Paul's
Age
 Quite
possibly one of the most through provoking clues discovered to date.
During the movie Paul is sat talking to a woman and, during the
conversation, is asked what his age is. Paul gives it as 'thirty'
(you can hear this in the audio clip). So, here Paul is saying that
he's 30. Magical Mystery Tour was conceived, filmed and released
in 1967, and if you take his age awat from '67 to find his birth
year, you get 1937. Bug hang on... Paul is supposed to have been
born in 1942 which would have made him 25 when this scene was shot.
Why, therefore, was he telling the woman that he was 5 years older?
Could 30 be his replacements age? After all, they may share
identical appearences, but not the same birthdays. |
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The
Fool on the Hill - The Cigarette
 At
the beginning of the song 'The Fool on the Hill' a clip is shown
of Paul on the bus next to the hostess Wendy Winters. Then, after
a shot of Wendy the camera pans back to Paul who preceeds to take
a drag of his cigarette. However, he is holding his cigarette in
his right hand when he's supposed to be
a leftie. Because a lefties dominant hand is their left, this would
be the hand they'd casually use to hold a cigarette - so why is
Paul using his right? |
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I
Am The Walrus - Hand Over Head #1
As you have probably seen by now, since the start of 1967 there
have been an increasingly large number of instances where Paul is
shown with an open-palmed hand being held above his head. The question
we need to ask is why? What symbolism does this gesture hold and
why is it continually being attributed to McCartney? In this instance
it's seen during the sequence for 'I Am The Walrus'. As John jumps
up from the piano during the first chorus he stretches his hands
out so that his right one is being held directly
over Paul's head. |
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I
Am The Walrus - Hand Over Head #2
 There's
always the possibility that John's hand accidentally stretches out
just far enough to be able to be held over McCartney's head, but
what are the odds of him doing the exact same thing twice in a row?
When the picture is clipped into two showing the Beatles playing
in their animal skins at the top and the four policemen in a row
at the bottom, John yet again jumps up quickly from the piano and
in a flash holds his open-palmed hand out
directly above Paul's head. Why? |
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I
Am The Walrus - The Bald Caps
  As
the Beatles play in their animal skins, a line of people suddenly
appear from the background. These people appear to be dressed in
white cloaks and what appear to be 'bald caps'. Could the bald caps
be a reference to Paul's hair being burnt off in the fire? Then
again, these people also look a lot like they're dressed up as surgeons,
so could this possibly be a reference to the surgeons who rallied
around to try and save Paul? |
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I
Am The Walrus - The Car
 When
the image flashes to an inverted purple like appearence for the
third time we see a white car speed past in the background, just
like the white car that's sat in the dolls lap on the front cover
of the Sgt. Peppers LP. If you look closely you'll notice that the
only member of the group that this car touches is Paul - right through
his head. A symbolism of the head injuries that McCartney sustained
in the car crash? |
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I
Am The Walrus - New Man, They Take the Fortune
Just after the bridge, as John is singing "They are the eggmen."
instead of a "Woooo" you hear a voice saying "New
man, they take the fortune." Just as this is being said Paul
is shown. Was this coincidence or was the video showing the new
man who had taken the fortune? |
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I
Am The Walrus - The Explosion
 As
the song finishes the bus is shown driving slowly away with all
the cast members following it. As this is happening a big plume
of fire is shown in the sky, interesting if you think back to the
song Magical Mystery Tour where
the sound of an exploding car crash can be heard heavily hidden
in the mix. Could this be symbolising Paul's explosive demise? |
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Blue
Jay Way - Magical Mystical Boy
 During
the video sequence for George's sombre song 'Blue Jay Way', an unexpected
and disturbing image of what appears to be a headless corpse with
the phrase "Magical Mystical Boy" scrawled across his
chest. Is this Paul's autopsy photo? Also, as this photo is being
shown the camera cuts to the group all sitting in front of the picture.
John is on a rocking chair and is rocking away, but all of a sudden
he stops as if in thought before starting back up again. Was john
making sure that the clue was properly placed? Click on the picture
to see a bigger graphic. |
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Blue
Jay Way - Black
During the video sequence for the song 'Blue Jay Way', Paul is once
again shown to be dressed completely in black. |
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The
Funeral
As the cast members are singing drunkenly on the bus, the shot suddenly
cuts to a scene involving Paul, a midget and a tandem bike on a
beach. During the scene the midget suddenly' dies' and a mock funeral
is seemingly held. Was this just a spur of the moment thing or did
it have a more intentional meaning? |
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The
Beer Bottle
 As
the cast are getting drunk and singing on the bus, you can see that
Paul is holding his beer bottle in his right
hand even though he's supposed to be a leftie. It's natural
for someone to pick up items with their domiment hand, so Paul should
have been holding it in his left and not his right. Did
William make a simple mistake whilst drunk? |
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The
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Quite late on in the film, George and John go and watch a stripper.
As she performs her act she is backed up by a group called the Bonzo
Dog Doo Dah Band. Listen carefully to the lyrics of the song they
play since they are telling the story of 'cutie' (Paul was known
as the Cute beatle) picking up a woman and then getting killed in
a car crash. The song is called 'Death Cab for Cutie' and the full
lyrics can be found HERE. Was the stripper
placed to take the listeners attention away from what is seemingly
a deliberate, blatant clue being announced? |
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The
Flowers
 At
the end of the film the Beatles dance along to the song 'Your Mother
Should Know'. During this scene Paul is handed a bouquet of flowers.
This gesture is most commonly seen when an actor or actress is being
praised for doing such a great, convincing performance (hence why
the lead actor in a play is handed a bouquet of flowers after every
show). Was this presentation of flowers meant to be seen in such
a context? |
