A Day in the Life of poseurs

I wrote a piece about the Beatles yesterday, and ended up not liking it. In it I veered off course and suggested that the Intel entourage behind them is now busy sealing details, writing final chapters, and repairing any damage that might be done by Mike Williams, aka, Sage of Quay. I suggested some event had triggered this movement towards closure, perhaps the death of either Paul McCartney, the original, who would be 84, or John Lennon, 85.

Mr. Williams presents a contradiction, as it appears his mission is to promote the fictional character Billy Shears and to allege that the real Paul McCartney died on 9/11/1966. At the same time, Williams has done good work exposing the true nature of their music, offering a strong case that Rubber Soul, for instance,  could not be their music or instrumentation. (I suspect that none of the Beatles’ music, beginning to end, was composed by either Lennon or the McCartney’s,  and don’t know about Harrison or Ringo.) In this manner, Williams presents a contradiction. Ayn Rand said repeatedly in Atlas Shrugged that “There are no contradictions, only faulty premises”. She spoke truth. Williams does present a contradiction. The only resolution I see is limited hangout. He is not a stupid man, far from it.

I want to kick off this post, which I want to be a series of videos with limited comment, with a video currently on YouTube.

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda is not exercising restraint in her criticisms, which I believe to be valid. There is currently no law about reviving dead celebrities for use on social media, even as California has legislated against movies doing so without consent of the families and estates.

There is no law enforcement either, I suppose, about faking video footage of dead people. Here’s a comment from Tyrone McCloskey from yesterday, 5/21/2026, on another thread:

There is a long multi part documentary about the Beatles directed by Peter Jackson from footage stored in a vault for 50 years. The images have been polished to a blinding shine by AI and I imagine given Jackson’s ability with special effects movies that they used something similar to what was used in James Cameron‘s Avatar movies- where we have four actors playing The Beatles in front of green screen with green body suits and then computer generated images were laid over them to move in real time just like the actors playing the aliens in Avatar. That would be my first guess about all this resurrected Beatles footage from half century ago. By the way Peter Jackson’s first hit was a fake documentary shown on New Zealand TV claiming that most of the syntax for motion pictures was created by a turn of the 20th century New Zealand filmmaker no one had ever heard of, and it caused such a stir in New Zealand that Jackson had to confess that he made the whole thing up.

I ran a post The Beatles Go Live, Off Rooftop  (the title meant to insinuate that the famous rooftop concert was lip-synced) of George Harrison singing For You Blue. It featured him, “Paul” McCartney, and John Lennon in a supposed live take of that Harrison song for recording. I claimed it had to be AI or CGI, and now thanks to the comment above, know a possible source. John Lennon is impressive on the slide guitar, and unknown players are doing the baseline and drums. McCartney is supposedly playing piano, but there is no footage of face and hands in one frame.

I am going to run a few images and videos below, and keep commentary to a minimum, to finish this piece.

This is a photo taken, I think, in 1964 of some of the Beatles entourage on the East River. I think that is the Manhattan Bridge behind them. The arrows point at what I thought at the time were the two “Paul” McCartney’s”, but later realized not. A photo of the two together, other than childhood (see left), would never make it through the tight security surrounding the group.

 

This is a video of the original “Paul” McCartney singing before  royalty at Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington, London, on November 4, 1963. Note that he is generally smaller in stature than the twin brother who became the go-to Paul in later years, and that he bobs his head incessantly. There was a movie made in 1984 called Give My Regards to Broad Street, and just as musical entertainment, I enjoyed it. If you want to see Paul and Mike at once, though not in the same scenes, note that if the singer is sitting, it is Paul, and if standing, Mike.

This is original Paul in later years, said to be John Halliday (maybe his real name?), caretaker of the McCartney childhood home, part of the British National Trust. Note that he is day drinking. Later, we would be told that this person, who is not Paul!, his handlers say, would be fired for drinking on the job. Denials abound and the usual videos and testimonies have surfaced. About the drinking, I imagine if I one time had worldwide fame and were not allowed to appear in public unless in disguise, I might like to drink all day too. His was not an easy path.

This is Mike McCartney, current-day Paul, called Macca, subtly suggesting to his fans that they use LSD. Don’t kid yourself. The interview is staged and rehearsed. McCartney’s protestations that he was forced to go public due to personal honesty, are hollow. Seen here and below, the Beatles actively promoted use of recreational drugs to their fans.

This is John Lennon on the Dick Cavett Show talking about the song Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, lying in saying 1) that he wrote it, and 2) that it was not about LSD. But think about it – suppose he was honest in the matter, saying yes, we were pushing LSD. There would be fallout, lawsuits for injured children and bad trips, even deaths. John is acting on legal advice here, “Lie, lie, and then lie again.”

A movie was released in 2009 called Let Him Be, in which an actor, Mark Staycer, applied lots of makeup and played John Lennon, though not convincingly. The convincing scenes in that movie were the ones in which Lennon played himself, as he was still alive  even though hidden away. I had a CD of the movie which I sadly gave away, but did some screen grabs of one of the only scenes in the movie where we get a full frontal view of Lennon, not Staycer. I did some face splits using photos of pre-fake-death Lennon.

It’s evidence, not proof. In the movie, they obscure his face with a microphone, but I was able to capture enough of it to show that the eyes, especially the nose, and mouths, line up.

I did the same thing with Staycer playing Lennon. Not even close.

Yesterday I had it in my head that the Beatles were closing shop, and the current entourage were cementing false history using AI. I wrote quite a bit about the above video about the making of the song A Day in the Life. I’ll shrink wrap it: The voices of Lennon and “Paul” McCartney (which Paul I cannot say) were used in the song, and George Martin, the only trained musician in the group, did the orchestral part in which classical musicians played their instruments from lowest to highest note. Martin understood music, and knew that the classical players could not operate without written music before them. A score for each instrument in the orchestra was written out, for each the key in which it played. Many orchestral instruments are restricted in key, which is why all classical music has a key signature, for instance, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in D Minor.

Neither Lennon or McCartney wrote the piece. None of the Beatles played instruments. How do I know that? Because it was 1967, they didn’t know how to read or write music, and were not good on their instruments. That’s why they quit performing in public. They could not sustain the fakery.

Finally, Standing Stone. This is an orchestral piece supposedly written by “Paul” McCartney in 1997. We don’t hear much about it, as it did not travel well. His handlers were leaning far over the tips of their skis. We were to believe that McC, who to this day cannot read music, was able to write a symphonic score requiring musical notation throughout and parts for each instrument in its own key.

In the comments under my piece on For You Blue, I received a comment that Paul and John had indeed written the song Love Me Do, an early Beatles piece of utter simplicity. I deleted the comment because it said that he or a friend had witnessed the writing, impossible to verify and probably a lie. But maybe a song of such simple structure could have been done by the two.

But I doubt it. Enough.