Beatles manager Allen Klein dies
p2pnet news view Music:- Allen Klein, former manager of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, is dead at the age of 77.
He had Alzheimers disease and, “while one does not wish to speak ill of the dead, I imagine there may have been the quite clinking of champagne glasses in the private quarters of surviving members of the greatest bands that ever walked the earth,” says Neil McCormick in The Telegraph.
By way of an intro, “Last week, I was talking to an acquaintance of mine, a rock critic who also writes obituaries (which is perhaps not such an unusual career combination, given the low life expectancy of most rock stars),” says McCormick, adding:
“I asked whether he prepares his obituaries in advance. ‘Only Allen Klein’s’, he replied. ‘I hate that man so much, it gives me pleasure to write his obituary’.”
“Don’t talk to me about ethics,” he once told Playboy magazine, according to the BBC. “Every man makes his own. It’s like a war.”
He said John Lennon, “hired him to protect his interest in The Beatles, because he wanted what he called ‘a real shark – someone to keep the other sharks away’,” the story adds.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
The Telegraph – Allen Klein: bittersweet symphony, July 6, 2009
BBC – Beatles ’shark’ Klein dies at 77, July 6, 2009
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July 6th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
sounds like he was a real douchebag….may God have mercy on his soul!
July 6th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
The record industry is filled to the brim with people like that. It’s almost surprising he died a natural death.
“Discussing his reputation, Klein once remarked: âArtists **** groupies, I **** the artists.â Perhaps thatâs what should be written on his headstone.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/neilmccormick/100001174/allen-klein-bittersweet-symphony/
July 6th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Mr. Klein was probably more responsible than Yoko Ono in breaking up the Beatles. He gave them something to disagree about, which Yoko never did.