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BUFFALO, N.Y. – John Lennon's killer will seek his freedom this week for a sixth time.
Mark David Chapman is scheduled to appear before a parole board at Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. It's Division of Parole policy to identify only the week, not the day, the hearing will take place.
Parole officials are expected to release their decision the day after the hearing and a transcript about a week later.
The former maintenance man from Hawaii has been in prison nearly 30 years for gunning down the former Beatle on a Manhattan sidewalk in 1980. He was sentenced to 20 years to life after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
Now 55, Chapman has been denied parole five times, appearing before the board every two years since 2000.
Originally posted by edmond dantes
Since the title asks ALIVE or dead, people posting taking the point of view that Paul is still alive were not derailing the thread, but were patricipating and on topic. Who are you that you feel it your right to determine what positions were allowed and which were not?
Originally posted by switching yard
I've been thinking more about the time of the switch. Seems to me there could have been a group of impostors working on the Sgt Pepper album perhaps a year earlier than the official story. The real Beatles were on tour while the replacements were already in the studio (a secret location, not Abbey Road) with George Martin preparing the amazing Sgt Pepper album which in my opinion could have easily taken a year and a half or two years to develop.
I theorize that this group of doubles were required to learn the playlist the real Beatles were using on tour. But when they were called upon in "an emergency" to go play Candlestick Park, they were not only very nervous but were a little rusty in their practice of the playlist. This is why the performers at Candlestick sounded so crappy (there's a recording or two of Candlestick that sounds like a lousy cover band trying to do Beatle songs). The "emergency" was when the murder(s) happened.
After Candlestick, the impostors became the New Beatles and went right into reclusion, growing moustaches and so forth. The facial hair and crazy clothes were done as a distraction so people wouldn't notice the change but the funny thing was that the hippie culture was born out of these sneaky distraction techniques! LOL So now, all the kids want to grow facial hair, wear eccentric clothes, flower power and all that. The whole flower power thing was started because of the Sgt Pepper cover! LOL
Originally posted by switching yard
Looking at the timeline, the fast output of material from 1967 through 1969 could mean that it was almost all pre-written at least in fragments and as you say, possibly vocal tracks had been laid down on tape in an unfinished state. Unacknowledged guest musicians could have added some brilliance in either composing or performing anonymously.
The psychedelic period albums appeared in rapid succession, a virtually superhuman rate of composing and production.
It would have been easier if most of it was pre-written and in notebooks or the odd 'save it for later' fragment recordings. The Side Two mash-up on the Abbey Road album is a bunch of fragments strung together into a bizarre but beautiful rock opera.
Originally posted by switching yard
I agree about MDC being a manchurian candidate programmed to kill "John Lennon." Didn't he behave just like Sirhan Sirhan? Both of them gave themselves up after shooting. Programmed. Whomever was the Irish actor playing the role of John Lennon --- his mission had been completed and he was no longer needed, just a security risk if he talked. MDC was assigned to take the fall for assassination in the same way as Sirhan Sirhan.
"Last, but certainly not least, according to identical matching photos of Stephen King attached to book reviews about Firestarter months before the assassination, the man photographed getting Lennon’s autograph hours before he killed him is not Mark Chapman like we were all told. Chapman’s glasses are the wrong prescription, his features are more centrally boxed in the middle of his face and his hair is the wrong texture, as well as the fact that the killer has dimples that Chapman does not. Only Stephen King’s features exactly trace the proportions of the autograph hound. Chapman is a look alike actor."
Originally posted by Getsmart
Originally posted by edmond dantes
Since the title asks ALIVE or dead, people posting taking the point of view that Paul is still alive were not derailing the thread, but were patricipating and on topic. Who are you that you feel it your right to determine what positions were allowed and which were not?
Edmond Dantes,
You were very politely uninvited from posting here by the initial post opening this thread on page one. Please refer to it.
Unless you were hiding by another name in that thread which has since been closed to silence PID truth, you cannot know exactly what went on there. Those who were there and participating actively noted a clear pattern of disinformation tactics practiced by teams of operatives pretending to be regular run of the mill Beatles fans.