It is feared he is suffering from loss of memory. That was all.
Then a few days later came the bombshell: he was found dead on May 2nd in the cellar of his home. Invanddis report
The Express reported: ‘Crime is not suspected. Not suspected? He had been reported missing, then his corpse suddenly appears in the basement of his own home. ‘Two bottles’ were found near to the body: bottles of what? The family have to try and pretend that they had somehow not noticed his smelly corpse in the basement.
The journalist tries to insinuate that the late Richard Asher was not happy about what his children had been up to: ‘It is known that Dr Asher, a controversial figure in medical circles, was not happy about his children’s chosen professions.’ The journo is trying by innuendo to imply that Dr Asher committed suicide, without giving any hint as to the cause of death. (The Express, 3.5.69) .
(This article reports some of the evidences of the time, and does not claim that it is true, even if the facts are real.)
The body lay ‘undiscovered for a week’ (David Thomas, ‘The Darkness Behind the Smile’, The Telegraph 19.8.04 ).
On Saturday 26th April he went missing, then his corpse was discovered a week later. Of course, ‘crime is not suspected’
Jane and Paul engaged December ‘67
Paul marries Linda March ‘69
Jane’s father found dead April ‘69
In the fall of 1969, shortly after the release of The Beatles Abbey Road album, a rumor swept America concerning the death of Paul McCartney.
People began to study the cover of Abby Road and wonder why McCartney is barefoot in the picture and out-of-step with the other Beatles. The evidence and suggestions regarding McCartney’s death quickly spread around the world. People began to phone in claims that The Beatles were using extensive hidden messages and backmasking in their records starting in 1966.
The Paul is dead rumor popularized the use of backmasking in music. Let’s examine some of the most notorious claims.
The Honourable Tara Browne was a young London socialite, who was killed in an automobile accident on December 18, 1966. Browne was the son of Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and a long lasting member of the House of Lords. Tara’s mother is Oonagh Guinness, who was the heiress to the Guinness fortune and the youngest of the three Golden Guinness Girls.
Tara Browne was the heir to the Guinness dry stout fortune. The circumstances surrounding his death are connected to The Beatles and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones. For starters.
Tara Browne died during the same three-month time span that Paul McCartney is said to have passed. Browne was killed when his white Lotus Elan convertible crashed into a large truck near the junction of Redcliffe Square and Redcliffe Gardens, in Kensington, London. Tara Browne’s crash is extremely similar to some of the accounts of Paul McCartney’s fatal accident.
A woman named Suki Potier was in the car with Tara Browne when he was killed. Suki was an English model. Following the crash, Potier started dating Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, who was a great friend of Tara. Suki moved into Jones fifteenth century farmhouse in the last few months before his death. Tara Browne had a relationship with The Beatles. He was friends with both John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Tara Browne was with Paul McCartney when he crashed his moped in 1965, and received facial injuries. In 1967, The Beatles released the song A Day in the Life. The song has become famous for words describing a car accident. John Lennon has said the lyrics for A Day in the Life were written about the death of Tara Browne.
“He blew his mind out in a car. He didn’t notice that the lights had changed. A crowd of people stood and stared. They’d seen his face before, nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords.”
But Asher’s influence would extend beyond song lyrics. While living with her family, the working-class lad from Liverpool was exposed to an entirely different — and upscale — lifestyle.
Margaret Asher gave McCartney music lessons, teaching him to play the recorder, a flute-like woodwind instrument, which would feature prominently on “The Fool on the Hill.” McCartney, becoming increasingly experimental, would later introduce orchestral music into other Beatles’ songs (for example, the violin and cello harmony in “Yesterday” and “Eleanor Rigby,” and the dramatic crescendo in “Day in the Life”).
Three years later, Asher and McCartney moved into a house in London. On Christmas Day 1967 the couple announced their engagement, and in February of the following year Asher accompanied the group to India .
Unfortunately, the couple’s relationship was anything but serene. In July 1968, at the premiere of Yellow Submarine, Asher was nowhere to be found. Three days later, in an appearance on the BBC talk show, Asher announced that her engagement to McCartney was off.
