Ask anyone “Do you know who Paul McCartney is?” ” and their answer would most likely be “Yes”. Ask anyone: "Did you know that Paul McCartney died in a car accident on November 9, 1966 and that the 'Paul' alive today is actually his replacement?" and their response would be to run in the opposite direction. As ridiculous as it sounds, many people wouldn't run in the opposite direction. The McCartney "death and replacement" rumor began in 1969, and it is now widely known as the "Paul is Dead" conspiracy theory. "Paul Is Dead" theorists claim that the other Beatles covered up McCartney's death by replacing him with a man who looked exactly like the deceased Beatle, but once guilt took hold of them, they began inserting hints of the cover-up in their songs and artwork. While "Paul is Dead" was very popular on college campuses, it became widely known in the fall of 1969, when an anonymous person called a radio DJ and announced that McCartney was dead. The accepted story of his presumed death occurred on November 9, 1966, when McCartney – under the influence of LSD – stormed out of a recording session for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band after falling out with the other Beatles. Afterwards, McCartney decided to wander through London aimlessly. Distracted from a red light due to his anger and drug-induced state, a car crossing the intersection collided with McCartney's and set the car on fire. The other Beatles, fearing the effect his death would have on their careers, secretly replaced him with William Shears Campbell ("Faul"), winner of a McCartney lookalike contest. Campbell's appearance matched that of the late Beatle, but his musical style or personality certainly did not. La Bea...... middle of paper...... They believe it depicts him holding a nail from McCartney's coffin, and they sort of see it as him saying "Yeah, I buried Paul McCartney, but it doesn't matter because I'm Paul McCartney now." If the "Paul is Dead" theorists are right about McCartney's death in 1966, then "Faul" is still with us today. four children with his late wife, Linda Eastman, and produced more than twenty solo albums – not to mention those released by the band he formed after the Beatles broke up, Wings. Then came his divorce from Heather Mills, the. one of the costliest divorces of all time, which probably made him wish he was dead So who is the real Paul McCartney? As George Harrison sang in "Something", "I don't know / I don't know". world either, and they may never know, but conspiracy theorists like to believe they knew the whole time..