BEATLES-Buch BABY YOU’RE A RICH MAN – SUING THE BEATLES FOR FUN

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Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2015: BEATLES-Buch BABY YOU’RE A RICH MAN – SUING THE BEATLES FOR FUN & PROFIT.  
Autor: Stan Soocher. Verlag: Foreedge, Großbritannien. ISBN-10: 1611683807. ISBN-13: 978-1611683806.
Paperback. Format: 23,5 cm x 16,3 cm; 314 Seiten; englischsprachig.
Inhalt: Introduction; PART I – CAN’T BUY ME LOVE: Dripping with Enthusiasm; „Start a Scream Team; „Outrageous Irrelevancies and Distortions“; The Reign Ends. PART II – FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. K: „Charismatic, Arrogant – American“; „Don’t You Want It Now?“; „Each and Every Word“; „To Stop Klein“; Remnants of the Relationship; To „Bleed“ ABKCO. PART III – NOWHERE MAN: „In a Secret Vault“; „Get the Hell Out of the Country“; „National Security Risks“; „Skullduggery Was Afoot“; „I’m a Doctrine Now“; Say You Want a Revelation. PART IV – GOT TO BE A JOKER, HE JUST DO WHAT HE PLEASE: „I’ve Caught the Beatles!“; „I Am Always Worried“; Expedience on All Sides; „Extraordinary Noise“. PART V – ALL THINGS MUST PASS: Here Comes the Summons; „An Unmistakable Similarity“; The Rhythm of the Water Pump; „Fun Knocking Him over the Head“; „The Largest Refugee Flight in History“; In the Bag; „Believe PB’s Testimony?“. Epilogue: The Law and Winding Road. Acknowledgments. Appendix of Beatles-Related Court Documents. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
 
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The BEATLES, the most popular, influential, and important band of all time, have been the subject of countless books of biography, photography, analysis, history, and conjecture. But this long and winding road has produced nothing like BABY YOU’RE A RICH MAN, the first book devoted to the cascade of legal actions engulfing the band, from the earliest days of the loveable mop-heads, to their present prickly twilight of cultural sainthood. Part BEATLES history, part legal thriller, BABY YOU’RE A RICH MAN begins in the era when manager BRAIN EPSTEIN opened the Pandora’s box of rock ‘n‘ roll merchandising, making a hash of the band’s licensing and inviting multiple lawsuits in the United States and the United Kingdom. The band’s long breakup period, from 1969 to 1971, provides a backdrop to the Machiavellian grasping of new manager ALLEN KLEIN, who unleashed a blizzard of suits and legal motions to take control of the band, their music, and APPLE RECORDS. Unsavory mob associate MRRIS LEVY first sued JOHN LENNON for copyright infringement over Come Together, then sued him again for not making a record for him. PHIL SPECTOR, hired to record a LENNON solo album, walked off with the master tapes and held them for a king’s ransom. And from 1972 to 1975, LENNON was the target of a deportation campaign personally spearheaded by key aides of President Nixon (caught on tape with a drug-addled ELVIS PRESLEY) that wound endlessly through the courts. In BABY YOU’RE A RICH MAN, Stan Soocher ties the BEATLES‘ ongoing legal troubles to some of their most enduring songs. What emerges is a stirring portrait of immense creative talent thriving under the pressures of ill will, harassment, and greed.
Steven Lee Beeber, author of The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk: „Fab! Soocher’s cast of mobbed-up producers, cut-out shilling managers, and opera-composing judges reads like Elmore Leonard in the Sky with Diamonds.“

About the Author: Stan Soocher is associate professor of music and entertainment industry studies at the University of Colorado s Denver Campus. In addition, he is an entertainment attorney and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Entertainment Law & Finance. The recipient of the Texas Star Award from the State Bar of Texas, Soocher has written for Rolling Stone and the National Law Journal and is previously the author of They Fought the Law: Rock Music Goes to Court.“

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