Perhaps this was the pattern - the curtain didn't fall until Paul let it fall, no matter how much the other three before that point had said they wanted it to.
I've always found this bit from Lennon Remembers telling:
WENNER: You said you quit the Beatles first. LENNON: Yes. WENNER: How? LENNON: I said to Paul “I’m leaving.”
John quit the Beatles by telling Paul he quit the Beatles. He told a lot of other people, too, but it was telling Paul that minute it was real. I believe Peter Doggett determined that George wasn't even at the meeting. It was telling Paul that made it significant.
Point about Linda and Scotland. That's an an interesting idea, that Paul would have behaved differently around John when she was there. Quite plausible, since John seems to have done the same thing with Yoko. I do find it interesting that John in the St. Regis Hotel interview made a comment about how they all got along with Linda. Pretty high praise from John in 1971, I would say.
Just speculating, though: what WOULD have been John's ideal way for Paul to respond to the "DIVORCE!" announcement? What would have been the proof that Paul couldn't live without him? Accepting Allen Klein as manager and ditching the Eastmans, presumably?
Hmm. Interesting thought. It would definitely have had to involve some kind of concessions on Paul's part. Probably involve Paul admitting that he was wrong about something, ha. Maybe also a confession of love more straight-forward than a song? I actually think John was more willing to flex on the manager thing than he appeared on the surface, but be the time he told Paul he was quitting he had signed with Klein and his relationship with the Eastmans was at subzero temperatures...I' m not sure how they would handled the manager issue. It might not have been solvable at that point.
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Re: Management Issues II
Date: 2016-12-11 07:44 pm (UTC)I've always found this bit from Lennon Remembers telling:
WENNER: You said you quit the Beatles first.
LENNON: Yes.
WENNER: How?
LENNON: I said to Paul “I’m leaving.”
John quit the Beatles by telling Paul he quit the Beatles. He told a lot of other people, too, but it was telling Paul that minute it was real. I believe Peter Doggett determined that George wasn't even at the meeting. It was telling Paul that made it significant.
Point about Linda and Scotland. That's an an interesting idea, that Paul would have behaved differently around John when she was there. Quite plausible, since John seems to have done the same thing with Yoko. I do find it interesting that John in the St. Regis Hotel interview made a comment about how they all got along with Linda. Pretty high praise from John in 1971, I would say.
Just speculating, though: what WOULD have been John's ideal way for Paul to respond to the "DIVORCE!" announcement? What would have been the proof that Paul couldn't live without him? Accepting Allen Klein as manager and ditching the Eastmans, presumably?
Hmm. Interesting thought. It would definitely have had to involve some kind of concessions on Paul's part. Probably involve Paul admitting that he was wrong about something, ha. Maybe also a confession of love more straight-forward than a song? I actually think John was more willing to flex on the manager thing than he appeared on the surface, but be the time he told Paul he was quitting he had signed with Klein and his relationship with the Eastmans was at subzero temperatures...I' m not sure how they would handled the manager issue. It might not have been solvable at that point.