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Notes documenting the split of the Beatles are to be sold in an auction next week. Compiled by the band’s various legal representatives and advisors, more than 300 pages of typed documents were found in a cupboard where they had lain untouched since the 1970s. The papers, which give previously hidden insight into the demise of the Fab Four and were used throughout the legal battle that resulted in the band’s official split in 1974, are expected to fetch between £5,000 and £8,000 at the Maidenhead auction.
According to Denise Kelly, the auctioneer from Dawsons, the papers are “fascinating” and some were so contentious that they document heated and fractious meetings between accountants and lawyers. Dawsons did not reveal the whereabouts of the notes, only that they were discovered within the past year. The documents will be available for online bids.
Paul McCartney, one of the Beatles singers, told the BBC in 2021 that he felt compelled to sue his bandmates. Despite walking away from the Beatles in early 1970, the final legal separation of the band was only confirmed in December of 1974. The confusion around the split apparently grew because the band’s new manager Allen Klein had wanted time to close any financial loose ends. McCartney ended up suing his former bandmates in the high court to protect the band’s music against Klein.
The Beatles decided to form their own firm, Apple Corps., in hopes of protecting their business interests after Brian Epstein, their manager of five years, died suddenly in 1967 exposing their finances and filling them with mismanagement. Though disagreements did arise within the band over Beatles’ manager Klein, they did come together one last time on 30 January 1969 to play as a band on the roof of their Apple Corps headquarters in London’s Savile Row.
The discovered documents, which range from 1967 to 1970, reveal that the band’s taxes had gone without payment for many years and that money was unaccounted for. They would offer an unusual insight into the Beatles’ mismanagement by publishing many details about their finances
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