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Title: Anyone read "Turn Me On, Dead Man"?
Post by: barry_burton on February 21, 2005, 10:19:38 PM
I'm reading it right now and it's quite interesting. It's about the Paul is dead hoax of the late 60's. It's pretty good, I would choose this over something like "The Walrus Was Paul", it's almost written like a novel. Plenty of pics and cool facts I would suggest it if you want to research the hoax.
Title: Re: Anyone read "Turn Me On, Dead Man"?
Post by: TurnMeOnDeadman on February 21, 2005, 10:40:48 PM
Ive heard of it, but never read it........*looks at my username*
Title: Re: Anyone read "Turn Me On, Dead Man"?
Post by: SieLiebtDich on February 22, 2005, 01:41:52 AM
I've also heard of it, but never read i, saw it once at borders, but it was sold out once i wanted to buy it....
Title: Re: Anyone read "Turn Me On, Dead Man"?
Post by: Bruno on February 22, 2005, 03:31:28 AM
are you the dude from Resident Evil? lol
Title: Re: Anyone read "Turn Me On, Dead Man"?
Post by: on February 22, 2005, 07:41:29 AM
I bought "The Walrus Was Paul" from the author who was at the Beatlefest in Chicago in '95. It sucks. Same old stuff and most of it was just lifted from Nicholas Schaffner's book "The Beatles Forever" pages 127-129. The only clue in there that made it worthwhile was the Sgt. Pepper drum clue, which I had never seen before, so that was pretty cool. I don't know how many more books or new clues they can come up with, its been beaten to death.
Title: Re: Anyone read "Turn Me On, Dead Man"?
Post by: barry_burton on February 26, 2005, 04:50:37 AM
Quote from: Bruno
are you the dude from Resident Evil? lol

Right you are, Barry Burton from the Resident Evil series.

"The Walrus Was Paul" was very poorly written and it seemed like the author believed in the hoax a bit too much.

Title: Re: Anyone read "Turn Me On, Dead Man"?
Post by: flux on February 27, 2005, 05:36:42 AM
just because the book sucked doesn't mean Paul didn't die.
and if he didn't die...was it a manufactured hoax ? They never seemed to deal with it in The Anthology now did they ? It was a part of Beatle history.
Title: Re: Anyone read "Turn Me On, Dead Man"?
Post by: Strawberryfields67 on June 11, 2005, 07:41:35 PM
It looked really interesting, but I probably won't buy it.  :-/