Wahałem się, czy poniższe utwory + teksty wrzucić do „Beatlesi w piosenkach”, czy też tutaj, ale jednak tutaj.
Historia „Paul Is Dead” posłużyła wówczas kilku artystom jako pomysł do napisania i wydania utworów zainspirowanych tymże tematem. Dwa z nich są całkiem ciekawe - zachęcam do wysłuchania.
Zupełnie nieznana (pewnie jednorazowa) amerykańska grupa The Mystery Tour wydała w USA w listopadzie 1969 roku singiel ‘The Ballad Of Paul’ - w tekście pojawia się sporo znanych fanom ‘kluczy-znaków’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nFQpyAXBc0
THE BALLAD OF PAUL
Has Paul McCartney left this world?
Has he taken his last breath?
Have John and George and Ringo told us of his death?
Never made the papers, you didn't read it in the news.
But it's right there for you to find in several hidden clues.
From Sgt. Pepper to Abbey Road they led us on a chase.
If you know just where to look, it all falls into place.
An argument, an accident, an unseen traffic light,
A left-hand guitar on a fresh dug grave.
An album dawned in mouring white in a Magical Mystery Tour.
Three inside with blood red rose, one dead black makes four.
Song lyrics are important, in fact they say it all.
At the end of Strawberry Fields John says "I burried Paul."
Four men on the front of Abbey Road cross a London street.
The first in white, the next in black, the third no shoes on feet.
A cigarette is dangling from the right hand of the dead,
McCartney was left-handed, so everyone has said.
These are just a few things that I have found.
Is he somewhere …burried in the ground.
Of one fact I am certain, on one point crystal clear,
Alive or dead or just a hoax, the truth we'll never hear.
John Lennon is a holy man, he'd like us to believe,
He led us all from clue to clue, so fantasitc to conceive.
If you can find it in the scriptures or read it in King Lear,
You may have a date in Pepperland, the time is drawing near.
Również w USA, w maju 1969 roku ukazał się singiel z piosenką o ‘mocnym’ tytule ‘St. Paul’, którego autorem i wykonawcą był Terry Knight - niedoszły artysta beatlesowskiej Apple, a potem menadżer amerykańskiej grupy Grand Funk Railroad. Bardzo dobry utwór. Poza nawiązaniami tekstowymi, jest dużo Fab-nawiązań w warstwie muzycznej, szczególnie w długiej końcówce (okazuje się, że skojarzenie słów ‘Hey Paul’ z utworem ‘Hey Jude’ wymyślił ktoś inny na długo przed polskimi fanami na warszawskim koncercie McCartneya).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGCo8c-BN1g
ST. PAUL
I looked into the sky
Everything was high
Higher than it seemed to be to me
Standing by the sea
Thinking I was free
Did I hear you call or was I dreaming then, St. Paul?
You knew it all along
Something had gone wrong
They couldn't hear your song of sadness in the air
While they were crying out, "beware"
Your flowers and long hair
While you and Sgt. Pepper saw the writing on the wall
You say you want to live your life to the future
They say they've got dues to pay today
You say it's the fool who plays it cool, sir
And if tomorrow comes, you know they'll all hear St. Paul say:
Let me take you down
You had a different view
Hey there, Paul, what's new?
Did Judas really talk to you or did you put us on?
I think there's something wrong
It's taking you too long
To change the world
Sir Isaac Newton said it had to fall
Hey St. Paul!
You say you want to live your life to the future
They say they've got dues to pay today
You say it's the fool who plays it cool, sir
And if tomorrow comes, you know, they'll all hear St. Paul say:
I read the news today, oh boy.
You had a different view
Hey there, Paul, what's new?
Did Judas talk to you or did you put the whole world on?
I think there's something wrong
It's taking you too long to change the world
Sir Isaac Newton told you it would fall
You didn't listen, St. Paul!
Powyższe piosenki oraz inne “w temacie” zebrano i wydano w roku 2012 na (chyba nie całkiem oficjalnym) albumie „I Buried Paul”.
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Zresztą, z tego co pamiętam, niejaki Fred LaBour przyznał się do zainicjowania całej tej plotki, łącznie z wymyśleniem postaci Williama Campbella, który miał zastąpić Paula.
