Is Paul McCartney Really Dead?

Paul McCartney never wrote "Maybe I'm Amazed." He never formed the band Wings. He never clashed with Yoko, became a vegetarian, or fathered any of his children. When Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1997, she was actually knighting someone else. This is because, conspiracy-minded Beatlemaniacs say, Paul McCartney secretly died in 1966. Theorists claim the other Beatles covered up his death — hiring someone who looked like him, sang like him, and had the same jovial personality. But the guilt eventually got to them and they began hiding clues in their music. In the song "Taxman," George Harrison gave his "advice for those who die," meaning Paul. The entire Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album was awash with Paul-is-dead clues: the Beatles had formed a "new" band featuring a fictional member named Billy Shears — supposedly the name of Paul's replacement. The album contained John Lennon's "A Day in the Life," which had the lyrics "He blew his mind out in a car" and the recorded phrase "Paul is dead, miss him, miss him," which becomes evident only when the song is played backward. Lennon also mumbled, "I buried Paul" at the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever" (in interviews, Lennon said the phrase was actually "cranberry sauce" and denied the existence of any backward messages).

Paul-is-dead believers think the Beatles accompanied these backward tape loops and veiled references to death with album covers that illustrated the loss of their friend. The original cover of 1966's Yesterday and Today album featured the Beatles posed amid raw meat and dismembered doll parts — symbolizing McCartney's gruesome accident. If fans placed a mirror in front of the Sgt. Pepper album cover, the words Lonely Hearts on the drum logo could be read as "1 ONE 1 X HE DIE 1 ONE 1." And of course, there's the Abbey Road cover, on which John, George and Ringo forwent all pretense and pretended to cross the street as a funeral procession. John wore all white, like a clergyman. Ringo, the mourner, dressed in black. George donned jeans, like a gravedigger. Paul wore no shoes (he didn't need them, because he was dead) and walked out of step with the others.

If Paul is dead, then his imposter is still at large. He met and married Linda Eastman, with whom he had four children before losing her to breast cancer in 1998. He released a live album in 1993 called Paul Is Live (likely story), and produced more than 20 solo albums — and that's not even counting the ones released by Wings. Then he endured a horrible divorce from Heather Mills, which may have made him wish he were dead — or, at least, were still Billy Shears. So who is the real McCartney? The world may never know.

-Time Magazine

Clues From Lyrics

The story was largely pieced together by fans from the lyrics of several songs. The most common narrative includes the following pieces of evidence: "He didn't notice that the lights had changed" ("A Day in the Life") because he was busy watching the pretty girl on the pavement (the eponymous meter maid of "Lovely Rita") after narrowly missing her dressed in blue (she's said to be the blur on the back of Abbey Road) jaywalking ("Blue Jay Way"). He then crashed into 
a lamp-post (a car crash sound is heard in "Revolution 9" and "A Day in the Life"). He was pronounced dead on a "Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock as the day begins" ("She's Leaving Home"), and nobody found out this because the news was withheld: "Wednesday morning papers didn't come" ("Lady Madonna"). A funeral procession was held days later (as supposedly implied in the Abbey Road album cover).

King of Wands

God only knows how he's lodged such powerful emotion within my heart but, reminiscing about the old times, I couldn't help comparing  this extraordinary young man to the men who'd previously swept their way in into my life and caused nothing but anger and frustration. 'Is he any different?' I couldn't help myself wondering. Is this just the Universe teaching us vital lessons about Life? Or is it written in each one of our destinies, to undergo pain and rejection, before obtaining our ultimate goal? Each time I've come across the one thing I most wanted, only to have it grabbed away from my reach. Is he any better than the first lesson, who'd tried to control his emotions by keeping them sealed away in a dark rotting chamber known as his 'heart'? Is he any different from the second who forced himself into my life only to retrace his steps like the maniac that he was? Could he be any different from the third who was just a player and nothing more? Does the game stop here or is the Knight of Wands just another pawn provided, to have me run around in never-ending circles? I dearly hope not since these challenges just weaken my resolve with every passing day.
He was the last one I noticed, amidst all the confusion of getting settled in Hell's Oven and making sense of the chaos created by the devil's helpers. I didn't notice him sitting there at the end, radiating a powerful aura of personal contentment and self-confidence. But when I finally did, nothing and no one around him shone as brightly and all I could do was stare and marvel at how splendid a creation he was. If only he'd know how hard I've tried to overcome the urge to reach out a hand and ruffle that magnificent mane of hair of his which so closely resembles a lion's. Many a time I've had to swallow a giggle at the way he attempts covering up silly errors with an exaggerated sense of masculinity. Please don't be just another one of the Universe's many lessons, beg my mind and heart in unison. He doesn't create a magnetic forcefield around him in my presence, like the fourth lesson. But he doesn't feign indifference which hurts just as much as rejection does. He's perfect just the way he is and I pray that this pure emotion we share doesnt just wilt away like leaves during fall, but fluorishes into a treasure worth cherishing for eons to come.

Top 5 Hottest Teen Stars Who's Lives Ended Tragically

1.River Phoenix

A dedicated animal-rights activist and environmentalist, River was a strict vegetarian and a member of PeTA. River was a talented musician as well as an actor, and he played guitar, sang, and wrote songs for his band, Aleka's Attic, which also included his sister Rain Phoenix, while living in Gainsville, Florida. Although the band never released its own album, their song "Across the Way" can be found on PeTA's "Tame Yourself" album, used to fight animal abuse. River was in the middle of filming Dark Blood, playing the character Boy when he died.

Cause of Death: Drug Overdose

2. Corey Haim

Canadian-born Haim broke into the Film industry in 1984 as a young child caught up in a family war in the hit movie Firstborn. The following year he starred in the TV movie A Time to Live, for which he received an award, and Silver Bullet. Lucas, in which he starred alongside Charlie Sheen showed his ability, but was not a big hit. In 1987 he had a breakthrough when he played one of the major roles in Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys (1987), but his output during the nineties onwards was disappointing.

Cause of Death: Drug Overdose

3. Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain was born on February 20 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. Kurt and his family lived in Hoquiam for the first few months of his life then later moved back to Aberdeen, where he had a happy childhood until his parents divorced. The divorce left Kurt's outlook on the world forever scarred. He became withdrawn and anti-social. He was constantly placed with one relative to the next, living with friends, and at times even homeless. Kurt was not the most popular person in high school as he was in public school, getting picked on by "jocks" and being labeled as "queer". In 1985 Kurt left Aberdeen for Olympia where he formed the band Nirvana in 1986. In 1989 Nirvana recorded their debut album Bleach under the independent label Sub-Pop records. Nirvana became very popular in Britain and by 1991 they signed a contract with Geffen.

Cause of Death: Suicide

4. Brad Renfro

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee on July 25, 1982, he was discovered at age 10 by director Joel Schumacher and was cast in the motion picture, The Client (1994) which starred Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. Although this would be his zenith, he went on to appear in other films such as The Cure, Tom and Huck, Sleepers, and _Apt Pupil_ (1998). Renfro won "The Hollywood Reporter's Young Star Award" in 1995 and was nominated as one of People Magazine's "Top 30 Under 30", though addiction problems in his teens and early twenties led to several police arrests and hampered his career.

Cause of Death: Drug Overdose

5. Jonathan Brandis

Born in Danbury, Connecticut, USA, to Greg and Mary, Jonathan Brandis began his career at age 5, acting in television commercials. He appeared in small parts in several films and TV shows before his first starring role in the 1990 film The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter (1990). He starred in popular films such as Ladybugs (1992) and starred as Lucas Wolenczak in Steven Spielberg's television series "SeaQuest 2032" (1993). He doubled up his high school courses so he could finish a year early to his role on SeaQuest. He died  in November 2003.

Cause of Death: Hanging