Michael Jackson Left Paul McCartney The Rights To The Beatles Songs
By Marvin Marks on Jun 27, 2009 in Music News
According to this story, Michael Jackson left Paul McCartney the rights to The Beatles songs in his will.
The back story is that after Jackson & McCartney had collaborated on “The Girl is Mine” & “Say Say Say” Jackson had “stabbed McCartney in the back” (at least that’s how Paul saw it) by outbidding McCartney & Yoko Ono for the rights to The Beatles songs in 1985. Due to this McCartney & Jackson were no longer on speaking terms for the rest of Jackson’s life.
Apparently Jackson knew he was dying and wanted to make things right by leaving The Beatles songs to the man they really belong to.
This report that Jackson knew he didn’t have much longer to live makes the story about the 100 unreleased MJ songs even more interesting. It leaves open the possibility that he really did put together full albums to be released after his death.
***EDIT***
It turns out that this story was not true. Jackson did not leave McCartney The Beatles songs in his will.
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Not all the rights… the bastard sold have to sony.
Kyder | Jun 27, 2009 | Reply
Say what you want about Jackson but he bidded on that catalogue. He won that auction by being the highest bidder. Jackson didn’t stole it. He sold half of it to Sony, cause he needed the money ,and it was his right.
Arn | Jun 29, 2009 | Reply
Jackson bid on the Beatles catalogue after he asked Paul how to invest all of the money that he had rolling in. While working on Thriller together, Paul advised him that, as a result of being screwed out of the rights to his own compositions with the Beatles, he had established MPL Communications and was in the business of buying and administering music rights that were available. It was at that point that Michael turned around and bought the Beatles catalogue out from under Paul and Yoko. That’s why the rift ensued.
Tony | Jun 30, 2009 | Reply