Success Ruined The Beatles

Insync

oi-Staff

By Staff

Thursday, September 3, 2009, 17:09

The young lads from Liverpool formed a band in 1960, and in less than a decade went onto change the music scene across the globe, while created a strong fan base, that still swears loyalty to them.

However, Sir Paul McCartney now has revealed that the band became victims of their own success, and ultimately that brought the group to a split.

As in the interview on Mojo, Macca told them that he and his mates struggled to come to terms with all the business decisions they were suddenly forced to make as they were recording their final album ''Abbey Road'', the fight over cash and contracts really became a huge burden for the band.

"We were musicians, we were kids from Liverpool, we'd gone to grammar schools, we'd done Hamburg - we kind of knew all that," Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

"But the idea that you were going to get this money and someone was going to take it off you.... ," he said and also their fight started getting worse when Allen Klein became their manager.

McCartney, however, refused to say anything about Klein, but hinted that he still had not forgiven the businessman for things that would remain unspoken. "I don't want to speak ill of the dead," he added.

Klein passed away in New York earlier this summer, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.

The Beatles lead singer Paul said that the group was still young and thought life would be easy once they start earning, however, reality was very different, as soon they were hounded by the tax people and others.

McCartney also admitted that the group's business woes were poured into their new songs. "George (Harrison) would write Piggies, and I knew exactly what he was talking about, and he wrote Taxman when we first found out about the tax system," he said.

However, all this financial worries finally brought the group to its brink. The rift between the group eventually led to a court battle before the band broke up, with many fans blaming Klein for contributing to the group's split.

AGENCIES