Paul's Left-Handedness

One of the big areas of controversy in the Paul is Dead conspiracy is which is his dominant hand - is he a leftie or a rightie? Paul is one of the most famous left-handed guitarists in the world and, in fact, in a 1963 interview Paul is quoted as saying the following about it (emphasis is mine)...

"The only thing I couldn't cure myself of was being left-handed. I do everything with my left hand, and no matter how I try I can't change the habit. I just seem to do everything back to front. I used to even write backwards. Every time the schoolmasters would look at my handwriting they would throw swinging fits." Paul McCartney

Here is Paul himself, in his own words and before his alleged death, telling us that he is a devout leftie and that everything he does is with his left hand.

Why is it then that in spite of this, there are a number of occurances after 1966 where Paul is picking up and/or holding objects with his right hand? Being a leftie myself, my dominant hand performs such tasks, i.e. my left, and because Paul has also admitted to being the same then his dominant, left hand should be the one seen doing such things.

But there are a number of times after 1966 where he is shown in Beatle material doing something that is right-handed. These include:

>	On page 4 of the Magical Mystery Tour booklet Paul is holding his wand in his right hand.
>	At the beginning of the 'Fool on the Hill' segment in the Magical Mystery Tour movie Paul takes the cigarette out of his mouth using his right hand.
>	In the Magical Mystery Tour movie, as the cast are getting drunk and singing on the bus Paul is shown holding his beer bottle in his right hand.
>	In the music video for Penny Lane, Paul appears to take his bass guitar to hold right-handed before quickly correcting himself.
>	On the cover of Abbey Road Paul is holding his cigarette in his right hand.
>	In the booklet for Let It Be... Naked a photo is shown of Paul holding a cup of tea in his right hand.
>	On the Anthology 7 video, as Paul is discussing the song 'I Will' clips are shown of their time in India. Two clips show during this that shows Paul playing right-handed guitar.

This is pretty unusual behaviour for someone who claims to "do everything" with his left hand and has - by his own admission - been unable to become even remotely right handed no matter how hard he's tried in the past. Well, he seems to have picked it up pretty easily after 1966...

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