is holding a cigarette, a coffin-nail, in his right hand, not his left.
Originally there was red-blood-colored paint splattered on the street making a body outline.
But that was taken out.
The license plate on a VW Beetle reads LMS 28IF.
Paul would have been 28 if hed have lived.
Not really, but close enough.
There is a crack in the sign reading The Beatles and theres a Grim Reaper on the back cover.
Thats Rita in the blue dress.
In Come Together, John sings One and one and one is three, hmm, three Beatles.
Here come old flattop?
Pauls head was Jayne Mansfielded.
F. Lee Bailey also had a TV show about the Paul is dead rumors in December of 1969.
Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach.
John announced that he was getting a divorce and was going to take off for America.
Fake Paul got married in 1969.
On the album cover, Pauls background is red.
The others are white.
After the breakup the band took part in decades of deception.
John decided to pose as a crazy person, pretending to dig Yokos crazy sounds and doing peace demonstrations.
This trivializes both their enduring relationship and Lennons commitment to peace and progressive politics.
Rita wanted to get paid off but is silenced by the MI5.
She survived and winds up being Heather Mills.
Again the math doesnt add up.
The Beatles were clever lads.
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Rating:
2 out of 5
