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Paul McCartney Reveals Why The Rest Of The Beatles Were Forever Grateful He Sued Them · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: From Seacrest. When The Beatles broke up in nineteen seventy,
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  Speaker 1: marking an end to the most influential pop group of
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  Speaker 1: all time, Paul McCartney ended up suing his former band
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  Speaker 1: soon after. Paul has just explained why he filed the
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  Speaker 1: lawsuits and how misunderstood his decision was, because his goal
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  Speaker 1: was to protect himself and his bandmates. The original manager
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  Speaker 1: passed away in nineteen sixty nine, leaving the group's publishing
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  Speaker 1: in control of a new manager, Alan Klein, who Paul
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  Speaker 1: did not trust. He wanted to sue Kline over the
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  Speaker 1: rights to the music he helped create, but was advised
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  Speaker 1: by lawyers he had to sue the group instead, which
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  Speaker 1: wasn't an easy decision, he tells g Cube. As you
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  Speaker 1: can imagine, it was horrendous and gave me some terrible times,
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  Speaker 1: But I knew that was the only thing to do,
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  Speaker 1: because there was no way I was gonna work that
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  Speaker 1: hard and see it all vanish in a puff of smoke.
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  Speaker 1: I also knew that if I managed to save it,
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  Speaker 1: I would be saving it for them too, because the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the guys were about to give it away. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: the guys for gave Paul, probably because that then painful
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  Speaker 1: decision he made is precisely why the Beatles are the
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  Speaker 1: wealthiest group in music history. That's from Hollywood.