Late of Pablo = Late of Paul

[jarvitronics]

Hi everyone I'm a noob and have recently become fascinated with this topic. I turned eight years old at the dawn of the original PID era in late 1969, and I can still remember my older brother explaining the cover of Abbey Road to me. I have greatly enjoyed reading the posts on this board.

Here are some clues that I haven't read about before.

In the song "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite" John Lennon sings, "The Hendersons will all be there, late of Pablo Fanques Fair..." The lyrics to this song were adapted from a circus poster acquired by Lennon at an antique shop in Kent, on January 31, 1967, (a couple of weeks before the song was recorded). At the top of the poster are the words "Pablo Fanque's Circus Royale," and farther down the poster we read "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (Late of Wells's Circus)..." So for the song, Lennon intentionally changed the "late of" from Wells's Circus to Pablo Fanques Fair. Pablo is Spanish for Paul. Paul McCartney was known as the "cute" (or "fair") Beatle. The name Fanques works out to be a play on "fan queues." Is Lennon telling us that the Hendersons (Beatles) are all there, late of the fair one, Paul "Fan Queues" McCartney?

On the Sgt. Pepper cover, the man with his hand above Paul McCartney's head is Issy Bonn, who sang and recorded a song called "Just A Blue Serge Suit." McCartney is wearing a blue Serge-ant Pepper suit.

Nearly obscured between Issy Bonn's head and his hand, and directly above McCartney's head, is writer Stephen Crane. Issy Bonn and Crane above McCartney's head. Issy Bonn. Crane. It makes me think of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and poor Ichabod Crane, who was chased out of town by none other than The Headless Horseman.

On page nine of the Sgt. Pepper CD booklet there is a picture of the set being readied for the cover photo-shoot. In that picture, McCartney is standing with his head directly beneath the cowboy hat of Tom Mix, completely obscuring Mix's face, as if McCartney were wearing the hat of Mr. Mix. Tom Mix was Hollywood's original "Western" genre megastar, appearing in more than three hundred films between 1910 and 1935. He died in a car crash in 1940, when his car slid into a gully and a metal suitcase flew into the back of his head, crushing his skull and breaking his neck.

I have never heard of these clues before I noticed them yesterday. I will try to come up with some more today. I think I could get addicted to this!!!

-j

[zakrandalls]

hello jarvitronics,find "just a blue serge suit" and "Pablo Fanques Fair" quite impressive clues..did you look to my post about Peter Blake's first sketch?it is really disturbant...zakrandalls

[jarvitronics]

zakrandalls said:

hello jarvitronics,find "just a blue serge suit" and "Pablo Fanques Fair" quite impressive clues..did you look to my post about Peter Blake's first sketch?it is really disturbant...zakrandalls

Yes I saw that and must say that is quite amazing. You can barely make it out in the CD booklet, but I would have never noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out to me. Thanks!

Here is another bit of interest:

Betel pepper, pronounced like Beatle, is a plant of the genus Piper, which is the same genus as black pepper (Piper Nigrum). In India and other parts of Southeast Asia, betel's heart-shaped leaves are chewed in a popular preparation known as Paan or Pan. (Coincidentally, Pan of Greek myth is famous for being a piper). Although it is impossible to tell from the Sgt. Pepper cover photo, the row of small green plants below the drum look very much like they could be betel pepper.

Regarding Issy Bonn (hand over McCartney's head) who recorded the song "Just A Blue Serge Suit," and McCartney wearing a blue Serge-ant Pepper suit...

Ant pepper is a close relative of betel and black pepper, being formally called Piper Cenocladum. This variety is called ant pepper because of its hollow petioles wherein ants dwell in symbiosis with the plant. A specialized predator beetle, called the Tarsobaenus beetle invades the plant and feeds on the ants. Tarsobaneus beetle. Tarso bane us. St. Paul was from Tarsus.

[plastic paul]

And what about Betelgeuse?

[jarvitronics]

plasticpaul said:

And what about Betelgeuse?

Heh. Good one PP.

Here is another interesting tidbit:

The yellow flowers used to make the left-handed bass are hyacinths. Hyacinth was a divine hero of Greek myth who died when Apollo's discus fell from the sky and crushed his head.

Everywhere you look on Sgt. Pepper there is the recurring allusion to the crushed head.

[zakrandalls]

jarvitronics said:

plasticpaul said:

And what about Betelgeuse?

Heh. Good one PP.

Here is another interesting tidbit:

The yellow flowers used to make the left-handed bass are hyacinths. Hyacinth was a divine hero of Greek myth who died when Apollo's discus fell from the sky and crushed his head.

Everywhere you look on Sgt. Pepper there is the recurring allusion to the crushed head.

and probably, the greatest band of all the times, just thought about what jarvitronics reported,and now you can add this new clue,that's not exactly a clue,but a very heavy reference about...in any case,I like to consider this as a clue,as something predetermined,like PeterBlake's sketch..
Well,your knowledge of historical miths and facts is really good,my friend,and this bring me back when I was 16,that instead of studing all these marvellous epic things at Liceo Scientifico,I preferred elaborating all those guitar schemes,tablatures and stuff,that addicted me for 10 years of playing instrument...but now this slavery has ended...not ended is the sadness about the death of one of my favourite musician...why don't we enter all together now in that awful(l) of illusions site,The Macca,and try to convince Shears to give a cut to this pantomime?will he carry that weight (the truth) into his grave?the answer is :YES,he'll do.The saddest thing is that for sure lots of JPM's pictures has been doctored to make him more similar to the actual Billy.Billy had surgery to be a best look-a-like,but now he plays the real Paul,and now the pictures of the Real One get doctored to make the real similar to the fake!i ask myself,who actually in the world remembers the real Paul?THAT'S US,studying all the facts,opening our mind to a reality that you'll never think in your life to find so sinister and dark...i know,the appearence,how can you say he is dead?he's here,he still plays music,he's also classical-avantguard oriented,producer,vegetarian,he fights for animal's to be safe,I know....but HE'S ALSO DEAD,DEAD and ALIVE,alive but still dead,while Paul,that is dead, IS ALIVE FOREVER_

[jarvitronics]

Here is a link to a picture of the Kite poster.

img209.imageshack.us/img209/3792/kitepv0.jpg

[pazzat]

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Everywhere you look on Sgt. Pepper there is the recurring allusion to the crushed head.
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I'm new here and not sure if this has come up before. I've just found out that Susannah, Pablo Fanque's wife, died in a freak accident when their circus tent collapsed. Her head was crushed by falling wooden planks from the gallery.

www.100greatblackbritons.com/bios/Pablo_Fanque.htm

[beatlefan]

I believe that it's possible that a dog was also involved in Paul's car crash.

In the I am a walrus lyrics, you have the words "Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.".. Perhaps a dog ran out in front of his car on that rainy night..