Beatles vs. Stones (48 page)

“[Epstein] always thought”
:
As quoted in Coleman,
The Man Who Made the Beatles
, 265.

“Yeah, well Klein got the Stones”
:
As quoted in Brown,
The Love You Make
, 248.

It was a fair question
:
Paul: “I complained to Brian. I remember it hurting him, too. It was a learning experience for me: don’t do that again. It got to him a bit too much. And he was probably right as well: he had done so much for us and there was me bitching about a penny or two.”

“The whole time Allen was”
:
As quoted in Oldham,
2Stoned
, 243.

“Allen got very obsessed”
:
As quoted in Oldham,
2Stoned
, 206.

“Baby, you’re a rich man too”
:
George had little to do with “Baby, You’re a Rich Man,” which was arranged and recorded at Olympic Studios on May 11, 1967. In fact, it is one of the rare songs from that period that truly was written jointly by Lennon and McCartney. (John had the part of a song that asks, “How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people,” and Paul had the part that goes, “Baby, you’re a rich man, too.” So they wound up combining the two bits.)

“If you wanted a gold-plated Cadillac”
:
As quoted in Richards,
Life
, 179.

The Stones eventually launched
:
Sue Weiner and Lisa Howard, eds.,
The Rolling Stones A-Z
(New York: Grove, 1983), 74.

“We have made numerous”
:
As quoted in Wyman,
Stone Alone
, 496.

“We are still awaiting”
:
All quotes re: money from Wyman,
Stone Alone
, 505.

“The phone and electricity”
:
As quoted in Norman,
Mick Jagger
, 327.

“I didn’t trust him and”
:
Wyman,
Stone Alone
, 329.

“fat check . . . the biggest”
:
Wyman,
Stone Alone,
330.

“Well, maybe you wouldn’t”
:
As quoted in
The Beatles Anthology
, 326.

“Mick’s strategy in”
:
Faithfull,
Faithfull
, 168.

“done them in financially”
:
As quoted in Hotchner,
Blown Away
, 201.

“I was equally certain”
:
Prince Rupert Loewenstein,
A Prince Among Stones: That Business with the Rolling Stones and Other Adventures
(New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), 68.

Shortly after their song
:
John and Mick awkwardly introduce the segment. John calls Mick “Michael” (Jagger’s given name) and Mick calls John “Winston” (Lennon’s middle name). Mick speaks in a dull accent, somewhat in the style of an American talk show host. “As you know, I’ve admired your work for so long, and I haven’t been able to get together with you so much as I want. Do you remember that old place off-Broadway?” John answers with an apparent non sequitur: “Oh, those were the days, I want to hold your
man
.” After a bit more banter, John gets up, hands Mick a bowl of macrobiotic rice that he’s been eating, and then sneers as he walks off camera. Mick calls after him: “Yer blues, John.” The scene makes absolutely no sense, although it is impossible not to notice that in the end, Mick is left in a subservient position.

An outtake from the film is even more revealing. As the camera rolls, Lennon surprises Mick by pretending to be gay; he pulls at Jagger’s jacket from behind and mock-seductively runs his hands over his chest. Once again, Mick seems lamblike in Lennon’s presence. The scene was rendered unusable because Lennon’s son Julian, age five, can be seen in the background pressing his lips against what is either an unlit, hand-rolled cigarette or (sigh) a joint. “Dad, I’ve got a little cigar!” he says innocently.

“Allen Klein sat next to”
:
As quoted in Davis,
Old Gods
, 279.

“We’re in the happy”
:
As quoted in
The Beatles
Anthology
, 287.

“I remember going [there]”
:
As quoted in Doggett,
You Never Give Me Your Money
, p. 53.

“the waiting room of”
:
Richard DiLello,
The Longest Cocktail Party
(Chicago: Playboy Press, 1972), 24.

“Mick’s home phone number and”
:
DiLello,
The Longest Cocktail Party
, 146.

No, not really
:
W. Fraser Sandercombe, ed.,
The Beatles: Press Reports
(Ontario: Collector’s Guide Publishing, 2003), 254.

Of course, they knew Apple
:
On January 10, 1969, George Harrison stormed out of Twickenham Studio with the clear intention of quitting the Beatles. Some have speculated that his outburst may have arisen during an argument with Lennon over the
Disc and Music Echo
interview. No one knows for sure, however. In his memoir,
Luck and Circumstance
, filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg said he tried to record Lennon and Harrison’s dispute surreptitiously, but the recording was worthless.

“You know this is a small and young”
:
Coleman,
Lennon
, 461.

“The day we spoke he”
:
Coleman,
Lennon
, 461, 471 (photo insert in the middle).

Why did you want the Beatles?
:
Allen Klein,
Playboy
(November 1971), 92.

“[Klein] was so foul-mouthed”
:
Brown,
The Love You Make
, 304.

“Klein is essential in the Great”
:
As quoted in
MOJO’s The
Beatles, 424.

“Sam, I think they’re”
:
Allen Klein obituary,
The Guardian
(July 5, 2009).

Not only that, he predicted
:
Peter Brown remembers Lennon repeating the million-dollar figure while in his office. “I found this quite astonishing, considering that John and Yoko’s latest cinematic venture was a long [51 minutes] film of them smiling at each other in soft focus.” Some of Ono’s other films included
Eye Blink
(a slow-motion picture of a lighted match burning out to its end) and
Bottoms
(consisting only of close-up shots of people’s naked bums).

“Yea, though I walk through the”
:
As quoted in Norman,
Lennon,
589.

“He knew every damn”
:
Wenner,
Lennon Remembers
, 145.

“He’s the only businessman”
:
As quoted in
The Beatles Anthology
, 324.

“Please give [Klein]”
:
As quoted in
The Beatles Anthology
, 325.

Not only was he gross
:
Not long after Klein bought Cameo-Parkway, rumors circulated that his company was about to merge various other companies. One was Merco Enterprises (a giant distribution company that sold other company’s products—in this case 45s and LPs—in racks and bins). The other was Chappell Music Corporation. Cameo-Parkway’s stock rose astronomically, from $1.75 a share to $72.

“I didn’t want to appear too anxious”
:
Allen Klein, “Interview,”
Playboy
(November 1971), 94.

“began interrupting everything”
:
Brown,
The Love You Make
, 308.

Finally, Eastman
:
Klein later claimed that he had practically arranged for that to happen. “It was embarrassing as hell. I didn’t mind it for myself—sticks and stones, you know—but for the boys, it was sad. I think everybody saw exactly what was happening and who the Eastmans really were.”

“We hadn’t been in there”
:
Wenner,
Lennon Remembers
, 148.

“advisor”
:
Wenner,
Lennon Remembers
, 145.

“Well, he’s the only one”
:
The Beatles Anthology
, 324.

It is sometimes claimed
:
Prince Rupert Loewenstein says, “It was Mick who introduced Klein to John Lennon a few weeks before I met Mick. After we had spoken he rang Lennon back and said, ‘I’ve rethought it and I’ve gone to this other person I think you should do the same because I’m not happy about my introduction of Klein.’ But it was too late.” Beatles assistant Tony Bramwell says that he and Lennon once attended a party at Mick’s ornately decorated Chelsea home, at which Mick said to them, “Keep away [from Klein]. He’s messed us right up, man.” And Peter Swales, an assistant to the Stones, says that Mick once asked him to deliver a handwritten letter to McCartney. “It was a warning, maybe in solidarity with him,” Swales said. “It was to the effect of, ‘Don’t go near [Klein], he’s a dog. He’s a crook.’ ”

“We know [Klein] through”
:
Miles,
The Beatles Diary
, 334. (The paper was almost certainly
Disc and Music Echo.
)

“I had heard about all these”
:
Wenner,
Lennon Remembers
, 141–42.

“We, the Beatles, were all”
:
Miles,
Many Years from Now
, 545.

“the first time in the history”
:
As quoted in Doggett, Peter,
You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup
(New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 70.

“James knew of Klein’s”
:
Brown,
The Love You Make
, 316.

“a startling blend of bluff”
:
Brown,
The Love You Make
, 309.

“I’ll play whatever you”
:
Let It Be
, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (Apple Films, United Artists, 1970).

“We were always wondering”
:
As quoted in Doggett,
You Never Give Me Your Money
, 44–45.

“
What I thought about the”
:
The Beatles Anthology
, 302. This was in keeping with one of George’s one-liners: “Avant-garde is French for ‘haven’t got a clue.’ ”

He got up and
:
Lindsay-Hogg,
Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York and Points Beyond
(New York: Knopf, 2011), 134.

“There was always a”
:
Wyman,
Stone Alone
, 526.