Paul, would you please goddamn die already?

There’s a website called Lies are Unbekoming, and it seems to have a following judging by the number of likes and comments the post I am going to refer to generates. The post was brought to my attention by our friend Dave Klausler, who knows me well enough to know I would not be able to leave it alone. The post is called The Replacement: Examining the Evidence that Paul McCartney Died in 1966. In it the author, “Unbekoming”, recycles the evidence that has been churned now for over fifty years. To me, it looks like a reboot, a whole new generation of people being brought into the hoax. This would make Unbekoming an agent, and also makes me wonder if Paul will ever die for real so that they can put this psyop to bed.

Reading through the comments it is plain that people are as naive now as ever about the Beatles, how they came about, how they happened on their music and who played their instruments. It’s innocent chatter, but also shows off the power of a psyop to continually churn through the ages, bringing in new people. As psyops go, it’s a fun one. No one gets hurt. The work behind it showed off great talent in writing the songs, putting together album covers, and even musical references that played to the hoax. Searching for that kind of stuff can be scintillating fun, especially for kids. (No, of course I never did that!)

What I take from this, and I cannot know since I don’t visit his site anymore, is that Mike Williams is bowing out, and that Unbekoming is taking his place. Either that, or Unbekoming is really naive and stupid. I don’t think that to be the case.

But I also imagine this has to be the last go-round! It can’t go on forever, can it? The people who originated the hoax are long dead and gone, or at least retired. New ones came along and picked up where others left off. There were no more new albums to litter with clues, so it became a matter of recycling old material among new clients.

And so it goes.

I left the following comment this morning. I’ve not yet been banned, but you know, if a comment has in it more than one paragraph, no one reads it anyway. They are instead fast forwarding to the end of the string so they can add their own two bits.

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. That’s 56 years ago. The question is, why is that rumor still churning? The answer is that it is kept alive by the very people who planted it, unseen hands that not only control our musical tastes, but that decide who gets to be famous. They control the public mind. One phone call to one DJ in 1969 was one of millions of calls to radio stations, but oddly had staying power so that soon the whole nation knew of the Paul is Dead rumors. Who has that kind of power, knows how to create rumors, circulate them nationally, and make them stick?

The better question is why was the rumor planted? The answer is pretty obvious, but only in retrospect. The Beatles were a manufactured group and for reasons unknown the people behind them decided to use twins as part of its makeup. Twins are not uncommon in show business, in fact, there’s a truism that Intelligence loves twins, seeks them out, because they can be two places at once. In the case of the Beatles there were two sets of twins, Paul and John, and though I easily proved the first, I could never stick the landing on the latter. Having them allowed for the grueling schedule they endured.

But it also created a problem, as the two twins were distinguishable, so that people paying close attention would soon notice there were two Paul’s. Intel does not tell lies, that is, they never tell the truth, but lying is a clumsy way to work. Misdirection is better. They came up with the Paul is Dead idea as misdirection. Did they know they were creating an industry that would still be churning 56 years later? Not likely, but they did double down on it, inserting album clues, getting people to refer to “Billy” while cameras were running, told to to look spontaneous.

OK, it worked. It has been carried forward by paid agents ever since, Mike Williams, Sage of Quay, the latest I know of. But why did “Unbekoming” decide to recycle all the old shopworn evidence now, and here? Is that person too a paid agent? Is that person so naive as to not to know of the entire industry built around the lie? From the outside looking in, I suspect Intel is just having fun f****** with us.