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The fool on the hill has got to be Richard Branson....
he was famous in the 60s and whenever interviewed on TV he is always grinning .... the man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still... Maxwell has got to be Peter Sutcliff the Yorkshire ripper... he is known to have used a hammer in his deadly attacks on women. .... clang clang Maxwells silver hammer came down on her head... ... bang bang, Maxwells silver hammer made sure that she was dead ......... |
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I don't think Sutcliffe was active when they wrote that.
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Yeah the timeline on that "Maxwells Silver Hammer" theory doesnt work, the song was released a good few years before any of the Yorkshire Ripper killings took place.
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you are right, the song was 68 and Sutcliffe's first attack was in 69 ...
so maybe its the other way round, perhaps the song inspired Sutcliffe to do his hammer attacks ? Helter Skelter inspired Manson ! (Pauls got a lot to answer for ! ) |
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The "Fool On The Hill" is about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Richard Branson was unknown in the sixties and didn't start his first venture, Virgin Records, until the seventies. |
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The OP is a muppet
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His rise began with the launch of a magazine called Student.
When the Beatles announced that Apple would support the arts, the 18-year-old Branson took himself to their Savile Row office and met up with Derek Taylor. His proposal was that a forthcoming issue of Student should include a recording of an interview with John and Yoko, which could be put on a flexidisc and distributed with his magazine. The Beatles must have been aware of him, he was always hanging around Apple . |
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The Beatles must have been aware of him, he was always hanging around Apple .
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The Fool on the Hill's about a man Paul used to see walking down the road in the fog I believe and he used to think he was strange.
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Wonder how many songs the 3 guys have written now ?
must be 3 or 4 thou in total ? |
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you are right, the song was 68 and Sutcliffe's first attack was in 69 ...
) ![]() erm ...i think the thread might have worked if the op suggested retrospective relationships... we know the songs quoted were not about the people he proposed... but just as a laugh... they could be! |
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1969.... Sutcliffe committed his first assault on an older prostitute he met whilst searching for the woman who had previously tricked him out of money. He left his friend's mini-van and walked up Saint Pauls Road, Bradford, until he was out of sight. He followed a prostitute into a garage and hit her over the head with a stone in a sock. end quote |
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1969.... Sutcliffe committed his first assault on an older prostitute he met whilst searching for the woman who had previously tricked him out of money. He left his friend's mini-van and walked up Saint Pauls Road, Bradford, until he was out of sight. He followed a prostitute into a garage and hit her over the head with a stone in a sock. end quote |
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m8..i was alive then... sutcliffe began murdering in 79, not 69. i remember it well because my fiancee then was at leeds poly, and was in the very area he operated...in fact i shat myself once because he struck in the very neighbourhood she lived.
Plus - if they had known it was Peter Sutcliffe when the first murder occurred - why didn't they arrest him then. People forget the Police got lucky when they caught Sutcliff. He was with a know Prostitute and was stopped because of that, they had no idea he was the Yorkshire Ripper until they checked further. And - The Fool On The Hill came out in 1967, the year before Apple was launched. it was on The Magical Mystery Tour EP in the UK and LP in The USA. The LP was sunsequently released in the UK on Apple but that was a lot later. Doh!!! |
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His first (subsequently) recorded murder was in 1969 but it was 6 years before he struck again.
! . i only knew of his reign of terror from 79 onwards. did he use a hammer in 69?... or 75? which was the point of 'maxwells silver hammer'.. |
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1969.... Sutcliffe committed his first assault on an older prostitute he met whilst searching for the woman who had previously tricked him out of money. end quote The truth is, Maxwell was fictional like Eleanor Rigby, Michelle and other characters Paul sometimes wrote about. The actual lyric is a metaphorical tale concerning the enjoyable ups and sudden downs of life - the unexpected silver hammer doing its worst. |
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Michelle Ma Belle could be Michelle Obama who was probably on the verge of being born at the time............
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Mr Mustard, I am not persisting.... read post 4.... please !
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Mr Kite was a man Paul once met who lived on benefits.
And, of course, Henry the Horse......was about a horse Paul once met called Henry.
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Mr Mustard, I am not persisting.... read post 4.... please !
![]() Far be it from me to add another unproven Beatle theory, but I'm trying to solve part of I Am The Walrus. I may have found out who the 'Eggman' actually was, a believable and more realistic explanation than the one given in Ian MacDonald's brilliant book Revolution In The Head. |
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Mr Kite was a man Paul once met who lived on benefits. And, of course, Henry the Horse......was about a horse Paul once met called Henry. end quote now your just being silly. John wrote some incredible songs and lyrics during the 60s he let his imagination run wild.... Semolina Pilchard.. climbing up the Eiffel Tower.... for eg. But what was No9 all about ? thats very unusual ! |
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Thank you Xxtimbo
![]() I'm trying to solve part of I Am The Walrus. I may have found out who the 'Eggman' actually was, . Picture yourself on a boat on a river.... is pure Alice in Wonderland. |
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But what was No9 all about ? thats very unusual !
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. i only knew of his reign of terror from 79 onwards.