Nov 4, 2020 · It is the rumor that Paul McCartney, the principal singer-songwriter alongside John Lennon in the Beatles since their formation in the late 1950s, is dead, and has been since a gruesome car accident sometime around the end of 1966.

Mar 3, 2015 · A number of websites recently claimed that Ringo had given an exclusive interview in which he revealed Macca did in fact die in 1966 in a car accident, to be replaced by look-alike Billy Shears.

May 9, 2021 · McCartney had crashed his moped in December 1965, resulting in a chipped tooth. And in January 1967, someone driving McCartney’s car had crashed it on the M1 motorway. But in the early days, the rumor flailed because it seemed so easy to refute. McCartney appeared in public, looking very much alive.

According to the theory, McCartney died in a car crash, and to spare the public from grief, the surviving Beatles, aided by Britain's MI5, replaced him with a McCartney look-alike, subsequently communicating this secret through subtle details of their albums.

Apr 7, 2008 · The story goes that at 5am on Wednesday 9 November 1966, McCartney stormed out of a session for the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, got in to his Austin Healey car, and subsequently crashed and died.

Oct 11, 2019 · Here’s how the rumor went, as summed up by Nicholas Schaffner in The Beatles Forever: Paul died on November 9, 1966. He drove away from Abbey Road late the night before — a “stupid bloody...

Dec 20, 2005 · It all began on October 12, 1969, when Russ Gibb, a DJ for Detroit's underground station WKNR-FM, received a phone call by a man named "Tom," who claimed that some Beatles records contained hidden...

Jul 18, 2018 · In 1969, the Northern Star newspaper of Northern Illinois University ran a story claiming that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash in 1966 and had been replaced by a look-alike. Russell Gibb of WKNR-FM in Detroit picked up …

Jun 7, 2010 · A voice identical to Harrison tells a shocking story: Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash in November of 1966 and replaced with a double! British intelligence, MI5, had forced the Beatles to cover up McCartney's death to prevent mass suicides of Beatle fans.