You Never Give Me Your Money Quotes

“It’s not the pain that hurts,’ she said, ‘it’s finding out that one of your idols is a real asshole.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

“In the wake of Cold Turkey’s, his debut song for Yoko’s Plastic Ono Band, dismal engagement with his listening public, Lennon prepared fresh edits of two songs he’d recorded earlier, What’s the New Mary Jane and You Know My Name, and announced that they would be rush-released as a Plastic Ono Band single. Just as quickly, the project was cancelled, with Apple explaining, ‘It was mutually decided by the Beatles that it sounded more like the Beatles themselves than the Plastic Ono Band’ – not least because both songs were indeed Beatles recordings. McCartney’s reaction to Lennon’s attempted theft can easily be imagined.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four

“Allen Klein had achieved his ambition of managing the Beatles, but in doing so, he blew them apart.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four

“Relations had soured to the point that when the Beatles attempted Lennon’s song ‘Across the Universe’ Paul McCartney complained, ‘There’s an oriental influence that shouldn’t really be there’ and pretended that he was talking about music.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four

“of others who would have been Beatles if they could’. There was no resentment of their wealth or fame: their apparently effortless journey from proletarian drabness to aristocratic gaiety promised a similar transfiguration for their admirers. Where the Beatles led, millions were content to follow. Moustaches, kaftans, military tunics, cannabis, Indian ragas, flowers, universal peace and love: none of these was invented by the Beatles, but the group were the conduit by which the symbols of the age reached the outside world.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

“They were planning to launch a pioneering series of ‘disposable records’–the aural equivalent of paperback books, which would offer readings or speeches by iconic figures of the age at a bargain price. There would even be albums of the Beatles in conversation, the company announced. McCartney and Harrison were prepared to spend half the year in California, to establish Apple as a truly transatlantic enterprise.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

“The Beatles could be forgiven for doubting the value of celebrity. One of the quartet was shot dead outside his apartment building by a man who claimed to be a fan. Another was attacked brutally in his home; within two years, he too was dead. A third was involved in a marital breakdown that exposed every corner of his life to the public gaze. The fourth found it so difficult to survive outside the group that he lost himself in alcohol and cocaine.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

“out…That’s why they want the Beatles to go on, so they can get all silly again. But”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup