I am reading this book on the presumption that no one else I know will do so. I’ve worked my way up to page 150, and when i say “worked” I mean less than that, as it is both interesting and annoying. It covers the history of the Beatles from a fan’s perspective, one that idolized them and believed in certain aspects of the group that I’ll list below. It’s annoying in that in order for me to believe every word of it, I would have to be quite stupid or, as with a good movie, offer up willing suspension of disbelief. There is no “Billy Shears,” there was no death of the original Paul, and no replacement. There were two Paul’s, identical twins, from the beginning.
In the fall of 1969 radio disc jockey Russell Gibb, WKNR-FM in Detroit, received a phone call from “Tom,” who told him that Paul McCartney had died and had been replaced in 1966 by a lookalike. Thus began a cottage industry that continues to this day, now called “PID”, or Paul is Dead. It is continually churned, new clues added now and then.
It is misdirection, designed to get us asking the wrong question. Paul McCartney was indeed replaced by a virtual lookalike, and I know who the replacement is. It was not hard to discover. If I could do it, so too could all of the sleuths (including Mike Williams, the “Sage of Quay”) who make those PID YouTubes and run those PID web pages. Why don’t they? It is, I suspect, because they are tasked with keeping the mythology alive. They are disinformation agents.
The book The Memoirs of Billy Shears is written in several parts, or writing voices, but each part appears on the same pages throughout.
- There is a narrative supposedly in the voice of the mythical Shears, who describes the original band and the events that led to his replacement of the original Paul. Shears is supposedly a gifted songwriter and instrumental musician and singer, one who looks and sounds just like Mike McCartney. He claims to be able to adjust his voice to cover just about any male singer, an necessary element to pull off this hoax.
- The narrative is interesting in that it contains a lot of inside information on other groups and how he stood in for others in various gigs, playing drums and singing background for, say, Donovan in Mellow Yellow, and, in my opinion, most of the recorded work of the group Badfinger, featuring Bill Maher as Pete Ham. (Maher was no McCartney.) (We cannot know if this book is written to presage the songs, or with knowledge of the original songwriters’ intent.)
- There’s a second narrative contained in footnotes, written in a different voice than the one above. The writer of the above narrative suggests to the reader that we read the book more than once, and to skip and read the footnotes later. I am going to cite one here that is a bit long, but which will make my point (page 119):
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“NOTE: Some people argue that the ruling elite premeditated Paul’s death date (9/11/66) because of 11 September’s cultic military significance. [Here, in very light, hard-to-read print, are inserted the words “How did Building 7 go down?”.]
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On September 11, 2001, the elite destroyed the Twin Towers by controlled demolition, and struck the Pentagon with a missile, to launch a “War on Terror.” With media support and CGI, the US pretended to be attacked by foreign terrorists, panicking citizens into giving up their rights with the Patriot Act (a 300+ page document ready for Congress that same month – based on the German “Enabling Act” of 1933) and then the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
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On September 11, 1973, the US-backed Chilean coup d’état deposed the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende.
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11 September 1962 was the date that the Illuminati selected to launch it war on Christianity. They predetermined that3 the media would spin whatever song the Beatles recorded on that date to become thier first number one hit.
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11 September 1941 was selected for the groundbreaking of the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
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On 11 September 1857, in Utah’s Mountain Meadows Massacre, about 120 people were killed – mostly men who, in Mormon temples, had taken Masonic Vengeance Oaths to avenge the blood of Joseph and Hyrum Smith (their prophet and brother) who had died in a gunfight (killing Freemasons on both sides). The deaths were a loss to their Mormon (LDS) church, and the cabal’s “Council of Fifty.” They had crowned him king and plotted to create a Native American uprising (fulfilling Book or Mormon prophecy) to conquer the Americas as a step towards worldwide government and religion.
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On September 11 1831, that same Smith (before becoming a 32-degree Freemason) received word that “the rebellious shall be cut off out of the land of Zion, (which he identified as the Americas). They “shall be plucked out,” and his LDS church would “judge the nations” (D&C 64:35:37).
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11 September marked the turning point of the Great Northern War.
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On September 11 1697, in the Battle of Zenta, the forces of Prince Eugen of Savoye defeated the Turks, ending Ottoman control of much of Central Europe.
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On September 11 1645, Thomas Fairfax’s army occupied Bristol.
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On September 11 1609, an expulsion order was announced against the Moriscos of Valencia, beginning the expulsion of Spain’s Moriscos.
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On September 11 1557, Catholics and Lutherans debated at Worms.On September 11 1541, Santiago, Chile was destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko.
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On September 11 1390, the joint forces of Vytautas and the Teutonic Knights launched a five-week siege of Vilnius in the Lithuanian Civil War.
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On September 11 1297, at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, our hero, William’s hardy warrior ancestor, William Wallace, beat the English.”
- That’s quite a recitation of the importance of the date 9/11 from an obscure source, supposedly the mythical character Billy Shears, a descendent of William Wallace. Note the heavy emphasis on Mormonism.
- Throughout the book are littered various references that take the train off the rails regarding the talents of Paul McCartney and John Lennon, though the author is highly complimentary of the talents of George Harrison. For instance, speaking of the Beatles’ first number one hit in America, I Want to Hold Your Hand, we are told that the song was credited to Lennon and McCartney, “…though far beyond their writing skills…”, and, as he stormed out in a rage on his supposed day of death, it is admitted that “original” Paul was most open about not writing his own material.” It is hard to imagine that pretense has not carried forward.
- The book it littered with symbols and that faint hard-to-read print, often sideways up the margins, asides of no interest to me, but to others I suppose.
- Take time, if you have it, to go to 1:35 in this otherwise delightful interview below with the late Davy Jones (if his death was real) in which he remarks that it was the Beatles, and not the Monkees, that were the “first manufactured group”.
So I ask the question, and have from the beginning of this book, who wrote it? I also want to know who it is targeted to. I would otherwise suggest that it is for silly aging teeny bopper fans, but why clue such people in on the mysteries behind 9/11 and that Lennon and McCartney did not write their own songs? If they have aged and are still fans, they have not matured, so why bother?
Mike Williams has done very good work in exposing that the Beatles, prior to 9/11/66, as neither having written nor played the instruments of their own music. After that he goes all Billy this Billy that on us, saying that the music, instrumentation and studio performances were all Beatles, all the time, led by Billy.
I imagine otherwise, that the Beatles, beginning to end, were a manufactured group.
Which leaves me with Macca, aging (83?) but active to this day. He’s got a definite stage presence, and is an accomplished performer. If he plays live on stage, it is left-handed, quite an accomplishment (though we know from Williams’s work that the Beatles in their touring days had professional musicians playing behind the scenes, or via recordings (I do not know the sound capabilities of that era, but do know that the live performances of that time were barely audible above the screaming and had to be dubbed in later). Macca is no stranger to that technology then, probably now. If he’s phony about who wrote the songs, why not everything else? By this book’s admission we know that he did not write his own songs prior to 9/11/66, and since nothing of note happened on that day, we can assume (at least I do) that he has carried on since in the same fashion, as an accomplished phony. No wonder John Lennon asked “how do you sleep?”
What of the original Paul? I’ve seen him play and sing, and he was quite good. Why was he jettisoned? His rendition of Yesterday on Sullivan was top notch. In the 1984 movie Give My Regards to Broad Street, he sings the opening (sitting) numbers. When he later appeared as John Halliday, caretaker of the McCartney childhood home, he had not aged well, and was day-drinking.
My take is that he was destined to be a crooner, like Andy Williams or Perry Como, and as such, did not fit the rock and roll genre. Mike, on the other hand, developed well, had a better vocal range (even if not from the diaphragm), and could carry on with the screams needed in Revolution and the frantic guttural voicing of Helter Skelter.
So, in a sense, Paul did die in 1966.
Piece of Mindful 
Speaking as a professional editor (and lifelong English major) the obvious problem with this book is its glib tone. It’s written in the first person by someone who has committed identity fraud and seized the estate of a deceased person, then was installed to be the “new Kenny” among three men who had been friends for a decade.
They are all accessory to murder and know where the body is buried. They are committing creative and artistic fraud on the public and on the record company; this brings in elements of banking fraud; if McCartney Paul is dead, then the Lennon-McCartney copyrights are registered in the wrong name, and a whole slew of financial felonies ensue. Nobody would be so chipper writing about this.
Yes, in-universe the government is complicit, but that does not excuse the crimes of the people committing them. It only makes them more serious crimes. And then the author — whoever he is, Uharriet or Shears or whatever — he says things like, “Brian Epstein said I was a better musician than the real Paul.”
The book is laced with this kind of superficial thinking and lacks all gravitas in the midst of the loss of someone beloved by both his friends and the public. It reads like fan fiction, poorly constructed and tone-deaf. And then one more thing…this group of felons, to alert the public to their fraud, are said to leave hundreds of clues pointing back to the crimes.
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Speaking of repurposed singers, one of the best voices of that generation, Tom Jones, hit the scene in ‘64 and was waaaay too overt and sexual for teeny boppers and was quickly retooled as a crooner and balladeer aimed at frustrated housewives. Left to his own devices, Jones would have run the sissified Epstein troupes off the stage.
Another possibility for replacing the original short, cute, Paul was that, like Davy Jones, he was not thought to be sellable as a maturing “artist”. Tall Paul/Mike was then slotted in to take that spot. If the mind benders were moving the project off funny-ha ha to develop drug peddlers, cute and short wouldn’t cut it.
BTW, around about Rubber Soul, the writers had separated the Paul and John voices with clear distinction. Paul’s songs feature regret and hope while John spewed vitriol and snark, IMO. John was always a nasty creep but the Paul soft sell helped balance the scales.
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Yessir!
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There must have been an order for a general stand down of any real rock and rollers, or singers, from entering the stage around 1963-64 to let the British invasion (i.e. infestation) of Beetles and whatnot overrun the country (U.S.A.), that ostensibly had far more talent (Motown), and authenticity (Jazz, Blues, early rock) than all the faggy pretenders/blues copiers from the British Isles.
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With the exception of Tom Jones, a Welchman and real talent, and other native talent from the British Isles, which were subsumed by the sheer mass action of Beatlemania that started in 1963 and extended into my childhood in the 1970s. Do people remember the Beatlemania craze of the 1970s? Like the Jelly of the month club, the Beatles corporation was the gift that keeps on giving, a golden calf to milk forever. Some of my earliest memories are hearing ads for Beatlemania shows all over the radio.
And I used to like John Lennon, before I knew better, thinking he was edgy and cool, and different than the other Beatles. I know better now, he was a Grade A prick in every sense of the word. In fact, I believe his personality is the prototype of the smug arrogant liberal elite that have been fucking with us so much in recent years with hysterical pandemics, race wars, and end of the world global warming hyperbole.
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I looked up Beatlemania, it was a Broadway revue. A rockumentary, if you will. (Spinal Tap reference). This is what wiki says:
Beatlemania was a Broadway music review focused on the music of the Beatles it related to the events and changing attitudes of the tumultuous 1960s. A “rockumentary,” advertised as “Not the Beatles, but an incredible simulation,” it ran from May 1977 to October 1979 for a total of 1,006 performances.
Beatlemania (musical) – Wikipedia
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“So I ask the question, and have from the beginning of this book, who wrote it? I also want to know who it is targeted to. I would otherwise suggest that it is for silly aging teeny bopper fans, but why clue such people in on the mysteries behind 9/11 and that Lennon and McCartney did not write their own songs? If they have aged and are still fans, they have not matured, so why bother?”
Maybe Thomas E Uharriet, who’s credited on the cover..? The voice of Shears sounds like it’s just a conceit to tell the story/ conspiracy theory?
I only know your reporting, I don’t follow sage of quay or Beatles arcana.. is this Shears theory widespread, or just Mike Williams and this author? Where does the specific info on the name come from?
Re why clue people in on esoterica, who aren’t into that, on its face it sounds like whoever wrote it might be sincere, and he’s just spilling his guts out about all his passions… Unless you tell me this book has tons of reviews at Amazon, and is being promoted all over Beatles arcana channels, and etc.
I love the sideways, faint type in the margins! And you struggling to decipher it while grumbling! 😂
apologies for the emoji 😔….
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All righty then, smart ass! I had cataracts replaced two years ago, and promised myself never to wear reading glasses again, to train my brain to interpret what my eyes see only by benefit of ceiling lights and two lamps. So I cannot read that pale type. You’re right, I am a senior citizen.
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I cannot find any data on sales, and don’t know how to do that anyway.
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No knock on your age intended, it sounds like a too-clever by half design choice that would frustrate anyone. Albeit a charmingly ridiculous design choice, very apropos for such an offbeat book. FWIW I’m mid-40s and finally need reading glasses for smaller text so I’m sure I couldn’t read it easily myself.
My understanding about the Bates Method of vision exercises was that it was mainly for general vision strengthening. Close up reading I’ve been told involves a change in the shape of the lens such that it’s just physically impossible without mechanical intervention.. but maybe the monovision cataract surgery fits that bill..
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Id like to know more about your glasses theory Mark. My eyes are going, or as I tell my kids, writing is getting smaller.
Why the Billy Shears storyline? I suspect like most things it serves more than one purpose.
Firstly wasting people’s time. If I was to try to overthrow the powers that are (not something that interests me at all, dealing with small numbers of people is hard imagine 8 billion, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy) fcuking around with all this BS for 10 years keeps me busy while I realise 90 plus percent of truthers are morons (the other 10 percent might well be Mormons).
It also creates another untrue (and hatred) conspiracy which pushes norms away, actually covering up 911 and other events.
Then there is the old any publicity is good publicity. Increased revenue.
i could probably think of many more reasons but I’ve just wasted more time fcuking around……
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I do know that our eyes present our brains with an upside down image, and that it all gets set right by interpretation. So I thought the same might be true of reading, to present words to the eyes and force the brain to interpret.
I wore contacts most of my adult life, a PITA, and as my vision degraded over time used reading glasses too, having to have them everywhere, that too a pain in the ass. My best vision came from bifocals glasses. My contacts were called “monovision”, meaning that left eye was for reading, right for vision. Again, the brain interprets. That worked very well for years, but cataracts began to interfere. (Only 36% of us can do monovision, it I recall correctly.)
So when it came time for cataract surgery, because I could do monovision with contacts, I was given that option with the cataract replacement lenses. It worked! Not only was I reintroduced to the colors of the world and white, but was given a chance to do without reading glasses and contact lenses forever. I have made the most of it.
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Why Billy Shears? I might be able to unravel some of it, but I don’t begin to know what goes on in deep state stuff. But recall, if you remember it at all, that early on Lennon and McCartney sold their song catalogue to Michael Jackson for only a fraction of what it was worth. There was widespread incredulity, and we were told that the two were just neophytes in business and did not know better. But they were surrounded by very sharp advisors, so that does not fly.
More likely, in my view, is that the people who actually wrote those songs wanted a payday, and that L&M had no say in the matter.
With Billy Shears, I imagine that the behind-the scenes stuff involved some of the best talent around, not only to write the music and play the instruments, but to design the albums and write the literary content and embed all the clues. With Billy, all of the credit for that stuff goes to the four mop tops, actually three, as Ringo is not very useful. But they were hardly capable. I suspect that, again, the people who did all that stuff wanted to go public with it and wanted their due credit, and so use Billy as a wink and nod to anyone not clueless about things, to say “look at us and what we did!” They were given permission to disclose all of that and much more, as in the footnotes Freemasons are all about. For so long as all credit goes to a literary device, and not real people, they are allowed, with heavy oversight, to disclose this stuff.
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If anyone wants a good laugh, just check out the Amazon page for this book and author.. with its 33 global reviews of course, ha. It’s loaded with spookery, but seems very tongue in cheek about it all. Good natured trolling sort of. Self published on createspace, but does look like it could come out of some secret society or sub-basement of who knows where.
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Adding.. it mentions all the acrostic games in the margins. An incredibly baffling British version of the crossword, with all sorts of verbal wit and wordplay that always leads to me giving up in despair, the few times I’ve attempted it.
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Thanks for book background. I only went on Mike Williams reliance on it. He appears to me a smart guy, which makes me suspect he’s a shill.
In the 70s and 80s when I subscribed to National Review (as now), they ran an “anacrostic” (aka acrostic) in each issue, and when filling in the clues the ending result would be a quotation, and the first letter of each clue would name the author. I was intimidated at first, but then found them to be great fun. Is this what you’re talking about?
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My mistake, I misremembered – was thinking of cryptic crosswords – a British innovation. This site gives examples –
https://www.puzzleshq.com/tips-tricks/puzzles/how-to-solve-cryptic-crosswords/
They’re similar to crosswords but the clues have all kinds of wordplay that (apparently) it takes a clever Brit to solve, and we Yanks have never cottoned to them. Acrostics are much more straightforward.. those I could handle!
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It’s interesting that caretaker Paul uses the name “John Halliday”. There was a major French pop star in the 1960s and 70s named Johnny Hallyday! He was credited with bringing rock and roll to France.
Well, there was a huge female French pop star in the 60’s named Sylvie Vartan. She was a cutie who could sing and dance. She met Hallyday in 1962 and they got married in 1965. They were hyped as their generation’s “golden couple”. In January 1964, Sylvie performed on a couple of cards in Versailles and Paris alongside the Beatles before they came to America. Here’s one of the photos backstage:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/30650f6bc48be9c173fceb4c8ffd0756/tumblr_p2iaom0ot81urwo7uo3_500.jpg
Bear with me. Fast forward over 5 years later to the backside of the “Abbey Road” album. An unknown woman walks past the Abbey Road sign in a blue dress that looks very similar to Sylvie’s dress at the Olympia theatre in Paris. Furthermore, some folks claim her arm and elbow has Paul’s lips and nose inserted on it. I have seen the photo where that image comes from but I can’t find it.
In May 2011″B.” the global moderator on the “Paul was Replaced/Nothing Is Real” forum stated it well:
“That’s great! Wouldn’t that be a hoot if it really was him?(caretaker videos)
Not only that, but the guy’s name is John Halliday, and some of us old timers
recall the threads at TKIN(The King is Naked forum) where there was discussion of Paul running off [with]
Johnny Halliday’s wife (or vice versa), Sylvie Vartan. Paul could be watching his childhood home under the alias of his rival.”
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Thanks for that! It’s a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!
Sorry to go Shakespeare on you, but it seemed appropos. I think it was Miles Mathis, perhaps not, who discovered a Halliday Mccartney (spelling may be wrong) in the British peerage.
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Back of the Abbey Road album: http://www.beatlesebooks.com/files/1619622/uploaded/abbey%20road%20back%20cover.jpg
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I see a shapely leg, nothing more.
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The strange looking elbow gives it away in my view. It looks too skeletal. I recognize that as his slightly open mouth, only because I’ve seen that photo before. Admittedly, the nose is harder to decipher. Btw, the mainstream says that’s just some random woman walking by while they’re taking the photos. Not believable. The reality, no one would be allowed to walk by while they were working on the photos. Everything is controlled!
But look, I get it. Most folks won’t see it, even here at Piece of Mindful. Even I have my doubts. That’s the brilliance of it. We always talk about secrets hidden in plain site.
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I like this guy!
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OK, I see the elbow as a mouth, and as I look harder a small embedded face above that next to the bricks, and down below in the unnatural light streaks another face. Tricky stuff, easy to self-deceive. I suppose if I look hard enough I’ll see a cock and balls too.
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Si senor, I can see chile y huevos tambien.
What is it with Beetlemania, these people who put so much into worshipping John, Paul etc, etc? They certainly like to mock the Elvis acolytes as dumb hicks, I don’t see the difference with people who spend a lot of time researching Beatles arcana. It was all manufactured, what else do you need to know?
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You make a valid point, sir. I can only respond that you had to be there. Life in our Western world was one thing before the Beatles, and something quite different after. Those of us who “research” the phenomenon are of curious mind, how did they pull this off?
Paul McCartney was “interviewed” by a “news reporter” back in the day about his use of LSD, and claimed he had used it several times, and that he had to admit that because the reporter asked the question and he had to give and honest answer. The upshot? He was telling his fans to use LSD. Maybe he was too stupid to understand his mission, but from what I’ve seen of him otherwise, he does not possess anything resembling a conscience, and is only able to absorb and bask in his unearned fame. How does he sleep. Like a baby.
John Lennon, on the other hand, appeared to have wanted out of the game, suffering remorse at not being available as his son was growing up, wanting to fix that by raising a second son properly. Not a perfect man, maybe not even a good one, but he took the available exit offered in faking his death.
What is going on in the Billy Shears book is what Petra calls “revelation of the method,” the key to the whole scam, not naming the people behind it, but detailing what was done and why. And why. Some might attribute higher motivations in destroying Christian beliefs, driving a wedge between parents and children, changing habits of dress and using music to those ends, and encouraging drug use. I don’t, no more than I see any good in scams like Covid and the vaccines, the underlying motive being to destroy, not to build.
So yes I am many others of my generation are curious about Beatlemania, a contrived phenomenon. How the fuck did they pull this off? The book reveals much of the answer without naming names.
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I guess if you want to “prove” it, you could find the face photo and overlay it on the suspicious elbow… sort of a face-elbow chop, in the parlance of POM..
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Ya I see it. The mouth at the elbow and kinda looks like a blurred out Paul face. And that model in the blue dress could be Sylvie, why use that as a random passerby..even the 8 dots and the N showing could be a clue at something.
I’m wondering why these elders are still being put out there, can’t be for the money.. McCartney, Rolling Stones, Dylan, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, etc.. still touring in their 80’s-90’s? When many that age are in assisted living facilities or nursing homes or have health problems that could show up within a few minutes of a performance and create an embarrassing scene. Some are perfoming sitting down in chairs. I’m not paying to see that, with those ticket prices. I can see a once a year show, but these artists are going on full package tours, they do fly ins, but at that age would be a major hassle.
Wouldn’t these people like to retire, call it quits, have their privacy, and enjoy what remains of their lives?
Are they imposters, silicone masks? The bible stated people who lived 300-500 year lifespans. I’m sure those types would still be around. They would have to move on eventually and change their identities. I can’t imagine my great grandkids going to a Rolling Stones concert.
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You can also throw in Vanna White still on “Wheel of Fortune” even in her 60’s. Matt, the host of “Quantum of Conscience” on you tube calls it “stalled century”. The social planners keep these elders out there to make the public believe that everything is the same as it was in the old world, before 911 and the rollout of the internet.
Meanwhile they slowly move us away from the natural world into a digitized, artificial one. Something like that.
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On the climate change front, here’s a snippet from NakedCapitalism about the quest to add “anthropocene” to the naming of geological eras.. specifically about man’s impact on methane levels, which is one of the most fascinating or bizarre aspects of the narrative to me –
“..Anthropogenic signals, such as changes in ecosystems brought on by human overhunting of ice age megafauna, can be traced back to this period. By 10,000 years ago, plant and animal domestication boosted human ecosystem engineering as populations grew steadily through time. By around 5,000 years ago, the first urban dwellings drew swelling numbers of individuals into restricted areas, and technological innovation surged after the invention of metallurgy. Growing populations and intensified farming consumed and modified land, and animal husbandry led to increases in methane emissions traceable in the Earth’s sedimentary record.”
It seems slightly contradictory – so it was a GOOD thing when we “extincted” the wooly mammoths? But then a bad thing later when we husbanded various bovine creatures and ungulates?
I have no “scientific” argument wrt animal methane.. just an “argument from incredulity” or “argument from common sense.” Their claim seems to be that certain animals, who came about naturally in the first place, are inherently a bane on the planet.. causing an imbalance. At least, in “excess,” I suppose when husbanded/ bred by man.. it’s just odd, and amazing to me that this flies, gets so little attention, scrutiny or pushback.
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I find that science as we know it is completely corrupt now, no rigor, no replication, no meaningful “peer review.” They can write about anything they please about climate change as long as they strike the right note, that it is real, present and dangerous.
Here’s zoologist Lusha Tronstad, talking about the mysterious failure of ice around Yellowstone lake to disappear:
She’s been studying Yellowstone Lake for 20 years, has seen no change, and yet writes that … because if she forms a more logical conclusion her paper will not be published and her funding will dry up. Do not discount the latter, funding! Ike warned us of what would happen to science when the government took over funding, as it has. Science went out the window.
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This has been in the news, Antarctic ice is increasing. Of course they need to credit NASA for this result, but one has to believe the results can’t be hidden. For example, it was a cold winter in New England, and now we are getting a cool spring with good amount of rain. Frankly it’s getting quite ridiculous to argue we are on the brink of a climate apocalypse.
Antarctica’s Astonishing Rebound: Ice Sheet Grows for the First Time in Decades
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Yes, Ms Tronstad sounds very much like the pupil still trying to please the teacher.
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I thought I put quotes on “husbanded”.. I know that’s not a word!
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Yes, TimR, I came very close to trashing your comment due to the lack of quote marks around that word. You, more so thant others, is aware of the deep standards of grammar we apply here, at, this webside, you see.
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Ha! Just my own sense of craftsmanship in play, I know your blog ain’t got no standards 😉
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Something else of interest from NC.. a long comment from “Henry Moon Pie” about his horrifying medical experience. And the PSA test, sounds like Mark your criticism of it is well justified –
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QUOTE FROM HENRY MOON PIE –
I surfed through just a minute of Morning Joe and happened to catch Zeke Emmanuel talking about Joe’s prostate cancer. Like mine, his Gleason score is a whopping 9 with presumably a PET scan showing metastatic spots on two vertebrae (I had one.). Zeke speculated about the course of treatment that included the chemical castration treatment I’ve been getting for a year now and radiation for the spots like I received a few weeks ago. He didn’t mention the radiation on the prostate itself that I received a year and a half ago.
What will be impossible to explain is how Joe’s cancer has managed to grow and spread while he was President of the United States without us hearing anything about it. I hadn’t seen a doctor for 20 years when my son’s urging brought me to a doctor for worsening rectal cancer after which a PSA revealed the prostate cancer as well. So we have yet another health coverup re: Biden. Ds are the worst.
Since I brought it up, here’s an update on my situation. In the last month, I’ve had a CT scan, a PSA, a broader cancer antigen test, a normetanephrine test (for the pheochromopcytoma) and a blood test the uses genetic signatures to test for cancer cells in the blood stream. The CT is clear except for the prostate itself. The PSA is undetectable. The broader cancer antigen is normal, as is the normetanephrine test. The Signatura test is clear. So there’s no cancer showing up anywhere except the prostate, and it’s under control for the time being.
From this point on, my treatment consists of a tri-monthly injection and a daily pill for the prostate that will continue for another year. There will be a CT scan and these same blood tests every 3 months as well.
That’s the surprisingly good news. The bad news is that treatment has left my body a bit of a wreck. I’m still struggling to recover from the last surgery in October when I was gutted like a fish and sewn back up. My surgeon tells me the unhealed spot is down to less than a centimeter, but the ongoing treatments are quite painful while I’m getting them and for a couple of days after. The 4th and 5th fingers on my left hand have been useless since that surgery as well which may have something to do with being on the table for 9 hours. It makes typing quite slow. And the chemo left me with legs that feel like blocks of wood below the knees. And I almost died two or three times during the course of treatment.
The trade-off has been the additional time with family, especially the granddaughters, one of whom I see almost daily, and the other two at least once a week. This past week, I went in for another torture session kneeling with my butt in the air while my surgeon cauterizes and applies burning silver nitrate as blood streams down my legs. Before I assumed the position, I told my rectal surgeon the story about my granddaughter and I dancing to Wilson Pickett while waiting in line at a drive-in and thanked her and all the doctors and nurses at UH who had dealt with one challenge after another with surprising success. She had to choke back a few tears, and she’s a pretty tough cookie.
I’ve also managed to reach two milestones this spring: 50th anniversaries of graduation from college and marriage.
So the road ahead for old Joe isn’t that bad. The most painful of the prostate treatment process, the biopsy, is behind him (temporally as well as physically). Now it’s just pills and injections, maybe some radiation whose side effects have been pretty minimal for me. It could be at his age that something will kill him first before the prostate cancer. It’s tough to feel much compassion for Genocide Joe, especially since he and those around him were so determined to keep us in the dark about multiple serious health conditions
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They had a very interesting show this Tuesday on WMBR – MITs radio station. I doubt people remember, but I often listen to the “Lost and Found” show that airs from 12-2PM every weekday during my lunch hour. Great show that features songs from the 60s-80s, often obscure, but not necessarily obscure bands. You can listen online FYI, link it below.
Tuesday they did a show that talked about Beatles hoaxes! Of which they named 2. Guess which one was #1? You all know.
Playlist for Bob Dubrow on WMBR’s Lost and Found, Tuesday, June 3, 2025 (Noon-2pm)
2. The Masked Marauders album, a hoax supposedly perpetrated by Rolling Stone magazine. Very strange, not sure if it was part of larger agenda, but I had never heard of it. Probably just more Beatles conspiracy candy, which is an industry in and of itself as this blog shows – more Beetle-maniacs comment on this than any other topic it seems!
The Masked Marauders – Wikipedia
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Just for added context, there were two Pauls, and I am very suspicious, two Johns, though I have only childhood photos to support the latter. PID more likely came about from misdirection, that is, outright lying is not a good strategy, but misdirection works and is very effective.
And it also helps to understand the massive societal changes that came about due to the influence of the Beatles. When one understand that they were a manufactured vocal band, that they did not write their own music or play their own instruments (in-studio, and probably as well on stage), that they were the visible product of a massive psyop designed to fundamentally change our way of life that, behind the scenes, was comprised of behavioral psychologists and very talented songwriters and studio musicians …
I would not minimize their importance as you do. Yes, the four, five, six or seven of them were not even that good at their craft, but were our visible clues to a massive undertaking that blended well with the JFK assassination, the moon landings, and later Vietnam … it was as if they rocked our world to take us off our bearings and forever change our outlooks and attitudes. Nothing so large as that had happened before save WWII, or after save Covid.
And, while the Beatles were not especially talented and were backed by real and hidden talent, it is safe to say that that is the nature of the music business. Music is the tribal beat, the underlying tone that allows us to be in step with the larger society, and as such is too important to be left to develop on its own. It is managed, like all other forms of public opinion. Nothing is real, you know.
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It angers me still. Actually, many things do.
For whatever reason, that control reminds of one of my favorite movies, and Paul Newman at his very best: The Verdict. Fucking church; fucking lawyers; fucking corruption… fucking arrogance. Frank Galvin’s witness: “Who were these MEN!? I wanted to be a nurse!”
I dunno, had I been “of age”, would I have been coerced to drop acid cuz some long-haired musician implied that is was cool? My primary school associates would have. I’m still shocked (unknown to me then) that some of them were actual drinkers BEFORE high school. WTF?
The basis for Rap and HipHop and all that other come join us in the gutter shit.
“…such is too important to be left to develop on its own.”
People are dumb.
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The first duty of a man is to think for himself. I did not think those words for myself, but am quoting Jose Marti. Anyway, you’ve complied with first duty.
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HI Mark, not trying to minimize the effect the Beatles had, more trying to put them into the context of someone observing the phenomenon from the outside. I am not immune to these projects, I used to like the Sex Pistols, but sadly they are a fairly obvious project. But they never claimed to be musical gods, nor their fans would make that claim. The best part about the Sex Pistols was it was supposed to be “do it yourself” and get off your ass and just play music and enjoy it for the sake of it, without being a wanker perfectionist.
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Did you read about the Masked Marauders hoax story? It’s very interesting, and I wonder why they staged it. So on this album, Rolling Stone magazine was saying there was Bob Dylan, John, Paul, Geoge, and Mick playing. And people believed it! The album sold fairly well for an obscure album. Supposedly the songs are played by “imposters”. It seems a bit of a “revelation of the method” scenario, where they are telling you the people you hear on the real Beatles records are also imposters.
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I know there is a contingent that can’t let go of these rock stars. Let me give the example of Neil Young, scumbag extraordinaire. This POS Canadian is claiming to speak for “Americans” against Trump, even though he is a Canadian citizen. FYI I have seen Young twice in concert, very good, and previously considered him not a sellout – he was Mr. “This note’s for you”, thumping his chest he would never sell out, as the song was a parody of “This Bud’s for You”.
Can someone name a single known artist who stood up against the tyranny of COVID? I can’t, and it pisses me off to see people here still worshipping POS like the Beatles, Neil Young, etc
Neil Young invites President Donald Trump to upcoming ‘Love Earth’ show – on one condition | Cult Following
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I cannot name one. The worst, in my view, was Tom Hanks, who claims that along with his wife he contracted it and suffered symptoms and quarantined for two weeks. All lies.
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The punk or rocknroll idea of raising our fists to the man and not selling out, pulled in alot of rebellious musicians, mostly teens, yet people of all ages. Only to eventually find out the man invented it. Playing gigs and becoming a decent musician is an expensive hobby, even at a local bar scene level, money needs to be made to keep it going. Young probably came from a very wealthy family, especially seeing the names he was connected to early in his career. Who knows if he wrote his own songs, but I do like some of them. All of the well known major label artists went along with the Covid vax hoax. Some of the were rewarded in a big way. Including Neil Young, Dolly, Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters even Macca. All got new albums and tours. Clapton was playing the other side, but could tell he was put out there and his statements were controlled.
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McGowan marveled in his Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon how it was almost as if all of the musicians of the early 70s congregated in LA when they did, as if summoned. Was it Young who was hitchhiking on Sunset when Stills picked him up? That’s not accurate and I am not going to read the book again, but LA at that time was not a music center like New York, Detroit or Nashville. There was no Wrecking Crew yet, and Vito Paulekas had yet to dispatch his 35 dancing girls wearing Hippie costumes before they there even known. Followed by all the fake deaths, it all appears contrived.
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Good comments on Young. He is a professional agitator, no doubt. Something that is not well known is his involvement in perpetrating the Kent State hoax. Meaning him writing the song “Ohio” in record time and releasing it less than a month after it happened. Here’s what it says on wiki about Young’s inspiration moment:
Young wrote the lyrics to “Ohio” after seeing the photos of the incident in Life Magazine
Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song) – Wikipedia
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Interesting … Canadian Ian Tyson wrote the song “Four Strong Winds”, which was a hit in Canada, but he and his wife Sylvia could never penetrate the American market. Young did a cover on the song, and Tyson was able to use his royalties from Young’s cover to make a down payment on a ranch in Alberta, where he lived out his days.
In other words, Tyson, very popular in Canada, did not make much money in his career.
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Glen Campbell said Cream played on Beatles and Rolling Stones records.
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Hmmmm, I’m not digging, but sounds like misdirection on the surface.
Glen was into booze and drugs for a stretch, was he not?
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I tend to think that he merely spoke out of school. Davy Jones did the same when he said that the Monkees were not the first manufactured band. The Beatles were. I just assume that there was a British Wrecking Crew, and that Clapton was a member.
I admire the late Glen Campbell for his musical talent, a savant who, to my knowledge, did not study music theory or read music, only learned to play. Yes, he did have legendary drug and alcohol problems. Vince Furnier (Alice Cooper) took Glen, and others as I read, under his wings. He and GC moved to Phoenix and swore off booze and drugs, and he lived clean and sober until his death from Alzheimer’s.
Glen was one of eleven kids on an Arkansas farm. He said to Bob Costas “I didn’t know what it was like to sleep alone until I got married.”
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Wasn’t everyone (myself included) into booze and drugs (for a stretch or two)? But seriously there’s drunks, professional alcoholics, people on the wagon, and then last teetotalers, the ones I trust least.
I’ve said for many years never trust a man who doesn’t drink (at least a little bit). Typically they have some other issue or addiction, often prescription drugs.
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“…and then last teetotalers, the ones I trust least. I’ve said for many years never trust a man who doesn’t drink (at least a little bit). Typically they have some other issue or addiction, often prescription drugs.”
Great generalizations there Ray; I agree.
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Some of us are simply better off not drinking or using. My Dad was asked what it was like for him not drinking, and he said “I could take a bath in it.” I agree. Like father, like son. Dad also said he always missed cigarettes. Having quit 35 years ago, I do not miss them at all.
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I’ve heard of the Cream participation on another fourm. Jeff Lynne of ELO fame was rumored to compose and play on Beatles albums. Both Clapton and Lynne are Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) That’s kind of a high achievement for so called working class rock n rollers. And Macca was awarded Knighthood. Not a bad award for a manufactured personality. Knighthood would indicate ranking bloodline, not album sales.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/beatles/images/8/8b/Jeff_Lynne_with_the_Beatles_1990s.jpg/
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There is a Haliday Mccartney in the peerage. Check spelling. I cannot tell if, in your photo, it is original Paul,or twin brother. He is the only one pretending to play an instrument, and does so left-handed, indicating Mike, as real Paul would not have to resort to such a display, being a natural lefty. Relative heights are generally concealed in photos, but Mike is several inches taller than Paul. Ergo the boots in the early days. The eyebrows are often monkeyed with, hard to tell on this one.(Ringo looks like he tied on a mighty one.)
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