Some Paul McCartney fans have way too much time on their hands. News reports circulating today suggest that Paul's song 'Mister Bellamy' from his recent album 'Memory Almost Full' is an anagram of Mills Betray Me.
Well it is, if the correct title of the song was 'Mister Bellamy". But it is not. The registered and published title of the song is written as 'Mr Bellamy', not 'Mister Bellamy' so the anagram story is clearly nonsense.On an interview disc about the album, McCartney says Mr Bellamy is a fictional character on a rooftop who is thinking about jumping. A team of firefighters come along to talk him down but Mr Bellamy says 'I'm not coming down, no matter what you say, I like it up here, anyway'.
Earlier speculation suggested that the song was a plea to his former wife, Linda. Linda died of cancer in Arizona in 1998. Some pundits suggest the song is a throwback to the grief he felt when she died, which could have been triggered by his bitter divorce with Heather Mills.
McCartney says that most of his characters are made up. There was no Vera, Chuck and Dave either from 'When I'm 64'.
Whatever the case, it is fun to watch Beatles fans so active. This was the kind of discussion that used to go along with songs like 'Strawberry Fields Forever' or the Abbey Road cover.
