The Faul Guy

By Les Nicholls

When I first heard the conspiracy theory that Paul McCartney had died in a car crash or just disappeared sometime in 1966 and was replaced by a look alike, I thought that it was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard. However, I was shocked when I looked at the evidence for this theory and over time my opinion changed significantly.
I have been a Beatles fan for as long as I can remember,so if there is any truth in this then I will feel very cheated.
So I present the information I have found from a variety of sources and leave it up to you, the reader to draw your own conclusion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9780244875589

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Preface

Conspiracy theories abound, and whereas some seem to have very good reasons and arguments, such as the theory that there was more to JFKs assassination than a lone mad gunman, when I first heard the conspiracy theory that Paul McCartney had died or disappeared sometime in 1966 and was replaced by a look alike, I thought that it was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard. However, I was surprised when I looked at the evidence for this theory and over time my opinion changed significantly. However, the evidence is not conclusive and there are arguments both for and against, so I have submitted both sides of the arguments for this theory and leave it up to you the reader to draw your own conclusions.

I have been a Beatles fan for as long as I can remember, my first guitar was a toy plastic one with each of the Beatles images printed on the main body, you couldn’t really play it as it was just a toy, but I still sat in my bed, singing Beatles songs and pretending I could play. In time I bought a real guitar and taught myself to play well enough to join a series of bands, and the Beatles songs were always popular with audiences. I always preferred the early Beatles hits; Please, please me; Love me do; I should have known better; I saw her standing there and many others, because those songs were more like the other music that I liked. I loved early rock and roll, Elvis; Little Richard; The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry as well as the amazing music produced by Motown.

To this day I still love that music; I am currently in a band and whenever we play those early Beatles songs, they always go down well with old and young alike. There is little doubt that those early Beatles songs were classics that have stood the test of time.

But regarding their later songs, I cannot say the same, with only a few exceptions. For me Sergeant Pepper, as much as it is lauded as a masterpiece, marked the end of the amazing catchy music of the earlier years. As I say, there are exceptions to this, but it seemed that the magic that was Lennon and McCartney had gone. When I started to look into the conspiracy theory that Paul was no longer the same man after 1966, a lot of this sudden change in their music made some sense, along with the baffling reasons why they suddenly stopped touring and also why they split up, but more on that later.

On first hearing the theory of Paul being replaced, I started to look at the so-called evidence, much of which was being presented on YouTube. Some of this seemed interesting, but not convincing, while other evidences startled me completely. Pictorial evidence was interesting, but as someone who has himself dabbled with Photoshop, I needed more proof than that.

The numerous evidences of clues being found in Beatles songs, Album covers and Movies were also not in themselves convincing. This I will go into in more detail later. However, the video evidence was much harder to argue against, the technology needed to change moving images is a relatively new thing, and although not impossible, it is much harder to do and it would be impossible for someone to get hold of every early film of the Beatles and change them all significantly.

So let me share with you the evidence I have seen that have made me question whether the Paul McCartney we see post 1966 was not the same man as the Paul McCartney we saw pre 1966.

Of course, as stated earlier, there are arguments on both sides; those who claim that Paul was replaced with a lookalike and those who say that such an idea is ridiculous.

For the purpose of making things easier to follow we will refer to the person pre-1966 as Paul and the one post-1966 as Faul, a name used by many who believe that he was replaced and taken to mean Fake Paul