Fact #156029

Paul McCartney : There was some fiddling in the company. We knew it a while ago but we didn't know the extent of it, so we've been looking into it and Yoko has discovered a lot of stuff and the lawyers have discovered a lot of stuff. Really, what it all comes down to is that "we was robbed, we was fiddled!" What they (Northern Songs) did, the basis of it, if you want to know - and why shouldn't you? - was that in our contract it said that we should have 50% of the money that came from Holland, and that they were supposed to send that right to us. Instead, they took that 50% and sent it to, like Sweden, where it was divided in half, so we ended up with a quarter. That's a pretty big fiddle. We believed they should do something about that.
(Source : interview with Ray Bonici, Music Express, April 1982)