Beatles Reunion Contract - Signed by Paul McCartney

The way The Beatles broke up seemed to make a reunion impossible. John Lennon once said he and Paul McCartney were so good they could have been The Beatles without George Harrison and Ringo Starr. That seems doubtful even though Paul and John wrote most of the songs. Still, John and Paul’s tattered relationship as the Fab Four fractured made regrouping next to impossible. Paul signed a contract that proved he believed a Beatles reunion might happen, but the closest they ever came to getting back together was a Ringo solo album.

John said he first saw the end of The Beatles coming when manager Brian Epstein died. The Fab Four held on for more than two years after Epstein’s August 1967 death, but it wasn’t easy. Ringo walked out of the White Album sessions. George did the same while working on Get Back.

Paul took control of the Get Back sessions. He intended them to be a wistful return to the basics of the early years. Instead, they were some of the most contentious recording sessions of the band’s career: verbal barbs, indifference, George’s fistfight with John. Paul’s leadership style was hardly embraced by his bandmates.
Outside of the studio, Paul stood in a minority of one when The Beatles finally sought to hire a new manager in 1969. John, George, and Ringo wanted Allen Klein (who eventually got the job). Macca pushed for John Eastman, who later became his brother-in-law. Paul’s wedding ceremony with Linda Eastman in March 1969 showed how far apart The Beatles had grown. It was a social cue that the Beatles had drifted apart.
The damaged relationships made getting back together next to impossible. Still, Paul signed a contract in the late 1970s that proved he thought a Beatles reunion might happen.
Paul and John were the creating driving forces in The Beatles from the start. Their songs helped turn the band into international stars. Paul’s attempt to be the creative linchpin during the Get Back sessions was a nail in the band’s coffin. The band publicly called it quits in 1970 and all four members embarked on solo careers.
John and Paul had a loose jam session in the middle of the decade. What might have been the spark that ignited a new creative fire for the two songwriters instead fizzled and left both entrenched in their solo work. That was in 1974, and a Beatles’ comeback seemed as distant as ever.
Yet Paul’s contract with Columbia, signed in 1979, included a clause that allowed him to record for another label with Ringo, George, and John, according to the Trivia Book of the Beatles.

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