In this edition of ‘Magical Mystery Talk,’ that was recorded at the end of February 2022, Mark, Desiree and myself touch on and talk about yet more Beatles-related topical news-items that have been doing the rounds, and in this episode, we’re playing a bit of catch-up as it’s been a while since the three of us met together for the last episode that was published – that was back in July 2021. In May of that year there was the premiere of the feature-length documentary ‘The Beatles and India.’ Directed by journalist Ajoy Bose, it chronicles the band’s association with Indian music, culture and also so-called ‘Eastern mysticism’ through their relationship with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi whose ashram they visited in that country in early 1968 to study Transcendental Meditation under him. The film briefly references reports that were circulating in the media at the time that he was allegedly tied to secret intelligence, namely the CIA. Mark, Desiree and myself talk about these allegations and I expand further mentioning others over the years who’ve expressed similar views about him and who’ve also suggested that he may have been planted into the 1960s ‘counter-culture’ scene in order to act as a means of distracting young dissenters of the Vietnam War away from protesting against it effectively. Also, given that The Beatles are considered to have introduced and effectively popularised meditation in the so-called ‘West,’ were they also willing (or unwilling) agents in bringing about this suspected nullification of the protest movement as part of a malevolent social engineering exercise?

Also released last year was the two-volume book-set ‘Paul McCartney - The Lyrics’ which is McCartney looking back and discussing some of his song lyrics dating from as early as the late 1950s through to The Beatles, Wings, and right into almost present-day. In some respects, it’s a part-biography and memoirs, and he takes quite a swipe and a dig at John Lennon in one section of it, criticising his former song-partner’s thinking behind his hit song, ‘Happy Xmas (War is Over).’ In this edition of Magical Mystery Talk, I read some small, brief extracts from this new release including Paul’s criticism of his former song-partner of which the above I’ve mentioned is just a small portion.

Last year also saw the publishing of a new, updated version of ‘The Memoirs of Billy Shears,’ the alleged autobiography of Paul McCartney’s double/replacement who took on the role after the ‘real’ one was killed in 1966. When it was originally released a few years earlier, it featured a foreword from none other than Beatles music-producer George Martin’s eldest son, Gregory, who also narrated the audio-book version. Over the last year or so, he’s been openly critical and scathing towards what he deems to be the ‘Corona scam,’ most notably on his ‘Twitter’ page where he’s expressed his disapproval of mask-wearing, the jab, and so-called ‘vaccine passports,’ as well as hitting out at the likes of the US President’s chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci, his British equivalent Chris Whitty, former British Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Canada’s Premiere Justin Trudeau. He’s also had some views to express, and perspectives, to share on Bono, Mick Jagger, and will.i.am. All this gets talked about in this seventh episode of Magical Mystery Talk as well as reports that a feud between Gregory and his famous music-producer father resulted in him being left out of his dad’s Will following his passing in 2016. Were the son’s ‘alternative,’ conspiratorially-minded views on world events a possible cause of this?

Also in 2021 there was the release of a new promotional-video to a version of the Paul McCartney track ‘Find My Way,’ a new version as remixed by US music-artist Beck. Not surprisingly, the promo’s gained quite a bit of attention amongst the ‘Paul is Dead’ community given that it’s largely made up of deep-fakery featuring as it does the singer-songwriter’s elderly face rejigged and manipulated to make him look like the much younger and mop-topped ‘Beatle Paul’ circa 1964/’65.

This certainly isn’t the first time McCartney has featured doubles and multiples in his music-videos, and it’s a topic Mark, Desiree and myself have talked about in a previous episode of Magical Mystery Talk, and we discuss it here in this instalment too, as we do Paul’s 2020 album ‘McCartney III’ from which Find My Way was originally released. I and my fellow co-hosts discuss the cover-art of it for possible ‘Paul is Dead’ clues and also dip back to its predecessors ‘McCartney II’ (released in 1980) and ‘McCartney’ (released in 1970) for the same reason.

So please, join us for this episode to hear all about the above and a lot more.

My site, The Occult Beatles:
https://theoccultbeatles.wordpress.com/

Check out Desiree's blog here:
https://thenumbernineblog.wordpress.com/

More from Mark Devlin here:
https://djmarkdevlin.blogspot.com/?m=1

This podcast was recorded February 28th 2022