Allen Klein

The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll

Fred Goodman

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9780547896892
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music & Business

The story of the notorious rock and roll manager, revealing new, behind-the-scenes details about some of the biggest bands in music history. Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. Though he became infamous for allegedly causing the Beatles' breakup and robbing the Rolling Stones, the truth is both more complex and more fascinating. As the manager of both groups—not to mention Sam Cooke, Pete Townshend, Donovan, The Kinks, and numerous others—he taught young soon-to-be legends how to be businessmen as well as rock stars. While Klein made millions for his clients, he was as merciless with them as he was with anyone, earning himself an outsize reputation for villainy that has gone unchallenged until now. Through unique, unprecedented access to Klein's archives, veteran music journalist Fred Goodman tells the full story of how the Beatles broke up, the Stones achieved the greatest commercial success in rock history, and the music business became what it is today. "Fred Goodman makes this world come alive, and any fan of rock or insider tales of the music industry will be in heaven reading about this fascinating, troubling character." —Judd Apatow "Writing about contracts, percentages and deals can be tedious, but Goodman makes it as exciting as reading about an artist's sex life. The book explodes with inside dope." — Daily News (New York) "Succeed[s] both as a compelling work of rock-'n'-roll history and as a cautionary business primer." — The Wall Street Journal

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Abbey Road (album), 174, 182, 183, 184, 192, 204

ABKCO Industries

background/formation, 123–32

“buy/sell agreement” and, 133–35

description, 26, 132, 133–35

“Ain’t That Good News,” 56

Albee, Edward, 258

Aldon Music, 18, 21, 22, 59

Alexander, J. W., 41, 42, 46, 53, 78

“All Down the Line,” 236

All Things Must Pass (album/record set), 195, 204, 205, 220, 240–41, 264

Allen Klein and Company, 21, 22, 25, 26, 30, 33, 36, 40, 112, 125, 128, 132

Ambassadeurs, Les (dinner/check), 72–73

American Bandstand (television show), 37, 128

Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra, 138, 266

Animals, 2, 65–69, 70, 75, 78, 120, 125, 134, 244

Anthony, Tony, 31, 32, 125, 203

Apollo Theater, Harlem, 35, 36, 37, 97, 260

Apple Boutique, 156–57, 187

Apple Corps

Beatles breakup and, 234

description/problems, xii, 155–56, 157, 167, 171, 174, 178, 185–87

Klein’s cleanup and, 187–92

purpose, 154

Arden, Don, 66, 67–68, 69, 99, 177

Aronowitz, Al, 180, 225

Around the World in 80 Days soundtrack, 27–28

Arrow, Allen, 230–31

“As Tears Go By,” 97, 109, 237

Ashcroft, Richard, 266–67

Asher, Peter/family, 191

Aspinall, Neil, 185

Atlantic Records, 15, 29, 148, 166, 197, 229, 230–31

ATV, 171, 172, 173

Azoff, Irving, 269

B

“Baby Let Me Follow You Down,” 70

“Baby Let Me Take You Home,” 70

Badfinger, 156, 218

Balio, Tino, 31

Band, the, 217, 244

“Bangladesh,” 218

Barash, Seymour...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• London, August 1969
• A Foundling’s Tale
• Allen Klein and Company
• Sam Cooke
• The Yiddish Invasion
• “People Keep Asking Me If They’re Morons”
• The King of America
• ABKCO
• Photos
• Rock ’n’ Roll Circus
• The Prize
• With the Beatles
• Mr. Popularity
• Some Time in New York City
• A Sport and a Pastime
• No Sympathy for the Devil
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author
• Connect with HMH
• Footnotes