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Ah! But, I'd have given good money to see the Beatles movie based on a screenplay by Joe Orton.
http://www.beatlesagain.com/breflib/joeorton.html
http://www.beatlesagain.com/breflib/joeorton.html
Mcartney being about 5'10" and Stanshall clearly being well over 6' and very, very much a ginger geezer. :lol:graylien said:The strangest claim on that page is that the guy who imitated Macca also imitated Vivian Stanshall.
Layla said:The surest proof for me that Paul was and is still Paul is the 'la-de-di, love you, do you love me' stuff he's churned out both before and since as a solo artist.
Welcome to the board.markclaire said:Afternoon Peeps
I am a big fan of Beatles music, and have recently been reading a little about their history. Upon doing so, I came across something that I had heard a little about before but not taken much notice of...until now.
It is the story that Paul McCartney was actually killed in a car crash in 1966..
caroleaswas said:On the front of the Abbey Road album, there was supposed to be some singificance attached to the fact that Paul was wearing black and barefooted (singifying a corpse or some equally specious theory).
Carole
I met Stanshall more than once - he was indirectly my boss as I worked at the Thekla in Bristol harbour in the late 80s. Nice bloke, but always seemed highly distracted, and not quite altogether there. He occasionally had David Rappaport with him, who wore large sunglasses and a hat so no-one would recognise him.Peripart said:..That said, Stanshall's own death in 1995 would probably blow that theory out of the water - or possibly, he's decided to be Paul full-time, and so has faked his own death. Either way, VS did resemble PM, at least superficially.
Szooky said:Hello there.
I very rarely post here, but I had never heard the Paul is dead theory before and couldn't resist it
If you look at Pauls teeth at this link you can see they are pretty distinctive. If you look at the canine on his right side you see it sits quite high up.
http://digilander.libero.it/jamespaul/i ... artney.jpg
Now if you look at Fauls teeth here:
http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/20 ... 003337.jpg
He has the exact same thing. He has had some work done to his cental teeth, but its the same guy.
S
stuneville said:I met Stanshall more than once - he was indirectly my boss as I worked at the Thekla in Bristol harbour in the late 80s. Nice bloke, but always seemed highly distracted, and not quite altogether there. He occasionally had David Rappaport with him, who wore large sunglasses and a hat so no-one would recognise him.Peripart said:..That said, Stanshall's own death in 1995 would probably blow that theory out of the water - or possibly, he's decided to be Paul full-time, and so has faked his own death. Either way, VS did resemble PM, at least superficially.
There's weirdness connected with Stanshall's death, too. Stanshall died as the result of a fire at his flat on March 5th, 1995. Now, his most famous, entirely fictional comic creation was Sir Henry Rawlinson, hero of Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End (my avatar passim.) However, it transpired there was a real Sir Henry Rawlinson, noted orientalist, linguist and decorated soldier, who died on March 5th 1895, exactly 100 years to the day before Stanshall. The FT covered it around mid 95.
Anyway, back OT - nah, up close there's no way Viv could have passed for Paul. From a distance, hard to say.
river_styx said:The same thing happened with Elvis. The King now lives in a retirement home fighting zombies with a black JFK!
Ah - that was great fun, wasn't it? I thought that it was due to be followed by "Bubba Nosferatu" but, as far as I'm aware, that never happened.Mythopoeika said:Are you talking about 'Bubba Ho-Tep'?
I quite enjoyed that film too.
maxley said:Hello
Can I use my first ever post to fail to add anything useful to the thread, apart from to thank Mythopoeika for the Viv Stanshall death-date oddity...
Peripart said:Ah - that was great fun, wasn't it? I thought that it was due to be followed by "Bubba Nosferatu" but, as far as I'm aware, that never happened.Mythopoeika said:Are you talking about 'Bubba Ho-Tep'?
I quite enjoyed that film too.
Pietro_Mercurios said:Please consider, if you will, a curiosity. A Batman & Robin tale, with a twist, from the twilight zone, of 'Batman' #222 (1970).
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/james_paul_mccartney/paul_is _dead_batman.html