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THE FAB FACADE: THE RISE OF FAUL:
What if the rumors that Paul McCartney really died in 1966 were true… and the cover-up was orchestrated by pigeons, psychedelic cults, and a sentient record player named the Vinyl Oracle?
Welcome to The Fab Faç The Rise of Faul, a kaleidoscopic fever dream of Beatlemania, brainwaves, and backmasked breadcrumbs. When a Scottish oddball named Billy Shears stumbles into a Paul McCartney look-alike contest by accident, he unwittingly becomes the linchpin of the most ludicrously elaborate conspiracy in pop culture history. Selected by a shadowy cabal known as the Order of the Saffron Veil, Billy is transformed into "Faul," a façade of fame carefully constructed to preserve the illusion of a living Beatle, and the harmonic balance of the universe.
But the seams are splitting.
As Ringo pulls pranks in prosthetic dimples, John embeds subversive nonsense in vinyl grooves, and Yoko rides a unicycle armed with a memory-zapping ray, fans across the globe begin to decode the clues. The Fanatics rise. The pigeons coo. The ley lines buzz. And at the center of it all spins the Vinyl Oracle, a prophetic turntable coughing up cosmic truth in crackling static and Beatles B-sides.
Is it a hoax? A government plot? A psychedelic séance gone terribly right? Or just a prank that spiraled wildly out of control?
The Fab Façade is a satirical odyssey through a parallel 1960s where nothing is as it seems, not fame, not identity, not even "Love Me Do." File it under fiction. Or don't. Just play it backward, and decide for yourself.
Truth, dear reader, is a scratched record. Mind the walrus. It knows more than it lets on.
Welcome to The Fab Faç The Rise of Faul, a kaleidoscopic fever dream of Beatlemania, brainwaves, and backmasked breadcrumbs. When a Scottish oddball named Billy Shears stumbles into a Paul McCartney look-alike contest by accident, he unwittingly becomes the linchpin of the most ludicrously elaborate conspiracy in pop culture history. Selected by a shadowy cabal known as the Order of the Saffron Veil, Billy is transformed into "Faul," a façade of fame carefully constructed to preserve the illusion of a living Beatle, and the harmonic balance of the universe.
But the seams are splitting.
As Ringo pulls pranks in prosthetic dimples, John embeds subversive nonsense in vinyl grooves, and Yoko rides a unicycle armed with a memory-zapping ray, fans across the globe begin to decode the clues. The Fanatics rise. The pigeons coo. The ley lines buzz. And at the center of it all spins the Vinyl Oracle, a prophetic turntable coughing up cosmic truth in crackling static and Beatles B-sides.
Is it a hoax? A government plot? A psychedelic séance gone terribly right? Or just a prank that spiraled wildly out of control?
The Fab Façade is a satirical odyssey through a parallel 1960s where nothing is as it seems, not fame, not identity, not even "Love Me Do." File it under fiction. Or don't. Just play it backward, and decide for yourself.
Truth, dear reader, is a scratched record. Mind the walrus. It knows more than it lets on.
269 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 12, 2025
About the author
Nick Pollack
106 books5 followersNick comes to writing through a visual lens, spending most of his career directing short films & commercials in Australia.
Romantic thriller ‘Pack Only What You Need’ is his second fiction title for adult readers, the first being a comedy romance ‘Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart’, published in 2017.
In addition, he regularly writes novels and screenplays for the children & family market. He has written three books for middle-grade readers, a wish-fulfillment fantasy ‘The Magician’s Raincoat’ and the first two books in a series titled ‘Zodee Ack, My Imaginary Foe’, with a fourth due in late 2020.
He has collaborated on a Christmas adventure script called ‘AKA Nick Claus’ with screenwriter Diane Drake ('What Women Want', ‘Only You’), and is currently working on screenplays for several new family films to be released in 2020.
He's particularly proud to have received an Australian Director's Guild award for directing commercials, and he is in pre-production on several feature film projects. His recently completed short feature ‘And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night’, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival and collected accolades at over a dozen international festivals.
Romantic thriller ‘Pack Only What You Need’ is his second fiction title for adult readers, the first being a comedy romance ‘Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart’, published in 2017.
In addition, he regularly writes novels and screenplays for the children & family market. He has written three books for middle-grade readers, a wish-fulfillment fantasy ‘The Magician’s Raincoat’ and the first two books in a series titled ‘Zodee Ack, My Imaginary Foe’, with a fourth due in late 2020.
He has collaborated on a Christmas adventure script called ‘AKA Nick Claus’ with screenwriter Diane Drake ('What Women Want', ‘Only You’), and is currently working on screenplays for several new family films to be released in 2020.
He's particularly proud to have received an Australian Director's Guild award for directing commercials, and he is in pre-production on several feature film projects. His recently completed short feature ‘And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night’, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival and collected accolades at over a dozen international festivals.
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