•Paul: "Then the job folded beneath me. Suddenly I didn't have a career anymore. I wasn't earning anything and all my money was in Apple and I couldn't get it out because I'd signed it all away". The last was not quite true. After Apple funds were frozen until the partnership was formally dissolved, none of the Beatles could draw on the money. A major problem was that as the money piled up, a huge tax bill would accompany any withdrawals. All the money Klein said he was bringing in was to lie untouched for years. With the money frozen, of course, the Beatles had no income. And none of them was really that wealthy. Their money had never been managed well and certainly had not been invested wisely. At the time of the breakup they owned houses and cars and Apple and Paul had the farm in Scotland (Flippo. p. 310).

•Paul had, and still does have, an OXFAM coat that helped create a myth that Paul is mean. Alistair Taylor says he is not but is "careful with money." In fact Alistair stated that people were nice to Paul because he was nice to them. Paul gave Alistair many gifts, but Alistair considers his most precious gift was Paul's time (Gunby, G. Hello Goodbye, p. 92).

•John: "Paul had a nice idea about opening up a white house where we would sell white china and things like that. Everything white you know which was pretty groovy, and it didn't end up like that. It ended up with Apple and all this junk and The Fool and all the stupid clothes and all that" (Wenner).

•Paul: "I know now that from playing with other people that it's not always that you can sit down and actually get in a groove. With the Beatles, it nearly always was. We could sit down and do any old piece of crap, and we'd generally hit a groove. And that is something you cannot buy (Hertsgaard, M. A Day in the Life. The Music and Artistry of the Beatles. p. 144).

•The Eastmans told Paul to buy more shares of Northern Songs. Paul bought several thousand and didn't tell the other Beatles.

•Paul (referring to the above incident): "I had some beanies and I wanted some more".

•John (referring to the above incident): "It was the first time any of us had gone behind anyone else's back...".

•Even Paul-who didn't want to trust Allen-had to applaud the cessation of all the embezzlements and fiddles. Suddenly it was beans-on-toast in the office kitchen instead of Beluga caviar from Fortnum and Mason (Clayson p. 145).

•Paul, in an interview with himself, claimed he was leaving the Beatles because of personal, business, and musical differences.

•Mick Jagger stated that he and Paul had talked about opening a joint studio, but they didn't proceed with the idea.

•In court Paul claimed that Let It Be (the movie) was sold to United Artists without his knowledge.

•Better Economy. From the Danish magazine "Vi Unge" (We Young) March. 1970
Economically the future seems brighter for The Beatles. Their finances will in the future be taken care of by the Jewish businessman Allen Klein, who used to take care of The Stones finances. On the creative site, the only one to keep Apple going is Paul McCartney, the man behind two of the biggest hits around at the time, Come And Get It, with Badfinger, and Temma Habour with Mary Hopkin.v Allen Klein gets 20% of all the Beatles' income, but McCartney thinks he's worth it.

•A house that Paul had considered buying was dismissed when he learned that the local council had agreed to allow a gravel pit, with large-truck traffic, to be developed (Taylor, A. p. 140).

•Paul was in conference with some representatives from the J. Walter Thompson agency. It was October 18, 1968, and Paul had been worrying about ways to promote the release...of the White Album. They couldn't rely on the same old hippies and the like to buy Beatles albums because the saturation level was far too low. And he realized that a formidable advertising machine such as JWT would know how to up the ante (Flippo, p. 239).

•A fan: "I gave him three peaches in a bag once. He'd eaten one of them by the time he'd gotten down the Abbey Road front steps. Another time we shouted, 'What do you want for your birthday?'. He thought for a moment, then he said, 'I haven't got any slippers'. Slippers were quickly produced and handed over (Mackenzie. Every Little Thing, p. 78).

Expenses:

•Paul bought a wedding ring for £12. The jeweler had to open his store after hours for the purchase (Harry).

•Paul asked for costs in his writ before the high court.

•Roger Taverner was known in England as "the swinging builder" and his construction company had been doing work for many of England's brightest young pop stars. The Beatles were among his many clients and he had done work for both Nems and Apple as well as in the homes of all four Beatles. (Granados, S. Those Were the Days. p. 136).

•Paul bought a 3-story, £40,000, 125 year old Victorian house in St. John's Wood, London 1968 (Fast). Other reports have the house purchase at £100,000.

•Paul's Uncle Ernie was looking around Paul's house in St. John's Wood and pointed out some faults in the house. Alistair Taylor arranged for the builder to come and rectify his work. The next time he saw Ernie he was standing by the rectified work grinning (Gunby, G. Hello Goodbye, p. 88-89).

•Paul purchased several cork postcards in Sardinia circa '68 (Taylor, A. p. 142).

•Paul asked Alistair Taylor, on a Saturday in '68, to get £1118 in cash. Taylor thought: "Nobody around here deals in cash. We've got checkbooks, credit arrangements, dozens of accounts, but there are no mountains of used fivers lying around". The money was to be delivered to Brixton prison for the purpose of releasing Scott from jail. Scott was a leader of the Ob-La-Di band and was willing to drop any claims to the title for the £1118. Paul asked for a signed receipt from Scott dropping all claims for the payment. Taylor eventually received the money (in coins and notes) from the recommendation of an acquaintance, a used car dealer. As Taylor and Scott left the prison Scott asked for quid for a taxi (Taylor, A. p. 147).

•Paul asked Alistair Taylor to have his apartment decorated in five days. When Alistair told him how difficult that would be, Paul replied, "You can do it, Al. Never mind the cost. Just get it done". Taylor then brought the bill to Paul: "It won't be cheap, but it won't be a rip-off either; Ian Taverner knows a great deal when he sees one". When Alistair brought the check to Paul, Paul replied, "Great! Get the check to them Alistair". Linda Eastman then looked at the check and accused Ian Taverner of overcharging Paul. Alistair also stated that she asked him how much he made from the deal. Alistair, in fact, had made no money from the deal (Taylor, A p. 157-8).

•Paul had his Aston-Martin taken by Alistair Taylor for a proper cleaning and detailing ('68). This included fourteen coats of the original British Racing Green. When Linda saw the bill she made the same accusations that she made about the decorating of Cavendish Avenue (Taylor, A. p. 159).

•The Times 'legalize-it' ad that Paul had paid for ran on July 24, while all of the Beatles were in Greece, looking to buy to buy an island where they could build a little utopia (Flippo, p. 241).

Income:

•Paul's royalties from his first solo album were £487,000.

•"..when you read that the Beatles earned £17,500,000 in eight and a half years remember that that figure doesn't include the songwriting income of John and Paul" (Tremlett, p. 10).

•Post-Beatle? Horst Fascher: When [Paul] found out that [my daughter] had to have a heart operation and I couldn't afford it...he flew in the best surgeon possible to perform the operation and he paid for it all. Although my daughter died 13 days after the operation, I still think he is wonderful. I would do anything for him. Anything he asked, I would do it for him.

Linda:

•Linda got a job as a receptionist at Town and Country magazine in the mid-sixties. This magazine wanted to do a cover story on the Rolling Stones and sent Linda to do the photography. She was able to sell the pictures and start branching out (Flippo, p. 234).

•"I was a career woman before I met Paul...I believe in equal pay and all that but I wouldn't want my husband doing the ironing" (Tremlett, p. 88).

•Life Magazine Interview With Paul About the Breakup:
LIFE MAGAZINE. Vol. 70 no. 14 April 16, 1971. Paul McCartney talks about the Beatle breakup and his new life.
'I FELT THE SPLIT WAS COMING' I do think if it were just up to the four of us, if we were totally unencumbered, we would have had a dissolution - I hate these heavy terms - the day after John said he was leaving. We would have picked up our bags - these are my shoes, that's my ball, that's your ball - and gone. And I still maintain that's the only way, to actually go and do that, no matter what things are involved on a business level. But of course we aren't four fellows. We are part of a big business machine. Even though the Beatles have really stopped, the Beatle thing goes on - repackaging the albums, putting tracks together in different forms, and the video coming in. So that's why I've had to sue in the courts to dissolve the Beatles, to do on a business level what we should have done on a four-fellows level. I feel it just has to come.
We used to get asked at press conferences, "What are you going to do when the bubble bursts?" When I talked to John just the other day, he said something about, "Well, the bubble's going to burst." And I said, "It has burst. That's the point. That's why I've had to do this, why l had to apply to the court. You don't think I really enjoy doing that kind of stuff. I had to do it because the bubble has burst - everywhere but on paper." That's the only place we're tied now.
You see, there was a partnership contract put together years ago to hold us together as a group for 10 years. Anything anybody wanted to do - put out a record, anything - he had to get the others' permission. Because of what we were then, none of us ever looked at it when we signed it. We signed it in '67 and discovered it last year. We discovered this contract that bound us for 10 years. So it's "Oh gosh. Oh golly. Oh heck," you know. "Now, boys, can we tear it up, please?"
But the trouble is, the other three have been advised not to tear it up. They've been advised that if they tear it up, there will be serious, bad consequences for them. The point, though, to me was that it began to look like a three-to-one vote, which is what in fact happened at a couple of business meetings. It was three to one. That's how Allen Klein got to be the manager of Apple, which I didn't want. But they didn't need my approval.

•LIFE MAGAZINE. Vol. 70 no. 14 April 16, 1971. Listen, it's not the boys. It's not the other three. The four of us, I think, still quite like each other. I don't think there is bad blood, not from my side anyway. I spoke to the others quite recently and there didn't sound like any from theirs. So it's a business thing. It's Allen Klein. Early in '69 John took him on as business manager and wanted the rest of us to do it too. That was just the irreconcilable difference between us. Klein is incredible. He's New York. He'll say "Waddaya want? I'll buy it for you." I guess there's a lot I really don't want to say about this, but it will come out because we had to sort of document the stuff for this case. We had to go and fight - which I didn't want, really.

•LIFE MAGAZINE. Vol. 70 no. 14 April 16, 1971. So the separation became a divorce. On the last day of 1970, Paul McCartney filed suit in London against John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison to dissolve their partnership of the Beatles & Co. McCartney charged that their business manager, Allen Klein, was incompetent, and that the far-flung business affairs of their corporation, Apple, were a vast bookkeeping mess.

•My lawyer, John Eastman, he's a nice guy and he saw the position we were in, and he sympathized. We'd have these meetings on top of hills in Scotland, we'd go for long walks. I remember when we actually decided we had to go and file suit. We were standing on this big hill which overlooked a loch - it was quite a nice day, a bit chilly - and we'd been searching our souls. Was there any other way? And we eventually said, "Oh, we've got to do it." The only alternative was seven years with the partnership - going through those same channels for seven years.