That isn't Billy trying to take the photo of his daughter. That is the same person who is on the cover of I Want To Hold Your Hand. That person is Michael McCartney, not Mike McGear.
C.T., thank you so much for this very fascinating and timely post. Discussion of Billy's eye is increasing now. We have so many questions. I appreciate how this post brings this discussion together.
The film "Un Chien Andalou" (1929) by Luis Buñuel and surrealist Dadaist Salvador Dali has been resurfacing lately in my thoughts about Billy's prosthetic eye, especially the scene with the razor cutting the eye juxtaposed with the moon shot (at approx the 1min 18sec mark):
(2) The many references, which you have documented for us readers in this post, concerning the prosthetic right eye ... and the connection to the prosthetic leg of Heather Mills are CLEAR indications that Billy wishes to have this discussion now. I really appreciate the detailed work you have done which helps us make sense of "Memoirs."
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(3) Note also the title of the recent "Paul McCartney" photo exhibit "EYES of the Storm”:
(4) Are Billy's Paintings imitating the style of Dadaist Salvador Dali?
If it turns out that Billy has in fact some connection to the "Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band" via the first Viv Stanshall, the fact that some Bonzo band members were art students in the late 1950s/early1960s makes it quite likely that Billy and the Bonzos would have seen the film "Un Chien Andalou" as part of their art courses, or in art theatres. Billy's paintings have a very STRONG Salvador Dali vibe. IMHO Billy is imitating Salvador Dali ... or to be kinder to Billy, Billy is inspired by Dali. 😅 For examples:
There is the story that the name "Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band" may have been chosen partly because of the Dada art movement of which Salvador Dali was an instigator:
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"... Stanshall would become the band's next recruit after that day in 1962, when he and Slater rechristened the existing group The Bonzo Dog Dada Band. In the 2004 BBC Four documentary Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of His Mind [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ymcdUA6g4], Slater claims that the name was inspired by playing a Dadaist word game using cut-up technique, which involves writing words or phrases on paper, tearing the paper into strips and then randomly re-assembling the strips to form new phrases. One of the phrases created was "Bonzo Dog Dada Band": Bonzo Dog after Bonzo the dog, a popular British cartoon character created by artist George Studdy in the 1920s, and Dada after the early 20th-century art movement. ..."
(6) P.S. Have you come across this (crazy?) conspiracy that attempts to link Britain's serial killer Fred West to Heather Mills and to the British band "The Tremeloes"? I know it sounds quite mad but then again the world is proven again and again to be quite a mad place:
Thanks for your comment. The scene in "Un Chien Andalou", with the razor cutting the eye, followed by with the image of the moon, is very interesting, and certainly conjures up thoughts about the loss of Billy's right eye. I watched a lot of crazy art films like that in my teens, but I'm in my 40s now, so that was a while ago! Thank you for pointing it out. I get the impression that Salvador Dali was also in "the big club". "The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret", he said. I wonder what that secret was!?
Dali was a surrealist, rather than a dadaist. He was only 12 when Hugo Ball wrote the "Dada Manifesto" in 1916. It's interesting that you see Dali's influence in Billy's paintings, because I don't, not beyond a general shared surrealism.
The Dada cut up technique was used by lots of people, including David Bowie, who wrote most of his lyrics that way in the 70s. He also had a background in art, but it was really the beat poets (like William S Burroughs), who popularised the idea of cut ups, that got him into the technique. "Memoirs" talks about using this technique in the naming of "the Bonzos" on pages 82-83 of the 2023 edition, and I tend to believe this story.
It's funny how many people have written to me with regards to Billy's interview on CBS about "The Eyes of the Storm" exhibition. The one in which the journalist says to Billy, "you must have a good eye to take these photos", and Billy replies, "it's my left one". I posted that interview on my YouTube community tab before anyone else (before MW), and I also went to the exhibition in question and made a video review about it! No one notices anything I do! LOL! 🤣 I agree though, that Billy does seem to want to talk about eyes a lot lately.
The video about Heather Mills was a bit nuts, even for me, and that's saying something! I think the secret that she is holding onto is something completely different. I can't talk about it too much, but let's just say Billy might have some morally questionable pastimes that might have been uncovered in a police sting... In any case, thanks for sharing that link.
"... I think the secret that she is holding onto is something completely different. I can't talk about it too much, but let's just say Billy might have some morally questionable pastimes that might have been uncovered in a police sting..."
Months have passed now since these comments (above) first tantalized me regarding Billy's questionable pastimes. Now I just came upon this link from 2011:
"OPERATION ORE: THE GAMBLE CONNECTION, Sunday, April 17, 2011 - Paul McCartney and Heather Mills.... First protected name revealed - Jumping Jacks"
So now I'm putting 2 + 2 together. Shocking to me (if true). Yet NOTHING surprises me anymore, especially where elites & parasites are involved. (However I must admit I'm falling behind on criminal research because I'd never heard of Tony Blair's toilet arrest under the pseudonym, Charles Linton, until today! And that arrest was many years ago.
P.S. At least in my view, Cat, you'll always have the credit for being FIRST with Billy's "Eye of the Storm" exhibition, and his memorable comment, "it's my left one."
Thanks for the links. And, yes, you guessed it. That's exactly what I was referring to. There's a lot of creeps in entertainment! Who knows what they get up to!? Thanks also for recognising that I was the first to talk about Billy's left eye comment in regards to the "Eye of the Storm". I was following the exhibition story for months before the exhibition started. I had a gut feeling that something would come out of it, and I think I was the only one in the PID community to go to the exhibition and cover it too.
That isn't Billy trying to take the photo of his daughter. That is the same person who is on the cover of I Want To Hold Your Hand. That person is Michael McCartney, not Mike McGear.
C.T., thank you so much for this very fascinating and timely post. Discussion of Billy's eye is increasing now. We have so many questions. I appreciate how this post brings this discussion together.
The film "Un Chien Andalou" (1929) by Luis Buñuel and surrealist Dadaist Salvador Dali has been resurfacing lately in my thoughts about Billy's prosthetic eye, especially the scene with the razor cutting the eye juxtaposed with the moon shot (at approx the 1min 18sec mark):
https://ok.ru/video/36943170146
Billy is now OK with bringing his one "good eye" out in the open.
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(1) His admission "It's my left one" in the interview about the "Paul McCartney" photograph exhibit here from Mike Williams' channel:
"Sage of Quay™ - Paul McCartney (Billy Shears) - Right Eye Blind 👁️ Masterfully Speaking of Course"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhcBons7HMU
(48 seconds)
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(2) The many references, which you have documented for us readers in this post, concerning the prosthetic right eye ... and the connection to the prosthetic leg of Heather Mills are CLEAR indications that Billy wishes to have this discussion now. I really appreciate the detailed work you have done which helps us make sense of "Memoirs."
~
(3) Note also the title of the recent "Paul McCartney" photo exhibit "EYES of the Storm”:
It is titled “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64 Eyes of the Storm,” currently displayed at the National Portrait Gallery, London. https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2023/paul-mccartney-photographs-1963%E2%80%9364-eyes-of-the-storm/
EYES? Coincidence!?!? I think not.
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(4) Are Billy's Paintings imitating the style of Dadaist Salvador Dali?
If it turns out that Billy has in fact some connection to the "Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band" via the first Viv Stanshall, the fact that some Bonzo band members were art students in the late 1950s/early1960s makes it quite likely that Billy and the Bonzos would have seen the film "Un Chien Andalou" as part of their art courses, or in art theatres. Billy's paintings have a very STRONG Salvador Dali vibe. IMHO Billy is imitating Salvador Dali ... or to be kinder to Billy, Billy is inspired by Dali. 😅 For examples:
https://www.google.com/search?q=salvador+dali+eye&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwje14vQs8eAAxUjEWIAHY83DDsQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=salvador+dali+eye&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgARQ3gxY3gxg1g5oAHAAeACAAS6IAVySAQEymAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=Wz3PZJ6-NKOiiLMPj--w2AM&bih=899&biw=1920&client=firefox-b-1-d
There is the story that the name "Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band" may have been chosen partly because of the Dada art movement of which Salvador Dali was an instigator:
~
"... Stanshall would become the band's next recruit after that day in 1962, when he and Slater rechristened the existing group The Bonzo Dog Dada Band. In the 2004 BBC Four documentary Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of His Mind [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ymcdUA6g4], Slater claims that the name was inspired by playing a Dadaist word game using cut-up technique, which involves writing words or phrases on paper, tearing the paper into strips and then randomly re-assembling the strips to form new phrases. One of the phrases created was "Bonzo Dog Dada Band": Bonzo Dog after Bonzo the dog, a popular British cartoon character created by artist George Studdy in the 1920s, and Dada after the early 20th-century art movement. ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_Dog_Doo-Dah_Band#Formation_and_early_years_(1962%E2%80%931966)
[my apologies for citing to Wikipedia fwiw]
(5) If Billy's right eye was taken in an occult ritual and/or ritual murder, that is truly frightening to most of us. https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/do-stars-fake-their-deaths-if-so/comment/20979958
(6) P.S. Have you come across this (crazy?) conspiracy that attempts to link Britain's serial killer Fred West to Heather Mills and to the British band "The Tremeloes"? I know it sounds quite mad but then again the world is proven again and again to be quite a mad place:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acOm2WjdX0Y
(8 min)
Thanks again C.T. 🐱
Thanks for your comment. The scene in "Un Chien Andalou", with the razor cutting the eye, followed by with the image of the moon, is very interesting, and certainly conjures up thoughts about the loss of Billy's right eye. I watched a lot of crazy art films like that in my teens, but I'm in my 40s now, so that was a while ago! Thank you for pointing it out. I get the impression that Salvador Dali was also in "the big club". "The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret", he said. I wonder what that secret was!?
Dali was a surrealist, rather than a dadaist. He was only 12 when Hugo Ball wrote the "Dada Manifesto" in 1916. It's interesting that you see Dali's influence in Billy's paintings, because I don't, not beyond a general shared surrealism.
The Dada cut up technique was used by lots of people, including David Bowie, who wrote most of his lyrics that way in the 70s. He also had a background in art, but it was really the beat poets (like William S Burroughs), who popularised the idea of cut ups, that got him into the technique. "Memoirs" talks about using this technique in the naming of "the Bonzos" on pages 82-83 of the 2023 edition, and I tend to believe this story.
It's funny how many people have written to me with regards to Billy's interview on CBS about "The Eyes of the Storm" exhibition. The one in which the journalist says to Billy, "you must have a good eye to take these photos", and Billy replies, "it's my left one". I posted that interview on my YouTube community tab before anyone else (before MW), and I also went to the exhibition in question and made a video review about it! No one notices anything I do! LOL! 🤣 I agree though, that Billy does seem to want to talk about eyes a lot lately.
The video about Heather Mills was a bit nuts, even for me, and that's saying something! I think the secret that she is holding onto is something completely different. I can't talk about it too much, but let's just say Billy might have some morally questionable pastimes that might have been uncovered in a police sting... In any case, thanks for sharing that link.
~ Cat 🐾
"... I think the secret that she is holding onto is something completely different. I can't talk about it too much, but let's just say Billy might have some morally questionable pastimes that might have been uncovered in a police sting..."
Months have passed now since these comments (above) first tantalized me regarding Billy's questionable pastimes. Now I just came upon this link from 2011:
"OPERATION ORE: THE GAMBLE CONNECTION, Sunday, April 17, 2011 - Paul McCartney and Heather Mills.... First protected name revealed - Jumping Jacks"
https://operationorethegambleconnection.blogspot.com/2011/04/paul-mccartney-and-heather-mills.html
So now I'm putting 2 + 2 together. Shocking to me (if true). Yet NOTHING surprises me anymore, especially where elites & parasites are involved. (However I must admit I'm falling behind on criminal research because I'd never heard of Tony Blair's toilet arrest under the pseudonym, Charles Linton, until today! And that arrest was many years ago.
https://operationorethegambleconnection.blogspot.com/2011/04/tony-blair-on-sex-offenders-list.html
Warm regards.
P.S. At least in my view, Cat, you'll always have the credit for being FIRST with Billy's "Eye of the Storm" exhibition, and his memorable comment, "it's my left one."
Thanks for the links. And, yes, you guessed it. That's exactly what I was referring to. There's a lot of creeps in entertainment! Who knows what they get up to!? Thanks also for recognising that I was the first to talk about Billy's left eye comment in regards to the "Eye of the Storm". I was following the exhibition story for months before the exhibition started. I had a gut feeling that something would come out of it, and I think I was the only one in the PID community to go to the exhibition and cover it too.