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‘You Never Give Me Your Money’ – The Beatles
It’s time that everyone starts pointing fingers at Allen Klein for breaking up The Beatles. Yoko Ono certainly put a wrench into things, but the sleazy US businessman who had wrecked The Rolling Stones’ finances did nothing but divide the Fab Four throughout the final days of their career. While Paul McCartney was always known as the optimistic one of the group, even he couldn’t hold back when making Abbey Road.
Introducing the medley on the second side of the record, ‘You Never Give Me Your Money’ is the one song that McCartney wrote about hating the business meetings they were being naked to participate in. Since the band could never find any common ground, this is the one track used to attack Klein, only wanting to put funny paper in McCartney’s hands rather than be upfront with him.
The same melody from even returns in ‘Carry That Weight’, which feels like the answer to the first version. While The Beatles had been carrying themselves for a few years, this was the breaking point where it felt like everything had become too much for any of them. There’s no telling what they could have done had they stayed the course, but having a guy instigating arguments as a manager would never make for the most diplomatic ending.
