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warriormonk93 - Jan 29, 2008 - 09:55 PM
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93! I mentioned a while ago that the album Magical Mystery Tour has a gatefold of a still of the said movie which is a picture of Paul with a sign in front him that reads " I WAS". I always thought that amusing... I just discovered that he has two grandsons called Alastair... Is Alastair such a popular name in England? Curious...
zardoz - Jan 29, 2008 - 10:08 PM
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According to an article by R.U. Sirius that has a title something like "Paul McCartney and Drugs," he and his wife Linda were quite into Crowley's material in the '70's. I have no idea as to the extent of their involvement ( or the answer to your question, for that matter). Sounds like it might have been a phase they went through.
WildWitch - May 03, 2008 - 05:42 PM
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warriormonk93 wrote: › 93! I mentioned a while ago that the album Magical Mystery Tour has a gatefold of a still of the said movie which is a picture of Paul with a sign in front him that reads " I WAS". I always thought that amusing... I just discovered that he has two grandsons called Alastair... Is Alastair such a popular name in England? Curious...
Could I WAS mean "Aiwass"?
seajay - May 04, 2008 - 04:43 PM
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Say the word and you'll be free
Say the word and be like me
Say the word I'm thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?
the song also says
Everywhere I go I hear it said
In the good and the bad books that I have read
could they mean love-agape-93???prob not but one will never know!!!
starla - May 04, 2008 - 06:04 PM
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mmm... I doubt the Beatles had more than a passing interest in Crowley. A name the heads dug at the time, something in the air, so to speak. People over analyse Beatles lyrics, anyone can project their beliefs through Beatles lyrics. It's not as though they recorded 'Lucy in the Sky with Nuit' or 'When I'm 93'. Try looking at their songs through a Buddhist, a Christian, a Thelemic, a whatever perspective, there's lyrics that will justify each belief.
Still it's fun to speculate. Speaking of which, in their pre fab days, the Silver Beetles once played a gig at Forres Town Hall on Thursday the 26th of May 1960, to be precise. They would of driven past Boleskine House but I doubt they would of noticed. Not with John's eagerness to drive the band around without his glasses, or perhaps the local kids had been spooking them out with tales of a haunted house in the area!
warriormonk93 - May 05, 2008 - 06:14 PM
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Mal Evans was the one driving the Beatles around! The John Lennon song God:
I don't believe in magick
I don't believe in I-ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in Mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in Yoga
I don't believe in kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me
Yoko and me
And that's reality
Walterfive - May 05, 2008 - 06:52 PM
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And yes, Alistair/Alastair (and a dozen other variations) is a common enough name. Look at the guy who hosted Masterpiece Theatre-- Alastair Cook, for example.
And within the Beatles circle even: Alistair Taylor was personal assistant to Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
Alastair is the anglicized form of the Scottish Alasdair which is the Scottish/Gaelic version of Alexander.