We’ve mentioned Paul McCartney’s long-simmering issues over how things were going at Apple Corps by 1970 - the hiring of Allen Klein, being asked to delay his solo LP so it wouldn’t interfere with sales of “Let It Be” (and Ringo’s solo LP) and so forth. It didn’t help when Phil Spector added strings and a choir to “The Long And Winding Road” and doctored other tracks on the upcoming Beatles album without giving Paul or George Martin a heads up. Finally McCartney had enough, and ordered promo copies of his solo album pressed so he could oversee advance distribution before it hit the market ASAP at his behest. Paul even put out a self-interview where in so many words, he said he was quitting the Beatles. He said Klein didn’t represent his interests, and that he would no longer write songs with John Lennon. (Yet Paul called Lennon to say he realized why John and Yoko did what they did.) Well, when McCartney’s press release appeared in the London newspapers the next day, the s**t hit the fan. But the uproar wasn’t over...
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