The Beatles Threatened to Disband When Brian Epstein Said He’d ‘Had Enough’ of Them

By editorial board on January 6, 2024

John Lennon said The Beatles didn't pay much attention to their manager. Still, they didn't want to make music without him.

The Beatles began working with their manager, Brian Epstein, on their rise to fame. He helped them grow as artists and was an essential part of their success. Though he appreciated the way The Beatles changed his life, he once decided he’d had enough of them. The band told him that if he sold them to another label, they would stop making music altogether.

Though Epstein was the band’s manager, he didn’t have all that much power over them.

“Brian could never make us do what we really, really didn’t want to do,” John Lennon said in The Beatles Anthology. “He wasn’t strong enough.”

Epstein grew frustrated with this dynamic, though, and eventually told The Beatles he was going to sell them to another label. They refused to listen to him on this, either.

“Brian came to us in Paris once and said he’d had enough, and he wanted to sell us to Delfont or Grade, I’ve forgotten which one,” Lennon said. “And we all told him — I told him personally — that we would stop. We all said it: ‘Whatever you do, if you do that, we stop now. We don’t play anymore, and we disband. We’re not going to let anybody else have us, especially them.'”

Lennon said he did not like the way other labels managed their bands and wanted to stay with Epstein.

“They don’t understand, the Richenbergs and the Grades,” he said. “They couldn’t handle people like us. They’re used to the donkeys that they had after the war, Tommy Handley and all them people, and the poor old Crazy Gang who, like Derek used to say, look like they’d been injected with silicone to be brought on stage at eighty.” (Showbiz)

Midas Man, an upcoming biopic based on The Beatles manager Brian Epstein, has brought on its third director to wrap up the film’s post-production process.

Joe Stephenson (Doctor Jekyll) has reportedly taken over directorial duties from previous filmmaker Sara Sugarman (Vinyl) earlier this year.

Despite now being in the final stretch of production, Midas Man has yet to receive a release date.

 

 

 

 

 

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Epstein died in 1967 died of an overdose of the sleeping pill Carbitral.

Epstein published a memoir, “A Cellarful of Noise,” in 1964. But his role as manager diminished after the band opted to end its grueling schedule of concert tours in 1966. By many historical accounts, Epstein was depressed at the time of his death and there has long been speculation that the overdose was not accidental. His death came about two months after the release of the Beatles’ landmark album “Sgt. Pepper’s.

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