The whole phenomenon, however accidentally, shows how crazy and devoted fan love can get
with Oswald groaning
, “O, untimely death!” And in “Glass Onion,” John sings, “Here’s another clue for you all / The Walrus was Paul.”When the rumor blew up, Paul was neither dead nor a walrus. He was in seclusion on his Scottish farm with Linda, Heather, and their six-week-old daughter Mary, known to the world as the infant cradled in his leather jacket in Linda’s most famous photo. With a newborn baby to care for , he was in no mood to indulge the media frenzy.
John Lennon, calling the same Detroit radio station on October 26th, fumed, “It’s the most stupid rumor I’ve ever heard. It sounds like the same guy who blew up my Christ remark.” John denied any coded messages or that he was the preacher at a funeral. “They said I was wearing a white religious suit. I mean, did Humphrey Bogart wear a white religious suit? All I’ve got is a nice Humphrey Bogart suit.
Something about the Beatles had always inspired death rumors, even in the early days. As Mark Lewisohn reports inprinted a letter from a fan asking if it was true that this member of the Beatles had been killed in a car crash.” But this one was different. The novelist Richard Price, in a hilarious 1984 memoir for, recalls listening to a 1969 college-radio show with fans sharing their off-the-wall theories. He calls the DJ, just for the kick of hearing his voice on the radio.
At first, the Fabs’ long-suffering press officer Derek Taylor brushed off the latest hoax: “Ahh, they’re always trying to start one of those. It’s happened before. The calls will stop coming in a few days.” But this time, the calls didn’t stop. Richard DiLello’s book
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