By Clare Kuehn
CHAPTERS
Part 1 How Can We Think about Paul’s Supposed Death? – And Some Photographs
Part 2 First Principles: Nothing In the Way of the Claim
Part 3 The Material Evidence: A Broad Historical Fit; A Surprise; Faces, Music
Part 4 Formal Forensic Scientists
Part 5 Name of Double; Place, Cause and Date of Death of Paul
Part 6 Murder of Paul?
Part 7 Murder = Redrum: The Art Clues of Beatles and Others
Part 8 Nuns, Saints and Icons
Part 9 Fall-Out and Conclusion
PART ONE
How Can We Think about Paul’s Supposed Death? – And Some Photographs
In mid-September, 1966, something happened with the Beatles that would rewrite the history of music forever. James Paul McCartney was missing from media coverage for months.
When he supposedly appeared again in mid-December, he appeared in all ways to be very different than he had been, just seven or eight weeks before.
When the film of the Beatles “Hello Goodbye” aired in November 1967, on the Ed Sullivan TV show, the figure of Paul was extremely awkward and lanky. Why did they send a film instead of doing an in-person appearance, as before? He moved awkwardly, not with the effortless, fluid movements of Paul…