Paul Mccartney Dead

McFly and McCartney on-the-day winners at Silver Clefs

So, the much previously reported O2 Silver Clef Awards took place in London last week in aid of the rather excellent Nordoff Robbins charity. We already knew who most of the winners would be, you know, Annie Lennox, Biffy Clyro and Liza Minnelli, though there was still some new news on the day.

First McFly were declared winners of the Digital Innovation Award for their online fan community Super City. They said, in perfect unison (well, I suspect Dougie was slightly out of sync): “We’re thrilled to be receiving the Digital Innovation Award at today’s Silver Clef Awards. We took a risk with Super City, but we’re always determined to be ground breaking in what we do. Nordoff Robbins is a great charity and the way they use music to help people is inspiring. It’s an honour to be associated with them”.

And second we had the results of the Best Live Act poll conducted by Absolute Radio, O2 and the Evening Standard ahead of the awards show. This wasn’t an award mind, just a poll, so don’t go getting things confused now will you? Not even if we previously referred to it as an award. And who is the best live act in the world as of July 2011. Well, Paul McCartney of course. It’s a good job he’s not dead, otherwise live music would be over.

Name checking more of this year’s winners, Nordoff Robbins Chariman David Munns told CMU: “Each and every one of today’s winners at the Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards has made a unique contribution to music – from Annie Lennox, one of the world’s most successful recording artists, having sold 80 million records, to Tinie Tempah who, in the last twelve months alone, has had a number one album, two number one singles and won two BRIT Awards”.

He continued: “Today we’ve also celebrated the incredible talent of many outstanding artists including Liza Minnelli, Arcade Fire, Alfie Boe, Biffy Clyro, McFly and Swedish House Mafia. All funds raised today for Nordoff Robbins will go towards providing essential music therapy services for children and adults across the UK”.

CineHoax : “Paul McCartney Really Is Dead” « Trash Film Guru

So, here we’re kicking off what looks to be a two-part sidebar (I’ll get around to the next film going under this banner sometime in the next week or two) your hose has decided to call “CineHoax” for reasons that should be pretty damn obvious pretty damn quickly. We’ll start at the supposed beginning and go from there —

In the summer of 2005, the Hollywood offices of fourth-rate rock n’ roll documentary producers Highway 61 Entertainment purportedly received a package in the mail from London with no return address (which raises the question how did they know it was, specifically, from London, and not just the UK?) that purportedly contained two microcassettes purportedly dated December 30, 1999 that (again, purportedly) contained the voice of George Harrison relating an amazing story — the Paul McCartney “death hoax” stuff that’s been floating around over the years is all true! The “real” McCartney apparently died in a car crash in 1966 after storming out of the recording studio following a heated argument with John Lennon and was replaced with a double (apparently some clown who won a Paul McCartney look-alike contest) at the behest of British intelligence in order to prevent what they felt was the mass suicide of hysterical Beatles fans (particularly of the teenage female variety) that would inevitable follow should news of this tragic accident reach the public.

For the rest of their career, both together and apart, the Fab Four were closely monitored by MI-5 to prevent them from spilling the beans on this, the original great rock n’ roll swindle — being the clever lads they were, however, the Beatles managed to sneak a few clues about the “truth” of the situation into various recordings through the miracle of backward-masking audio, and the result has been a slow but steady buzz that’s continued for over four decades.

Turn Me On, Dead Man, The Complete Story of the Paul McCartney Death Hoax

Paul McCartney, a life

Paul McCartney, many years from now

LIFE

Paul McCartney now and then