Northern songs, the true story of the Beatles song publishing empire, Brian Southall
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Northern songs, the true story of the Beatles song publishing empire, Brian Southall
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Northern songs
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Brian Southall
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the true story of the Beatles song publishing empire
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From the moment Beatlemania broke out, Lennon and McCartney's publishing company Northern Songs was a potential goldmine. It would eventually become the most valuable song publishing catalogue in the world. The history of that catalogue - how Lennon and McCartney lost it, and the complex financial and legal wranglings that took it into other hands - is the epic music industry story of the 20th century. This lid-lifting investigation contains interviews with George Martin, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono and those in the know from Apple Corp, DJM and EMI. The hi-jacking of The Beatles' song catalogue is a staggering saga of incompetence, duplicity and music industry politics. 'Northern Songs lays it all bare in a groundbreaking investigative book that is as compulsive as it is astounding
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