This is the eleventh in my "Beatles" series.
This is a less known Beatle song but it was part of the "Paul is
Dead" era so I am including it.
"Don't Pass Me By" is a song by the
Beatles from the double album The Beatles (also known as the White
Album). It was Ringo Starr's first solo composition, and he sang
lead vocals.
The line "I'm sorry that I doubted you, I was so unfair, You
were in a car crash and you lost your hair" is cited by proponents
of the Paul is dead urban legend as a clue to McCartney's fate; the
line "you lost your hair" is claimed to be a reference to "When I'm
Sixty-Four", which McCartney wrote.
However, the expression "to lose one's hair" was a fairly common
English idiom (see, for instance, Elizabeth Bowen's novel "The
Death of the Heart," 1938); it simply means "to become anxious or
upset."
Although this could reference one of McCartney's and Starr's
arguments from the infamous friction within the group starting with
the sessions for The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album) when
McCartney stormed out of the studio one night that ultimately led
to the famous hoaxed death.
Congratulations to OC Man on the
FTF