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Illinois Student Newspaper Retracts 1969 Story On False Rumors Of Paul McCartney's Death
It was said the band hid messages about McCartney's death in their records, which could be deciphered by playing songs backward.
CHICAGO (CBS) – The Northern Star, the student newspaper for Northern Illinois University, issued an apology and a retraction this week for publishing a report that music legend Paul McCartney was dead all the way back in September 1969.
Back in the late 1960s, there was a conspiracy theory that the member of The Beatles had died in a car accident in 1966 and was replaced by a very convincing look-alike.
