Fact #101055
When:
Short story:
ATV spends £??m to buy Northern Songs, the publishing arm of The Beatles' muaic empire.
Full article:
John Lennon : With Northern Songs, we ended up selling half our copyrights forever. We lost 'em all and Lew Grade's got 'em. It was bad management. We have no company. That's where Brian Epstein fucked up. Who got the beneift? Not us. I mean, since you ask, in retrospect he made mistakes. But to us he was the expert. I mean, originally he had a shop. Anybody who's got a shop must be all right.
(interview with Peter McCabe and Robert Schonfeld, September 1971)
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(interview with Peter McCabe and Robert Schonfeld, September 1971)