Ringo Starr Didn't Think He Could Count on Paul McCartney to Help Him With Music After
When The Beatles broke up, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and John Lennon were on one side of the divide, while Paul McCartney was on the other. McCartney sued the band in order to wrest control from manager Allen Klein. The split and legal battle meant the dynamic between the former bandmates was a stormy one. Starr wanted to maintain a friendly working relationship with his former bandmates, though. While he trusted that Lennon and Harrison would continue collaborating with him, he didn’t know if McCartney would.
After the death of longtime Beatles manager Brian Epstein, the band hired Klein. McCartney wasn’t happy with this decision, though. He wanted to hire Lee Eastman, his father-in-law, something the rest of the band stood firmly against. These business dealings muddied their musical relationship, and by 1970, they had announced their breakup.
Afterward, McCartney sued the band to take control of their catalog from Klein. This did further damage to the relationship between the former bandmates. Despite all this, Starr wanted to maintain a musical relationship with each of the ex-Beatles. In the song “Early 1970,” he expressed this, as well as his worry that McCartney would want nothing to do with him.
Source: Emma McKee/cheatsheet.com
