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...only comic relief in the whole ghastly affair is created by Ringo-to no one's credit but his own. Director Joseph McGrath apparently intended to exploit the popular Beatle brand of ironic mischief. Instead, Ringo's smirking indifference to his superfluous role neatly mocks the film itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dead End | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

Peter Sellers continues his comic decline as that grand guy, Guy Grand, who amuses himself by bribing athletes and actors to perform outrageous acts of public-and usually pubic-harassment. Together with his adopted son (Ringo Starr), he perambulates the English countryside looking for preposterous spectacles to stage. Their prankish piece de résistance is the launching of an ultraexclusive liner, The Magic Christian, which they quickly transform into a ship of ghouls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dead End | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...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 »

...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 »

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