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Most know the Paul is dead urban legend in varying levels of detail. The story goes something to the effect that in 1966 Paul McCartney, distraught over a recording session, stormed out of the studio and drove off, or that he was driving a girl home (Lovely Rita). Along the way, he got into a car accident ("He blew his mind out in a car,"; "I took her home, I nearly made it"), and was decapitated ("You were in a car crash, and you lost your hair"). The Beatles and their managers paid off the police to cover up the death, took the winner of a look alike contest (usually named Billy Shears, William Campbell, or William Shears Campbell), but were so distraught that they hid clues throughout their songs and in album art, and so forth. This would also explain the gap between recorded material during that time, and the revolutionary direction the band would take.

But what if Paul McCartney actually did die in a car crash in 1966? What would the Beatles actually do, and what would actually occur?
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