History Lesson - PID

You probably know that Paul Is Dead rumors started in 1969 when a listener called Russ Gibb’s radio show on WKNR in Michigan claiming that Paul McCartney was dead. This started a chain reaction of hysteria in the United States. People all across the country were taking out their albums, (or in some cases buying them for the first time) playing them backwards, and perusing the cover art with a magnifying glass. Reminiscences of this initial wave of PID can be found in the short film “Who Buried Paul McCartney.”


The story finally quieted down when a reporter found a disheveled, but seemingly alive Paul McCartney on a farm in Scotland. The Life Magazine cover, the apparent lack of clues on the “Let It Be” album and the announcement of the break up of the band seemed to put the rumor to rest.

To hear most accounts you would think that the beast did not wake up until the emergence of computer software that could do photo comparisons and reverse recordings and the explosion of the Internet where groups could easily form to share esoterica and perpetuate all kinds of conspiracy theories.

It is a crime that most histories of PID fail to give enough credit to the guy in the middle who provided the link which catapulted the theories of PID into the communication age. His name is Joel Glazier and you hear his voice on several Rotten Apple videos including a conversation with Elliot Mintz about the impostor in RA 15, an explanation of the girl on the back of the Abbey Road cover in RA 32 and a description of the OPD patch in RA 34.

Joel Glazier earned his place in Beatledom by writing an article that appeared in the American Beatles Fanzine Strawberry Fields Forever, Issue #31 in January of 1979.


The Paul Is Dead rumor had been dormant for nearly a decade when Joe Pope, the editor of the fanzine, a beautiful guy who adored the Beatles, committed 28 pages, over half the issue to Joel Glazier’s article "Paul Is Dead...Miss Him, Miss Him." The article, which was incomplete despite the large quantity of pages, started off with a recapping of the major clues that people knew back in 1969. But then on page 4 there was a drawing which showed you how to place a flat mirror against the drum on the Sgt. Pepper cover. I don’t know if Joel is the first one who found that clue. I know I have not seen any earlier reporting of it. The flat mirror on the Pepper Drum trick rocked my world. Many people still feel that it is still the single most convincing clue.

This picture from the article forever changed PID.


Glazier created a slide show and appeared at Beatle Conventions like the Magical Mystery Tour in Boston and the Merseyside Convention in England.

Here is a Radio Interview with Joel Glazier from one of those conventions.

But Glazier went much further; and that’s something you don’t hear about in these interview snippets. In the Strawberry Fields Forever Issue #31, after a dozen pages of clues, Joel started to speculate in his article why the Beatles did it. He could not believe that they would go to such lengths just to keep their popularity. And even if greed were at the bottom of the plan, it doesn’t make sense that they would put clues on their albums and risk being found out. So Glazier proposed a theory that runs surprisingly close to what has been emerging out of the Rotten Apple Series. Have you ever asked yourself any of these questions: If this is just about a cover-up of a death from a car accident, why is it so scary? Why do I get goosebumps and a lump in my throat when I hear certain sounds or see certain images in the Rotten Apple videos?

I believe that Joel Glazier was the first to propose that the man on the Flaming Pie was Satan. His theory of Paul is dead was based on the story of Faust. The Beatles (or at least one of them) made a deal with the man on the Flaming Pie who said you will be Beatles with an “A” and you will have fame and riches as long as you give the devil his due. When the long hair and the drugs and the sexual revolution wasn’t enough to please their master, they had to offer a sacrificial lamb in the person of Paul McCartney.


Then either out of guilt or out of a continued desire to give tribute to Satan, they put the clues on the albums. Glazier tells a convoluted tale of the involvement of the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Mia Farrow and the whole crowd who gathered in India. He talks about Mia Farrow’s involvement in the movie Rosemary’s Baby and the strange connections between the plot of the movie and the life of its director Roman Polanski, whose wife and unborn baby were killed under the orders of the former roommate of a Beach Boy, Charles Manson. He even believed that Sharon Tate was in the Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour.



And in this article from 1979, Joel Glazier expressed shock that the movie Rosemary’s Baby was filmed in “the building in which John Lennon lives!” Even more shocking was Glazier’s assertion that John Lennon had been “tormenting the CIA” with secret messages in his music and his appearance at the Watergate hearings. By the end of the year, Lennon was dead.



I think it is important to say that Joel Glazier should be given credit (or blame) for much of what we see in the Rotten Apple videos.

Overlooked Items in the Briefcase?

Three Updates

1) Mike has a blog. This should come in very handy as we approach the date of his scheduled interview with Iamaphoney. Add it to your favorites.

2) 65if2007 responded to my request for pictures of the CD that he found in the suitcase. He said it only contained the one file, which was the Blair Witch style video. The file name was "ooo." Here are the pictures of the CD.




3) Milesdeo has provided another picture of his note. I guess this is the uncensored version.



Original Post

Last weekend a fellow we know only as 65if2007 did something to make himself the envy of Iamaphoney fans around the world. He traveled from Louisiana (I believe) to California, seemingly unafraid of all the talk of serial killers and closely guarded secrets. He dismissed wild claims about lizard-like aliens, stargates, shape shifters and paranoid computer geeks. He overcame any trepidation of rattlesnakes. He even ignored warnings about the FBI, CIA, the ghost of Doris Day and the potential threats of concerned neighbors and park police. And he found the Briefcase. It must have been a great experience to reach down and feel that baby in your hands. He has been cool about it, but his initial posts to Nothing Is Real shortly after the discovery gave away his excitement. He blessed us with pictures and descriptions of his findings, which I summarized in “The Suitcase Adventure.”

Upon his return he has had to endure maybe a little bit of skepticism and jealousy, “Why him and not me?” along with relentless unsolicited advice from people encouraging him to go get it dusted for fingerprints, get an X-Ray of it, and hire a witch or a priest to coax out demons. Okay, slight exaggerations, but not far from the truth. One writer even told him to go back to California to look for something else. On top of that came the word that Iamaphoney sent a personal message to someone saying that there was more to be found in the suitcase, which might have caused 65if2007 to think that people were accusing him of holding back some things.

First of all, I don’t think 65if2007 is holding anything back. I also don’t think anyone suggested that he was. If anyone did suggest that, it would have been because many people would have been tempted if they had found the briefcase to not let out everything for various strategic reasons. But, I think it is far more likely that if Iamaphoney actually did say there is more to be found in the briefcase, it means that there is more there than we are currently perceiving: not something hidden by 65if2007 from the rest of us, but something overlooked by all of us.

In the days since the briefcase was discovered, 65if2007 has given us some more details via the "Nothing Is Real" discussion group, to which I am indebted.

There is writing inside the briefcase. “Mal”



Another area appears to say something like “Beyond Jesus”



The cover from the “Magic Christian Soundtrack” album had some annotations on it. The words Lilli and Maclen Music were underlined. I covered Lily in a previous post. Maclen Music handled the publishing on Lennon-McCartney songs in the U.S. plus one extra song, which was “St. Paul” by Terry Knight.



The bottom corner of the album cover has some interesting scribbles on it.



It appears to me to say Paul Mc 8R.L There is some speculation that the last part refers to a postal code of some kind.

This item appeared in the subsequent video Pete Best.



The record itself has a little something on it. It looks like L.I.L.Y.



There was also some writing on the brown wrapper that held the album.



And another thing that 65if2007 described as “a little more familiar and a little more the result of purposeful design...”



Someone suggested it is the sign of Aries, the Ram, which makes perfect sense.

There have been several “Y”-shaped things in the Rotten Apple series, like this one on the left side of this frame from RA 39.



The outer jacket also contains “ME”



and the word “Superstone”



Superstone was the name of one of those outside the numbered series Rotten Apple videos. It came out around August 20, 2007 in a particularly prolific period for Iamaphoney which included Rotten Apple Videos 45, 46, and 47 all within the span of about a day. It’s actual title was "A lie adds up – Superstone" and it appeared on the site of YouTube user ROTTENAPPLEARMY (a definite Iamaphoney identity).

Unfortunately “Superstone” was taken down very quickly and only a few saw it. Fortunately, I was one of the few who did. I even got a chance to download it before it disappeared. When I got a request this week from someone at “Nothing Is Real,” the group that has been very helpful in helping us scrutinize the briefcase contents, I uploaded it to YouTube for them. Unfortunately, I removed it from YouTube last night.

I was asked to remove it and complied under the condition that I could tell you why I had to do so.

This is the correspondence I received yesterday from Iamaphoney. He has given me permission to quote it verbatim:

Subject: superstone
From: Iamaphoney
I must admit that I'm a fan of your work and I know that, in the future, it´ll be widely spread.
We accept the fact that superstone slipped out of our hands, and made it´s own life on youtube, really.
Superstone is a very important brick in the revelation and that demo supposed to be around!
So, if you will remove the video at this point, it would be very helpfull and highly appreciated.

If you choose not to follow the recommendation
I´ll understand it and therefore I´ll accept it.

do what thou wilt,

best regards

peace and unlimited life

So, I honored the request. Time will tell if I did the right thing. You have the right to criticise me, but it felt like the right thing to do. I also think the correspondence reveals a little bit about Iamaphoney, which after all, is what this blog is all about. If you think I did a bonehead thing, I hope you will forgive me. It is possible that this gesture will pay off dividends in the future. Let's wait and see.

The final discovery from the suitcase that we know about is the CD. I don’t know much about the CD. I would like to know: What did the CD look like? Was it packaged in anything? What was the file name of the video? Was that the only file on the disk?

This is the Video from the CD that 65if2007 so graciously uploaded to YouTube upon his return: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3YWiLybc5c
A close investigation of the “Blair Witch” style video reveals a person wearing a mask.

Last night a new video appeared on the channel of BlllShepherd (very likely an Iamaphoney alias) called “The Mask” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSbf799rTFM
The eerily blurry 15 second video is accompanied by backwards fragments of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven (heard as “Oh here's to my sweet Satan. The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan.”) and the “Na Na Na” chorus of “Hey Jude” (interestingly corresponding to yesterday's post on this blog).

So, I wonder if there is anything else to be found in the suitcase. I believe that 65if2007 has found all of the physical items, but we need to do some creative thinking to find out if there is anything else of significance.

Send your thoughts, theories and insights my way of anything we might have overlooked.

Nazz

The recent 15 second video from whaIedreamers, entitled Pete Best, had a quick reference to His Royal Hipness, Lord Buckley.



Buckley was an original, a charismatic entertainer with a style all his own. He would take well known stories and present them often with significant distortions in the style reminiscent of a British aristocrat or Hip Jazzman, or some unique combination. Buckley lived a very colorful joyful life but experienced a dark tragic death caught up in a web of political corruption, intoxicants and illness. I don’t know if it was the way he lived or the way he died that earned him a place as a Beatles favorite.

According to Wiki, this pot smoking, hard drinking party animal, who often entertained guests in the nude and served as a test subject in LSD research, was a very close friend of Ed Sullivan, who even got him out of some scrapes with the law. After an evening of hearing stories from Buckley’s former manager, George Grief, George Harrison wrote the song “Crackerbox Palace” named after Buckley’s home.

Lord Buckley was way ahead of his time in terms of his views on civil rights for minorities and his general love of people. Those qualities showed themselves in his retelling of Biblical stories including "Jonah" and “The Nazz,” a retelling (and re-writing) of the story of Jesus of Nazareth. But, Buckley also had a dark side that came out in works like a take on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and “The Bad-Rapping of the Marquis de Sade.” Again it is hard to tell which side of him earned the respect of the Beatles.

When I first heard Lord Buckley’s performance of “The Nazz” it was an eye opener. I don’t know what I expected, but this was something unlike anything I had ever heard. Despite the extremely unusual delivery, I was able to catch on to the story and recognize the familiar elements from the Gospels. But one interesting thing was that His Royal Hipness for reasons unknown took the part where Peter tries to walk on water and replaces him with Jude. And when Jude attempts to make it to the Nazz in the impossible act of walking on water, the Nazz says to him, “Make it, Jude” in a manner very similar to the way Paul says it during the Na na na chorus of “Hey Jude.”

You can listen to the line yourself by downloading it here.

There is no way to know if Paul McCartney really was thinking about or paying tribute to Lord Buckley in the heat of vocal ad libbing on “Hey Jude.” But one interesting commonality is that in the case of Lord Buckley, the name Jude was a substitute for Peter and in the case of Paul McCartney, the name Jude was a substitute for Jules, if we are to believe his frequent telling of the story of how he wrote it while on the way to see Julian Lennon shortly after the break up of John and Cyn.

The Nazz is clearly a religious piece, which is not the case with “Hey Jude.” Or is it? Listen to the way Alan Pollack describes “Hey Jude” in his well respected “Notes On” series.

This gambit, combined with the sensation created by the sustained-note doubling of the bassline, creates an astonishingly transcendental effect. I stumble for metaphors to describe it, but the sorts of things which come to mind are "the music of the spheres", "the long caravan which passes slowly by", or perhaps, a painting in which the perspective is so deep that the vanishing point of singularity seems to approach the infinite.

That sounds a bit spiritual to me! But there may be a dark side to this. The Biblical book of Jude is unique in that it quotes the Book of Enoch. Jude is in the Bible, but the Book of Enoch was not accepted in the Biblical Canon. In fact, the apocryphal books that carry the name of Enoch have often been associated with mysticism and the occult.



It is hard to get a handle on how exactly Lord Buckley relates to Paul Is Dead, but I think we will eventually find a connection, since he has appeared in other Rotten Apple Videos including the excellent RA 62.



Regarding the song, “Hey Jude” let’s hear from Alan Pollack one more time:

Verse 4 — Note Macca's melodic ornamentation of the initial "Hey Jude" phrase, and how the parallel thirds of the backing vocal follows all the way through this verse. There's also the final vocal flourish ("better, better, ...") which leads to the jam section; it actually sounds triple tracked — two Maccas singing the flourish itself, and a third singing "make it, Jude."

“Hey Jude” has always been considered one of the most wholesome songs in the Beatles catalog. Nothing sinister about it, right? Actually there has always been a rumor that the recording contained the F-word. Former Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emerick in his 2006 book, “Here, There and Everywhere” confirmed that Paul uttered the dreaded word after hitting a bad note on the piano and the outburst did make it onto the final record.

There has also been some argument about the actual length of the song “Hey Jude.” My original Apple single says 7:11 on the label. But, but if you read any Bruce Spizer Beatle books you will know that the labels are notoriously inaccurate. The meticulous Alan Pollack clocks it at 7:07. However, some Beatles aficionados, especially those with a penchant for PID, insist that their stopwatches indicate that the song is exactly 7:06. Breaking away from conventional time reporting you could say that 7 minutes and 6 seconds is equal to 6 minutes and 66 seconds.

Make it, Jude!

Evil

I have mentioned previously that the frequent references to the Zodiac killer in the Rotten Apple videos may be due to the theory about a connection between the Zodiac and Charles Manson.



The book “The Zodiac/Manson Connection” by Howard Davis appears to be hard to find, but you can get some information about the theory from the web site http://www.zodiacmurders.com.

This particular investigation centers on Bruce Davis, who in 1967 became a follower of Charles Manson. Davis is serving life sentences for the murders of Gary Hinman and Shorty Shea, which were arranged by Charles Manson; but some investigators have linked Bruce Davis with other murders.

The Zodiac killer frequently used this symbol in his writings to newspapers and police.



This symbol was prominent in the literature of the Process Church of the Final Judgement.



Bruce Davis was allegedly connected with the Process Church of the Final Judgement, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Church) or (http://www.satanservice.org/propaganda/process.html) while he was in England. The organization, which has been associated with satanic practices may have influenced the philosophy of Charles Manson. There are also several rumors about a relationship between the Process Church and David Berkowitz, the serial killer also known as the Son of Sam. Some of the evidence that suggests a connection between these three killers and the Process Church seems a little shaky, but it is still worth a look.

One person who does have a verifiable connection with the Process Church is Paul McCartney. While there is no evidence that McCartney ever participated in the church or even accepted any of its teachings, he did agree, along with his girlfriend Jane Asher to be interviewed for the “Fear Issue” of its magazine, the cover of which has appeared in a few Rotten Apple videos. Members of the church apparently hung out quite a bit at Indica Gallery in the mid sixties.



The Process Church magazine was still around in 1972 when it featured some text written by Charles Manson. (Photocopy of issue featuring Manson)

Now here is where we need to make a gigantic leap of logic. If the Process Church was a Satanic cult, and if Bruce Davis was a part of it, and if Bruce Davis had time between the murders he committed for Manson and the other murders that he might have committed, he might also be the Zodiac killer. And so, Rotten Apple 199 features a police composite drawing of the Zodiac. It also contains a picture which might be a note written by the Zodiac.



Interestingly, a couple of the notes out there which are believed to be the work of the Zodiac contain the term “blue meanies,” which of course is a term from the movie “Yellow Submarine.” This is a picture of a letter sent to the LA Times that is believed to be from the Zodiac.



He also frequently said in his writings that his victims would be his slaves in the afterlife, which is why I find these pictures from Rotten Apple 199 intriguing.






UPDATE: The individual pictured above is Mike Renault Mageau who survived an attack of the person believed to be the Zodiac in 1966. Mageau was shot four times with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol in a parking lot outside of Vallejo, California. His companion Darlene Ferrin died in the attack. In 1991 he identified Arthur Leigh Allen as the attacker. But the story doesn't end there. Here is an odd little 1993 addendum from http://www.zodiackiller.com

The Rotten Apple videos seem to consistently portray Paul McCartney from 1967 on as an evil character. Some have even suggested that Iamaphoney is saying that the man we know as Paul McCartney is the Zodiac Killer, which I think is absurd. But however absurd it may be, I think that some people out there are finding and reacting to a sinister side of the music, which may or may not actually be there. One of the more plausible reasons why the Beatles have gone so long without ever admitting that they were playing little games with their art is that they did not want to be associated with the Manson murders. But could there actually be evil hidden in the yard, underneath the wall, buried deep below a thousand layers?

There are a couple new evil videos that have turned up on YouTube in the last couple days.

One "Pete Best" comes from the YouTube user whaIedreamers, which I believe is an Iamaphoney alias.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKuXqePu3Nk

The other "live fo rehtaf" (Yes a line written backwards from the Iamaphoney song,"He Is My Brother" which is a line sung backwards from the John Lennon song "Free As A Bird") comes from THEFlREMAN who uses IAAP material in his/her videos, but I’m not sure it is actually him. The video is good though and there are some interesting subliminals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df08qSxbdbI

Finally, a new PID character MilesDeo, who appeared on the scene with comments on Iamaphoney's YouTube page and then on the Nothing Is Real discussion group just as 65if2007 grabbed the briefcase, has tipped his hand slightly. He says that he is traveling around doing an independent investigation because of the note pictured below which has been censored by its owner so as not to reveal too much.

Yellow Submarine

In Rotten Apple 10, Iamaphoney called to our attention to an often missed clue in the movie Yellow Submarine. For a brief period when the Beatles are aboard the Sub, there are two Pauls.



The movie does feature a full set of Beatles lookalikes in the characters of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, but those characters were motionless in Pepperland during this scene. There is also a surreal scene with eight Beatles when they cross their own path in the Sea of Time. But both of those examples make sense in the context of the film unlike the scene with the two Pauls aboard the Submarine. In fact the two Pauls are only visible on the screen for a brief moment. I had seen the film at least a dozen times and had never noticed the second Paul on the Sub.

The double-Paul from Yellow Submarine is repeated in Rotten Apple 49, which features a much more detailed look at clues in the movie and some clever audio of the Beatles version of the title song mashing up into an Iamaphoney version. It’s interesting that a film in which the Beatles claimed to have very little input would have clues in it, but there does seem to be several including a tombstone for a “William McMillen” shown near the end of Rotten Apple 49.

In 1999 Apple released the Yellow Submarine Songtrack CD to coincide with the remastered DVD. In fact this is the best evidence of how great the Beatles catalog will sound when it is finally remastered. The CD insert contains many colorful pictures from the movie. Isn’t it surprising that the two Pauls, which are only on screen for a second would be one of the pictures featured in the CD booklet?



Also in 1999, MacFarlane Toys released a set of Yellow Submarine action figures Series 1. Each package came with one Beatle and one other character from the film. But guess what? It is a set of 5: John, Paul, George, Ringo and….Paul.



The Two Pauls




Now why would they need two Pauls?

One More Item

socash, from the "Nothing Is Real" discussion group spent this evening cracking a code that came with the zip file from the author of a blog - http://therightalbum.blogspot.com/

See the previous post for details.

He extracted two videos from the application and posted them on his YouTube page.

One remaining item was a password protected text file. When he finally cracked it, he posted this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2xWDKLelq4

You can see and hear for yourself--a very repetitive slide show with a soundtrack consisting of some scary sounds, backward voices and loops from Two Virgins, Revolution (a couple versions), and other sources. I am now doubting that this has any involvement from Iamaphoney. A rather anticlimactic end to an exciting day. But we should be greatly indebted to the excellent work that socash did to unravel this latest mystery.

For whatever it's worth - a parting shot from milesdeo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp2GDJgF5sM

Coming out of the Woodwork

UPDATE 2: socash extracted two videos from the mystery application and posted them on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZo9j4RWvtM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zA2rhj26ww

[End of Update 2]

UPDATE: Thanks to the great work of socash, jarv, iameye and letterb at Nothing Is Real, we now know that the file contains some video. Here is the description from socash:
Its almost like a movie thus far. No real interaction. Lots of ghostly images of dead people. The dead Beatles. Epstein, Mal... In the Cavern Club.

He also reported that the file seems safe so far. I would still advise caution.

[End of Update]

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This is quite a weird day. While I was investigating a new blog, the message from the new blog appeared in the comments on my blog. The text is identical to what I was reading at http://therightalbum.blogspot.com/

WARNING: The links contain a zip file with an executable file inside. It tested negative for viruses on my computer, but this task would be safer in the hands of someone who has a test computer. I'm afraid that I don't have the courage of a 65if2007. In fact, I'd sooner be with forest rangers and rattlesnakes.

Anonymous said...
QUOTE:

What's in a name?

I realize that by posting what I am about to post, I may receive countless inquiries that concern my identity. My name is unimportant. What I have done, however, may be of some use to you all.

For many years I worked for Yoko Ono Lennon as her personal assistant. I coordinated concerts and arranged public appearances for John Lennon, and for a time served as Yoko's own personal priestess in white (and sometimes black) magick ceremonies. I don't look back upon those years with any significant amount of fondness though I do miss John terribly. I was one of his many lovers, though I always felt he and I had something special. I suppose they all think that, though, and my time spent John is nowhere near as important as what I am about to share with you.

Before leaving the Dakota behind for good (this was after John had died), I took with me a few things to remember him by. One of these I believe may be relevant to all of you in conspiracy-land, so here I share it with you:

LINK

LINK

You may wonder why I am doing this, and I why I have chosen this medium, this format.
You may want to ask your friend Iamaphoney about that. He and I were close, but we have begun to drift apart due to unnecessary complications that arose. Regardless of what his answer may be, this is how it is meant to be. They have decided how things should unfold, and I am simply playing my small-but-significant role in this great Greek tragedy.

Whether you choose to believe a woman who will not even reveal her name to you is another matter all together. I believe it was Aleister Crowley who said it best:

"Do as thou wilt".

This individual describes herself in a very similar way to May Pang, whose new book "Instamatic Karma" published by St. Martin's Press is on the desk in front of me as I write this. (I'm hoping that if it is her, she will see the plug and slip me the answer) Having said that, it is highly unlikely that this individual is anyone having to do with May Pang.

I guess I should also remind everyone about the existence of http://www.youtube.com/user/therightalbum. That has been around for some time with very little activity.