27: The Fool On The Hill

Posted on | July 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

Interestingly enough, John Lennon rather liked Fool On The Hill. This is particularly curious to me, as I’ve always seen it as a massive Nowhere Man ripoff. Though, of course, this could very easily be the reason why he liked it.

In any case, lots of other people seem to like it, too. I think it’s rather mediocre, not only for the Beatles, but just for Paul. The thing is, though, that it’s also quite easily the second best song on Magical Mystery Tour (A-side/soundtrack side, of course). Sorry George, I really want to give you some points there, but Blue Jay Way is hardly your finest effort.

My main interest here is actually the video! This is, of course, the sequence from Magical Mystery Tour. Sadly, probably the third best sequence in the film. It was filmed in France, where Paul just decided to go to film it one Saturday morning with some friends — because, as my husband just put it, he’s Paul McCartney and he can do that.

First of all, I crack up every time I see this video at the point where there’s a zoom in on Paul making a really dopey face, at the same time as he’s crooning “and nobody seems to like him, they can tell what he wants to do.” This being the time right after Brian died when Paul was taking it upon himself to be the leader of the group and not exactly winning any friends . . . Self-Aware Paul is Self-Aware.

Secondly, and more interestingly, is that I’ve recently learned that during the scene when Paul is bounding down the hill, many people believe that he is exposing his penis as a joke. Seriously, check out the evidence and judge for yourself. Going Mythbusters style, I call it plausible — also, likely. Though, I hope it’s not. Because if that is Paul McCartney’s penis, in trying to figure this out, I spent all together too much time staring at it.

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