Who is billy shears?

Answer 1

I personally think that Billy Shears is an alias for Ringo. Remember, Paul created Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as an alter ego for The Beatles, to try to get a different look on things. At the end of Sgt Pepper/beginning of With a Little Help from my Friends, they sing the name Billy Shears, and then Ringo starts to sing.

However, I also think that John could be Billy Shears. In Ringo's I Am The Greatest, he clearly says 'Yes my name is Billy Shears/You know it has been for so many years'. However, Ringo never wrote this song, John did.

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It's Ringo Starr because John wrote the song but He had written this song for Ringo so he says 'Yes my name is Billy Shears'

Billy Shears was a figment of Pauls imagination. It was made up. But in late1967 Jack Goode put a band together called The Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, and I became Billy Shears in that Band. And I have been ever since. 43yrs.