paul is not dead, but he is smoking

hey look, there goes smoking paul.

let’s get this straight. paul mccartney was never killed in some freak automobile accident and replaced with an identical double. that would be an urban legend. however, on the abbey road album cover, he is crossing the street without shoes and is holding a cigarette in his right hand. this is a fact.

or at least it was until an american poster company decided to clean up paul’s act and remove the somehow offensive tobacco product. i suppose we should just be grateful they didn’t digitally slap a pair of nikes on him.

January 24, 2003 – 1:24 pm | By Thomas | Posted in Observations | Comments (4)
  • JO

    That is just dumb. Dumb but for us eBay power sellers an interesting twist..Hummm *goes off to look at the sellable vinyls again.

  • Zip

    And I have the original album right here. Yup…there’s the cigarette, no shoes, and….wait, I don’t remember seeing this Grim Reaper figure floating above Paul’s head….hmmm…

  • dana

    Did they really remove the cigarette? That’s really stupid. Anyway, there are a lot more hints that he is dead on other albums and lyrics, but hey, the Beatles can have a bit of fun too can’t they?

  • JR Ewing

    LOOK….I will have the final say. They are all dead. JOHN…dead. GEORGE…Dead. Paul…dead several times, but too damn stupid to STAY Dead.(or at LEAST go be Jerry Garcia’s replacement in the GD)
    and Pete Best…wonder what happened to HIM…probably looks deader than Keith Richards and Keith Moon put together…Who cares?

    and anyway….If the impostor Paul had bauls…He would be busy reworking songs and covers from MegaDeth or Metallica or Pantera.