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Angry letter from John Lennon to Paul McCartney up for auction

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A letter written by John Lennon in response to an interview Paul McCartney did with Melody Maker back in 1971 is going up for auction.

The letter sent to – and published by – the music magazine is addressed directly to McCartney and goes into detail about the Beatles’ post-break up business arrangements, among other things.Opening with “Dear Paul, Linda, et al the wee McCartneys”, the letter is topped with a handwritten annotation requesting that Melody Maker editor Richard Williams publish the document to give Lennon “equal time” so he can respond to comments made my McCartney in his interview.That interview came eighteen months after The Beatles split, and followed protracted legal wranglings over the band’s finances – launched by McCartney.

The often scathing and occasionally affectionate letter accuses McCartney of incorrectly portraying himself as the victim in the band’s fall out.

Lennon says that McCartney is prone to claim he is in the dark about the band’s business affairs when, Lennon reckons, that’s not the case.“You know that after we have our meeting, the fucking lawyers will have to implement whatever we agree on, right?” writes Lennon. “If they had some form of agreement between them before we met, it might make it even easier.

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