By Tor Ormseth, Online Editor
Most people believe that Paul McCartney has been more or less alive since his birth in 1942, but some people see the truth behind that lie. According to Wired Italia, the Italian version of the magazine Wired, there is forensic evidence to to prove that, in fact, Paul is dead.
The forensic scientists who did the research, Francesco Gavazzeni and Gabriella Carlesi, examined the facial structure of various pictures of Paul McCartney from before and after 1966, the year of his theorized death, in an attempt to kill the rumor of his death. The results they found shocked them.
They concluded that it would be impossible for McCartney to have a continuous singing career – as he did – if he were, in fact, the same Paul McCartney.
According to the study, McCartney’s jaw changed significantly in 1966, which would stop any single person from singing. At the least, it would force a singer into a several-years sabbatical. Surgery in order to change one’s facial structure completely did not exist in 1966, and even if it did there would have been no reason for him to get surgery. “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released only eight months later.
Another piece of evidence is Ringo Starr’s alleged confession that he and the rest of the Beatles covered up Paul’s death. However, the confession was published in the Hollywood Inquirer, a newspaper that appears not to exist. There is no reference to this newspaper aside from one article in World News Daily Report, and the website Hollywoodinquirer.com is a blank page with a logo and the time. I recommend taking this source with a grain of salt, given the unreliability and probable nonexistence of the source.
While the previous evidence may not be conclusive, the following should remove any doubts. A very thorough and detailed analysis by an Italian blogger — using the name “jamespaul” on Libero.it — and analyzes many different photos of McCartney taken before and after 1966. These photos provide persuasive evidence that it could not possibly be the same person in each picture. The photos show that his face changes its size and shape and that the features change dramatically, which is astonishing because his features changed less between his death and the turn of the century.
That his features could change more in a few months than they have in the last 50 years — or in the roughly four years since he had stopped growing — makes no sense. Plastic surgery, especially with the technology available at the time, would not have been able to change him as much as he did. His head gets larger and proportionally narrower, his chin completely changes shape, and he even gains two to three inches in height.
While it is a strange coincidence that any and all reliable information comes from Italian sources, it can only be concluded that Paul McCartney did, in fact, die in 1966. All of the theories concerning his death — that he died in a car crash, that the cover of Abbey Road was an admission of his death, etc. — have yet to be proven and remain conjectures up to this point, but that should not detract from the truth that is plainly in front of our eyes.