Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, facts and fiction about the Beatles song

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Part one: In 1976 a rumor started circulating in the United States that the Beatles had recorded and released a new album under the pseudonym of Klaatu and sales of that record shot way up. The rumor went something like this: The Beatles supposedly recorded an album in mid 1966 that was to be a follow up to Revolver but the master tapes were

Part three: and Sgt. Pepper and also the change in musical direction.
When Sgt. Pepper had been released, the inner sleeve showed Paul McCartney with a patch on his uniform which read O.P.D. Although many interpretations of this have come and gone, one of them was used in the Paul is dead myth, Officially Presumed Dead. During the song Sir

Part two: mysteriously lost from the studio. The Beatles didn't want to re-record the album as Paul had (supposedly) just died in a car accident. When Billy Shears (a Paul McCartney look alike contest winner) stepped in to fill the space left by Paul's death, the Beatles stopped touring and recorded a new album that eventually turned out to be Sgt. Pepper. This explains the long gap between Revolver

Part four: Bodsworth Rugglesby III on their first album, the lyrics state, Officially Presumed Is Dead. Thanks to the outtakes of the Sgt. Pepper picture that are included with the CD we can now see that the patch says O.P.P. which stands for Ontario Provincial Police. Since John Lennon had been rumoured to be moving to Ontario, this fits the rumour that Klaatu was the Beatles quite nicely.

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