Klaatu are the beatles

 

In 1976 a group called Klaatu released their mysterious, eponymous debut album in August on Capitol with no specific artist or production credit. With the music broadly Pepper-era Beatlesesque( but also Pink Floyd and ELO like), a rumour grew that The Beatles had reformed under an assumed name, fuelled by an article by one Steve Smith in the Providence Journal which listed 150 items of evidence that indicated Klaatu were indeed the Fabs, These included:

 

A University of Miami voice print test that proved that the lead vocalist on Klaatu and McCartney records were the same

 

If one of the tracks, Sub Rosa Subway, is played backwards through oscillators and filters, " its us, its The Beatles" can apparently be heard

 

Ringo is shown on his Goodnight Vienna album portraying the characters called Klaatu from the movie The day the earth stood still. Apple promo for Ringo's album included the phrase "Don't forget - Klaatu Barada Nikto".

 

Capitol refused to either confirm or confound the rumour, resulting in 300,000 sales in the space of 8 weeks in mid 1977. Later identification of Klaatu as Canadians John Woloschuk, Dee Long and Terry Draper saw interest in the group wane over the course of their next few albums, and they finally disbanded in 1982.

I'd not heard that one, Brian - nice one :cool:

Ringo wasn't on the early Beatle records

 

Most people know that session drummer Andy White and not Ringo drummed on the best-known recording of Love me do. However in 1978 the renowned US session drummer Bernard Purdie was quoted in Gig magazine as saying that in summer 1963 he overdubbed the drumming on several early Beatles cuts at the express wish of Brian Epstein, "I had never heard of the Beatles," said Purdie, "but their manager, Brian Epstein, called me and took me down to Capitol's 46th street studio. I did all the overdubbing on the 21 songs in 9 days. Epstein called me into his office and gave me the additional [five figure] cheque. I thought they were paying me all that money because they liked what I played. then he told me I was being paid to keep my mouth shut." Purdie also intimated that guitar parts were being overdubbed at other secret sessions.

 

Some maintain that Purdie's account is pure fantasy. Others suggest that the overdubbing sessions may have occurred, instigated by a manager keen to have his unknown group's sound accepted in the US market, but that they were not used in the end. Yet another suggestion is that Purdie was used on Tony Sheridan recordings to beef up the sound. Yet Purdie insists that on many early Beatles cuts, "Ringo never played on anything."

 

Ringo's response? "I've heard that rubbish before. Everyone was expecting me to come out and fight it. You don't bother fighting that $h!t."

A great story.

 

I don't believe it for one minute though, as Ringo is such a competent drummer.

Paul is dead

 

In the autumn of 1969, a phone call to Detroit radio station WKNR-FM suggested that if a portion of Revolution 9 was played backwards, the words that seemed to appear - "Turn me on, dead man" - surely proved that Paul was in fact dead.

 

This errant nonsense soon mushroomed into an international story with TV, radio and magazine articles examining the dozens of clues placed by the Beatles in their lyrics and album sleeves indicating that Paul had in fact died in a car crash on 9 november 1966. Having suffered fatal head injuries (the crash was also supposed to have burnt off his hair) , Paul was supposedly replaced by one William Campbell - the winner of a Scottish McCartney lookalike competition in 1965 - with the help of plastic surgery and an apparent talent transplant.

 

The Beatles could barely be bothered to deny it, but a persistent media, perhaps sensing the imminent demise of the group itself, forced Apple into almost comical rebuffs. McCartney, having successfully kidded artist Peter Blake for a few moments that he was actually a copy of the real Paul, later recounted that " I was rather pleased you know, because I knew I was't dead. So I just watched the play happen." The gossip eventually blew away in the wind, but Lennon referred to the incident in 1971 to make his own bitter point in his infamous "How do you sleep" attack on his former partner, saying, sneeringly, that the rumourmongers had been right all along. McCartney acknowledged the old rumour's resonance by calling his 1994 in-concert album Paul Is Alive.

Edited July 8, 200719 yr by brian91

Paul did die in 1966. I post on a forum which can prove it with computer analysis of photos both of the real Paul and the imposter. I'm the biggest sceptic but even I believe it now.

Edited July 22, 200719 yr by Crazychris

Paul did die in 1966. I post on a forum which can prove it with computer analysis of photos both of the real Paul and the imposter. I'm the biggest sceptic but even I believe it now.

 

utter nonsense.... like all of his fans, friends, family... every single one of them, would agree to an imposter taking over dead pauls shoes... what happend to his body? he was probably the most loved man of the year, as if all those friends, family and fans would allow his death to pass unannounced and an imposter who has the same body/face/ voice and even DENTAL RECORDS let alone DNA to take his place...

 

i hate these conspiracy theories they are believed by idiots who dont challenge scientific facts.

 

ps... i was alive in '66, paul did not die, hes alive and well and being fleeced by a gold digging whore.