Fifty years ago, thebeatles went through rock’s most famous breakup. For our September cover story, robsheff takes a fresh look at how it all went down — going inside the heartbreak, the brotherhood, and why the music still matters
died. Right up until Epstein’s death, they were four soulmates who wanted to spend their free time together, even when they weren’t working. “Most people don’t get across to us,” Lennon said in 1967, in Hunter Davies’ biography. “We never really communicated with other people. Now that we don’t meet strangers at all, there is no need for any communication. We understand each other. It doesn’t matter about the rest.
In the spring of 1968, John and Paul had made a quick visit to New York to announce their new Apple Corps venture, dropping byfor an awkward chat with sportscaster and guest host Joe Garagiola and Hollywood diva Tallulah Bankhead, neither of whom knew a thing about them. There’s a revealing moment when Garagiola asks, “The four of you, socially, are you that close?” John and Paul look at him like he’s from Mars. John snorts, “We’re close friends, you know.
But the sessions were tough from the start. For one thing, the cars came around to pick them up at the crack of dawn. None of the Beatles were morning people. George later fumed, “Have to get up at 8:00 and get into my guitar,” John and Yoko were zonked by narcotics. Instead of Abbey Road, their own private clubhouse for around-the-clock artistic mayhem, they were stuck in Twickenham Film Studio, surrounded by strangers with cameras. There were plenty of laughs but also nasty fights.
The Beatles debated endlessly about how to bring this project in for a landing. They knew they wouldn’t be ready in time for the January 18th live show they’d planned. But where should they play these new songs? A cathedral? A hospital? An ocean liner? John scoffed, “I’m warming up to the idea of an asylum.” They realized the answer was right on top of them — up on the roof. The rooftop gig was their first live performance in more than two years, and their last.
But Paul distrusted Klein from the start. “I am not signed with Allen Klein because I don’t like him and I don’t think he is the man for me, however much the other three like him,” he told. Paul wanted to hire his father-in-law, Lee Eastman, which was unacceptable to the rest of the band, who signed on with Klein. John got furious at Paul’s reluctance to play along. “He was playing hard to get, like a fuckin’ chick.
But while John and Yoko were on their honeymoon in Amsterdam, doing their weeklong Bed-In for Peace, they got a rude shock: The publisher Dick James took advantage of their absence to begin selling their songs to Sir Lew Grade without giving them a chance to make a bid. It was an ugly reminder that for all their hippie ideals, the Beatles were still prey to the sleaziest music-biz sharks.. It’s always been their most popular album, mainly because it’s their warmest.
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