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Originally posted by switching yard
In the legend and lore, a two-person team from LIFE magazine drove up to the "McCartney" farm cottage in Scotland to verify whether "Paul" was alive or not.
As the story goes, they simply knocked on the door. A furious "Paul" came to the door with a bucket of "kitchen slop" which he hurled at the reporter and photographer. The team leaves the scene, then "Paul" changes his mind and chases them in his Range Rover. When he catches up, he apologizes, offers to do an interview and provide them with some of Linda's photos, and the LIFE team accepts under "Paul's" condition that they hand over to him the film they just shot of "angry Paul." Everyone agrees, goes back to the cottage for tea and biscuits and ample "proof" that Paul is not dead.
LIFE, controlled by the Luce family
The whole episode of LIFE paying a surprise visit to "Paul" and verifying him as the real Paul... well, it seems to me to have been made up. Of course, in the magazine it was made to look like a real story, but I think the entire episode was staged. More likely staged than not, in my opinion.
Why? Why would the most metropolitan, London pub crawling, art collecting, gregarious Beatle want to go do a Green Acres thing in rural Scotland in a primitive farm shed of a place?
Originally posted by switching yard
Any of the one billion Beatle fans at that time wanting to meet Beatle Paul, all he or she has to do is just drive up to the house and knock on the door? Give me a break!
Originally posted by dizzylizzy
Having known Paul since childhood I know he is not dead.
Originally posted by switching yard
There could have actually been some preparation for the plan of sending "Paul" to the isolated farm. ... See how that works? If they planned it in advance, they could have made it seem more plausible with pre-planting the farm attitude in the minds of the public. Just a thought.
Originally posted by switching yard
That's a good point, someotherguy, about the recluse "Paul" living in a primitive farm cottage in Scotland away from those who knew the Original.