Tripping with Ellen

In June 1967 the music writer Paul Williams broke a story that never happened. “It looks very much as though will direct the Beatles’ third film, Shades of a Personality, shooting for which is scheduled to begin in Malaga, Spain, in September,” he reported, in a column later gathered in his first book Outlaw Blues: A Book of Rock Music. “The story line involves the four faces of a man (himself as dreamer, as seen by the world, as member of mankind, as seen by himself), eac...