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0:49 liverpool's severely bombed during the war lots of the city was blown apart by their German strikes it's very black and white place color in life clothes with dull gray and boring now the color you really got was seeing those American films the cinema the musicals or the cartoons we used to go to the one in Penny Lane which in Penny
1:36 Lane predicted to do record shopping people down the road from Paul sat down the road from Johnson's in the early 1960s the NEM store in Liverpool opened a department to cater for a new booming age group teenagers the stores record racks and booths for listening to pop music records were all the rage listening vuj you were just the staff if they would play what was called an LP or a single then he bought it if you liked it but sometimes we didn't have any money we would just go in and listen to records through the tracks imported from
2:22 across the Atlantic teenagers constructed their own mythology culture and identity through rock music they broke free from a still very conservative society john-paul would be writing down the words to the souls as quickly in this best they could the thing for the American records the record department at nems was Brian Epstein's exclusive domain Brian Epstein was a manager his father owned a record shop while two record shops in the city and Brian Epstein managed the largest of the two
3:09 and it was the biggest record shop in the north of England Brian was gay closeted gay cuz that was the way it was at the time when homosexuality was barely legal I mean in England men were getting arrested until the early 1960s anyway they were even found together with in this rigid context the young 27 year old from a Liverpudlian Jewish family was dreaming of an artistic career he was searching for his destiny 350 amateur groups shared the local scene in Liverpool Brian Epstein realizes an opportunity is up for grabs it's noon on the 9th of November 1961 when Brian Epstein takes up his place at
3:54 the back of the vaulted smoke-filled basement of the cavern club on stage four young lads barely age 20 are playing Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley covers they already possess a very distinct energy and style they're called the Beatles it's very hard to describe I'm a 17 year old girl so I've got three good-looking guys in the front you know that attract you I looked they were all in leather which was different to any other group I'd see for Brian Epstein it is also a revelation this was quite a new world really for me I was amazed by this dark smoking dank atmosphere this beat music
4:43 playing away [Music] something tremendous came over and I was immediately struck by their their their music their beat and their sense of humor actually onstage and even afterwards when I met them I was struck again by their personal charm Brian Epstein offers to become the Beatles manager his first initiative is to swap their leather jackets for suits and ties and to send them to the hairdresser's by imposing this new image on them he removes all outward signs of their working class origins making them acceptable to British society as a whole the Beatles were very working-class boys so all four of them came from poor homes
5:30 I think was it was John was the only one who came for the private houses where he came from council houses their music was wrong because of that so it suited Brian Epstein to turn them into young gents they went to smoke on stage they would be on time they had to bow to the audience he cleaned him up but Epstein's task proves to be harder than expected Brian Epstein was very different from anyone else in the music business he had no previous experience then he came to London and desperately tried to sell them he wasn't successful initially he went to several record companies including Decca where one dick Rove was famous for having shown him the door saying that Beatles would never happen
6:15 Epstein's tenacity finally pays off he secures a contract with EMI one of the two major English record labels and hires Freda Kelly a fan right from the start to help him but my father wasn't keen and then he told me that I wasn't to take the job because there was no future in it and it wasn't a good job he knew it was him who said you know we took that job with longer nights together so my year and adulteries their success is breathtaking following love me do please please me sell 75,000 copies in the space of a few days [Music]
7:25 The Beatles monopolize the number-one spot in the charts 12 times the national press goes into overdrive at the time a new media is undergoing an explosion television and for the Beatles television provides the opportunity to leave the smoke-filled stages of Liverpool and to become guests in homes across Britain their freshness and spontaneity steal the show backstage a mysterious but charismatic 19 year old
8:11 man approaches Brian Epstein his name is Andrew Loog Oldham we were doing one of our first-ever television show and you should really have a press officer no I mean nobody knew what a press officer was in those days and the Brian Epstein said you can be the press officer so Brian Epstein paid and to all them to be the biffle's press office Andrew Oldham was a is a strange person really is very thin very excitable well-educated clever guy he he
8:58 knew exactly what he wanted to do Oldham wants not to rub shoulders with the Beatles or to work with Brian Epstein but to actually become Brian Epstein he wants to discover the new Beatles propelled him to the summit of the kingdom of rock and create a legend hundreds of groups are trying their luck hoping to one day equal the Fab Four the record labels are also actively scouting for talent ideal conditions for Oldham in April 1963 the budding manager pays a visit to the Crawdaddy a club in a London suburb where up-and-coming musicians are given a chance [Music]
9:52 Oldham finds his treasure The Rolling Stones there with stones playing no stage no lights just playing and the very exciting a raw kind of sound nobody'd heard anything like it really [Music] the charming and confident Oldham promises the group's founder Brian Jones a lucrative contract it will propel them to the same heights as the Beatles the Rolling Stones fall under his charm Ananda was talking about their
10:37 performances with them and they were all sitting on a bunk head and it was in the middle and they were all listening to him like he was the Papa bird and he was dropping seeds into their mouths and it was really gonna help them in the future he in himself was very influenced by movies and by kind of gangster films of the period and Andrew who's this skinny kid liked to create an image of himself as someone you didn't want to mess with Oldham keeps his promise the group signs with the Decca label the main competitor of EMI The Beatles record company The Beatles had a certain image of being
11:25 sort of that you'd want to take home to your family although you probably wouldn't but the image was that you would and then the the Rolling Stones were from different backgrounds they were well-educated they're reasonably well of ferren's and what that did in in terms of their fame is that they thought they could do anything the Rolling Stones and particularly Mick and Keith were the kind of bad boys in the rebels and so he pushed them that way but what about this thing though about dressed about not wearing a tie into a restaurant I mean you know your your worldly enough now to realize surely there are restaurants you can't go in without I mean do it deliberately you'll go long because most of these places you came and I I don't honestly and sincerely don't have a tie see anyway to start off with never like I promote
12:16 talent I take something and sort of put it into a shape maybe I just try and make something presentable to the public make it commercial anything that has some form an image - I get involved he always had amazing ideas to get people talking about for example from the outset they were told never to smile when they turned out for a photo session one of them would always say remember no smile so that's why in all the photos of the early days it looks like they're all sulking they were Andrews instructions who very smartly wanted to make them into the NT beetles matter of seconds now and they'll be on stage and
13:03 many young people identify with the image of the stones that Oldham has crafted an image of freedom and a refusal to conform and you only wanted more of that from the stone then he went about it by promoting them as outrageous so you know all the kids would would behave nicely a Beatles concert maybe that Stones concert and you urged them to tear the seat Rolling Stones concerts turn into brawls in Blackpool seats are ripped out chandeliers are smashed and the piano is turned upside down 50 people are injured
13:51 and taken to hospital the local authority bans the stones indefinitely from performing in the city Oldham rubs his hands together his strategy is working increasing his prodigies popularity at all costs through the creation of scandal the most trivial of incidents which are blown out of all proportion by the press delight the young manager he told me they were on tour I needed to go to the loo so they asked to use the toilets of a garage they can pull that back the guys said they couldn't so they urinated against the wall the next day it was all over the papers The Rolling Stones that bad boys urinate
14:37 all over the wall etc but the Beatles very probably did the same thing it's just that nobody spoke about it they get off lightly with a 5 pound fine for each Rolling Stone but the group's notoriety is boosted by the scandal pre sales of their album reach a hundred thousand copies for the first time they D thrown the Beatles their blend of blues and rock and Mick Jagger's sensuality charm the ladies the beatles natural fans two days two days
15:23 [Music] what do your parents say about you being outdoors I think it's ridiculous why do you come to see the rolling stone Allisyn music but the beatles are still a step ahead they had their sights set across the channel and are preparing to conquer Europe they establish a foothold in Paris during the winter of 1964 lay beetle give 41 concerts there in under three weeks on January the 16th the Beatles play at the legendary Olympia venue
16:11 they outshine the other groups performing there even the icon of the yay movement Sylvie Vartan when they played at the Olympia I spent a lot of time with them and George sank hotels we hang out together official photographer at the teen magazine salut le Copa jean-marie Perrier witnessed their triumph sassy for me ee photo editors these are amazing because they are the photos of the Beatles at the Georges sank during a moment of boredom I remember the time I was doing a poster with Johnny Hallyday I was in the studio and George called me he said they were bored out of their minds and what I have some music amazing isn't it I said yes
16:58 ok I went home picked up a record player and some blue singles and took them over to them you should have seen how pleased it made those poor guys they were revolutionising the planet with their music they didn't even have a sound system in their room they were ecstatic because I just bought the music Ringo was sulking because there were a lot of Rolling Stones records in the pile six months later the stones embarked upon their own conquest of the French market shortly after he was hired by the record label Decca Dominic Lam blur was given the job of chaperoning the Rolling Stones the skinny guy on the left is me it was
17:43 my first photo with the Rolling Stones in October 64 I remember Madame Dahlia who was the owner of deco at the time called me into her office to say Dominic the Rolling Stones are coming I want you to look after them here's your pass for the Olympia and here's five hundred francs for the expenses I was over the moon might have paid to do the job and yet I was getting paid it was so fantastic so that's how I started working for the stones the Olympia was bursting at the seams it was totally sold out they were a major group The Beatles were already well established but the Rolling Stones was the new group everybody was talking about it's going to do don't steal you yeah you pop over to tell you what coupon signal to tell you the eruption onto the
18:34 music scene of these five young lanky lads presented as the anti Beatles is manna from heaven for the media music journalists spend weekly stories about the rise of the two groups a duel packed with twists and turns in order to boost sales the press focuses on the rivalry between the groups to dismantle every week Melody Maker New Musical Express the record merit three or four week was entirely dedicated to music had to find stories to sell their paper as a tabloid style newspaper we looked a bit like The Daily Mirror in London famous newspaper then still is of course but we use those kind of techniques where you'd suggest there was great rivalry between the groups how do you compare your group
19:20 with the Beatles I don't know how do you compare do you think it's not the same group so we just do what we want and they do what they want and there's no point in going on comparing us you can but do you feel you do would you want to do better than they do what they want to do well there's quite a dichotomy between the Beatles and the stone whereas the stones had started out emulating American R&B you could go and see the Rolling Stones and people thought are they sound authentic they
20:06 got the sound but the maracas and rhythm guitar and pounding drums through Charlie Watts so the stones sounded the real thing The Beatles once they got over their first few hits were established as great songwriters and we're churning out hits that were all different and amazing when you think about it the duel continues into the world's leading record market the u.s. a prerequisite for managers and their groups when the Beatles step off the plane they're already on conquered territory [Music] [Applause]
20:54 Brian Epstein has carefully prepared their first American tour with two concerts at the most prestigious venues in New York and Washington and three television appearances preceded by an impressive $15,000 advertising campaign Ed Sullivan Show was the biggest show in America anyway a quarter of all Americans watched the Ed Sullivan Show on the night that it went out because there had been so much said about the Beatles in the papers before they arrived it had the biggest audience it ever had even bigger than when I was played it and they tried to get back into the hotel that they were staying at the plaza and the police again had to clear a path for them [Applause]
21:41 New York City cops are hard pressed protecting the Beatles at their hotel and every sign there is hero worship that recalls the hey days of Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra but we were up in their suite at the Plaza and they're looking out the window one of them said I suppose this is the way it is every time Elvis comes to town and of course it wasn't you know this has never happened before the speed I think 13th floor but you could still hear it throughout the night screaming we want the Beatles we want the Beatles [Music]
22:36 with a US tour the Beatles conquer the world ever the visionary epstein exploits their merchandising potential over a hundred and fifty products including t-shirts badges stickers and mirrors feature the wholesome smile of the young Liverpudlians [Music] conversely the stones us tour which follows the Beatles does not meet with the success that hoped for the group is given a frosty reception and concert venues remain half-empty the British press Labor's the point so if the
23:24 Beatles went to American were very successful we'd say that on the front page Beatles hit in the States and then when the Rolling Stones went they might run into some difficulties maybe some of their shows didn't sell out so it could be a headline something like stones flop in the States well we would suggest that so that's a way we would stir up a bit of rivalry between the groups faced with a disenchantment of the American public the stones manager has to find a way to bounce back he reboots his communication strategy focusing on provocation sex and intergenerational conflict [Music] it was Angela who came up with the famous slogan would you let your daughter marry a rolling stone he had a
24:12 real gift for coming up with catchphrases [Music] [Applause] [Music] you'll feel in responsibility does it worry you where it's going the trend the girls will scream at the in the audience the worship of anything that the Rolling Stones do I can't work are you holding us responsible for those young girls I'm holding you responsible not your person I hope I'm holding the generation you represent the new trend for instance do you think that people like the people you manage should give back a great deal of what they I don't see the link you
24:59 know I'm very pleased they have Nick Jagger's photo I hope it gets them hope to get through and when they come out they feel fine again I can't quite work out whether women have done something by artificial insemination on record [Music] while the stones stir up the pack the beetle is encouraged by Epstein refine their image of the ideal son-in-law Master the beetles to get married poses with his bride Linda Eastman and Heather a six-year-old daughter so successful as the agreeable image Epstein has been creating Queen Elizabeth makes the Beatles members of the British Empire in October 1965 fresh
25:46 from an audience with the Queen they hold medals indicating they have been made members of the most excellent Order of the British Empire the Beatles of course have proven to be one of Britain's prime exports they have brought in more foreign exchange than many industries after all they are an industry under themselves [Applause] [Music] but as the beat is prepared to definitively outstrip the stones satisfaction released in 1965 steals the show and revives the duel the song becomes the worldwide soundtrack of a generation [Music]
26:41 Eliahu week agents are trying to contain the scramble as they prevent the stone from being suffocated by their own success voices I love so big flashy manners and things like that you know I'd love to have big dogs and go shooting and have yachts if that's decadent on deck The Beatles hits Ticket to Ride eight days a week and I feel fine which at once topped the charts are now outmoded [Music] as for the Beatles themselves exhausted by world tours and the hysteria that
27:27 follows them wherever they go they've reached the end of their tether I'm caged in your hotel except for performances is there any pleasure at all except for the money in traveling abroad yeah we enjoyed as well some of its not know sometimes it's not good and sometimes it's good like any job and when we go away anyway the main reason for going away other people can see us at the concert so it doesn't really matter if we don't have a good time because it's of the other people anyway when I'm on holiday we don't expect to see any sights or have any fun and if we get fun as well while we happen to be touring well then it's okay so it's a job as well the trip to the Philippines is the
28:13 final straw because they withdraw from a reception given in their honor by president mark Ossus wife their police protection is taken away from them and the takings from the concert that given the previous day are confiscated the Beatles must leave the country in a hurry John what exactly happened in Airport we got kicked and pushed around by some monkeys and we're very frightened sort of real big looking felons with guns and all the gear you know obviously deranged
29:04 disaster follows disaster after Manila during a US tour John Lennon commits a faux pas the thing that most offended people was when John said that the Beatles were well it was quoted as saying bigger than Jesus Christ he didn't actually say that he said we're more popular and what he actually meant was that because of television and recordings they could reach more people around the world the ferrari leads to public burnings Jesus himself and the Ku Klux Klan being a religious order is going to come out here the night that they appear at the Coliseum here and
29:50 we're going to demonstrate with different ways and tactics to stop this performance would you say that that probably be maybe fifty thousand people here for the performance and the fifty Klansmen are going to stop the performance the case I'm not saying that we're
30:37 better or greater or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person old God as a thing or whatever it is you know I would just said what I said and it was wrong or was taken wrong there now it's all this he was offended that people were offended and when he was told that Brian Epstein might have to cancel the 1966 tour of America because people in the Bible Belt were threatening to kill him you know if the Beatles went there he realized that he had to bite his lip and Brian Epstein is a very famous phrase on him he said John practice leaving things unsaid the signs are that they roll about John Lennon's remarks about Christianity is dying down it's true that in Chicago and Detroit and Cleveland a lot of seats were left
31:23 unsold well how many Beatles records were you selling before this route started Oh quite a few and since they dropped off considerably the quote which John Lennon made to a London columnist more than three months ago has been quoted and represented entirely out of context and in these circumstances John is deeply concerned and regrets that people with certain religious beliefs should have been offended in any way whatsoever [Music] worn out by months of controversy the Beatles put an end to concerts and tours once and for all
32:08 [Music] holed up in there recording studio they fail to see the world around them change [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] although the Beatles had deeply influenced young people and it encouraged him to break free the same young people attracted by different forms of protest now begin to elude them the u.s. is embroiled in the Vietnam War
32:53 perceived as unjust and imperialist the war ignites student campuses worldwide [Applause] the police on horseback charged us outside the US Embassy in the whole country was watching and shocked is this happening in London a student of Pakistani origin Tarek ali becomes the leader of the anti-war movement in Great Britain in 68 and 69 particularly the band that was the most radical in many ways both in terms of the music they produced and the songs they wrote but also in in the
33:40 activities what the Rolling Stones it was not the Beatles Mick Jagger I remember marching on our demonstrations against the Vietnam War [Music] lots of kids being sent to fight in Vietnam you know were listening to the stones to get away from this horrible war but also because in a way the music reflected the war you know and and in its hardness it was hard music John Lennon later told me he said you can imagine me and some of the others wanted
34:28 to come on the marches but Brian Epstein our manager said if you go on these anti-american marches we might never get permission to go into the United States and we will lose a lot of money and Lennon said to me years later I've always regretted that we listen to him and he said we were not that political in in in those day [Music] in 1968 The Beatles appear to have lost the duel with the Rolling Stones the publica convinced the duel is a real one but went at the truth really live the general public was convinced there
35:15 was great rivalry between the two groups because the public believes what it reads some journalists streamed up the fact that they were enemies but really you know there was no there was no rivalry they socialized together they went to each other's recording sessions and got on very well the rivalry which that managers largely orchestrated entirely fabricated even was nothing but a facade the truth was an entirely different story the two groups of musicians were very close right from the start they first met in April 1963 [Music] shortly after arriving in London The
36:01 Beatles attended one of the first Rolling Stones concerts in the London suburb of Richmond at the time the Rolling Stones had yet to make a name for themselves George me and John we went down to Richmond and we saw this group very quite blown away by the energy of the stones performance The Beatles went backstage to congratulate them they immediately hit it off and ended up spending the evening together a friendship was born but for the public and for the media their friendship remained backstage and of course they were good friends it was swinging London that's true really there really was a big social
36:46 scene with pop music at the helm so to speak and they all went to the same nightclub so it was a big social network and because they all talk to each other and discuss plans and ideas for a music and they all really would like to have worked together more closely I'm not sure if it was George Harrison or Paul McCartney who said to dick the NR manager deccan as a great group in London called The Rolling Stones you should so he called and rather a shame mortified didn't miss the Rolling Stones once when the stones were seeking
37:32 inspiration Lennon and McCartney having penned I want to be your man on the corner of a table supplied the stones with their first British chart success and rolled and had found them coming out of the lunch which they brought them back to what the stones were trying to write and they weren't coming up with anything and they'd worked on this old songs they don't care journey so John Paul left well they went away for about 10 minutes and came back to the missing part of I want to be your man and they gave it to the stones who made a much more version of it a much harder version than the Beatles version the bond that was forged between the stones and the Beatles in 1963 was never broken when
38:20 one group was in difficulty the other was quick to extend their brotherly hand [Music] it took the jury only an hour this afternoon to bring in a verdict of guilty against Richards who was the last of the defendants to face trial here in 1967 scandal hit the stones once again arrested for possession of drugs Mick Jagger and Keith Richards faced prison less exposed by the media and protected by their clean image The Beatles rushed to assist the stones by inviting them to appear on the worldwide satellite broadcast of the television program our
39:07 world before nearly 600 million television viewers the Beatles in front of the stage and the stones in the background performed together in what was the first live international satellite TV production in the history of television acted up just as much as the stones but people left the Beatles well alone so nobody knew about it or asked what they got up to was carefully hidden whereas with the stones it was the opposite the slightest incident was blown up out of all proportion people even try to get them imprisoned the stones avoided a prison sentence and their friendship with the Beatles were sealed for good giving rise to full-scale collaboration Lennon and
39:53 McCartney sang backing vocals on the stones we love you Brian Jones sang backing vocals on the Beatles Yellow Submarine in fact so rich was their collaboration that at times their music even seemed to merge helter skelter and back in the USSR two tracks on the Beatles White Album would not be out of place on a Rolling Stones album not destroy each other sales of the singles at least were coordinated when are you releasing yours okay we release ours in a couple of weeks then okay we'll wait another couple of weeks of release hours because they knew perfectly well but if they
40:38 both released a single in the same week they both suffer in addition to the musical aspect and a shared attraction to drugs the two groups also openly pursued psychedelia as part of a joint spiritual quest during the summer of love at a conference given by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi the Indian guru who promoted Transcendental Meditation Mick Jagger appeared alongside the Beatles [Music] both groups had always shared a destiny the Beatles and the stones were together at the beginning and at the peak of their fame they stuck together through scandal and success they remained United
41:25 in the shadows through good times and bad even when death and bereavement caught up with them at the end of the sixties [Music] on the 27th of August 1967 Brian Epstein who was widely known as the fifth Beatle died of an overdose of barbiturates well everybody was so shocked I mean because
42:16 he was aged she was only 32 and you know he wasn't a lure anything on next minute we hear that he's died he was just such a shock John where would you be today without mr. Epstein I don't know I iving down to London tonight yes somebody's taking us down you heard the news this afternoon I believe yes and Paul's already gone down yes I see what you have no idea what your plans are tomorrow no no we'd just go and find out you know he was like the father figure of the Beatles the man who discovered them the man with the Midas touch who turned everything to gold make this this unknown little bunch of musicians from never pulled into a worldwide phenomenon overwhelmed by the Beatles success Brian
43:04 Epstein had been feeling increasingly sidelined he wasn't the the sharp agent like the people who ran the music business in those days mostly were he made quite a few tears which weren't good for the Beatles but then he didn't know he was shoe businessmen they were moving on and also they stopped touring as well so there's less need for a hands-on manager I think that was probably something that preyed on Brian's mind to the fat bird he may have been losing control of the Beatles and realized that they were too hot to handle too big for him to handle two years after Epstein's death it was the stones that faced bereavement on July the 3rd 1969 the group's founder
43:50 Brian Jones was found dead in his swimming pool with Brian it was a foregone tragedy in the way because from 1966 he started losing control he lost control on stage I lost control within the group it's three weeks before I think he was he was kicked out of the group which was terrible shame because he was throwing stones but by now Mick Jagger had become the most popular one on stage and brand-new that he could no longer be the leader two days later the Rolling Stones played a public tribute to their guitarist and founder at a vast concert in Hyde Park the stones had already books Hyde Park to put on this event and they became
44:38 more historic than more important because they were celebrating Brian Jones life at this this concert Mick Jagger had to come out and read it a tribute to Brian and that was the famous quotation from a poem by Shelley he's not dead he does not sleep he has awakened from the dreams of life it's we that are lost in stormy visions and keep with phantoms and our prophet was dry I stood at the front and watched as he opened the box and all these butterflies came flying up [Music]
45:24 all the butterflies flew in the air and then they drop to the ground they'd all died because they were in a box for too long and it was too hot so the batter fires tried to far away and they fell to the ground and died which is even more poignant really [Music] in December at a concert held at the Speedway circuit in Altamont California in the middle of a US tour death once again pursued the stones consider speedster as it was in the spirit of Woodstock music had to be free and so so suddenly they agreed to do a free
46:11 concert the problem was it was organized against their better judgment and they made this stupid mistake of hiring Hells Angels to do the security the problem was that the Hells Angels in the US especially in San Francisco when nothing like the Hells Angels they had met in London who done the security for the Hyde Park concert because the San Francisco Hells Angels real beasts [Music] the Hells Angels were totally drunk and deliberately lashed out at black concert goers
47:00 [Music] meredith hunter and eighteen-year-old black youth was stabbed to death by a member of security [Music] to add to the tragedy two children were crushed to death that evening by a driver on acid [Music] and a fan drowned in an irrigation canal on the outskirts of the festival [Music] the Altamont tragedy put an end to the summer of love and hippie euphoria [Music]
47:47 the Beatles were now having to face up to their own inevitable decline the company that created apple core was proving to be a bottomless pit and the various dissensions which had continued to increase since Epstein's death now reach the point of no return and when they stopped touring in 1966 they then were able to live life not together they didn't work together anymore the way they used to go in the studio and create a song together that did one of them might have the hook or one of them the lyric and they play within two years they'd become four separate people the imminent separation was ripe for exploitation New York businessman Allen Klein snapped up the lucrative Beatles Empire client also
48:36 moved in on the stones grabbing Andrew Oldham's position of manager Allen Klein was an incredible businessman but for himself both groups made the same mistake you could say they had the same career plan career plans that resembled each other they both fell into Helen Klein's lair and it cost both groups dearly Allen Klein is one of the reasons the Beatles separated as for the stones they got fleeced today 50 years after satisfaction the master recording still belongs to Allen Klein the Beatles split up in 1970 against all expectations the stones
49:21 bounce back after the Altamont tragedy now alone in the running they won the duel their managers had initiated but they had won by default [Music] do that ever actually existed that is because the duel was also a smokescreen it accompanied the advent of mass media and the merchandising of cultural products together the Beatles and the stones created brands that to this day continue to produce slogans consumer items and events they transformed the energy of a generation into multinationals that ushered music into the era of capitalism and globalization
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