Mick Jagger warned John Lennon against his ‘biggest mistake’ [sua] life’, but Lennon didn’t listen

At the height of BeatlesO Fab Four found himself faced with a dilemma: changing businessman after the death of Brian Epsteinin 1967. Allen Kleinwho was previously a businessman for Rolling Stoneswas chosen for the role, but Mick Jagger warned the John Lennon that it was a bad idea – and Lennon didn’t listen.

In flashback remembered by Cheat Sheetyou Rolling Stones claimed that Klein pocketed their royalty payments, failed to pay their taxes, and stole the band’s publishing rights. Jagger was especially suspicious of Kleinand the band ended up hiring a law firm to investigate his handling of his affairs.

While this was happening, Lennon campaigned for Klein become the next businessman Beatles and had the support of everyone, with the exception of Paul McCartneywho wanted his new father-in-law, Lee Eastmanand brother-in-law, John Eastmanrespectively father and brother of Linda McCartneytake care of the band.

Jagger I found out about it from the director Michael Lindsay-Hogghe immediately left for Apple Corps, the company responsible for managing the Fab Four. There, he found Klein in a meeting with the Beatles and, wanting to avoid confrontation, left without doing much to warn them.

“We, the Beatleswe were all gathered in the large meeting room and asked Mick as Klein it was [como manager]and he said, ‘Well, he’s good if you like that kind of thing,'” he recalled Paul McCartney in the book Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (1997), from Barry Miles. “He did not say, ‘He is a thief,’ although Klein had already removed all copyrights from Stones At that time.”

Still in the book Barry Milesthe writer shows that, later, Jagger called Lennon and warned him that he was about to make “the biggest mistake of his life” if they hired Klein.

Klein managed the Beatles until they split up and then continued to work on his solo careers. Lennon, Harrison It is Starr. Soon, they started having the same problems with Klein upon which Jagger had warned them and in 1973, all three cut ties with him.

“There are many reasons why we finally gave him the push, although I don’t want to go into detail about that,” he said. Lennon in 1973, according to the book The Beatles Diaries Volume 2: After the Breakup . “Let’s just say Paul’s suspicions were possibly right… and the time was right.”

Although Lennon did not mention the suspicions of Jaggerthe chaos that Klein brought to Beatles proved him right.