13-02-2013, 02:58 AM
And just doing a brief search query here for The Beatles, I see the very thing of Paul Is Dead would probably be considered trite and sensationalistic if mentioned at this forum.
But I'm going to take that chance here. Because I think that's the very thing that works so well about it. No one would even think it. Not for a minute. You'd think it of The Rolling Stones a lot quicker. They're almost synonymous with it. But The Beatles. Nah never. They just have a kooky rumour about one of them being dead and replaced. It just sells albums.
The more you look into it though, the more very dodgy stuff comes up. And people sticking with a story. Even though documented evidence states totally different things happened on the day that's held in regards as "the official day".
If one goes to the statement May Pang made that says, even though after a very polite and casual dinner with Roman Polanski, a week or so later John Lennon goes into a flying rage yelling "it's all Polanski's fault!" It makes you ask, um, what exactly was Polanski's fault? The dinner choice? Mind you, this is around 1973/74 Lennon is reported to have done this. Polanski isn't even up on charges for child sodomisation. Or escaping jail time for doing so. So what was Polanski's fault. It strikes me, just speculating of course, that you don't go saying someone's at fault, and get really really mad about it, unless it implicates you somehow in doing so. That's just a guess. Most people just say told you so when someone messes up. Or says "glad that's not me." Not goes into a rage, destroying furniture and what have you, yelling its all their fault. About a film director. Interesting.
Roman Polanski comes up again when in regards to Yoko Ono's exhibition at the Indica Gallery in November of 1966. He shows up before the exhibition was to open, demanding to be let in and see it. To which they allow. it's written about a week after in the International Times, who was run by MAD Ltd. (Barry Miles, Peter Asher, John Dunbar.)
John Dunbar invited John Lennon to Yoko Ono's exhibition a week before it opened. Which was actually on the 8th November, 1966. The date changed after the first issue of the International Times came out. It was originally titled "Instruction Paintings", and was to run from 9th November until the 22nd. In the second issue of the International Times, the date and title are changed, "Unfinished Paintings" 8th November - 18th November. Doors open 2pm, close at 6pm.
If we look at John Dunbar's father for a moment, Robert, he has an illustrious career.
My first question would be to Robert, so when you can't find work as a filmmaker, you drift into the Ministry of Information, later moving to the Foreign Office as deputy head of the inter-allied information office in Mexico and the Caribbean. Ok. Some people work at McDonalds in between jobs. It also places him in WWII Moscow. He's there in the beginnings in Germany, and at the tail end in Russia.
Anyway. Dunbar tells Lennon about this exhibition. Lennon's in Spain. He's been there for months filming a movie. He returns the 6th November. Barry Miles writes in his Beatles Diary compilation that Lennon proceeded on the 7th November to go into a 3 day LSD binge. I would imagine him housebound for that time, but he does manage to go out. And see Yoko Ono's exhibition "a night before it opened." Hailed as the 9th November 1966. The very Niney day.
Exhibition opened on the 8th. Case closed. Miles, Asher, and Dunbar have a silent partner in Paul McCartney. He helps them set up shop. He funds them when they run out of money as "Ian Iachimoe". This underground magazine already has connections to The Beatles which will automatically draw people to its writings, and its associated Gallery. It's a no brainer. By 1967 they have interviews printed with Paul McCartney AND George Harrison. They also have an article running just above adverts for Ono's exhibition written by Harvey Matusow. He's trying to find the CIA in London. He says they've disappeared. Matusow was probably trying to turn in some communists to the CIA if only they answered the phone. Matusow was an informant to Joseph McCarthy. It got McCarthy off his back. He turned in a lot of Reds. He helped put folk singer Pete Seeger in lots of trouble. Only reason Matusow was in England in 1966, was because he got blacklisted in America.
Paul McCartney on the other hand, leaves England on the 6th November. Just missing Lennon! He has his pa/road manager Mal Evans meet him in France on apx the 12th. McCartney intends to drive to Spain to meet up with Lennon. But Lennon's home. Mal Evans would know that. I've got a good mind to think that not only would Evans know that, but he'd also be either picking up John & Cynthia Lennon from the airport, or arranging to have it done. Because I'm pretty sure the Lennon's did not leave their car at Heathrow for almost two months. Maybe they did. I doubt it. Either way, Evans would most definitely know to tell McCartney, "hey. Let's not go to Spain, because John's home already dude!" It stands to reason that conversation may have taken place before Evans even got in the car to drive off to Spain on such a mission.
By the 9th November, McCartney is supposed to be dead anyway. So it doesn't matter if he goes to Spain or not. And the only reason we think he's dead, is because the Beatles themselves told us so. We didn't make it up. It keeps being said in every media they had available to them at the time. They even put it in the audio portions of movies we wouldn't be able to "play in reverse" until about oh, 30 or 40 years later. One particular one that stands out is the Magical Mystery Tour sequence of "Death Cab for Cutie". This is where George & John are shown clapping for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and the Stripper. When played forwards, this audio has the audience, George & John clapping, with John making non-descript yelling noises. When this audio is reversed, John's yelling becomes one utterance of Paul's Dead. Some hear Paul Get In, which after the Death Cab for Cutie's subject matter, is still relevant. They even put it in movies. A reversal is also in Yellow Submarine when they are searching for Paul in the mansion. They can't find him actually. Ringo, John and George all know where eachother are, but they can't find Paul. And they're not even sure when they find him, because as he leaves the door to an adoring crwod, Lennon's character says something backwards. When you reverse this audio, it says "Was That Paul".
Thing is, The beatles supposedly had very little to do with this movie. And the actor doing Lennon's voice, was actually told to say this line in reverse, so that when it was played backwards, it came out sounding forwards. That's like, deliberate. With people NOT involved with any Paul Is Dead agenda. The people at King Features, Hearst Corporation. Al Brodax and the like. Who had a very strange habit of making sure The beatles, particularly Lennon and Starr were always associated with Frankenstein's Monster. It was done in The Beatles cartoon series, AND in the Yellow Submarine movie. There's a whole episode of the Beatles cartoon dedicated to Lennon's encounter with various Frankenstein monsters. There's also a cartoon where Paul gets into a car and accidentally drives off a pier. And the cartoon where he portrays a doctor, with a "Beetle Killer" sign behind him, and proceeds to inject George, Ringo and John with something that kills them instantly. He is the Beetle Killer. Maybe Allen Klein watched those cartoons or something. Because in June 1966 he was already stating he was going to get the Beatles under his wing by the end of that year. By November 1966, rumour went round to a degree it was printed on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph's magazine that two Beatles had approached him for management. Epstein was still alive. He was quite upset. As was John. And George & Ringo. Paul could not be reached for comment. Because he was of course, looking for John in Spain still.
He should have been looking at the road in December of 1965 though, as he came off a Moped at 30mph and smashed his face against pavement. Chipping his tooth and cutting his lip. But the trooper that he is, refused to get that tooth fixed for 6 months, even though he posed for many photos, and an album cover in the meantime. The legendary Yesterday & Today butcher cover. (The cover actually fixes his tooth for him. Well, until it was pulled from the shelves.)
Funny thing is, I chipped my tooth falling off a 10 speed bike, and I was going around 5 to 10ph. Actually kind of coasting. The brake cable came off and wrapped in the wheel, and before I knew it, I had flipped face first over the bike onto tarmac. I pretty much laid in the middle of the road, stunned, for I don't know how long until some people driving up the road saw me flat out in the middle of it with an overturned bicycle. Blood was everywhere. My tooth was chipped. I was 10 years old. I smacked my chin and mouth very hard.
I imagine if I'd been doing close to 30 mph , what damage I would have done. I guess McCartney was lucky. It's funny though, as his memories of it now say the scar on his lip made him grow a moustache, which prompted the others to do so, which instigated Sgt Pepper. His memory is like, really bad. Because it took him 6 months to fix the tooth. It took him a year to grow the moustache. And there were plenty of photos and a bit of touring, and some We're Bigger Than Jesus interviews to do, that say that moustache's growth rate was reaaaaaaalllly slow. But even in June 1966, he was under the belief he'd just had the accident. When filming the Paperback Writer / Rain clips he states:
He sipped his tea and reached for a cigarette.
"What about all this 'Didn't Paul McCartney look ill on TV,' then?" he went on, referring to Mama Cass' remarks in NME's 'America Calling' last week. "I haven't been ill. Apart from the accident, I'm dead fit. I know what it was though. When we filmed those TV clips for 'Paperback Writer' I'd only just bashed my tooth, and we'd been working a bit hard on the LP and I hadn't had much sleep. We haven't had much time for anything but the LP. I mean, 14 songs - all got to be written and recorded till you're satisfied with them. It's hard work, man."
Well no. It was May 1966 when you filmed those. And yes you may have been working hard on the LP, but the last recording date you had done was on the 18th May 1966. Which was a late one admittedly doing Got To Get You Into My Life. So when filming the Paperback Writer / Rain promos on the 19th May, sure. But on the 20th, when you actually looked worse, and your lip actually looked fatter like you'd just bashed your tooth out of your mouth, well, you had no recording or anything to do. You did actually look kind of worn out, tired and ill. But .. you hadn't just bashed your tooth out. You'd bashed that out 6 months before. With absolutely no touring done after the UK dates in December of 65. Actually, people were starting to say you'd split up by the summer of 1966, and Epstein was constantly having to diminish rumours that The Beatles were no more. He was still denying it by the end of the year, even when you'd performed your last concert as a touring band.
It's kind of like that 9th November thing. There's a date given, but every single story that's told makes whatever date actually given, look like a complete distraction for some other event. Or happening. We have 26th December, 1965, and a moustache that takes a year to show up but is fondly recalled for its inspiration in making others grow facial hair that also took a year to show up. We have a road accident that at 30mph would make wonder how you even got up from it, and in some cases how you survived it. We just know that after smacking your face on pavement with 30 mph momentum throwing you from this moving vehicle, on the 21st January at Harrison's wedding you looked dashing. Like nothing had happened 3 weeks prior.
But 6 months after, filming a promo in Chiswick House grounds, you look tired and ill and your lip looks like someone hit it badly, and that's because you just bashed it in.
I know this seems trite. But when it comes to John Lennon's Assassination, the idea that Yoko Ono may have been his Handler, the Tavistock Institute, Kenneth Anger, Aleister Crowley, L Ron Hubbard, The Process Church of the Final Judgement, Charles Manson, Terry Melcher, Derek Taylor, the deaths of Brian Epstein, David Jacobs, Joe Orton, Joe Meek, Brian Jones, Alma Cogan, Tara Browne, Kevin MacDonald, Dr Richard Asher, Sharon Tate (Sept 1966 - Dec 1969 inclusive), doctors LIKE William Sargant, the politicians whose names get associated with The Beatles in this period, particularly Tom Driberg, whose ties to the Kray Brothers AND Aleister Crowley are well documented, and when you get to the Kray Brothers and the death of Beatles lawyer David Jacobs, well, if they didn't have something to do with Epstein's death, Jacobs's surely shows their hand. They may have even had a hand in Kevin MacDonald's death.
When you get to Helter Skelter and Charles Manson, it just all goes worse. And statements like "it's all Polanski's fault!!!" just make you say, ummmmmm, what was his fault. Basically making a movie about what Jack Parsons and L Ron Hubbard tried to do back in 1946 and by all accounts, the first stage of it they were successful in making Babalon Work! It's when Oppenheimer enters the story it all goes a bit ooooo. They did what? And you say UFO sightings started happening soon after. I thought that was just a crazy tale. Wait you say the person who said she was going to the press about Marilyn Monroe being taken to military bases to go see outer space stuff with John F Kennedy, got killed soon after walking her dog? Nooooo. What do you mean outer space stuff?
The Beatles. I'm telling you. Paul Is Dead has much much more to it. I have far more to say about it, I still have to research Ronald Stark's ties to the Process Church. By the way ... did you know in Eyes Wide Shut, the logo of The Process Church appears on the door Tom Cruise walks through as he enters the inner sanctum of the masquerade partiers? The Process logo is very distinctive. It's kind of like a swastika, but accents a more P shaped design. You can see it right on the door as he walks in. The camera lingers there for quite some time. You know how Kubrick was meticulous and loved lingering and making sure you saw what he wanted you to see.
He died 5 days ... oh nevermind. I could go into siblings Peter & Jane Asher being descended from Richard III. Or Tara Browne the Guiness Heir. Or that Jane Asher's mother taught George Martin music when he went to school. He with the coat of arms that only shows three beetles.
(I'm going back to reading some more Mae Brussell. She rocked.) :cheer:
But I'm going to take that chance here. Because I think that's the very thing that works so well about it. No one would even think it. Not for a minute. You'd think it of The Rolling Stones a lot quicker. They're almost synonymous with it. But The Beatles. Nah never. They just have a kooky rumour about one of them being dead and replaced. It just sells albums.
The more you look into it though, the more very dodgy stuff comes up. And people sticking with a story. Even though documented evidence states totally different things happened on the day that's held in regards as "the official day".
If one goes to the statement May Pang made that says, even though after a very polite and casual dinner with Roman Polanski, a week or so later John Lennon goes into a flying rage yelling "it's all Polanski's fault!" It makes you ask, um, what exactly was Polanski's fault? The dinner choice? Mind you, this is around 1973/74 Lennon is reported to have done this. Polanski isn't even up on charges for child sodomisation. Or escaping jail time for doing so. So what was Polanski's fault. It strikes me, just speculating of course, that you don't go saying someone's at fault, and get really really mad about it, unless it implicates you somehow in doing so. That's just a guess. Most people just say told you so when someone messes up. Or says "glad that's not me." Not goes into a rage, destroying furniture and what have you, yelling its all their fault. About a film director. Interesting.
Roman Polanski comes up again when in regards to Yoko Ono's exhibition at the Indica Gallery in November of 1966. He shows up before the exhibition was to open, demanding to be let in and see it. To which they allow. it's written about a week after in the International Times, who was run by MAD Ltd. (Barry Miles, Peter Asher, John Dunbar.)
Quote:"When John Lennon was invited by friend, John Dunbar, to an exhibit at Dunbar's Indica Gallery in London on November 9, 1966, the intellectually hungry, emotionally restless 26-year-old Beatle reportedly thought the avant-garde show might involve drugs, an orgy, or any of the things that made swingin' London swing. In fact, what was happening at the Indica was a conceptual-art show called Unfinished Paintings and Objects, exhibiting the work of Yoko Ono, a 33-year-old Japanese artist who created things like transparent homes, imaginary music, and "underwear to make you high."
John Dunbar invited John Lennon to Yoko Ono's exhibition a week before it opened. Which was actually on the 8th November, 1966. The date changed after the first issue of the International Times came out. It was originally titled "Instruction Paintings", and was to run from 9th November until the 22nd. In the second issue of the International Times, the date and title are changed, "Unfinished Paintings" 8th November - 18th November. Doors open 2pm, close at 6pm.
If we look at John Dunbar's father for a moment, Robert, he has an illustrious career.
Quote:Robert ('Bob') Dunbar (1914-2000), film director, producer, teacher and critic, was a pioneer of the field of film studies in Britain but also worked extensively in the industry in numerous capacities. He was apprenticed to producer Erich Pommer at Germany's Ufa Studios but returned to England when Hitler came to power in 1933. He worked first at Gainsborough studios as an assistant director, then as a production manager at Alexander Korda's London Films, where he assisted Alfred Hitchcock and René Clair; he also worked closely on William Cameron Menzies' film of H.G. Wells' Things to Come (1936).In 1937, with the near total collapse of British film production, Bob found it increasingly difficult to get work and, two years later, he took off for Hollywood, en route making a detour to Mexico, where he met his future wife, Tatiana, the daughter of elite Russian émigrés. When the second world war broke out, he registered at the British consulate and they married. He was soon seconded to the Ministry of Information, and later moved to the Foreign Office as deputy head of the inter-allied information office in Mexico and the Caribbean.
In November 1944, Bob was posted to Moscow as a cultural attaché, in charge of press, public and cultural relations at the British embassy. He also edited a newspaper, British Ally. The film director Sergei Eisenstein would frequently dine at the Dunbars' rat-infested flat and, on one occasion, waited in the dark of the kitchen to catch a rodent, which he proudly presented on a covered dish.In 1953 he became a producer with Group III, a government-sponsored organisation aimed at nurturing new talent. After a brief period working on comedies at Hammer Films, he produced one of his most successful films The Man Upstairs (1958) starring Richard Attenborough. However, production of British films was becoming increasingly difficult, and he set about teaching at a small art school in South London, which he bought and transformed into the London School of Film Technique. Early students of the LSFT included Mike Leigh, Iain Sinclair and Bill Douglas. In 1974 the School went into liquidation, but it survives today as the London International Film School.
Along with Roy Fowler, Dunbar instigated the BECTU Film History Project, an extensive archival research initiative aiming to preserve oral histories, ephemera, papers and artefacts pertaining to the history of film production in Britain. He also chaired the Journal Committee of the film technicians' union ACTT, of which he was made an honorary member.
My first question would be to Robert, so when you can't find work as a filmmaker, you drift into the Ministry of Information, later moving to the Foreign Office as deputy head of the inter-allied information office in Mexico and the Caribbean. Ok. Some people work at McDonalds in between jobs. It also places him in WWII Moscow. He's there in the beginnings in Germany, and at the tail end in Russia.
Anyway. Dunbar tells Lennon about this exhibition. Lennon's in Spain. He's been there for months filming a movie. He returns the 6th November. Barry Miles writes in his Beatles Diary compilation that Lennon proceeded on the 7th November to go into a 3 day LSD binge. I would imagine him housebound for that time, but he does manage to go out. And see Yoko Ono's exhibition "a night before it opened." Hailed as the 9th November 1966. The very Niney day.
Exhibition opened on the 8th. Case closed. Miles, Asher, and Dunbar have a silent partner in Paul McCartney. He helps them set up shop. He funds them when they run out of money as "Ian Iachimoe". This underground magazine already has connections to The Beatles which will automatically draw people to its writings, and its associated Gallery. It's a no brainer. By 1967 they have interviews printed with Paul McCartney AND George Harrison. They also have an article running just above adverts for Ono's exhibition written by Harvey Matusow. He's trying to find the CIA in London. He says they've disappeared. Matusow was probably trying to turn in some communists to the CIA if only they answered the phone. Matusow was an informant to Joseph McCarthy. It got McCarthy off his back. He turned in a lot of Reds. He helped put folk singer Pete Seeger in lots of trouble. Only reason Matusow was in England in 1966, was because he got blacklisted in America.
Paul McCartney on the other hand, leaves England on the 6th November. Just missing Lennon! He has his pa/road manager Mal Evans meet him in France on apx the 12th. McCartney intends to drive to Spain to meet up with Lennon. But Lennon's home. Mal Evans would know that. I've got a good mind to think that not only would Evans know that, but he'd also be either picking up John & Cynthia Lennon from the airport, or arranging to have it done. Because I'm pretty sure the Lennon's did not leave their car at Heathrow for almost two months. Maybe they did. I doubt it. Either way, Evans would most definitely know to tell McCartney, "hey. Let's not go to Spain, because John's home already dude!" It stands to reason that conversation may have taken place before Evans even got in the car to drive off to Spain on such a mission.
By the 9th November, McCartney is supposed to be dead anyway. So it doesn't matter if he goes to Spain or not. And the only reason we think he's dead, is because the Beatles themselves told us so. We didn't make it up. It keeps being said in every media they had available to them at the time. They even put it in the audio portions of movies we wouldn't be able to "play in reverse" until about oh, 30 or 40 years later. One particular one that stands out is the Magical Mystery Tour sequence of "Death Cab for Cutie". This is where George & John are shown clapping for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and the Stripper. When played forwards, this audio has the audience, George & John clapping, with John making non-descript yelling noises. When this audio is reversed, John's yelling becomes one utterance of Paul's Dead. Some hear Paul Get In, which after the Death Cab for Cutie's subject matter, is still relevant. They even put it in movies. A reversal is also in Yellow Submarine when they are searching for Paul in the mansion. They can't find him actually. Ringo, John and George all know where eachother are, but they can't find Paul. And they're not even sure when they find him, because as he leaves the door to an adoring crwod, Lennon's character says something backwards. When you reverse this audio, it says "Was That Paul".
Thing is, The beatles supposedly had very little to do with this movie. And the actor doing Lennon's voice, was actually told to say this line in reverse, so that when it was played backwards, it came out sounding forwards. That's like, deliberate. With people NOT involved with any Paul Is Dead agenda. The people at King Features, Hearst Corporation. Al Brodax and the like. Who had a very strange habit of making sure The beatles, particularly Lennon and Starr were always associated with Frankenstein's Monster. It was done in The Beatles cartoon series, AND in the Yellow Submarine movie. There's a whole episode of the Beatles cartoon dedicated to Lennon's encounter with various Frankenstein monsters. There's also a cartoon where Paul gets into a car and accidentally drives off a pier. And the cartoon where he portrays a doctor, with a "Beetle Killer" sign behind him, and proceeds to inject George, Ringo and John with something that kills them instantly. He is the Beetle Killer. Maybe Allen Klein watched those cartoons or something. Because in June 1966 he was already stating he was going to get the Beatles under his wing by the end of that year. By November 1966, rumour went round to a degree it was printed on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph's magazine that two Beatles had approached him for management. Epstein was still alive. He was quite upset. As was John. And George & Ringo. Paul could not be reached for comment. Because he was of course, looking for John in Spain still.
He should have been looking at the road in December of 1965 though, as he came off a Moped at 30mph and smashed his face against pavement. Chipping his tooth and cutting his lip. But the trooper that he is, refused to get that tooth fixed for 6 months, even though he posed for many photos, and an album cover in the meantime. The legendary Yesterday & Today butcher cover. (The cover actually fixes his tooth for him. Well, until it was pulled from the shelves.)
Funny thing is, I chipped my tooth falling off a 10 speed bike, and I was going around 5 to 10ph. Actually kind of coasting. The brake cable came off and wrapped in the wheel, and before I knew it, I had flipped face first over the bike onto tarmac. I pretty much laid in the middle of the road, stunned, for I don't know how long until some people driving up the road saw me flat out in the middle of it with an overturned bicycle. Blood was everywhere. My tooth was chipped. I was 10 years old. I smacked my chin and mouth very hard.
I imagine if I'd been doing close to 30 mph , what damage I would have done. I guess McCartney was lucky. It's funny though, as his memories of it now say the scar on his lip made him grow a moustache, which prompted the others to do so, which instigated Sgt Pepper. His memory is like, really bad. Because it took him 6 months to fix the tooth. It took him a year to grow the moustache. And there were plenty of photos and a bit of touring, and some We're Bigger Than Jesus interviews to do, that say that moustache's growth rate was reaaaaaaalllly slow. But even in June 1966, he was under the belief he'd just had the accident. When filming the Paperback Writer / Rain clips he states:
He sipped his tea and reached for a cigarette.
"What about all this 'Didn't Paul McCartney look ill on TV,' then?" he went on, referring to Mama Cass' remarks in NME's 'America Calling' last week. "I haven't been ill. Apart from the accident, I'm dead fit. I know what it was though. When we filmed those TV clips for 'Paperback Writer' I'd only just bashed my tooth, and we'd been working a bit hard on the LP and I hadn't had much sleep. We haven't had much time for anything but the LP. I mean, 14 songs - all got to be written and recorded till you're satisfied with them. It's hard work, man."
Well no. It was May 1966 when you filmed those. And yes you may have been working hard on the LP, but the last recording date you had done was on the 18th May 1966. Which was a late one admittedly doing Got To Get You Into My Life. So when filming the Paperback Writer / Rain promos on the 19th May, sure. But on the 20th, when you actually looked worse, and your lip actually looked fatter like you'd just bashed your tooth out of your mouth, well, you had no recording or anything to do. You did actually look kind of worn out, tired and ill. But .. you hadn't just bashed your tooth out. You'd bashed that out 6 months before. With absolutely no touring done after the UK dates in December of 65. Actually, people were starting to say you'd split up by the summer of 1966, and Epstein was constantly having to diminish rumours that The Beatles were no more. He was still denying it by the end of the year, even when you'd performed your last concert as a touring band.
It's kind of like that 9th November thing. There's a date given, but every single story that's told makes whatever date actually given, look like a complete distraction for some other event. Or happening. We have 26th December, 1965, and a moustache that takes a year to show up but is fondly recalled for its inspiration in making others grow facial hair that also took a year to show up. We have a road accident that at 30mph would make wonder how you even got up from it, and in some cases how you survived it. We just know that after smacking your face on pavement with 30 mph momentum throwing you from this moving vehicle, on the 21st January at Harrison's wedding you looked dashing. Like nothing had happened 3 weeks prior.
But 6 months after, filming a promo in Chiswick House grounds, you look tired and ill and your lip looks like someone hit it badly, and that's because you just bashed it in.
I know this seems trite. But when it comes to John Lennon's Assassination, the idea that Yoko Ono may have been his Handler, the Tavistock Institute, Kenneth Anger, Aleister Crowley, L Ron Hubbard, The Process Church of the Final Judgement, Charles Manson, Terry Melcher, Derek Taylor, the deaths of Brian Epstein, David Jacobs, Joe Orton, Joe Meek, Brian Jones, Alma Cogan, Tara Browne, Kevin MacDonald, Dr Richard Asher, Sharon Tate (Sept 1966 - Dec 1969 inclusive), doctors LIKE William Sargant, the politicians whose names get associated with The Beatles in this period, particularly Tom Driberg, whose ties to the Kray Brothers AND Aleister Crowley are well documented, and when you get to the Kray Brothers and the death of Beatles lawyer David Jacobs, well, if they didn't have something to do with Epstein's death, Jacobs's surely shows their hand. They may have even had a hand in Kevin MacDonald's death.
When you get to Helter Skelter and Charles Manson, it just all goes worse. And statements like "it's all Polanski's fault!!!" just make you say, ummmmmm, what was his fault. Basically making a movie about what Jack Parsons and L Ron Hubbard tried to do back in 1946 and by all accounts, the first stage of it they were successful in making Babalon Work! It's when Oppenheimer enters the story it all goes a bit ooooo. They did what? And you say UFO sightings started happening soon after. I thought that was just a crazy tale. Wait you say the person who said she was going to the press about Marilyn Monroe being taken to military bases to go see outer space stuff with John F Kennedy, got killed soon after walking her dog? Nooooo. What do you mean outer space stuff?
The Beatles. I'm telling you. Paul Is Dead has much much more to it. I have far more to say about it, I still have to research Ronald Stark's ties to the Process Church. By the way ... did you know in Eyes Wide Shut, the logo of The Process Church appears on the door Tom Cruise walks through as he enters the inner sanctum of the masquerade partiers? The Process logo is very distinctive. It's kind of like a swastika, but accents a more P shaped design. You can see it right on the door as he walks in. The camera lingers there for quite some time. You know how Kubrick was meticulous and loved lingering and making sure you saw what he wanted you to see.
He died 5 days ... oh nevermind. I could go into siblings Peter & Jane Asher being descended from Richard III. Or Tara Browne the Guiness Heir. Or that Jane Asher's mother taught George Martin music when he went to school. He with the coat of arms that only shows three beetles.
(I'm going back to reading some more Mae Brussell. She rocked.) :cheer: