The Winged Beatle

Is Paul dead or alive? Or is he more of a high-level-trickster-John Dee-type of 007 government agent? And/or did John sell his soul to the devil to be "more popular than Jesus"?
The Process, Manson, The Beach Boys, Polanski, Catcher In the Rye, Rosemary's Baby, The Dakota...on and on the connections go.