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On this day in 1969,
The Beatles scored their 13th US No.1 album with 'Abbey Road'.
The cover supposedly contained clues adding to the ‘Paul Is Dead’ phenomenon:
Paul is barefoot and the car number plate ‘LMW 281F’ supposedly referred to the fact that McCartney would be 28 years old if he was still alive.
‘LMW’ was said to stand for ‘Linda McCartney Weeps.
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And the four Beatles, represent; the priest (John, dressed in white), the Undertaker (Ringo in a black suit), the Corpse (Paul, in a suit but barefoot), and the Gravedigger (George, in jeans and a denim work shirt).
for those of you too young to remember,rumors of Paul McCartney's death began to circulate in 1969, a time when the strained relationships among the Beatles were becoming public knowledge.
Written versions of this story first appeared in college newspapers in the fall of 1969, but the precise origin of the rumor is unknown. The story caught fire with the public when it was broadcast by a radio station in Detroit. Russell Gibb, a disc jockey for WKNR-FM, received a strange phone call from someone who identified himself only as Tom.
The caller told Gibb that Paul McCartney had died in 1966 and was then replaced by a lookalike.
The Beatles had subsequently left clues on their albums about this deception. .
Other Beatles album covers also contained clues, the caller claimed, and a few Beatles songs contained clues about Paul's death—including some that could only be deciphered when the records were played backwards!
Gibb related the rumor of Paul's death on the air, which brought a strong reaction from listeners and the story spread rapidly after that.
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Added: 1st November 2008
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Posted By: Cliffy |
 
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