William Campbell

Though this concept was largely discarded, the end of the title track includes a lyric referring to the "one and only Billy Shears," played by Ringo Starr, who sings the lead vocal on the next song, "With A Little Help From My Friends.". He died on November 18, 2002, from a heart attack. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that the Beatles were originally planning to "play" on the album. For his appearance as the abusive father of protagonist Nick Nolte in Affliction he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998. Pepper, "Billy Shears" is the name of the lead singer for the fictional Sgt. He then appeared in movies such as Young Guns II (1990), The Nutty Professor (1996), The Cherokee Kid (a 1996 TV movie), and Maverick (1994). Also on Sgt. He claimed to have healed himself with pills containing sulfur, and returned to screen in the 1990s.

Most Canadians would recognize this at first glance. Due to severe rheumatoid arthritis, he did not appear in any films during the 1980s. The badge does not contain the lettering "OPD" but rather "OPP". He was particularly fine in Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973); and modified his "tough guy" image in satires and comedies, such as What Did You Do in the War Daddy? (1966), Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), Waterhole # 3 (1967) and The President's Analyst (1967). The badge on Paul's arm in the Sgt Pepper's album is that of the Ontario Provincial Police. Born in Laurel, Nebraska, Coburn became famous as the "tough guy" in a variety of films, including the western The Magnificent Seven (1960), the World War Two POW drama The Great Escape (1963), the spy movie Our Man Flint (1966) and its sequel In Like Flint (1967), the Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' Duck You Sucker aka A Fistful of Dynamite (1971), and Sam Peckinpah's war movie Cross of Iron (1977). The letters "OPD," appearing on a costume in a photograph on the Sgt Pepper album were interpreted variously as standing for "Officially Pronounced Dead" and an indication that Billy Campbell had worked in the Ontario Police Department. James Coburn (August 31, 1928 - November 18, 2002) was an American movie actor.

Beatles fans scoured the Beatles' albums for hidden "clues" confirming this, and, demonstrating the human capacity to find meaning where no meaning exists, located dozens of "confirming" nuggets of information. These morsels were concocted together into one more-or-less cohesive tale: that the real Paul, killed by a banana lorry, had been replaced by an actor named either William Campbell or Billy Shears, who had undergone plastic surgery in order to effect a perfect likeness, and who had previously won a Paul McCartney look-alike contest. In October 1969, Russ Gibbs, program coordinator for radio station WKNR-FM in Detroit, began a baseless rumor that Paul McCartney had been killed and replaced by a look-alike. In fact such contests were held, but no William Campbell ever won one. According to this urban legend, a William Campbell won a "Paul look-alike" contest in 1966 and was induced to impersonate Paul after Paul died.

William Shears Campbell is a fictional Paul McCartney look-alike whose purported existence arose from the fevered efforts of conspiracy theorists to find significance in album photos and hidden musical messages during the Paul is Dead hoax in the late 1960s.