Bonzo Clues

[namstocs]

we all know that Faul produced "Urban Spaceman" under the name Appolo C Vermouth,

But why choose this particular song?

look at the lyrics ;

I'm the urban spaceman baby, I've got speed
I've got everything I need
I'm the urban spaceman baby, I can fly
I'm a supersonic guy

I don't need pleasure
I don't feel pain
If you were to knock me down
I'd just get up again
I'm the urban spaceman babe and
I'm making out
I'm all about

I wake up every morning
with a smile upon my face
My natural exuberance
spills out all over the place
I'm the urban spaceman
I'm intelligent and clean
Know what I mean?

I'm the urban spaceman, as a lover second to none
It's a lot of fun

I never let my friends down
I've never made a boob
I'm a glossy magazine
an advert in the tube
I'm the urban spaceman babe, but here comes the twist
I don't exist


I think other Bonzos songs give clues to Pauls fate also, most noticebly "Death Cab for Cutie" and "look out there's a monster coming"

Look at the lyrics below ;

Lonely, unmarried, looking for love,
Life was passing me by.
So I sent off my photo, hobbies and age;
Magazine marriage I tried.
They say for centuries lovely Japanese girls
Have been trained in the art of pleasing men.
Be lonely no more, open destiny's door.
For one dollar they arrange a meeting.

My image was wrong, I didn't like me,
So I changed my personality.
I bought a delux Merseybeat wig
But it was a size too big.
What confidence in my new built-up shoes,
So smart for winter or summer.
Undetectable in normal everyday use.

Look out there's a monster coming!

Bye-bye binoculars and macintosh,
Everything is just great.
I take elocution, learn to speak posh
But still I can't find a mate.
Be popular, learn to play the guitar,
In seven days you could be strumming.
Be sociable, learn kissing technique.

Look out there's a monster coming!

Carnaby clothes, I reshaped my nose,
Plastic surgery's best.
To cut down my weight off comes my left leg.
I pass a swimming costume test.
Are my sideboards too long,
Don't my aftershave pong?
I know my new nose ain't runnin'.
What's wrong with my tie?
Am I getting too high?

Look out there's a monster coming!

Disfiguring and ugly, my facial hair
I had removed electrically.
I rejuvenated my energy cells
And regained my virility (grunt grunt).
(He put my hand on my heart?),
(I am changing the part?).
He had a machine for a mummy.
Please be gentle with me:
I come to pieces literally.

Look out there's a monster coming!
Look out there's a monster coming!
Look out there's a monster coming!
(...fade)

[byrdsmaniac]

Good post namstocs! It does seem that the lyrics relate to Paul/Faul.
I think you missed this:

"To cut down my weight off comes my left leg.
I pass a swimming costume test."

Compare to these lines from David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs":

"As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent
you asked for the latest party
With your silicon hump and your ten inch stump"

Your ten inch stump?
There has been discussion here of Bowie's putting PID clues in his songs. Also of Paul being "a midget" .
Perhaps we can see here that Paul had a leg amputated after a great fall.
That may be why the line:
"Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease" in "Come Together".
You would feel he had only one leg, or his wooden leg.

As for the "silicon hump": did they reconstruct part of his buttocks with silicon?

[TotalInformation]

What confidence in my new built-up shoes,

This recalls JPM's "magic shoes" which made him a few inches taller.

[Perplexed]

namstocs said:

we all know that Faul produced "Urban Spaceman" under the name Appolo C Vermouth,

But why choose this particular song?

look at the lyrics ;

I'm the urban spaceman baby, I've got speed
I've got everything I need
I'm the urban spaceman baby, I can fly
I'm a supersonic guy

I don't need pleasure
I don't feel pain
If you were to knock me down
I'd just get up again
I'm the urban spaceman babe and
I'm making out
I'm all about

I wake up every morning
with a smile upon my face
My natural exuberance
spills out all over the place
I'm the urban spaceman
I'm intelligent and clean
Know what I mean?

I'm the urban spaceman, as a lover second to none
It's a lot of fun

I never let my friends down
I've never made a boob
I'm a glossy magazine
an advert in the tube
I'm the urban spaceman babe, but here comes the twist
I don't exist


I think other Bonzos songs give clues to Pauls fate also, most noticebly "Death Cab for Cutie" and "look out there's a monster coming"

Look at the lyrics below ;

Lonely, unmarried, looking for love,
Life was passing me by.
So I sent off my photo, hobbies and age;
Magazine marriage I tried.
They say for centuries lovely Japanese girls
Have been trained in the art of pleasing men.
Be lonely no more, open destiny's door.
For one dollar they arrange a meeting.

My image was wrong, I didn't like me,
So I changed my personality.
I bought a delux Merseybeat wig
But it was a size too big.
What confidence in my new built-up shoes,
So smart for winter or summer.
Undetectable in normal everyday use.

Look out there's a monster coming!

Bye-bye binoculars and macintosh,
Everything is just great.
I take elocution, learn to speak posh
But still I can't find a mate.
Be popular, learn to play the guitar,
In seven days you could be strumming.
Be sociable, learn kissing technique.

Look out there's a monster coming!

Carnaby clothes, I reshaped my nose,
Plastic surgery's best.
To cut down my weight off comes my left leg.
I pass a swimming costume test.
Are my sideboards too long,
Don't my aftershave pong?
I know my new nose ain't runnin'.
What's wrong with my tie?
Am I getting too high?

Look out there's a monster coming!

Disfiguring and ugly, my facial hair
I had removed electrically.
I rejuvenated my energy cells
And regained my virility (grunt grunt).
(He put my hand on my heart?),
(I am changing the part?).
He had a machine for a mummy.
Please be gentle with me:
I come to pieces literally.

Look out there's a monster coming!
Look out there's a monster coming!
Look out there's a monster coming!
(...fade)

Good find, you drawkcab scotsman you.
So many concievable references to William and/or Paul's life.

Who wrote that? Apollo? What do you think he might have meant about "a monster's coming?"

[namstocs]

The only explanation I can come across for "look out there's a monster coming" is the obvious. i.e a "Frankenstein" a mish mash of different parts to create one whole "Creature".

Although the song is generally very up tempo, the words "look out there's a monster coming" are grow more sinister as the song progresses. untill the last lines which are actually quite disturbing.



I have only recently got into the PID theory, and am completely convinced that the Paul Mcartney we see today is not the same man who we can see in 1965/66.

However I have to admit that I have become confused between the various "Fauls"

do we have a definitive (within reason) answer as to who took over Pauls life after he was killed?

[Jilli]

Bird where did you get that hump is buttocks? I was just wondering because anything I have ever heard about a hump is on the back, as in hunchback.

Also in diamond dogs....

With your silicone hump and your ten inch stump
Dressed like a priest you was
Tod Browning’s freak you was

Tod Browning directed a movie called "Freaks." Freaks was not a horror movie, it was a sympathetic look at the way abnormalities were treated in the early part of the 20th century. The movie bombed and pretty much ruined Browning's career. Read more at this web site:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0022913/

and at this web site:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod_Browning

Charles Albert Browning, Jr. (July 12, 1880 - October 5, 1962), better known as Tod Browning. Tod Browning spent great chunks of time travelling with sideshows, carnivals, and street fairs, whose life, people, and attitudes were to become recurrent theme throughout his films. He performed a live burial act in which he was billed as "The Living Corpse." In June of 1915, he crashed his car at full speed into a moving train. His passengers were actor Elmer Booth and George A. Seigmann. Booth was killed instantly, while Seigmann and Browning suffered serious injuries, including in Browning's case a shattered right leg and the loss of his front teeth.

In 1917 he moved back to New York and he directed two films for Metro Studios: Peggy, the Will o' the Wisp and The Jury of Fate, both starring Mabel Taliaferro, the latter in a dual role achieved with double exposure techniques that were groundbreaking for the time. (In film and photography, double exposure is a technique in which a piece of film is exposed twice, to two different images. The resulting photographic image shows the second image superimposed over the first. The technique can be used to create ghostly images or to add people and objects to a scene that were not originally there. ) The Jury of Fate used ambitious double-exposure techniques so that Taliaferro played opposite herself.

[Jilli]

oh P.S.
the movie The Jury of Fate

movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=97449

The Jury of Fate starred Mabel Taliaferro in the dual role of the Labordie twins, Jeanne (a girl) and Jacques (a boy). Jeanne grows up resigned to the fact that Jacques is her father's favorite child. Thus, when Jacques accidentally drowns, Jeanne cuts her hair short and assumes her brother's identity.

[byrdsmaniac]

jilli said:

Bird where did you get that hump is buttocks? I was just wondering because anything I have ever heard about a hump is on the back, as in hunchback.

That was just a guess on my part. I couldn't imagine someone choosing to be made into a hunchback, but the Tod Browning remark may indicate that, for whatever the reason.
I don't think so, though.
What part of a body would be "your hump"?
It just sounded like a reference to his ass.

I've been looking over Bowie lyrics lately.
These might be relevant:

JOHN, I'M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN)
Words and music by David Bowie

"(Dancing) I'm having so much love
(Dancing) Too bad my back had gone
(Dancing) Boogie down with daddy now
I'd give my house in the country
If you slept, it's so funky
(Music) I'm dancing in the street
(Oooh, music) I've torn my shoes from my feet
(Romancing) It's got me dirty and sweet
It's got you reeling and rocking
Won't you let me slam my thing in

(Falling) I think it's all I can do
(Falling) Just got me feeling it too
(Ooh, falling) Give a little, take a little, give a little back
Jumping John, the great goose has gone
Got a lion on my hand, a Charlie on my back

(John) I'm only dancing
(She turns me on) I'm only dancing
(She turns me on) Ooh, but she moves me
(Don't get me wrong) I-I-I-I-I
(I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh)
(I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh)

(Dancing) Have you heard the news?
(Dancing) President has got the blues
(Dancing) I tell you confidently
If he gives it to you, he'd better take it from me

(Sad sad) I'll pick up your bones
(Sad sad) Leave the numbers alone
(Sad sad) Get off your telephone
Looking people in the eye, tell them "my, oh, my"
Let your backbone slide while you whistle and cry

(John)
(She turns me on)
(She turns me on) love, love, love, we get
(Don't get me wrong) hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh
(John) I-I-I-I'm only dancing
(She turns me on)
I-I-I'm only dancing
(She turns me on) I've lost my feet
(Don't get me wrong) I'm off on my way
(I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh) Please dance with me
(I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh) Please dance with me
(I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh)


(Dancing) I'm only
(Dancing) I'm only
(Dancing) I'm only
(Woo, woo, woo)
(Dancing) I'm only
(Dancing) I'm only
(Dancing) I'm only
(Woo, woo, woo)
Can't sing nor hear
I've lost my fear
Cha-Charlie, a dance on
(Woo, woo, woo)
(Woo, woo, woo)
He-he-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey, 'cause
(Woo, woo, woo)
You got white light
You got black light
I've got white light..." (etc.)

Who knows WHAT the hell he's talking about.
The lyrics seem appropriate for someone who's dead.
There seem to be references to John being dead as well.
(He was when this was written.)

[Jilli]

Byrd, I was wondering if silicone hump was refering to Faul's false nose.

I was also thinking, wouldnt it be funny if David Bowie was putting clues in his songs about himself and his life and we give credit for his clues to the Beatles