Finally, the magic of The Beatles makes sense as Sir Paul McCartney has admitted he is actually a ‘head wizard’.
In recent years, a conspiracy started that his festive hit, Wonderful Christmastime, is actually about people practising witchcraft.
‘The mood is right, the spirit’s up, we’re here tonight – and that’s enough,’ he sings at the start of the Christmas track.
Apparently, some corners of the internet have taken this lyric to hint at a secret liaison of witches in the woods, sparking the theory that Sir Paul is a wizard.
The Beatles legend shares behind-the-scenes tidbits in a Vevo video titled The Making Of ‘Wonderful Christmastime’.
‘There is a theory online that the song is about people practising witchcraft, getting found out and trying to cover it up,’ he commented.
‘Thank goodness they found me out. This is completely true, and in actual fact, I am the head wizard of a Liverpool coven,’ Sir Paul declared.
Witchcraft could be why The Beatles found so much success with their music, prompting Beatlesmania and their recognition as one of the best bands ever.
They’ve sold an estimated 600 million units worldwide and have been recognised as pioneers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. All thanks to magic?
That or, as Sir Paul said: ‘Either that… or it’s complete nonsense. And you know it’s the latter!’
It’s not the only conspiracy about the Blackbird icon that’s been floating around recently.
In the 83-year-old iconic singer’s new memoir, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, Paul reflected on the conspiracy theory that he had died and been replaced with a lookalike.
The ‘Paul is dead’ theory first surfaced in 1966 but exploded in 1969, with the singer calling it the ‘strangest rumour’.
‘We had heard the rumour long before, but suddenly, in that autumn of 1969 stirred up by a DJ in America, it took on a force all of its own, so that millions of people around the world believed I was actually gone,’ he penned per The Guardian.
He added that he was ‘aware of the power of gossip and the absurdity’ and he and his then wife Linda, moved out of London ‘precisely to get away from the kind of malevolent talk that was bringing The Beatles down’.
‘Now that over half a century has passed since those truly crazy times, I’m beginning to think that the rumours were more accurate than one might have thought at the time.
‘In so many ways, I was dead, a 27-year-old about-to-become-ex-Beatle, drowning in a sea of legal and personal rows that were sapping my energy, in need of a complete life makeover,’ he concluded.
So there you have it, he’s neither a lookalike nor a wizard, just one man who went on a magical mystery tour.
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