Rumors Of McCartney’s Death Were Greatly Exaggerated

By | January 6, 2022

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28th January 1980: English songwriter and pop star Paul McCartney on his farm near Rye, Sussex. (Photo by David Harris/Keystone/Getty Images)

On October 12, 1969, one of the biggest hoaxes in music history started on Russ Gibb’s radio show on WKNR. A man called in and told Gibb to play the intro to “number nine, number nine” on the Beatles’ White Album backward. He did so on the air and heard “Turn me on, dead man.” At the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” he heard John saying, “I buried Paul.” The radio broadcast led fans to start to look for the truth about McCartney’s demise in the images on the album covers and in the songs themselves. In the process, they came up with some truly farfetched interpretations to support the belief.

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St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Held A Lot Of Clues 

One of the first Several clues came from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was recorded after Paul’s “demise” and released on June 1, 1967. On the album’s cover, the band members were gathered around a drum and surrounded by a crowd which resembled mourners at a funeral; they had flowers in front of them which spelled out “Beatles” as well as yellow hyacinths in the shape of Paul McCartney’s instrument, a left-handed bass guitar. The right hand raised above Paul’s head was supposedly a symbol of death in some Eastern societies; another symbol of mourning was the black clarinet Paul held. A doll in a striped sweatshirt has a model car resembling an Aston Martin which is heading towards the word “Stones” on the sweatshirt. Additionally, on the inside photo spread, McCartney sports a patch that people thought read “O.P.D.” to stand for “officially pronounced dead.” It was actually O.P.P for “Ontario Provincial Police.”