The Secret Behind Abbey Road

So anyone who's anyone knows who the Beatles are,you know the British rock band that came to America and completely revolutionized the music scene. And since everyone knows the Beatles everyone must know of one of their most famous albums Abbey Road right? But I don't think everyone knows about the secret behind Abbey Road now do they?
So the story goes that after a recording session there was a fight between the band members. Paul McCartney got really mad and sped off down the road. Well on his way down the road he passed a lovely looking girl (Rita). He was too busy looking at her and didn't see an oncoming car. The rumor goes that he crashed and got decapitated. So the rest of the band got a McCartney lookalike. They evidently felt bad about this and it is said they left little messages in their albums from then on. -Info thanks to eeggs.com

Here are some of those messages:

• The license plate on the VW bug says 28IF. This is the age Paul would be IF he hadn't died.


• They are dressed, John as a priest, Ringo an Angel, Paul as a corpse(with a cigarette in his right hand), and finally George as a grave digger.


• Paul has a cigarette in his right hand but Paul was a lefty leaving some to believe its not really him.


• Paul isn't wearing shoes which is a symbol of death in Greece.


• Paul looks like he has a crack in his head symbolizing the car crash.


• On the back...


• You see a woman walking away, that would be the lovely Rita, the woman that distracted Paul.


• If you connect the dots to the left of the Beatles's sign it makes a three symbolizing how many members are left.


• There is a crack in the wall of the Beatles's sign showing the breakup of the band.

So what do you think its just all a big coincidence that people have found all these things and the Paul McCartney we see today is the real one or do you think he actually did die and they just found a lookalike one to take his place?

-Aron B

The Musicians

The Musicians
By Aron Blye
The Musicians by Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio really caught my eye for a few reasons. These reasons include the harmony of colors, the faces of the musicians, and the realistic feeling to the painting.
But first a little about the artist, Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio. He was born in 1571 around Rome. He was born into a society where the idealism of Michelangelo was still the norm. Where all other artists had distorted the human body in there paintings, Caravaggio rejected this and painted with a form of realism never before seen. He was always in trouble with the law and was always on the run from the authorities. This did not stop him in his pursuit of painting and he created beautiful works of art without a proper studio.
In the painting The Musicians there is a harmony of colors. All the colors in this work of art seem to blend flawlessly with one another. The whites and manilas blend in with the shade of peach of the boy’s faces. The brown color of the lyre and the violin capture each other’s beauty and bring a sort of harmonization to the painting. Also the one red sash around one of the musicians is the focal point of the entire painting and pulls the whole work of art together.
The faces of the musicians also caught my eye. Each musician has the same face. Each face has the same look too. The musician in the foreground has the same almost dumbfounded look on their face and the musicians on either corner are both looking down towards the ground.
And finally, the painting is so very realistic it has a sort of photo look to it. It looks as if Caravaggio had had a still picture camera and took a picture. You can see every bone in the turned around Musician and if you look hard enough you can almost see the notes on the composition paper one of the artists are reading.

"The Musicians" by Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio