Los Angeles, Aug 6 : A brutal letter written by Beatles legendary John Lennon to Sir Paul McCartney is set to go up for auction.According to aceshowbiz.com The late The Beatles legend, who was killed in 1980 was able to write to his former bandmates following the “Live and Let Die” star gave a scathing interview of the Beatles to the now-defunct music magazine Melody Maker in November 1971 The magazine is expected to bring in around $30,000 at the time of the Gotta Have Rock and Roll auction it off, TMZ reports.
The letter, which was typed and an exact copy of that was sent to Melody Maker editor Richard Williams who agreed with John’s request for publication of it.finds John declare to Paul he is not grateful for the amount of money he gets from The Beatles and even accused the musician of threat against the ex-bandmate Ringo Starr as well as his wife Maureen.
It said in the following section: “It’s all very well playing a’real honest old’ human Paul in the Melody Maker, but you know for certain that we cannot simply sign on a piece of paper.You’re saying ‘John will not sign it’.I’ll do it if I can indemnify us from the taxman!”
“As I/we’ve stated many times – we’ll see you at any time you’d like.Simply make up your mind.
You said that under no conditions would you sell your goods to us and if we don’t give you what you wanted and you’d like to sue us again, you’d do it again and you said “Ringo and George will break you John and George’, etc.and so on.”
“Now I was completely right with you the day you were arrested and you attempted to smear me with your emotional “logic”.If you’re not the one who is at fault (as you assert) Who brought us to court and get all s*** on us in public? .Who’s the person who is threatening to ‘finish’ Ringo and Maureen, who was threatening me via phone two weeks ago?”
“Who said that he’d “get us” regardless of the cost? As I’ve mentioned before, have you ever considered that you could be mistaken on something?”
In another place in the letter of three pages, the ‘Jealous Guy’ singer requested Paul to meet him with no lawyers present, and criticized Paul for not being able to decide on the split of the band that had taken place over a year prior to when the note was written and also took offense with his ex-colleague’s criticism of his hit song “Imagine.”
The note concluded with an afterword in which John addressed Paul noting that they had divorced the wives of their partners, Linda McCartney and Yoko Ono to be free of the dispute.
He wrote: “The bit that really puzzled us was the request to meet with LINDA and YOKO.I know you’re a camper! But don’t go too much! I thought you’d understood by now knowing that I’m JOHNANDYOKO”.
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