Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which means it also marks the golden jubilee of the infamous “Paul is dead” conspiracy theory. This was the popular urban legend that Beatle Paul McCartney had been killed in a 1966 car crash and replaced with an impostor by record executives. Below, the National Post presents your multimedia guide to the “clues” of the Paul is dead theory. A bass guitar made out of flowers in the foreground only has three strings, allegedly symbolizing a dead McCartney as the “missing” string. The 1965 song Girl, for instance, features the Beatles saying “tit” over and over again in the background.

Source: National Post May 17, 2017 12:00 UTC