The Real Magic Drum

Making worldwide news and selling for four times the expected price, the famous drum from the cover of The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album was auctioned off at Christie's Rock Memorabilia for £541,250 ($1.07m). The new owner was an anonymous telephone bidder. Hopefully he or she still has enough money left to purchase a large flat mirror.



In other news, the video Seek and ye shall Find (#19) by youknowmyname231 is available on YouTube.

Finally to provide some balance after all of that stuff about the Beatles and Satanism, I offer the strangest news story of the day from the U.K. Telegraph.

1882 (McCartney)

Good morning, young master, it's 1882
And your mother is hungry, what will you do?
There is bread in the kitchen of the big house upstairs
But I warn you, don't take it from them
You'll be tarred, you'll be feathered, you'll be hung like a ham
And I warn you, don't do it, young man

Your mother is calling, she wants you by the bed
So get ready, young master, well, go shake your sleepy head
"Darling son, I am dying and I leave it to you
As I'm leaving, tell me what did I do?"

"I'm dying, tell me what did I do?"

Well, boy steals the bread, now that's enough, heads for the door
Man sees you coming, said "Boy, you won't be running no more"
Boy gets arrested and the case it gets tested that day
Judge finds him guilty and the jailer takes him away
Yeah, whoa

Good morning, young master, it's twenty-five to nine
They'll be coming to get you, well, in twenty minutes time
You'll be drawn, you'll be quartered, you'll be hung like a ham
But I warn you, get ready, young man
Said the boy, "I am dying and I leave it to you
As I'm leaving, tell me what did I do?
As I'm dying, tell me what did I do?"



This unusual song has never been officially released although it was performed by Paul McCartney and Wings in concert several times. Several versions have appeared on bootlegs over the years, but as far as I can tell, the version that has served as the soundtrack in a couple Iamaphoney alias channels is unique. I suspect it is an Iamaphoneyized version, but it is arguably the most musically satisfying to my ears.

The lyrical content of the song is quite unusual. Some would fault McCartney's lyrics because of the way he separates common expressions in order to fit the melody, but there is every reason to believe that this was intentional. Saying "You'll be tarred, you'll be feathered" and "You'll be drawn, you'll be quartered" is like saying, "You'll be fine, you'll be dandy."

Unlike many McCartney songs, this one does have a cohesive story. McCartney sings about an impoverished boy and the consequences he faced for stealing a loaf of bread from the big house upstairs. Many impoverished boys flooded into London in 1882. Jewish refugees from Russia emigrated to London after the 1881 assassination of Tsar Alexander II. The murder was linked to Jewish revolutionaries and resulted in horrible atrocities against Jews in Russia, who had fled Poland for the same reason. The influx, which resulted in increasing poverty in the Whitechapel district of London, included a fatherless Jewish boy in his late teens named Aaron Kosminski. In 1888, the Whitechapel area of London was terrorized by a series of murders. The killer, who was never caught, was believed to have been behind several disturbing letters that were sent to Scotland Yard and media outlets. One postcard was responsible for the killer being dubbed Jack the Ripper. Studies of the troubled life and bizarre behavior of Aaron Kosminski has led many to believe that he was the infamous serial killer.



I don't know what the song is really about, but I'll bet if they ever had caught that Jack the Ripper guy, they would have had him tarred and feathered, drawn and quartered, and hung like a ham.



Here is the latest from grandfatheraleister - Paul is Dead - 28 - Yesterday's Dead Man

UPDATE: Fireman from sonofwhom

YouTube Activity

All kinds of new videos have been appearing on YouTube in various accounts. I don't know for sure if any of these are from Iamaphoney, but it looks like people are trying to blur the identity lines.

UPDATE: After a long absence, Romek from allofthemwitches

Paul is Dead - Nothing is real from grandfatherboxset

Paul is Dead - 7 - End of Game from PIDgame

The Return of the Son from son of whom

Mals Book from apaulcorps (Note: MikeNL said the ending is different from the same video that is on the Iamaphoney Channel)

balloon or dolphin and amous bouche from MilesDeo

Paul is Dead - 1 - Yoko Ono and the Number 9 from iamawitch

Full Circle from sonofwhom

The 1882 video that appeared on July 3 has now surfaced in the account of JamesPaulMccartney.

Suitcase #2 reappeared in a new account named MESSlAHS

And this is not new, but it's the complete version for Bonzo fans and TKINers.
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Canyons Of Your Mind (Complete)

In other news, the Iamaphoney Channel has added "80020902 smra dica" whatever that means. And the Rotten Apple Army said, "imagine 8R," in response to a video.

I took a second look at a recent video by MikeyNL1038 and wanted to make a few comments. I wonder how Iamaphoney feels about Mike's video titles lately. As if the numbering system isn't confusing enough already...



The video seems to be a bit of a double-edged sword. It is obviously an anniversary tribute to Iamaphoney, but it also appears to be saying, "Come on already."

I think Iamaphoney's fans, and you can still count me among them, want to encourage him to deliver. I would expect him to respond in some way, but I still think the end game is a ways down the road.

I thought it was interesting that out of all of the material at his disposal, Mike would select the fake mustache as a clue on which to focus. I have always wondered about the significance of the fake mustache. After all, Paul McCartney could be alive and well and wear a fake mustache.



In fact there are lots of stories of Paul and Neil trying to get past security to do something relatively normal without being recognized. It would not be a surprise if McCartney had some disguises around the house.

But the fake mustache puzzles me because of its connection to the versatile symbol that is formed when the LOVE logo is mirrored.



But the mustache is not the only thing that seems to relate to that symbol. You also have its similarity to aries, the ram, and as Iamaphoney showed us in Rotten Apple 44, the Pineal Gland.



You have to look quite deep in Beatles history to find any direct reference to the pineal gland, believed by some to be the "third eye" or "seat of the soul." I only found one, in fact. It was on a bootleg album, "The Alternate Wonderwall." On the third track labeled "Microbes II" you hear Jack MacGowran say, "Pineal Gland." The bootleg is probably taken from a print of the film, but unfortunately I could not find that line of dialog anywhere in the DVD release from 2002.

If anything does come from this "LOVE code" and I'm not convinced that it won't, I'll bet it has something to do with that little Y-shaped symbol.

Kudos to Mike for an interesting video.

It appears that Mike has now been selected to receive pictures of items presumably from the suitcase. I have no idea if it is the same person who sent me the five items that I posted here. I did ask my contact the question, "Are you an associate of the Beatles or Iamaphoney?" The answer I received was "Both." I was told that the pictures I received were of items in the suitcase, but as far as my contact knew, the suitcase was still where Iamaphoney left it. I trust Mike will give us updates.

At this point, he was kind enough to make a short video of the items he received.

the rotten apple 151 from MikeNL1038

LOVE Is The Code

I'm shouting all about love. What is so magical about the word love, other than the fact that it makes the word "Code" when you stick a flat mirror horizontally in the middle? Is it because no matter how many people write songs about flattops and revolutions, LOVE is still number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 on the charts? Is it because "love is a many splendored thing," as Ringo sang on the "Sentimental Journey" album? Funny how no one seemed to mind that Ringo was competing with "Let it Be." Is it because love makes the world go round? [The Over-The-Top Department has suggested that from space, the world looks like a mandala or magic circle and love does in fact make it go round]

It was in the title of the very first Beatles single, "Love Me Do." It turned up a lot in those early records (She Loves You, Can't Buy Me Love, All My Loving, etc.). But in 1965, love took on a new meaning in the Beatles music when John wrote, "The word is love" in the song "The Word" from Rubber Soul. The first epistle of John in the New Testament contains the simple phrase "God is love." In Biblical interpretation "The Word" refers not only to scripture, but to the deity itself.

Paul's first real attempt to strike out on his own resulted in the instrumental "Love In The Open Air" for the movie "The Family Way."

People interested in the Rotten Apple Series have been disappointed that after a big buildup, all that has been "revealed" about the "Love Code" is that the word "Love" becomes the word "Code" when mirrored. Nearly everyone expected something major to follow and it appears that nothing has and maybe nothing will. If we do want things to progress, I think we need to look back at LOVE.

Long before anybody heard of Iamaphoney, people had suggested that the word "Love" was hidden in the cover art of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.





By this time, the Beatles had moved on from the boy/girl love songs that featured prominently in their early work, but LOVE remained a central feature. "All You Need Is Love" became the anthem of a generation. Many people in the United States consider the Beatles as catalysts for social change, giving them credit for the uprising against the war in Viet Nam and for promoting advances in civil rights on one hand and blaming them for the rise of drug abuse, teen pregnancy and the country's turn away from organized religion on the other. As Ringo would later sing, it was "all in the name of love."

Love is old, Love is new.

In 1970, a 30-year-old John Lennon released his groundbreaking Plastic Ono Band LP. The work was stark and shocking, containing lyrics so blunt and honest, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler, authors of "The Beatles Illustrated Record" paraphrased a review of the time this way, "He placed his balls defiantly on the line; out of sheer respect, the train ground to a halt." Yet amidst all of that brutal honesty, John sang, "Love is real."



Love is the one thing that the Beatles never outgrew. John continued to sing "Love is the answer" on his "Mind Games" album. Love was the resolution to Paul's "Tug of War" and its companion "Pipes of Peace." George often intertwined love with the power of God in songs like "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" "Love Comes to Everyone" and "Maya Love." And "Love" was the thing that was able to reunite the Beatles, even with at least two of them dead, in Las Vegas of all places.



Love was in the title of four songs on Ringo's latest studio CD, and when he needed to contribute an extra song for a promotional gimmick, he added a fifth (It's Love). Although Ringo can't get as many people to buy his records these days (Liverpool 8 peaked at #94) he did manage to get quite a few to gather and various places around the world yesterday to share greetings of "Peace and Love." He got quite a bit of press coverage too. Ringo sang on his "Time Takes Time" album, "We don't know a thing about love." Maybe we don't.

There is power in Love. Even Aleister Crowley seemed to know that. In that red book that was in Suitcase #1 it says: There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse.
It also says: Love is the law, love under will.

I'm not a Crowley expert and I don't know how that jives with him refusing to help fellow mountain climbers in an avalanche on Mount Kangchenjunga, but that question is for someone with more expertise.

Paul sang, "You've got the power of love, and love has the power, to make it come true." George sang, "When we use the power provided free to everyone, this is love."

And Ringo, who communicates quite regularly in the form of Tee Shirts, doesn't disappoint in the latest cover of his new live CD and DVD released today.



Several people have complained (understandably) that "The Love Code" means nothing. It doesn't require any special type of artistry. The word "LOVE" written anywhere will look like the word "CODE" when you put a horizontal flat mirror in the center (although there is at least one interesting symbol that is exclusively found in the Beatles mirrored LOVE logo --- It is also interesting to rotate the Beatles mirrored LOVE logo 90 degrees).



But I am wondering if we are looking at this from the correct perspective. Maybe the code exists in LOVE, in a way that goes beyond that silly mirror trick. Maybe there is a deeper meaning in what Iamaphoney is trying to say and we are missing it. Maybe the code is not in the word "love" but in the LOVE itself.

Try to work with LOVE for a while and report back to me if anything magical happens.

Two More Documents

I just want to express my appreciation to the person who has been sending these items. I'm working on some new articles, but I'm going to roll with these as long as they keep coming. I am inviting readers to feel free to contribute any insights regarding the authenticity of these documents. All I can say at the moment is that I cannot disprove their authenticity. Click the pics for the original files.

The first document appears to contain an insider's (presumably Mal Evans) observations about the development of Magical Mystery Tour.



The second document appears to be related to the Iamaphoney suitcase rather than its contents.



Hopefully this will help the suitcase hunters. Are there any suitcase hunters?

Happy Birthday Ringo! Peace and Love!

Document #3

UPDATE: MikeyNL1038 has a cool new video the rotten apple 141 - CODE

On January 8, 1970, a session took place at Olympic Sound Studios in London. Mark Lewisohn reported in "The Complete Beatles Chronicle" that George Harrison attended the session to do a vocal overdub on the song "For You Blue." There is some dispute about Harrison's presence at the session, which featured Glyn Johns at the helm. Beatlesource said that Harrison's vocal was on the January 5 reel, which suggests either that Lewisohn is incorrect or a newer vocal was later spliced onto the earlier reel of tape.

The main objective of the January 8 session however was to do a remix of the song "Let It Be." Although Johns had an excellent guitar solo to work with, he opted for the original Harrison solo in the final mix used for the "Let It Be" single. This mix seems to be the subject of a partial document I received from the same individual who has been sending pictures of items that are presumably included in the Iamaphoney suitcase #2.



I am not able to authenticate this partial document, but I can show you that it bears some similarity to legitimate documents from the same time period. Observe the writing on the picture below from Beatlesource:



Here is another authentic document from the same time:



Meanwhile, the hunt for the suitcase itself continues.

Three Wheels

I have received a photograph of what may be another artifact from 1967. This is the second gift of this kind in the past week. We have often heard the story of Paul's drawing of a wheel with annotations between the spokes that became the impetus for the Magical Mystery Tour project. Neil Aspinall explains it in the Beatles Anthology.



We see several glimpses of a piece of paper in The Rotten Apple Series that seems to correspond to Neil's description, although I can't say whether the image in the video is authentic or not.



The picture I received contains similar content at the top, but it is not the same document. This one has more details and it is handwritten instead of typed. There are also several more annotations on the sheet of paper. The writing varies in intensity as if the circle diagram at the top was xeroxed with notes added later. I am not suggesting that this means it is a forgery. It is entirely possible that someone working on the Magical Mystery Tour script made a copy of Paul's original handwritten "wheel" and then more notes were added to the copy as the ideas developed. It is also possible that the writing instrument was changed during the process. There is just no way to know the authenticity of this document, but it is definitely worthy of study.



This is my best attempt to transcribe what is written on the sheet. I will use parentheses "()" instead of brackets, so that I can reserve brackets "[]" for my own annotations.

Beginning at 12:00 on the circle and moving clockwise:

3
Commercial
Getting on
COURIER
mother should know
Coach
Hostess
astrology room (swim.
[I can't read this line -- My best guess is "River" but it could be "Rerun" "Being" or a number of other possibilities]
sing song carols.
Lunch
coach
Tent
dreams
army [darker print -- it appears to have been added later]
walrus
ariels [probably a misspelling of "aerials"]
space
stripper

[Then there are annotations in a darker print]

(shots for commercial)
getting on shots.
(staff introd. shots.)
____________

meanwhile back on coach.
____________

(Hostess speaking shot)
____________

Leaving coach
getting back on
Looking left/right
____________

Smiling people on bus.
____________

(Carols on coach.)
Moving seats.

[Then beginning on the bottom right of the sheet, perpendicular to the rest of the writing, is some more text]

Off into field and tent.
Coach in field parked. Back on coach.

Again, I don't know how to interpret this and I don't know why I am receiving these items. [See yesterday's post for previous item.] But I believe that they are coming from someone who might be associated with Iamaphoney.

There is a third wheel that appears to be Paul's Magical Mystery Tour outline. It differs from both of those described above. This one is most likely authentic because it was published by Paul McCartney himself.



The jury is still out on the other two wheels, but this is certainly another interesting development.