50 years ago The Beatles officially disbanded. What were the causes?
The formal separation of the Beatles is 50 years old this Sunday, a painful moment preceded by "many tensions" due to personal differences, creative conflicts, and the death in 1967 of their manager.
Although they initialed their dissolution in a document on December 29, 1974, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr had stopped working together between 1969 and 1970.
"They discovered that they were individualities and not just members of the band," Peter Doggett, author of the book "You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of The Beatles," published in 2009 and focusing on the band's breakup, tells AFP.
That document, known as "The Beatles Agreement," has the date December 29, 1974, handwritten on it, with the signatures of the four band members. It allowed the quartet to structure their rights to song ownership and legal matters related to the breakup.
"The legal separation in December 1974 included an agreement whereby, under the terms of the original partnership, all of that money was divided equally among the four of them," adds Doggett.
Source: aldianews.com
