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The Songs were a Hoax...

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I'm a great fun of the Beatles and of course Paul's - I've been to NYC for several Beatlesfest and a dear friend of mine who has connections with the Beatles and here is his hoaxhe did many years ago

AND HERE'S ANOTHER CLUE FOR YOU FOLKS
THE SONGS WERE A HOAx...
(with great apologies to The Beatles!)
MYSTERY OF THE MISSING BEATLES SONGS IS SOLVED!
FOUR RARE UNRELEASED TRACKS REVEALED TO BE A TEENAGE PRANK!

For nearly 30 years, millions of Beatles fans around the world have been hoping for the release of four unreleased Beatles recordings. Songs so rare that they have been regarded as the 'Holy Grail' of Beatles music.

 

Many major books on the Beatles list them as among the most sought-after titles. And scores of Internet websites run by hard-core Beatles fans list the songs and refer to their extreme rarity.

 

The song titles are:
COLLIDING CIRCLES
PINK LITMUS PAPER SHIRT
DECKCHAIR
LEFT IS RIGHT (AND RIGHT IS WRONG)

 

But now the Beatles world is being rocked with the news that the four songs never existed! That they were just the result of a mischievous throwaway teenage prank. Adding irony to the mix- the 1971 prank was the work of someone who has in recent years become one of the worlds leading Beatles historians!

 

And - adding a final amusing twist to the story - in a manner reminiscent of the famous 1969 "Paul is Dead" hoax- many Beatles fans who have recently been informed of the hoaxstill seem reluctant to believe that the songs don't exist!

 

Hollywood-based British humorist and TV personality - Martin Lewis - who is also a widely acknowledged Beatles authority - has confessed to being the culprit. The confession is the centerpiece of his new autobiographical one-man show (aptly titled "Great Exploitations!"), which received its world premiere in a Los Angeles theatre on Saturday January 9, 1999.

 

In the wryly-comedic reminiscence, Lewis reveals how as a very young music journalist in London in the early '70's - he inserted the titles of four of his own Beatle-esque teenage compositions into an otherwise scholarly article on Beatles rarities he wrote for a respected British music periodical - Disc & Music Echo. His action at the time was just a little fun - and a way to pad out an article, which he felt needed, more song titles. He never anticipated what would follow.

 

But that throwaway gag has grown into a monster that won't go away. Many years later Lewis discovered that other writers and authors had incorporated the erroneous information into their own listings of rare unreleased Beatles tracks.

 

Several books have featured fictitious embellishments to Lewis's original information - mentioning instrumentation and recording dates! One respected author's Beatles book - which boasted chapter titles named after Beatles rarities - used three of Lewis's fake titles as chapter headings!

 

Stephen Peeples - a very respected producer and researcher of "The Lost Lennon Tapes" - a Yoko Ono-sanctioned American radio series documenting unreleased John Lennon material - told Lewis that he had spent 5 years searching through Lennon's unmarked tapes looking for one of the elusive songs - "Colliding Circles"!

Adding further mischief to the mixture, Lewis was indirectly responsible for planting additional 'clues' just two years ago - which further convinced fans of the existence of the fake songs.

 

Humorist Lewis (who in the 70's and 80's produced all the "Secret Policeman's Ball" movies, shows and albums with Monty Python) conceived and executive-produced the 1996 reunion of Python-esque Beatles spoofsters - The Rutles. Their lampoon of the Beatles "Anthology" albums - "Archaeology" - was written by chief Rutle and Python songman, Neil Innes.

 

Knowing of Lewis' playful 1971 fabrications - Innes paid tribute to the jape by incorporating the titles of the four long-sought-after Beatles tracks into the lyrics of one of the album's most mysterious songs - "Unfinished Words".

 

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