‘Oh, untimely death...’ - A Look at the "Paul is Dead" Rumours (Part 1)
‘Oh, untimely death...’ - A Look at the "Paul is Dead" Rumours (Part 1) After well-known psychic Jeane Dixon foretold that the Beatles would die in an aeroplane crash after a concert , tons of unfounded rumours that one of the band's members had passed away started circulating. So, because of its seeming absurdity, the report that Paul McCartney had died never made the headlines when it first began to circulate in London in September 1966 . However, this rumour wasn’t taken as lightly by people in the Beatles’ own inner circle. Tony Barrow , the former press officer for the Beatles, also recalled in his book “John, Paul, George, Ringo and Me” (ReadHowYouWant, 2005) a curious story: “In the first week of September [1966], while John went to work on his solo movie project, the other three Beatles took a short break. George took Pattie to India where h