I heard some guy blurt out that Paul McCartney is dead and actually died in the 60s, and that the real Paul McCartney was replaced by a man named William Shears Campbell. Some people like to write these things off as myths or conspiracies. (Such as HIV and Ebola being man-made viruses, which there may be actual validity to that.)
 
This was before I was born, but I find this to be an interesting topic. Interested in hearing the perspective of people who were actually around at the time.
 
http://www.beatlesbible.com/features/paul-is-dead/
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

Yep, it's true.
 
They replaced him with his exact double, who immediately learned to play bass left handed, sang exactly the same, and wrote songs in the same style. Brilliant really.

Oh no.  Not again.
 
Bingo James.  Plus....none of the other Beatles happen to notice.  Like....you were going to silence John.

Brilliant marketing strategy however.....playing all of the records backwards and such.  Probably not planned, but certainly left to play into.

I think Paul died soon after leaving the Beatles.  At least his musical output seems to prove it . . . .
 
There are a few books written on the subject. most notable among them is "Turn Me on Dead Man" by Andru Reeve.  It's an good read and he provides an interesting "solution" to the whole thing.
 
Also, for a very weird listen go to youtube and search "The Ballad of Paul" by The Mystery Tour.
 
Of course it's a lot of bunk; but it was fun at the time!!

My last shameless plug is dead.
 
It will be replaced by an exact double.
 
Only paulo will notice the subtle difference
(or will he?)

jamesg1213
Yep, it's true.
 
They replaced him with his exact double, who immediately learned to play bass left handed, sang exactly the same, and wrote songs in the same style. Brilliant really.

I really feel I need to chime in here. In all actuality the "real" Paul couldn't do any of those things and their shows were really starting to flop almost immediately so they had to replace him with a stunt double who could. Desperate measures required desperate times, or some such drivel like that.
 
He never really "died" literally, just in a matter of speaking since the adoring public would never ever actually see him on stage again.   Ever.... as in.... for the rest of his live-long-days, would he ever see the light of stage again. Some mistook this to mean "the light of day"... but he has seen that a time or two, if only two, as he spent most of the 60s and some of the 70s in a Mexican prison without any contact with the outside world, or the inside one for that matter... so I guess he might as well have been dead, or at least wished he was during the whole ordeal.
 
It wasn't until Davey Jones launched a massive campaign to find him did the world finally find out about the plot. Most of this is still classified by the "Blockade to the Freedom For Information Act", so I really can't divulge any more details than that. In fact, I may have divulged too much already..... (pauses to buy plane ticket and phony passport to Russia).

 
Paul who?

MakeShift
Oh no.  Not again.
 
Bingo James.  Plus....none of the other Beatles happen to notice.  Like....you were going to silence John.

And yet, someone did... 

 
Paul once gave Heather a new artificial leg at Christmas.
 
It wasn't her main present though, just a stocking filler.