if paul died in 1966, how could rubber soul be called rubber faul, it came out in 65. and only the beatles and pauls parents went to the funeral, pauls mother died years before. if you;re going to put out this *beep* atleast get the time line correct.
wtf
Those aren't the only ones (OK, I guess I should put 'SPOILER ALERT'):
- Claim that "Rita" was really Heather Mills. Mills was born in 1968, 2 years after the alleged accident, where "Rita" was at least a teenager. No way Mills is 15 years older than she looks.
- Implies that AFTER Abbey Road and Let It Be were released, John left his wife, took up with Yoko, and immediately went to New York. John and Yoko were obviously together a couple of years before this.
- They bounce back and forth about how many surgeries Faul had and when they took place (complete with badly photoshopped distortions of Paul's face to imply there were swellings and scars from surgery). Really, would they have taken pictures for Magical Mystery Tour before the cover for Rubber Soul? For him to look that different, it would have had to have been done out of order.
Not to mention all the other garbage they tried to pass off as real (including George's voice and horrible accent - or should that be 'oorribill'?) - too many to list here. I found the implication that John couldn't write music without Paul's influence ridiculous - not to mention that Paul must have been psychic to helped write so many songs about his death and the subsequent coverup. After all, they did imply that just about every song was about that.
All this time I thought Abbey Road was recorded after Let It Be but this wonderful piece of cinema showed me how wrong I was. I mean, George himself said it! I wonder what kind of tape recorder he was using. To pick up no sounds of the hospital or machinery he would have been hooked up to means that must have been pretty expensive.
I'm sorta confused though... George died almost two years after the attack, what happened between the attack and his death? He just sat on the tapes? That must be it...
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There were so many points in the film where I rolled my eyes I thought they were going to fall out of my head at one point.
Of the many things that didn't add up to me, one was John Lennon sharing roayalties with an impostor. Lennon was an egomaniac and there was no way he would have sat for that, regardless of "Maxwell's Presence".
They also overlooked the fact that Let It Be was released last, but was recorded before Abbey Road. Also, in regards to Abbey Road and "28IF".... Paul was only 26 when recording began and 27 when the album was released.
I also can't imagine the MI-5, so hell bent on whacking the remaining members, would have been compliant with all of the clues going around in the songs and album covers. I would imagine to be in the MI-5, you'd have to be rather intelligent and also probably wouldn't like loose ends.
Lastly, I find it hard to believe his parents could have been bought off and watched some double replace their son like that.
Just gotta keep on livin.. L-i-v-i-n
The fact-checking was really sloppy. Talking about Paul's "parents" when his mother died when he was a child. Talking about how the fake Paul broke up with Jane and then later showing the Beatles in India with the Maharishi...and Jane.
shareGeorge composed It's Only A Northern Song, not Lennon-McCartney.
P.S. The whole Paul is dead phenomena broke in 1969, circa a storyline from Dark Shadows about a character named Paul (Stoddard) thought to have been murdered was coming to a head. I haven't yet compared the timelines, but considering the soap opera character had been mentioned as early as 1966, the Paul is dead phenomena would more likely be derived from it rather than the other way around.
This movie was a mockumentary. They obviously fudged facts to make it obvious they were not serious. The Heather Mills bit about Rita makes that soooo obvious.
It is so funny because this reminds me of all the Nostradamous (sp) documentaries that try to make everything tie together and all the people that buy into that crap.
Maybe George wasn't particularly proud of having composed It's Only A Northern Song and saw his deathbed confession as a chance to slough the blame off on John and Paul.
shareThe excuse could be Heather Mills is lying about her age... however.. I may not be a big fan of the Beatles, but wasn't Yoko around during the Beatles recording sessions? It was her being around and influencing Lennon that caused the big fight between Lennon and McCartney... which they said happened in 1966 in this, without Yoko around.
i saw it without knowing it was a mockumentary and after i missed the first few minutes about this mysterious tape and that it was supposed to be harrison's voice. even so, i wasn't sure how much of it was really taken from the "paul is dead" theory.
but now that i've seen the whole thing... really, you don't have to be a die-hard beatles fan to know that "let it be" was recorded before "abbey road". i liked some of the other crazy theories that also don't hold water (like the heather mills thing) but the timeline goofs somewhat bugged me too. looked more like sloppy fact checking than humorous.