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Beatles Tribute TERRY KNIGHT Promo 7" SAINT PAUL 45 Capitol Records 1969. Knight was responsible for seeding the Paul is Dead myth around the University campuses in and around Detroit from whence the phenomena first emerged. For reasons unknown in 1968 Detroit DJ and musician Terry Knight sat in on a Beatles recording session for the White Album where he witnessed an argument that led to Ringo Starr walking out, temporarily, on the band.
It seems apparent that Knight had travelled to London that year in order to bag a recording contract with the Beatles newly formed Apple records company, however, despite the fact that band were handing out contracts to anyone with a pulse at this stage, Knight was unsuccessful. 
Quite why then he should be in the incredibly fortunate position to have sat in on the recording session is a mystery, unless he had been selected for a higher purpose?
Shocked, apparently, at what he had witnessed in the studio Knight would go away and pen a song entitled ‘Saint Paul’ with some rather cryptic lyrics which he maintained concerned his, brief, relationship with McCartney and his belief – in which he would be proven correct - that the Beatles would soon split.
As we know, once the Paul is Dead myth emerged the lyrics would be assumed to be about Paul’s demise and form another strata in the layer of clues. Why the song should be about Paul though and not the clearly hurt and upset Ringo also remains a mystery.
Using this contract, in April 1969, Knight released "Saint Paul" with its refrain of 'hey Paul' to the tune of "Hey Jude" as well as vocal lines from "Hello, Goodbye", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "She Loves You" apparently without anyone at Capitol realising the potential copyright infringement. In time, this was noticed and the song would be re-issued as the only ‘non-Beatle’ song credited to Lennon and McCartney’s MacLen Music company.
Nothing much happened until October 12th 1969, when a caller to WKNR-FM radio station in Detroit, Michigan from Eastern Michigan University announced that McCartney was dead and that the DJ should play the Beatles’ song "Revolution 9" backwards. The Detroit radio DJ, Russ Gibb, did as he was instructed and reported on the airwaves that he thought he heard phrases to the effect of, "turn me on, dead man." Soon, Gibb was telling his listeners what he had found and was also adding to the list of clues.
Meanwhile, on October 14, 1969, college students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor published a satirical review of The Beatles’ Abbey Road album in The Michigan Daily. This story stoked the "McCartney-is-dead" claim with "new evidence," offering various "clues," some supposedly found in any number of Beatles' songs and/or album covers. This story, in turn, was picked up by various newspapers across the U.S. and escalated nationally. Definitely an intriguing little ditty. This one’s the rarer promo version!