Episode 91: Is Paul McCartney Really Dead? The Beatles Clues DecodedHe has sold over a hundred million albums, been knighted by the Queen, and performed to millions of people worldwide. According to a conspiracy theory that has never fully gone away, he also died in 1966 — and every Beatles album since then contains coded clues pointing to a cover-up. Tonight we decode the evidence and ask why the most thoroughly debunked celebrity death theory in history still refuses to die.This episode explores:* The origin of the Paul Is Dead theory — a 1969 Detroit radio broadcast that sent America's college campuses into a frenzy* The Abbey Road cover — the barefoot Beatle, the funeral procession, and the infamous LMW 28IF licence plate* The Sgt. Pepper clues — the grave, the yellow flowers, the backwards messages hidden in the vinyl* Revolution 9 played backwards — and what listeners swore they heard* The Stanley Kubrick confession video — confirmed as a fake produced years after Kubrick's death* The satirical 1969 student newspaper article that invented half the clues as a joke — and how it became a global mythFor believers, the sheer volume and specificity of the clues across multiple albums cannot all be accidental. For everyone else, Paul McCartney is eighty-two years old, still touring, and still performing — and the theory is one of the most enjoyable pieces of nonsense in popular music history.What is certain: Paul McCartney is alive. The theory is not. And yet somehow both keep going.Keywords: Paul McCartney dead conspiracy, Paul is dead Beatles, Abbey Road conspiracy, Beatles hidden clues, Paul McCartney replaced, Sgt Pepper death clues, is Paul McCartney alive, Beatles backwards messages, Billy Shears real identity, celebrity death hoax Beatles

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