George Harrison Said The Beatles Could Have Sued 'a Lot' of People
In the years after The Beatles’ split, George Harrison dealt with a number of lawsuits. Perhaps most significantly, Paul McCartney sued his three former bandmates. He wanted to regain control of their music from manager Allen Klein. The former Beatles spent several tense years battling over this. Harrison also dealt with a lawsuit over plagiarism. He believed he should begin to fight back and start filing suits of his own.
George Harrison wondered if The Beatles should have been more litigious. In the years after The Beatles, a number of projects about them, or using their music, cropped up. Harrison said the band should put a stop to that.
“There’s not much more we [the Beatles] can be sued for, but we can sue a lot of other people,” he told Rolling Stone. “Being split and diversified over the years has made it difficult to consolidate certain Beatles interests. For example,...
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