“Paul Is Dead”: Inside music’s weirdest hoax

One of the oddest rumors to ever circulate throughout the music world was the false notion that Paul McCartney was or is dead. The first traces of this rumor originated in January 1967, when McCartney was reportedly on the road on a day when the weather was rough, leading some to think that McCartney died in a collision. A couple of years later, a writer for a student newspaper speculated that McCartney was dead, pointing to some so-called “evidence” hidden in some of the Beatles’ album covers. Ever since then, people have found coincidences or anomalies in various forms, though Paul McCartney is, again, very much alive.

Key Takeaways:

• There is a myth going around that Paul McCartney actually died and was replaced by a look alike.
• The Paul is Dead rumor started back in January of 1967 and the rumor was that McCartney was killed in a car crash on the M1.
• While there are many conspiracy theories to this rumor, there is no actual evidence that points to it being true.

“They claimed that if Gibb were to play The Beatles’ avant-garde sound collage Revolution 9 backwards, they would hear the message “Turn me on dead man”.”

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