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Originally Posted by Por_sha911
I tend to agree that it was a very well planned hoax...
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
It had to be just one more gimmick to keep the band talked about.
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I really don't think that the band had much to do with creating, or helping to propagate, the hoax that Paul was dead. They were probably quite amused by the whole thing as being just another example of the insatiable curiosity that was focused on them. There was an unprecedented hysteria that surrounded the Beatles when they became a sensation in Britain in 1962-63. No one had ever seen anything on a scale like this before, not even with Elvis.
People poured over every scrap of information they could find on the Beatles in hopes of learning something new about them...yes, even playing their records backwards in an effort to find hidden messages. One rumor fed off another until the whole crazy story took on a life of its own.
Recording and touring occupied almost every waking moment of the Beatles' lives in the early '60s. I doubt they had enough spare time at that point to sit down and hatch some elaborate plan just to F'k with people's heads.
