Paul Is Dead: One Abbey Road Beatle Remains
LADY Heather Mills agrees a divorce settlement from Paul McCartney, real name Hank Marvin, and now Paul Cole is dead. As the influential Stuart News, Florida, reports:
On a London vacation with his wife, Cole — then a resident of Deerfield Beach — declined to enter a museum on the north London thoroughfare.
“I told her, ‘I’ve seen enough museums. You go on in, take your time and look around and so on, and I’ll just stay out here and see what’s going on outside,’” he recalled.
Parked just outside was a black police van. “I like to just start talking with people,” Cole said. “I walked out, and that cop was sitting there in that police car. I just started carrying on a conversation with him. I was asking him about all kinds of things, about the city of London and the traffic control, things like that. Passing the time of day.”
In the picture, Cole is standing next to the police van.
It’s the Abbey Road album cover. The one on which Paul McCartney is proclaimed dead and Hank Marvin - or is Tommy Steele? - takes his place:
It was 10 a.m., Aug. 8, 1969. Photographer Iain McMillan was on a stepladder in the middle of the street, photographing the four Beatles as they walked, single-file, across Abbey Road, John Lennon in his famous white suit, Paul McCartney without shoes. The entire shoot lasted 10 minutes.
“I just happened to look up, and I saw those guys walking across the street like a line of ducks,” Cole remembered. “A bunch of kooks, I called them, because they were rather radical-looking at that time. You didn’t walk around in London barefoot.”
Not unless Paul had died….
February 17th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
‘ “Parked just outside was a black police van. “I like to just start talking with people,” Cole said. “I walked out, and that cop was sitting there in that police car. I just started carrying on a conversation with him. I was asking him about all kinds of things, about the city of London and the traffic control, things like that. Passing the time of day.”’
Like.
And did the policeman know what this Americano was talking about when he got chatting about the ‘city of London’, ‘cos - you know - the ‘city of London’ to an American0 is vastly different to the ‘city of London’ of a Londoner.
ie. for Americanos, the ‘city’ is what you guys would call the ‘Financial District’. It is NOT the city as a whole, and does not include the West End or, indeed, anything outside of EC… whatever.
However, as the person chatting to the UK police on this occasion, as an Americano, no doubt he talked about the City from A - B, Abridge to Brentford.
So wrong!
February 18th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
And if you look carefully in that tree just above the white VW you’ll see me, cunningly disguised as a pigeon, trying to spit on their heads.
I never did like them, except for Ringo.