Paul McCartney was the only one to push back against his Beatles bandmates when they wanted to appoint Allen Klein as their new manager. John Lennon was the biggest supporter of Klein, and George Harrison made it clear he backed him too. McCartney believed he could delay Klein’s appointment, but a vote by his bandmates put a stop to his hopes.
Paul McCartney felt betrayed by his Beatles bandmates During a Friday night recording session, Klein visited The Beatles and told them he needed their contract with him signed immediately. He claimed he had a board meeting the following morning. McCartney pushed back , wanting to take the weekend to review the deal.
When Lennon accused him of stalling, McCartney said he had a right to wait until Monday to sign. “I said, ‘Well I’m not going to [sign it now]. I demand at least the weekend.
I’ll look at it, and on Monday. This is supposed to be a recording session, after all,’” McCartney recalled in the book All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines. “I dug my heels in, and they said, right, well, we’re going to vote it.
” Initially, this didn’t worry McCartney. While he knew Lennon and Harrison supported Klein, he believed Ringo Starr would side with him. “I said, ‘No, you’ll never get Ringo to,’” McCartney recalled.
“I looked at Ringo, and he gave me this sick look like, Yeah, I’m going with them. Then I said, ‘Well this is like bloody Julius Caesar, and I�.
