Rolling Stones vocalist offers a simple but plausible explanation of the band’s ending by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Instigated to speculate on the end of Beatles during a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone USA, Mick Jagger offered a simple explanation. Still, plausible.
None Yoko Onofinancial disputes or great musical disagreements. In the analysis of the vocalist of Rolling Stonesthe separation was due to a kind of battle of personalities between John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Jagger made it clear that he was not so close to any of them that he could nail the reason. However, it reflected that their strong genius from both of them sooner or later would lead to rupture – which eventually happened in 1970.
The singer said:
“I know them superficially, just like you, probably, and maybe you knew John better in the end. I can risk a guess that both had very strong personalities and felt totally independent. They looked very competitive about the band’s leadership.”
This internal competition, according to Jagger, fatally made the Beatles continued from the moment the opinions and decisions were unconscious:
“If there are 10 things, the two wanted to be in charge of nine of them. You won’t make such a relationship work, are you?”
As a member of a band as “opponent” of the Beatles, Mick Jagger could even want the worst for the FAB Four. It was not the case – because the Stones had a good relationship with Liverpool’s colleagues.
Mick Jagger warned the Beatles about businessman
In the book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now (1997), from Barry MilesPaul McCartney said that the Stones singer warned the Beatles about the controversial entrepreneur Allen Klein. He occupied the vacancy left by the deceased Brian Epstein In the last three years of the band’s career.
Macca comments:
“We, the Beatles, were all gathered in the big meeting room and asked Mick what Klein was like. He said, ‘Well, if you like that kind of thing, it fits.’ He did not say, ‘He is a thief’, although Klein had already torn him all copyright (from the Stones) at that time. “
Paul wanted to have Lee Eastmanfather of his future wife, Beautifulas a Beatles entrepreneur after Brian Epstein’s death. However, it was vote overdue before the other members. Allen Klein took over the post and remained until the band’s final days.
The decision to keep Klein was wrong. In the short term, the entrepreneur adopted good tactics: he faced the record labels and increased musicians’ profits by renegotiating contracts. However, he ended up with the rights of the songs when assuming, with his company, the responsibility to press the records and sell them to artistic seals.
Paul McCartney decided to sue the Beatles, shortly after the end of the activities, precisely in order to prevent Allen Klein from staying with the rights of the group’s songs. In interviews, he says that it would never have been possible to launch materials such as Anthology and the documentary The Beatles: Get Backbesides new versions of the records, without taking this attitude.
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