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PARTY TIME
While the band was having internal problems, the label they
founded, Apple, was signing new acts, among them a young
American named James Taylor. Another was Mary Hopkin, an
18-year-old Welsh singer who won a TV talent show. McCartney
produced her debut album, Post Card, which included the hit “Those
Were the Days.” Paul (above, with Hopkin) attended the album’s
Feb. 13 launch party with then-girlfriend Linda Eastman.
GEORGE QUITS
After fighting with McCartney, Harrison walked out of a
recording session Jan. 10, 1969. “I thought, ‘What’s the point of
this? I’m quite capable of being relatively happy on my own,’ ” he
recalled in the 1995 Anthology interviews. The band played on as
a trio, but after a conciliatory meeting on Jan. 15, he returned.
MONEY MAN
Manager Allen Klein represented
Lennon in negotiations over control
of his and McCartney’s Northern
Songs publishing company in April.
By September Lennon and
McCartney, who was represented
by his father-in-law, lawyer Lee
Eastman, had lost ownership of the
many songs they had written.
