4. Paul McCartney Is Dead
I know what youre thinking, Of course hes not dead, he was that animated corpse at the Olympics opening ceremony!. But hold your horses there, my erudite and rambunctious friend, while I turn your reality inside out with this simple question: what if that was an impostor? Melon suitably twisted? Good. The Paul is dead legend began circulating in 1967 after McCartney was involved in a car crash, the effects of which were relatively minor and the rumour was rebuked by the Beatles camp and the world in general. Yet, in 1969, with the Beatles in disarray and disbandment seemingly imminent, the rumour suddenly returned with a vengeance. An Iowa University newspaper ran a story questioning McCartneys mortality and before you knew it, radio stations were flooded with callers providing clues as to his previous demise. The most consistent of these revolved around his Christ-like bare foot appearance on the recently released Abbey Road album and the fact that if you play the end of Revolution 9 backwards, it is heard to say turn me on, dead man". Or something. Despite acknowledgement and refusal of the rumour by the Beatles management and McCartney himself, the rumour has persisted, most likely in a desperate attempt to explain McCartneys subsequent solo albums and the formation and resultant horror that was Wings. Of course, time has shown the rumour to be untrue, the evidence dictating that not only would it have been impossible for someone with a mouth like Lennon to keep such a thing a secret before his death, but the most damning evidence against the rumour is, of course, McCartney himself. I mean, who else would want to be him, besides the real McCartney?
VERDICT: False. Just wishful thinking on behalf of John Lennon fans.