#allan klein

[blixtbaby]

Ringo with Allan Klein in 1969..

[carolsturka]

Where a potential route to Beatle reconciliation was concerned, McCartney’s lawyer Lee Eastman agreed with the general view amongst the group: a financial settlement might beget a revived friendship before any musical reunion took place. “First, they have to sever their economic interests. Then they could be friends. Then, finally, they might play together.”

“There was an awful lot of money made,” McCartney told Rolling Stone in early 1974, “and none of it came to us, really, in the end. Virtually, that’s the story. So I’d kind of like to salvage some of that and see that not everything’s ripped off.” McCartney certainly felt that Klein’s departure had opened a vital channel of communication. “The only thing,” he would claim, “that has prevented us from getting together again has been Allen Klein’s contractual hold over The Beatles’ name.”

Getting rid of Klein, he insisted, was a painless piece of conciliation on the part of the other Beatles. It was also a prudent move should any future reunion take place. “I think that, like everyone else around The Beatles, and maybe The Beatles themselves, Lee Eastman underestimated the psychological barriers that prevented the four men from getting back together,” claims Beatle historian Peter Doggett. “To a Beatle outsider, it probably seemed simple: sort this problem out, and this desired result will happen. But that didn’t take account of the years of emotional baggage that couldn’t be removed that easily.” And McCartney was clearly optimistic about the opportunity Klein’s departure might present. “There were no practical reasons why Klein needed to be out of the way,” wrote Doggett, but its symbolism was vital.

A year after a Beatle trio reconvened for the ‘I’m The Greatest’ session, much had happened in the careers of the former Fabs. Following his growing commercial success with Band On The Run, McCartney had been asked by an ABC TV interviewer early in March whether The Beatles’ myth could be recreated anew. “We might do bits together,” he emphasised. “We don’t know yet. I think once we get our business problems sorted, there’s every chance we might just feel like getting together to do something. I wouldn’t like to say what.”

Come Together: Lennon and McCartney in the Seventies by Richard White

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A Personal History of the British Record Industry 99 - Jonathan King Pt.2

Second and final part of my interview with Jonathan King

We left Jonathan pondering what might have been should he have taken the role as Chairman of Decca Records, with EMI the two greatest record companies in UK recorded music, now quietly nestling within the wide arms of Universal music. 1965 was my first year at Cambridge, so I was still there in 1966-67. I left in 1968 and did the TV show and a couple of years at Decca. At this point my mother…

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[carolsturka]

The more I learn about Klein the angrier I get. So basically the Beatles could have reunited but Klein wanted Paul to crawl and grovelling at his feet about how wrong he was to ever go against him? Ughh.

I must admit I haven’t dug deep into the Beatles’ financial/management problems and that is mostly because of my hatred of Klein and his boys’ club with John, George and Ringo. Just listening to the AKOM podcast makes me angry sometimes.

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