Paul Is Dead

"If I were dead, I'd be the last to know." ~ Paul McCartney

AUDIO CLUES:

Help!

• Yesterday - "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be, there's a shadow hanging over me...", indicating that horrible nature of the accident, the "shadow" being death.

Rubber Soul

• Nowhere Man -  "...you don't know what you're missing", Paul is missing all the music/fun had after his death.

Revolver

• Taxman - the background voices say "Paul" after George sings the lines "if you drive a car" and "if you get too cold". It sounds like this: "if you drive a car PAAAAUUUL" and "if you get too cold PAAAAUUUL."   ALSO, those two lines indicate that Paul was driving a car and is now "getting cold."  One more clue: "...my advice for those who die..." Paul has died.
• Got to Get You Into My Life - the lines "I was alone, I took a ride...suddenly I see you" refer to the accident scene, "you" being "Lovely Rita".
• Yellow Submarine - "land of submarines", Submarines represent coffins, Land of COFFINS: cemetery.
• Doctor Robert - "He does everything he can, Dr. Robert" says the Dr. tried to save Paul, but couldn't.
• And Your Bird Can Sing - "You can see me" "You can hear me", once again a reference to Paul's not being present.
• Got To Get You Into My Life - "I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there", another mention of a rather "surprising" car ride taken.  "And suddenly I see you", he didn't see the approaching car in time to move out of the way.
• Tomorrow Never Knows - "Play the game existence to the end" Paul did that.

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

• Sgt. Pepper is rumored to be an old-time phrase describing the ability to replace someone with someone else without anyone noticing; in this case, replacing Paul with William Campbell.
• Fixing a Hole - when listened to closely, the line "see the people standing there, they disagree" can be interpreted as"silly Beatle standing there, they disagree", which speaks of William Campbell, and the line "silly people run around..." can be interpreted as "silly Beatle run around...", which is talking about Campbell trying to adjust to his new role as Beatle bassist.
• Lovely Rita - the line "standing by a parking meter/when I caught a glimpse of Rita" refer to the accident, in which he lost control of his car because he was distracted by the beautiful Rita.
• Good Morning, Good Morning - the lines "nothing to do to save his life", "you're on your own/you're in the street", "people running 'round/it's five o'clock (the time of the accident)", and "watching the skirts you start to flirt, now you're in gear" all refer to the accident and the scene thereafter.
• A Day in the Life - "He blew his mind out in a car, he didn't notice that the lights had changed"- A mush more graphic description of Paul's death. Also, if you listen to the line "nobody was really sure if he was from the house of lords", it sounds more like "nobody was really sure if he was from the house of Paul", meaning that since he was decapitated and had no hair or teeth they didn't know where he was from.  
• Sgt. Pepper - The band introduces "Billy Shears", a supposedly made up character. But, if you recall, William Campbell replaced Paul and Billy is a nickname for William. Also, the name Billy Shears can be interpreted as: "Billy'S hears" or Billy's Here.
• She's Leaving Home - "Wednesday Morning at 5 o'clock" -the time of the accident.
• Only A Northern Song - "When you are listening...you may think that the band is not quite right... the band is a little dark and out of key, you're correct, there's nobody there"- the band just isn't the same without Paul.

Magical Mystery Tour

• I Am the Walrus - at the end of the song, the voices of the older men speaking say "bury me...bury my body" and "Paul you're darn near death...rest you." ALSO SAID: The words to the Shakespearean play "King Lear" can be heard in the background of the song, the words read: "Bury me, bury me, bury my body" "Oh untimely death". ALSO:   "Goo Goo G'Joob"- are said to be the final words of Humpty Dumpty before he fell and cracked his head. Paul's accident took place on a "Stupid bloody Tuesday," also...
• Hello Goodbye - the line "you say goodbye/I say hello" is William Campbell speaking about Paul.
• All You Need is Love - at the end of the song, John sings the word "yesterday" which sound suspiciously like "yes he's dead" and chants "we loved you yeah yeah yeah."
• Magical Mystery Tour - "dying to take you away".
• Fixing a Hole - "I'm fixing a hole" implies digging a grave.

The Beatles (The White Album)

• Glass Onion - according to rumor, a "glass onion" is a coffin with a glass window in it so people can look inside. John also sings "the walrus was Paul." In some cultures, the walrus is a sign of death.
• I'm So Tired - at the very end of the song is some incoherent mumbling of John's. When played backwards, this becomes "Paul's dead man, miss him miss him."
• Revolution 9 - various bits of chatter and noise can be heard that represent Paul's death, including "his voice was low and his eyes were high and his eyes were closed", "Paul died", "my fingers are broken and so is my hair. I'm not in the mood for wearing clothing", "maybe even dead", "you become naked (the way a body is buried)", and most interesting, there is a clip where a car crashes and catches on fire. "Paul" can be heard screaming "Get me out." Finally, the voice repeating "number nine, number nine" at the beginning, when played backward, say "Turn me on, dead man, turn me on, dead man."
• While My Guitar Gently Weeps - in the fade out, George is crying "Paul, Paul, Paul...", the guitar gently weeps for Paul.
• Don't Pass Me By - "You were in a car crash, and you lost your hair"- Paul was in a car accident and suffered head trauma.
• Mother Nature’s Son - "Find me in my field of grass." Paul is buried in a field of grass.
• Helter Skelter - "Look out, cause here she comes." Perhaps a warning to Paul before he died.
• Long, Long, Long - "How could I ever have lost you." Obviously a reference to Paul. "Now I can see you, be you." Now William can be Paul.

Yellow Submarine

• Hey, Bulldog - "You think you know me but you haven't got a clue." We think its Paul but its not.

Abbey Road

• Come Together -  "He wear no shoeshine." Paul is dead, he is buried without shoes, so of course he wears no shoeshine. "He got walrus gumboot." Another reference to the walrus. "He say "One and one and one is three" / Got to be good-looking 'cause he's so hard to see / Come together right now over me." If "one and one and one is three," then where is the fourth Beatle? Paul is so hard to see because he is buried. And how can you come together over someone unless they are buried.
• I Want You (She's So Heavy) - the abrupt stop at the end of the song symbolizes the sudden death of Paul. At the end of the song, the heavy instrumental bar which stops suddenly is repeated 15 times, which symbolizes something that I really don't know. :)  Email me if you know it!
• She Came In Through Th Bathroom Window - "So I quit the police department and got myself a steady job"- explains what William Campbell did before he "became" Paul.
• Golden Slumbers - "Smiles await you when you rise"- when Paul goes to heaven, he'll be happy.
• Carry That Weight - "Boy, you're gonna carry that weight"- either refers to William having to "bare the weight" of being Paul
• The End - "And in the end, the love you take is equaled to the love you make"- indicates that the effect Paul's death would have on millions would be so huge (because he deserved it), that they need to cover it up.

Singles and Other

• Lady Madonna - the line "Wednesday morning papers didn't come" refers to a strange incident where an unknown England newspaper reportedly recalled the Wednesday morning paper which reported the real-life accident Paul was in.
• You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) - toward the end of the song a ringing sound is heard and a phone number is recited. People have claimed that when they called the number, a voice said, "you're getting closer..." then hung up.
• How Do You Sleep? (John Lennon song) - "Those freaks was right when they said you was dead." Finally John admits that Paul is dead.
• On the cover of the 3rd Beatles Anthology you see a picture of John, George, and Ringo from Let It Be, an album released after Paul's death. But the picture from Paul is from Rubber Soul, an album released before his death. Also if you look closely at the picture of Paul, it is cut in half vertically going through his left eye and nose, the left side of the picture is slightly lower than the right side of the picture, perhaps another indication of his head being severed.

VISUAL (and other) CLUES

Rubber Soul

• Front Cover is supposedly the angle Paul would view from his grave.

Revolver

• near the top is a photo of Paul screaming (in the accident he lost his hair and teeth and was decapitated).
• Paul is facing to the side on the cover, showing non-conformity with the other living Beatles, who are facing front.
• Tomorrow Never Knows is inspired by "The Tibetan Book of the Dead".

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

• The whole album is a funeral scene. The headstone is the stone statue to the right of the drum. In front of that is a yellow floral display which is in the shape of Paul's left handed Bass guitar... But, when the cover is turned 90 degrees counter-clockwise, it is a "P".  Note the younger Ringo is sad, as if he had lost a friend.
• To the right of the stone statue is a statue of a girl who is looking down and to the right at a flaming car. This is "Lovely Rita the meter maid," who saw Paul's accident and the flaming car. The reason Paul was in the accident was because he was looking at "Lovely Rita".
• Paul himself is seen with a hand over his head, which is an Eastern blessing for the deceased.
• Paul holds a cor anglais, at the end of which is a small hook, representing the reaper's scythe
• The four-armed doll at the bottom of the cover points with one arm to Paul and is holding some sort of floral bouquet.
• On the record version, the inside photo of the band shows Paul with a patch on his left arm which reads "O.P.D." or, "Officially Pronounced Dead."
• On the back cover of the record version, Paul is facing backwards, symbolizing his non-conformance with the living (being dead and all).
• On the back cover of the record version, George points to the line, "Wednesday morning at five o'clock," the day and time of the accident.

• When a mirror is put up to the drum on the cover in the middle and horizontally, it reads, "1 ONE 1 X = HE DIE (arrow pointing to Paul)." The "1 ONE 1" refers to the three remaining Beatles; the "X" to Paul. This photo makes it easier to see...
  

• The record sleeve for the first printing of the album came in psychedelic red colors, which looked like it had been soaked in blood. A picture of the sleeve is on the inside back cover of the CD version.
• Front Cover, a Yellow Submarine is below the band, almost inside the hill. If you remember from Revolver, Submarine goes to represent a coffin.
• Three Beatles are standing at an angle while Paul is standing straight on. This is because George, John, and Ringo are supporting him.
• Right under them, is some sort of religious doll with a thick black line down the center of his head. This is to remind us that Paul split his head open in the "accident".
• All the way on the right is a Shirley Temple doll with a toy Ashton Martin (Paul's car) in one hand and a bloody driving glove on her other side.
• The doll below the T at the bottom of the cover is the Hindu god Shiva the Destroyer. Her two hands that she is holding up are pointing to both of the Pauls on the cover.
• On the back cover, The words "Without You" are coming out of Paul's head.
• Back cover: When you read the lyrics on the back all the way across, one of the lines is "Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock as the day begins … life flows on within you and without you … you're on your own you're in the street".
• The original pressing of the album came with a record sleeve that is red at the bottom and goes from pink to white in a wavy design as you go towards the top. It looks like it is soaked in blood.

Magical Mystery Tour

• The word "BEATLES" on the cover spelled out in stars becomes a phone number when viewed upside-down. The number is either 537-1438 or 231-7438. The latter is rumored to be the number to a London mortuary, but some say that when they called the number they heard, "You're getting closer..."
• In the movie and in a picture in the booklet to the record version, it shows Paul at a desk with a sticker on it that reads, "I WAS."
• On page 12 of the booklet in the record version, Paul is not wearing any shoes; they are to the left and covered in blood.
• Front Cover, Paul is The Walrus (we know from Glass Onion), he's other only one in black. Ringo's drum in the CD booklet reads "Love the THREE Beatles".
• I Am The Walrus - Also disputing the fact that John is the Walrus is "Little Nicola", who says "No you're not!" underneath the song title inside the cover.
• On page 3 of the booklet, a recruiting poster sits in front of Paul on a desk with the words "I WAS" printed on it.
• Above Paul's head in the very same picture, are two flags which imply a military funeral.
• On page 23 of said booklet, the Beatles all wear white suits with red flowers in their lapels. Except Paul, whose flower is black.
• On page 8, if one turns the picture 90 degrees to the right, an image of a skull can be seen with one of the diner's beret being the eye socket.

The Beatles

• Inside Booklet, a photo of Paul is seen with him having a scar on his lip.
• On page 18 you can see a picture of William before his plastic surgery.
• One picture on the bottom there is a picture of Paul running onto a train<?> with what looks like skeleton's hands following after him.

Yellow Submarine

• On the front of the cover Paul has a hand above his head, again, the Eastern blessing for the dead.
• The Yellow Submarine on the cover is underground, beneath the remaining Beatles. This is Paul's coffin.

Abbey Road

• The cover is symbolic of a funeral procession; John is dressed as the preacher (Many believe he's even supposed to signify Jesus Christ), Ringo as the pallbearer, Paul as the corpse, and George as the grave digger.
• Paul is walking with his eyes closed, like a dead man.
• Paul is walking out of step with the other Beatles. He leads with his right foot, the others with their left. This is a symbol of non-conformity with the living (because he is dead).
• Also, Paul is walking with a cigarette in his right hand, while the real Paul is left-handed. Cigarettes were also known as "coffin nails."
• The Volkswagen Beetle has a license plate which reads, "28IF." In other words, Paul would have been 28 when Abbey Road was released, if he had lived.
• On the back cover, the word "Beatles" has a crack running down the letter "S," symbolizing a break in the band (Paul's death).
• To the left of the "Beatles" sign are five circles. Four of these are in the light because they represent people who are alive; John, George, Ringo, and William Campbell (Paul's replacement). The fifth circle is in the shade because it represents Paul, who is dead.
• On the back cover, if the dots in front of "Beatles" are connected, they form a "3".
• While looking at the back cover, turn it 90 degrees counter-clockwise. A skull and spine image is illuminated in the brick wall.

Let It Be

• Front cover - while the rest of The Beatles' background pictures are white (or nearly white), Paul's is red.
• Front cover - The microphone is covering the scar on Paul’s upper lip.

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