{"id":10591,"date":"2011-12-13T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10591"},"modified":"2011-12-13T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:19:12","slug":"breaking-news-beatles-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/breaking-news-beatles-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Beatles\u2019 Manager Brian Epstein Staged Death, Joined Soviet Psych-Pop Band!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10594 alignleft\" title=\"brian\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/brian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"212\" \/>Beatles&#8217; manager <strong>Brian Epstein<\/strong>, who was believed to have died of an accidental drug overdose in 1967, is now believed to have staged his death to join a Soviet-era psych-pop band. The following video has surfaced of a band in <em>Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s<\/em>-inspired (yet perfectly matching) outfits showing a thinner, more haggard looking Epstein (to the right of the screen) singing lead vocals. Little is known about the band and even less is known about the pronunciation of its name. Sov-pop experts suspect his knowing wink at the <strong>46-second mark<\/strong> was a sign to Red-loving <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>, who had been toying with staging his own death and fleeing to the U.S.S.R. To date, no other signs of Epstein&#8217;s musical career or life beyond this point are known.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wsUqEEFgoNc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>As an aside, the tall singer on the left side of the screen, who takes a solo at the 1:48 mark, is American actor\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/woolgirl.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c45f853ef0115711ec24c970c-800wi\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Benedict<\/a><\/strong>, best known for his role as the eccentric English neighbor Harry Bentley on\u00a0<em>The Jeffersons<\/em>. Sadly, Benedict died in 2008, 3 years too soon to explain his participation in this band and any knowledge he might have had of his actual English bandmate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beatles&#8217; manager Brian Epstein, who was believed to have died of an accidental drug overdose in 1967, is now believed to have staged his death to join a Soviet-era psych-pop band. The following video has surfaced of a band in Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s-inspired (yet perfectly matching) outfits showing a thinner, more haggard looking Epstein (to the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/breaking-news-beatles-manager\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,16],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}