Post by valis on Jan 27, 2006 3:58:54 GMT
The next article is taken from a dutch magazine in either September or October 1966 which I translated into english.
On the one hand I think it's a made up story because It is not noted in any other article I've got and there is no mention of a Beatle Protection Society or Ron Proctor anywhere online.
But the story really makes me think.
Here is first the article and after that some notes from me
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-The real and the fake Beatles-
America has it's own Beatles. They look like the real ones 100%, are just as tall and behave in the same way as John, Paul, George and Ringo.
They are called Ron, Bill, Keith and Tim: The Beatle Decoys.What is going on here?
In America exists The Beatles Protection Society, also called The Beatle Bobbies, whose job it is to protect The Beatles against the hysteria and idolatry of the fans on their American tours.
Recently the society realized an amazing plan; to form fake Beatles who have to camouflage the arrival and departure of the real Beatles at their concerts.
Like a month ago at the Baltimore Theatre: thousands of fans blocked the artistexit, waiting for The Beatles.
Suddenly Ringo Starr (a.k.a Ron Rictor) and Paul McCartney (a.k.a. Bill Davis) came outside and while they were under attack the real Beatles left through another exit.
The Beatle Decoy's are happy with their (double) life.
Ron, the leader, told us:"We even play the same instruments as The Beatles. Paul, I mean Keith is even lefthanded just like McCartney. We even wear the same clothes."
The fake Beatle that looks the most like the original is Keith Allison, who plays Paul.
He looks so alike that they even started a fanclub for him, the Keith Allison Fanclub.; he receives- as being Keith -1000 fanletters a day (!).
Keith Allison used to be bassplayer for the Crickets and was "discovered" by The BeatleProtection Society when he was a guest, sitting at a table, in the "Whiskey A Go Go (tv) Show".
After the broadcast hundreds of people called in to the show to ask: "Was that Paul McCartney?".
The producer, Dick Clark, was also struck by the resemblance and contracted the imitation Paul for 12 episodes of "Where the action is".
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I doubt this story because I have no other articles about this and the "new" names aren't found online, but ofcourse it might be a story that was not supposed to come out.
There were doubles in 1966, and I am 100% sure that the article is from that period; it's from my mother's collection.
1.how would a dutch mag know about that Keith Allison, he is a good Fakepaul, so him being mentioned lends some credibility to this story
2.The doublenames of all 4 Beatles are called, Paul has got a double double name: Bill!!! and Keith Allison
3.a Beatle Protection society, huh? come on that must be a joke
4.They are a decoy for the Beatles travels, but also make music!?
5.They are a decoy but Keith already has a fanclub!?
6. I've seen photos of Keith so I know he is not Bill, but something happened in those days surely, involving doubles.
7. I googled on Keith Allison and got this page: www.psycho-jello.com/monkees/standphotos.html , which was directly followed by a page about the Monkees' stand ins www.psycho-jello.com/monkees/keith1.html , more doubles
here's a scan from the original article, I hope I can get up a bigger scan later.
It might be a bit hard to read, and even though most of you don't speak Dutch, I put it up as proof, that I didn't make this story up myself.
On the one hand I think it's a made up story because It is not noted in any other article I've got and there is no mention of a Beatle Protection Society or Ron Proctor anywhere online.
But the story really makes me think.
Here is first the article and after that some notes from me
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-The real and the fake Beatles-
America has it's own Beatles. They look like the real ones 100%, are just as tall and behave in the same way as John, Paul, George and Ringo.
They are called Ron, Bill, Keith and Tim: The Beatle Decoys.What is going on here?
In America exists The Beatles Protection Society, also called The Beatle Bobbies, whose job it is to protect The Beatles against the hysteria and idolatry of the fans on their American tours.
Recently the society realized an amazing plan; to form fake Beatles who have to camouflage the arrival and departure of the real Beatles at their concerts.
Like a month ago at the Baltimore Theatre: thousands of fans blocked the artistexit, waiting for The Beatles.
Suddenly Ringo Starr (a.k.a Ron Rictor) and Paul McCartney (a.k.a. Bill Davis) came outside and while they were under attack the real Beatles left through another exit.
The Beatle Decoy's are happy with their (double) life.
Ron, the leader, told us:"We even play the same instruments as The Beatles. Paul, I mean Keith is even lefthanded just like McCartney. We even wear the same clothes."
The fake Beatle that looks the most like the original is Keith Allison, who plays Paul.
He looks so alike that they even started a fanclub for him, the Keith Allison Fanclub.; he receives- as being Keith -1000 fanletters a day (!).
Keith Allison used to be bassplayer for the Crickets and was "discovered" by The BeatleProtection Society when he was a guest, sitting at a table, in the "Whiskey A Go Go (tv) Show".
After the broadcast hundreds of people called in to the show to ask: "Was that Paul McCartney?".
The producer, Dick Clark, was also struck by the resemblance and contracted the imitation Paul for 12 episodes of "Where the action is".
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I doubt this story because I have no other articles about this and the "new" names aren't found online, but ofcourse it might be a story that was not supposed to come out.
There were doubles in 1966, and I am 100% sure that the article is from that period; it's from my mother's collection.
1.how would a dutch mag know about that Keith Allison, he is a good Fakepaul, so him being mentioned lends some credibility to this story
2.The doublenames of all 4 Beatles are called, Paul has got a double double name: Bill!!! and Keith Allison
3.a Beatle Protection society, huh? come on that must be a joke
4.They are a decoy for the Beatles travels, but also make music!?
5.They are a decoy but Keith already has a fanclub!?
6. I've seen photos of Keith so I know he is not Bill, but something happened in those days surely, involving doubles.
7. I googled on Keith Allison and got this page: www.psycho-jello.com/monkees/standphotos.html , which was directly followed by a page about the Monkees' stand ins www.psycho-jello.com/monkees/keith1.html , more doubles
here's a scan from the original article, I hope I can get up a bigger scan later.
It might be a bit hard to read, and even though most of you don't speak Dutch, I put it up as proof, that I didn't make this story up myself.
