The beatles billy shears biography
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This interview was originally published in the May 2017 print edition of The Avocado and is now made available online for the first time.
The moment I walk in the door, he’s asking me how my drive over was in that famous Liverpudlian accent, but he stops himself midway through the first sentence. “Sorry,” he says, in a different voice. “You just do this for so long, you know, it’s hard to break character.”
His “real” accent is a curious blended stew of his native Ontario with a whisper of Southern twang acquired from the years spent in Athens, Georgia. But you can hear the Scouse coming through constantly, and it’s not always clear whether he’s having trouble “breaking character” or if this really is just how he pronounces these words after fifty years.
“I do think in, I suppose, ‘British English’ now,” he admits. “Biscuit, lift, lorry, all that. Funnily enough, of all the pitfalls involved in what we were doing, the lies and paying people off and the cosmetic surgery, the biggest thing Brian [Epstein, the Beatles’ manager] used to worry about is that I’d keep slipping into ‘American’ and give the whole thing away that way.”
We’re meeting today on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. His name is William Campbel
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Paul is dead
Urban legend and conspiracy theory about Paul McCartney
"Paul Is Dead" redirects here. For the graphic novel, see Paul Is Dead (comics). For the Miracles episode, see Paul is Dead (Miracles episode).
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"Paul is dead" is an urban legend and conspiracy theory alleging that English musician Paul McCartney of the Beatles died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a look-alike. The rumour began circulating in 1966, gaining broad popularity in September 1969 following reports on American college campuses.
According to the theory, McCartney died in a car crash, and to spare the public from grief, the surviving Beatles, aided by Britain's MI5, replaced him with a McCartney look-alike, subsequently communicating this secret through subtle details of their albums. Proponents perceived clues among elements of Beatles songs and cover artwork; clue-hunting proved infectious, and by October 1969 had become an international phenomenon. Rumours declined after Life published an interview with McCartney in November 1969.
The phenomenon was the subject of analysis in the fields of sociology, psychology and communications during the 1970s. McCartney parodied the hoax with the title and cov
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Billy Shears
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