'The only way for me to save The Beatles and Apple...was to sue the band,' McCartney said. 'If I hadn’t done that, it would have all belonged to Allen Klein. The only way I was given to get us out of that was to do what I did.'
, which is unaffiliated with Apple Inc. the company behind iPhones and iPads, is a multimedia entertainment company founded by The Beatles in 1968. McCartney and Starr still own the company, along with the estates of Lennon and Harrison. The company is one of the producers behind"The decision to sue his bandmates wasn't an easy one and in fact, McCartney said he turned to alcohol to cope. Yet he believed"that was the only thing to do.
"There was no way I was going to save it for me, because there was no way I was going to work that hard for all my life and see it all vanish in a puff of smoke," McCartney said."I also knew that, if I managed to save it, I would be saving it for them too. Because they were about to give it away. They loved this guy Klein. And I was saying, 'He’s a f------ idiot.
and consigned the financial affairs of the former Beatles to a receiver until the band established mutually acceptable terms for their break-up, but the other Beatles' relationship with Klein soured shortly thereafter.
After The Beatles broke up, McCartney found success as a solo artist and last Friday, he reissued his 1997 album"Flaming Pie," which includes a previously unheard, acoustic version of
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