Regarding Denny Laine having been at least one Faul McCartney, there could very well be clues in the lyrics of “Penny Lane.”
The Beatles - Penny Lane Promo Video
In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he's had the pleasure to know.
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say hello.
The first paragraph may be about Denny Laine being coached to recognize all the people he is supposed to know when impersonating Paul McCartney.
Another interpretation of the barber might be a reference to the Queen's Headsman - or executioner - in modern days perhaps an MI5 assassin, passing in review every head he had the pleasure to know or "all the people that come and go." (This second interpretation is more sinister but possibly more accurate?)
Another interpretation of the barber might be a reference to the Queen's Headsman - or executioner - in modern days perhaps an MI5 assassin, passing in review every head he had the pleasure to know or "all the people that come and go." (This second interpretation is more sinister but possibly more accurate?)
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar,
The little children laugh at him behind his back.
And the banker never wears a mac
In the pouring rain, very strange.
While one cannot be sure whether in the 1960's top City bankers were called “Rainmakers,” they traditionally did not wear Macintosh trench coats, but instead used umbrellas by Swayne Adeney Brigg. This could be a delegated agent coordinating and bankrolling the technical phases during Paul's replacement.
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit, and meanwhile back
This could refer to it no longer being Paul who is in our ears thanks to his singing and in our eyes due to stage appearances and photo sessions, but instead "Denny Laine is in my ears and in my eyes."
In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
And in his pocket is a portrait of the queen.
He likes to keep his fire engine clean,
It's a clean machine.
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Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
A four of fish and finger pies
In summer, meanwhile back
"A four of fish" refers to fourpennyworth of fish and chips but could also mean that The Four Beatles are Fishy. "Finger pie" is sexual slang of the time referring to intimate fondlings between teenagers in the bus shelter. The combination of "fish and finger" also puns on fish fingers, which might refer to the fact that the fishy Beatles are as genuine as frozen fish fingers are fresh fish.
Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout
The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
And though she feels as if she's in a play
She is anyway.
The shelter here might again refer back to finger pies where sex was used to enroll impostors? Pretty nurses used convincing means such as drugs to addict and further control impostors? Poppies are bled to derive opium and base morphine refined into heroin. Was Denny Laine turned into an addict to ensure his compliance?
[Comment by Tina: the nurse might feel like she is in a play because it is all staged]
[Comment by Tina: the nurse might feel like she is in a play because it is all staged]
In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer,
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim.
And then the fireman rushes in
From the pouring rain, very strange.
The barber was the most dangerous man throughout history, and kings made sure he was their most trusted confident as he could at any time slit their throats. Here, the barber probably means the hit man used to terminate Paul, as the banker watches, Denny Laine - the emergency replacement - rushes in, but due to the great rainfall, there is no real fire hazard, but only a false emergency provoked by the agents.
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit, and meanwhile back.
Penny lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
There beneath the blue suburban skies,
Penny lane.
Denny Laine is now the voice and image of Paul. Yet he remains in anonymity exemplified by a suburban life out of the limelight, where he sits "and meanwhile back." He backs the lie, the intrigue, the conspirators.
Denny Laine was stuck in some suburban nowhere land after Paul had been murdered. He was complaining in those lyrics about not actually getting personal satisfaction or progress in his own life for accepting to impersonate him. It seems clear that he was a disabused and deceived subject of the Queen lied to about what had happened, until it was too late.
Here is a possible general interpretation which remains to be discussed and argued in various ways.
From this song, Denny Laine apparently left clues that he was called into service on the pretext of assisting the Queen by his emergency replacement of Paul. It was supposed to be only for a short time. He was, perhaps, first lured through sexual favors and then drugged into compliance.
He later learned that the alleged emergency he was called upon to assist with was not a real emergency, but a situation provoked by assassins, who used him to conceal their feat. It also became clear that it was not intended to be short term. In the lyrics of this song, he is saying as clearly as he could, while remaining alive, that Denny Laine is now what you hear and what you see - instead of Paul.
It would be interesting to see how long Denny Laine was forced into compliance before probably being himself killed and replaced with another Faul?
Guest commentary by Getsmart
Edit: Thanks to an anonymous commenter for noticing that the bus sign in the promo video said "...enny Lane" with the first letter obscured. That appears to be yet another clue...
Edit: Thanks to an anonymous commenter for noticing that the bus sign in the promo video said "...enny Lane" with the first letter obscured. That appears to be yet another clue...
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