Mike Solof - Off The Beatle Track - Episode 88 (1993)

For the next episode of Mike's radio show I've chosen something a bit different, as this one takes a deep dive into the 'Paul Is Dead' conspiracy theory of the late 60's. As a Beatles nut I knew all about the apparent clues on the 'Abbey Road' sleeve, from the order that the guys are walking across the zebra crossing and what they are wearing, down to the number plate on the Volkswagon in the distance, but this show uncovers things that had never occurred to me, and delves back even further than 1969, right back to the time that McCartney was supposed to have been killed in a road accident in 1966. It turns out that Mike made this show as a joke to irk his manager Pat, who hates everything Paul Is Dead!, but like me, Mike was always fascinated by the whole story, and after collecting so many books, magazines and archival recordings on the subject he knew that eventually he’d have to do at least one program on it. It’s easy to say it’s BS… but there are just SO MANY clues that are not just in the music, but also in the album packaging itself. And it’s all backed up by facts that seem to prove that Paul was in a car accident in 1966, and that the accident may have lead to his death. If all this was pre-planned (and as Lennon says during the episode “We planned EVERYTHING!”), then this was the most brilliant ad campaign ever devised, and all those strange clues were out there for all to see… but went completely in noticed for almost 5 years …and then the craziness started! There isn't as much music on this episode compared to others, but the hour will still fly by as you take in all the hidden clues that the boys had apparently dropped into their songs in the latter half of the 1960's. As I mentioned, I had already researched this subject in the past, and if you enjoy this episode as much as I did, and want to learn more about it, then I can recommend the book 'The Walrus Was Paul' by R. Gary Patterson, and the quite superb graphic novel 'Paul Is Dead' by Paolo Baron and Ernesto Carbonetti. 

Track listing

01 Episode 88 - Paul Is Something

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