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Word: ringo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disk jockey for Detroit radio station WKNR, had a startling announcement. Paul McCartney of the Beatles, he said, has been dead for several years, and is being impersonated by a double. Gibb figured it all out from two Beatles album covers. The new Abbey Road cover, he explained, shows Ringo Starr dressed as an undertaker, George Harrison as a gravedigger, and John Lennon as a religious personage. Paul is dressed hi a normal suit and is barefoot-the mark of a corpse laid out for burial in Italy. The license plate on a parked Volkswagen reads "281F," meaning that Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 24, 1969 | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

Rumors about Paul have been around for years, but so have rumors about John, George, Ringo, and Jackie Kennedy. It was on October 12 that the present McCartney craze started, as dozens of death clues were aired on a radio show by Russ Gibbs, a disc jockey for WKNR-FM in Dearborn, Mich. WKNR has been in the forefront of the Paul frenzy since then; last Sunday the station featured two professors, two bigwigs from the record industry, and one astrologer in a two-hour talk show. The talk was about Paul...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Clues Do Not a Dead Man Make | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

...weird, distorted voice at the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever," on the Magical Mystery Tour album, which says plainly, "I buried Paul." Another clue that always makes the uninitiated cringe appears on page 23 of the picture section inside the same album: John, George, and Ringo are wearing red carnations in their lapels, Paul a black...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Clues Do Not a Dead Man Make | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

...inside cover of Magical Mystery Tour is a reference to "4 or 5 Magicians" - i.e., John, George, Ringo, Campbell (or manager Martin) and, if you're counting dead people, Paul. On page three of the inside picture section Paul (or Paul's double- get it?) is pictured above a large sign saying, "I You Was." A bizarre picture on page five includes surgeons and policemen- "both involved in Paul's car crash," according to LaBour...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Clues Do Not a Dead Man Make | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

...down in the middle and is then silently and tenderly resolved. This sketch of a musical structure is brilliantly filled out with every minute of listening space taken up by a staggering number of wistful melodies, exquisite guitar work, and, near the end, an amazingly meaningful drum solo by Ringo...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Beatles Abbey Road | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

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