Paul McCartney Has A New Perspective On His Old Death Hoax: ‘In So Many Ways, I Was Dead’

Getty Image Paul McCartney is the subject of perhaps the most famous hoax in music history: Supposedly, the Beatle died back in the 1960s and was replaced by an imposter. McCartney has heard all about this, of course, and over the years, he has gained a fresh perspective on the situation. McCartney discusses it in a new piece for The Guardian published over the weekend. It starts, “The strangest rumour started floating around just as the Beatles were breaking up — that I was dead. We had heard it long before, but suddenly, in that autumn of 1969, stirred up by a DJ in America, it took on