Get Back Session - January 7, 1969

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Event
Date January 7, 1969
Short description Get Back Session
Location Twickenham Film Studios

Fourth "Get Back" Session. George and Paul get into a fight. George had become annoyed when his song For You Blue was mostly ignored by the other band members. This was the second time this happened, after Hear Me Lord had been dismissed only after a few takes on January 6. They started talking about the planned live show. From there, George argued that things had been going downhill for The Beatles since Brian Epstein died. Paul then started fighting with John, arguing that John did not care and therefore did not participate. They then moved into an argument which featured Paul talking about when he worked with Jackie Lomax; how he liked the songs Paul wrote and what a pleasure he was to work with. Because of this, George responded, "Well go and play with him, then." George then said he would not allow any of his songs to be played in the live show, in case they did not get the proper attention he wanted. Later, George compared the other three Beatles to the three wise monkeys. Paul was 'Hear No Evil' because he was so optimistic, John was 'Speak No Evil' because he never said anything, and Ringo was 'See No Evil' because he never had an opinion on anything. Paul asked George why he had turned up if he thought thatn of his fellow bandmates. He also suggested that he leave if he was going to continue to have his bad attitude. George then offered to break up the band, to which John joked, asking who would get custody of "the children" (the songs). To make matters worse, Alistar Taylor then warned them about Apple, which was nearing bankruptcy. He later said, "I called in the boys and sat them down, and said, ‘Look, this can’t go on. Something has got to be done. We cannot go on like this. Look at us. We’re a multi-million pound company, and you’ve just got us five guys running it. I think we need a top businessman in here to run it. Somebody to control the company.’ It was then that John began to realise that money was flying out…People were robbing us and living on us, he said. Eighteen or twenty thousand pounds a week was rolling out of Apple and nobody was doing anything about it." Lennon later said in a December 1969 issue of Rolling Stone, "This guy sent me a letter saying, ‘You’re in chaos. You’re losing – this is so much a week going out of Apple.’ People are always saying, ‘You sold out the dream of Apple.’ But people were robbing us and living on us… All our buddies that worked for us for fifty years, all just living and drinking and eating like fucking Rome, man! And I suddenly realised it! We didn’t have anything in the bank, really, none of us did. Paul and I could probably have floated, but we would have just sunk in – we were sinking fast! It was just hell and had to stop." Paul had wanted his father in law's company, Eastman & Eastman to manage Apple, quickly offering them up. "I thought they would be fair," Paul said. "For one thing, they are lawyers. And they don’t take percentages – they take a fee. So, they manage you, and, at the end of the year, they put in a bill. And if you don’t like them, then you don’t pay the bill. Well, you pay the bill, but you sack them the next year."

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