Is Paul McCartney really DEAD ?

[Mikey]

For one thing ........
In some photos, Paul clearly has a repaired cleft lip (see Sgt Pepper gatefold photo)
In other photo's, he doesn't.
Pepper was '67

[Vortigern99]

why would he be the only one with no shoes though?

Alternate takes of this album cover photo show Paul with sandals on and in step with the others, eyes open. Many candid photos exist showing that Paul, although a lefty, holds the ciggie in his right.

Myth/Reality comparisons:

Paul is dead?!?

Paul was known to go barefoot on occasion, just like director Peter Jackson.

[Vortigern99]

Also, the Volkswagen license plate on the AR cover reads "LMW 281F" (giving rise to the "28 IF" belief, as in "if he'd lived"; but actually, Paul was 27 in the summer of 1969 when the cover photo was taken.)

Here are some fun links (though the only one I've found with debunking info is the one in my post, above):

http://www.turnmeondeadman.net/IBP/Intro.php
http://members.tripod.com/~taz4158/mac.html
About The Beatles - Paul Is Dead Clues
This one has spine-tingling photo comparisons: Paul is dead (because THE KING IS NAKED!)

[Action Burt]

Very intriguing.

A lot of photo "evidence" here...


Paul Really Is Dead: Part 1 of Facial Comparison: Getting A Reference.

[jessica]

wow! This is crazy cool! I love this stuff! Thanks for posting them!!!

[toys2cool]

Very intriguing.

A lot of photo "evidence" here...


Paul Really Is Dead: Part 1 of Facial Comparison: Getting A Reference.

wow that's crazy!! I hate to say it but it looks like there were 2 different people in there

They should do something about this on the History channel or something

[jwyblejr]

Very intriguing.

A lot of photo "evidence" here...


Paul Really Is Dead: Part 1 of Facial Comparison: Getting A Reference.

That site gave me a nice little giggle. I'm sure they don't go into detail on how they made the "lookalike" play the guitar or the fact he'd have to be left-handed and the fact they must have taught him to sing the same way as Paul. Good for a laugh like I said.

[Cosmicman]

That site gave me a nice little giggle. I'm sure they don't go into detail on how they made the "lookalike" play the guitar or the fact he'd have to be left-handed and the fact they must have taught him to sing the same way as Paul. Good for a laugh like I said.

Right! I have a friend that has been studying to play and sound like Elvis most of his life. It took him that long to achieve status as an Elvis Presley Impersonator. You just don't wake up one day and decide you are going to sound and act like a musician that is very well established in the music business. It takes quite of bit of years dedication to even achieve anything like that (even if you can pull it off). What a joke this stuff is. I can't believe some people on here are actually getting crazy and taking on the notion that it could be possible. Quit!

[Vortigern99]

Paul Really Is Dead: Part 1 of Facial Comparison: Getting A Reference.

wow that's crazy!! I hate to say it but it looks like there were 2 different people in there

They should do something about this on the History channel or something

Every one of the supposed discrepancies in those photographs and films stills is explained with an understanding of 1) perspective, 2) lights & shade, and 3) camera lenses.

The rules of perspective -- objects in space diminishing toward a vanishing point/s -- dictate that if we are looking down at something, it diminishes toward a base vanishing point. That is what's happening in the height comparisons in the above link. The pics where Paul (the alleged impostor) looks taller are straight-on, 2-point perspective shots, with no 3rd or "base" vanishing point to diminish towards. Therefore his figure is longer because he is not diminishing downward.

Light and shadow can either illuminate or obscure certain features. This is what's happening when Paul's chin cleft, for example, looks more furrowed in some shots than in others.

Some photographic lenses make objects look more narrow than they actually are, some lenses widen objects. This is what's happening in the pics in the above link in which one Paul McCartney head seems bigger than another.

[toys2cool]

I don't know,that first face they use on the early pics looks like someone else

Cut me some slack,I don't know much about this and it's fun to imagine something like this happened

[kingdom warrior]

Paul Really Is Dead: Part 1 of Facial Comparison: Getting A Reference.

( No knock on you Action Burt ) This sight is silly...Paul is Paul. The face is the same. The voice is the same.This guy is comparing photos that don't even compare. Hello everyone changes physically...do we all look exactly like we did when we were young? So I guess he made up all those stories about his youth and his early days with the Beatles right?..........As a Beatles fan I always thought the Paul is dead stuff to be stupid....although I can see John being the mastermind behind it.

[Action Burt]

( No knock on you Action Burt ) This sight is silly...Paul is Paul. The face is the same. The voice is the same.This guy is comparing photos that don't even compare. Hello everyone changes physically...do we all look exactly like we did when we were young? So I guess he made up all those stories about his youth and his early days with the Beatles right?..........As a Beatles fan I always thought the Paul is dead stuff to be stupid....although I can see John being the mastermind behind it.

I agree its silly......just a bit of fun

This video actually proves there is only one Paul McCartney...

YouTube - Paul is not dead! Picture Comparison

[Vortigern99]

I don't know,that first face they use on the early pics looks like someone else

Cut me some slack,I don't know much about this and it's fun to imagine something like this happened

It's fun, I agree! For me what's even more fun, believe it or not, is to use my critical faculties to spot the baloney in such claims. "Undeniable proof" turns out to be a lack of understanding about color, light & shade, photography and perspective. I think it's fun to point out the reality behind the fantastic, the truth behind the purely imaginary.

Don't get me wrong: I am a fantasist and an imaginarian. But I also think it's unwise to keep a credulous attitude toward conspiratorial and other paranormal/parapolitical claims. Investigate them, yes; have fun reading about them, yes; entertain the possible truth of them, yes; but to actively believe this kind of stuff without skeptical inquiry prepares a slippery slope, IMO, for buying into any old parcel of grade-A balogna that comes our way.

[Cosmicman]

I have also read in a Heather Mills interview that Paul has under went some eye and forehead lifts in his later years. Whether that is true, it might explain some of the photos I have seen on the website where they say his ears and eyes are different.

[mego73]

Another theory is that the real Paul didn't die but wanted to go into acting as a woman











For those that are totally mystified about this, late show host Craig Fergason has a running gag where he talks about Paul McCartney and asks to see a picture of him and they show a picture of Angela Landsbury.