A music legend is opening up about a longtime rumor — or conspiracy theory — claiming that he died decades ago.

Paul McCartney , 83, is very much alive. In fact, the Beatles legend is scheduled to perform in Buffalo at the KeyBank Center next week.

But an urban legend has long claimed that McCartney died in a car crash in 1966, and was replaced by a lookalike. The “Paul is dead” theory was largely spread by a Detroit radio station and U.S. fans claiming they could hear the words “Paul is dead man, miss him, miss him,” by playing the Beatles’ “White Album” record backwards.

According to The Guardian , McCartney recalled how the rumors really picked up in 1969 when an American DJ led “millions of fans around the world [to believe] I was actually gone.” McCartney even joked to his the

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