• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Topic: PAUL MC CARTNEY IS DEAD

How many of us still remember the controversy when their album ABBEY ROAD came out.
After all those years almost 30 years, people still doubt.
Was it PUBLICITY?, well it had at least an impact on everybody.
Remembering the picture on the sleeve, and seeing indeed a more unusual sir Paul the mystery remains. At that time I was about 13 years old, so I hope to get answers from other chordians, who were huge Beatles fans, or who can explain how this "incredible stunt" started.
A lot of people also believe that Elvis is still alive, and watching movies, I admit that it is a little bit funny, at least when living in Europe, the expression "Elvis has left the building"
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                      I just want peace and friendship, I hust want
                      to be honest than dishonnest.
                      It's easier to accuse, than to forgive.
ALL I WANT IS PEOPLE, WHO THINK BEFORE THEY TALK: GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
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  • Registered: 2007-06-23
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Re: PAUL MC CARTNEY IS DEAD

http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/3674/pid.html

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright. - The Kinks, Rock And Roll Fantasy
  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Re: PAUL MC CARTNEY IS DEAD

Conspiracy is unlikely as the sleeve photo was done quite spontaneously. Originally they wanted to call the album 'Everest', partly because it was like a mountain they'd had to climb and partly because of a brand of cigarettes the Beatles smoked with the same name. The grand plan was to fly to the Himalayan foothills and have a cover shot taken in front of Everest. But once it became clear what a major trek this would tunr out to be they said 'sod it', called the album Abbey Road and took a photo on the crossing in what they had on that day. No code, no special meaning, just 4 guys.

'The sound of the city seems to disappear'
  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Re: PAUL MC CARTNEY IS DEAD

Well, krhoades, (I am curious where your nick name was "born", mine is 3 parts gitaar (dutch) doc (profession) phil (piece of my name). I think this might be an interesting, even very interesting topic.
The kind of music you play or you listen to in certain circumstances. When I am stressed, I tried to find a theory since years, why am I listening in almost (maybe the answer is in almost) the same circumstances, to OR heavy music, like ZZ top, Status Quo up to speed metal, or TO ballads. And if I have the CD with Rock & Roll Fantasy, by The Kinks, I listen almost the whole time to the same song, and that song is as far as I know about the fantasy to become a star..
Thanks

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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  • Registered: 2007-06-23
  • Posts: 113

Re: PAUL MC CARTNEY IS DEAD

k is my first initial rhoades is my last name.

gitaardocphil, I hear ya loud N clear!

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright. - The Kinks, Rock And Roll Fantasy
  • Registered: 2007-06-23
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Re: PAUL MC CARTNEY IS DEAD

This uncertainty was a true tease that drove people into a frenzy.
It was all stategic in a ambiguous manner.
They never owned up to it, for that would only ruin it's purpose.
People search for concrete understanding, & if that was given then they would
put it to rest. But for now the controversy still lives on.

I remember hearing Paul is Buried at the end of Strawberry Fields & I was drawn in.

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright. - The Kinks, Rock And Roll Fantasy