[P1] Paul McCartney died in a car crash in 1966. We dont know on that one, but its not impossible that behind the scenes things were messy. The Billy Shears story goes that in 1965 William Campbell Shears entered and won a Beatle 'Look-a-Like'competition organised by Brian Epstein who was looking for Beatle doubles just in case one of his boys got killed. All rights reserved | The People's Voice. People who want to protect the fortunes and embarrassment and loyalty? Pepper" (Get back to where you once belonged!). However, he continued, if I was dead, Im sure Id be the last to know.. In fact, they continue up to the Love album recently, but more obviously were on Anthology 5. Who is to say that the Beatles were not artistically supercharged by rumors of the death of their de facto leader in their latter stages? Its impossible to even briefly mention here some of the key aural and visual clues, but Andru J. Reeves good-humoredly skeptical "Turn Me On, Dead Man: The Complete Story of the Paul McCartney Death Hoax" (1994) is a good place to start. A one-minute extract from Chris Drakes interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4s The World This Weekend on 26 October from 1pm. A recent mockumentary, in the alleged voice of George Harrison (available at Netflix), covers the territory in an over-the-top manner, focuses on MI5s investment in protecting the British national interest, . However, the car was being driven by a Moroccan student named Mohammed Hadjij, and McCartney was not present. In fact, the crash never happened. The Beatles were no longer propagating nave love anthems, giving voice to teenage female angst, deriving inspiration from early '60s girl groups like the Shirelles and the Ronettes and making it more musically sophisticated. How to practically harness such power and influence, however, remained a very difficult task, especially given the indomitable John Lennon and deeply spiritual George Harrison. Coming in at third place at 23% was the urban legend of Paul McCartney's supposed car crash death.We could go on about the "clues" in Beatles songs that allegedly corroborated the "Paul is dead" rumor and the claim that he was replaced by one William "Billy Shears" Campbell the same guy referenced in the first two songs of "Sgt. '", "A History of the Cat in Nine Chapters or Less". We wanted to tell the world the truth, but we were afraid of the reactions it would provoke. In a radio interview from 1970 about the Beatles breakup, J talks briefly ostensibly about Epsteins death, then says the album they made after the trauma (& lowers his voice and Yoko laughs) was Sergeant Peppers, oh Im not sure: joke for no-one but Yoko, or revelation going by so fast its almost unnoticeable by mixing stories? The man we know today as Sir Paul McCartney is actually Faul, who has done an outstanding job of impersonation for twice the length of the original Pauls lifespan. So it is no surprise that it was at large Midwestern universities in the United States that PID really took off; the British were never as influenced by it, perhaps because they could regularly see the Beatles in London, especially as Paul and John became involved in avant-garde happenings once they stopped touring for good in 1966. It is interesting to me that it never occurs to any of you conspirecy nuts that the simple explanation for different ear lobes is the result of modern technology.