Did "William" write his own material?

[jerriwillmore]

On the off-chance that he is, do you think he wrote all the songs he sang? If he didn't that's very upsetting. I know he has the talent, after all.

[madtitan125]

On the off-chance that he is what? William, you mean? That may or may not be his name, but it sure isn't James Paul McCartney!

Look at the picture comparison on Chris' last posting for cryin' out loud. Do you really think those two guys are the same person?

That is silly!

It seems it takes a little longer for some people's brain to become deprogrammed.

Mass mind-control is nothing to sneeze at, I guess!

As far as Faul's talent, I definitely give him his due as far as a singer. I like lots of his stuff.

Paul McCartney "All The Best" was one of the most listened-to CDs in my collection before this Faul/Paul issue came back into prominence.

Everyone on this board has probably played the "Band on the Run" CD about one or a thousand times. Faul and his music are definitely engrained into our musical psyches forever.

I can't go into my neighborhood Food City without hearing one of his ditties (yesterday it was Hi Hi Hi)!

To me, Billy is the 6th Beatle. John, James Paul, George, Ringo, George Martin (there's no "Beatles" without this guy!), and Billy.

He has talents, but we'll never know if songwriting was one of them. Whoever is behind this wouldn't just leave songwriting up to an impersonator.

REMEMBER: a person's eyes can't just "grow" closer together, a grown man just doesn't sprout up 3-4 inches into his mid-twenties (dwarfing his bandmates - see Day In The Life stills where he makes George look like a virtual munchkin!), and the list goes on and on.

"If by chance..." Makes me wonder if you haven't examined Uberkinder's site or the physical evidence presented by Sun King. Come on now, wake up!

[eyesbleed]

Well, lets see, if anything over the last 30yrs was as outstanding as most of JPM's material, then that would be an important question, but since most of it has been nothing more than the usual pop fluff............. WHO CARES?

[Fwings]

Bill has written a lot of his own material, I would assume. He appears to have been let it on the creative process in the band a lot more after the trip to India (perhaps when they realized that nothing they could do would bring Paul back), and as we saw with Let It Be, practically took the band over when the other three lost their faith in the whole thing.

Now, 60IF states that "McCartney" was prepared by other musicians, so that's what I tend to believe, but that doesn't mean all of his albums or songs were. I'm also pretty sure "Hello, Goodbye" was Bill's first song written (and performed).

Bill's a talented guy, no question about it, but he still needs "a little help from his friends."

[Perplexed]

The big mystery to me is "Fool on the Hill". I think it is a marvelous song, and the lyrics AND the vocal are great. Just can't get insude the song to hear and analyze it. It is a perfectlittle jewel, IMO. And the video works well with it.

[innspector]

Perplexed said:

The big mystery to me is "Fool on the Hill". I think it is a marvelous song, and the lyrics AND the vocal are great. Just can't get insude the song to hear and analyze it. It is a perfectlittle jewel, IMO. And the video works well with it.

Here's my try. What is in bold is about Paul, the rest is about Faul. I think is a composite lyric talking about Paul and Faul, remember the year, 1967:


Day after day alone on the hill
The man with the foolish grin
is keeping perfectly still (of course, lying dead)
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool
And he never gives an answer

But the fool on the hill
sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round (nobody noticed the replacement)

Well on the way, head in a cloud (his ego high up to his head, or maybe pointing the fact that he is so tall)
The man of a thousand voices
is talking perfectly loud (remember Faul could imitate voices...)
But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make (...but not Paul's voice well)
And he never seems to notice

But the fool on the hill
sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round

Oh, round, round, round, round, round
And nobody seems to like him
they can tell what he wants to do
And he never shows his feelings

But the fool on the hill
sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round

Oh, round, round, round, round, round

And he never listen to them
He knows that they're the fools
But they don't like him (the other 3?)

The fool on the hill
sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round

Oh, round, round, round, round, round
oh

My thought is that in this song, "they" refers to the other three beatles.

Remember, John wrote The Fool on the Hill:

"I told you about the fool on the hill
I tell you man he's living there still
Well here's another place you can be
Listen to me " from the song Glass Onion, White Album.