JEWS AND THE BEATLES
(from: When Victims Rule. A Critique of Jewish Pre-eminence in America)

     In the 1960s era, the Beatles' agent/manager, Brian Epstein, was Jewish, as was the promoter, Sid Bernstein ("New York's leading promoter in the mid-sixties," [GLATT, p. 87] of their early Carnegie Hall and Shea Stadium concerts. The head of Bernstein's employer -- the General Artist Corporation -- was Norman Weiss, also Jewish. A Jewish entrepreneur in America, Irwin Pincus, "secured foreign rights on six original Beatles recordings." [ELIOT, M, p. 127] These seminal tunes appeared on the Vee Jay label (which also recorded the popular Four Seasons) in the early months of "Beatlemania' in America. (Meanwhile, the state of Israel banned the Beatles from performing there in 1965 "for fear of the decadent affect it would have on Israel's youth)." [FRANKEL, G., p. 273] Sandy Gallin (also Jewish and, like Epstein, gay) "shot to stardom after booking the Beatles for their legendary 1964 American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show." [KING, T., 2000, p. 93]

      "The daughter of prosperous furniture manufacturers in Sheffield," says Albert Goldman, "[Brian Epstein's mother] had been educated in a school dominated by Roman Catholics, an experience that led to her to attribute all her subsequent misfortunes in life to anti-Semitism, another trait Brian adopted." [GOLDMAN] "At age ten," adds Chet Flippo, "[Brian] was expelled from Liverpool College for scrawling dirty pictures. He and his mother attributed the expulsion to anti-Semitism." [FLIPPO, C., 1988, p. 143]

      Both Epstein's parents "were from prominent Jewish families in Liverpool" and he was an heir to his family's NEMS company: the North End Music Store chain, which was purchased in the 1930s. [FLIPPO, C., 1988, p. 143] "Brian didn't care that much about the Beatles' music," writes Flippo, "They knew that early on and he always acknowledged it. He had absolutely no experience in managing a group and the Beatles knew that. His contacts, such as they were, were with the business side of record companies." [FLI_PPO, C., 1988, p. 142] Epstein, notes the Jewish Forward, was a

"gay, Jewish record-department manager -- of the Liverpool store owned by his parents -- who met the Beatles and in little more than a year turned them into the most successful musical act in the world. The life of the Beatles' first manager has been familiar to Beatles fans for decades, though always as one of the sideshows to the record-shattering main attraction. With the focus reversed, some arresting tidbits emerge, such as when Paul McCartney explains his father's immediate approval of Epstein. 'He thought Jewish people were very good with money,' Mr. McCartney says. 'That was the common wisdom. He thought Brian would be very good for us ... And he was right ... If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was Brian.' MANDELL, B., 2001]

      A biography of Epstein is entitled "The Man Who Made the Beatles." "While none of his performing artists were Jews," notes author Roy Coleman, "Brian veered towards the company of Jews in the music business, and some of his senior colleagues were Jews: Nat Weiss, Dick James [originally Richard Leon Vapnick], Dan Black, Vic Lewis, Bernard Lee." [COLEMAN, p 345] Weiss became partners with Epstein in a company called Nemperor Artists.

      Another Beatle-based company (called Stramsact in London and Seltaeb in America) was formed, in conjunction with Epstein's lawyer, David Jacobs, to merchandize everything from Beatles chewing gum to wallpaper. Jacobs funneled considerable Beatles business in America to famous Los Angeles Jewish lawyer Marvin Mitchelson. [JENKINS, p. 85] David Jacobs, note Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, "adored the young Brian Epstein and took him under his wing. The two men were similar in many coincidental ways. Their families were both in the furniture business, both were born and bred of money, and both had doting Jewish mothers. Both were homosexual. David Jacobs became Brian's chief solicitor. From then on, all legal decisions and contracts would be made with David Jacobs' advice." [BROWN/GAINES, 1983, p. 122]

      Victor Lewis, also Jewish, was the Managing Director of yet another Epstein company, NEMS Enterprises. The Beatles had a 10% interest in this company that was based on their profitability; Epstein and his brother held the other 90%. [COLEMAN, p. 305] As Decca writer Tony Barrow once noted, "As for hiring of staff, what John Lennon said to me upon our introduction -- 'if you're not queer and you're not Jewish, why are you joining NEMS?' -- proved to be pretty accurate. They weren't all Jewish, but that was the ideal combination of the two things that were most close to [Epstein] or his family's heart." [COLEMAN, p. 178]

      Nemperor Holdings (formerly NEMS) was eventually sold to Jewish businessman Leonard Richenberg of Triumph Trust. "Trust became a 90 percent holder of Nemperor ... The Beatles were stunned that they had lost Nemperor" After various legal threats, they managed to reacquire it). [BROWN/GAINES, 1983, p. 322]

      The aforementioned Jewish businessman, Dick James, controlled the Beatles' publishing licenses and was their publisher at Northern Songs. James, note Peter Brown and Steven Gaines,

"became for the Beatles a symbol of the music business. He was a balding Jewish 'uncle' to the boys, a man with a big cigar and a sly smile, who taught John and Paul one of the biggest lessons of their lives ... John and Paul would form a songwriting partnership called Northern Songs ... Dick James, in return for his responsibilities as a music publisher, would get 50 percent of the earnings. In literal terms Brian [Epstein] signed over to Dick James 50 percent of Lennon and McCartney's publishing fees for nothing. It made him wealthy beyond imagination in eighteen months." [BROWN/GAINES, 1983, p. 186]

      Chet Flippo notes the context of Epstein's death (an overdose of sleeping pills):

"There were immediate rumors then, just as there are rumors now, that Brian Epstein was murdered as the end result of one or another of the many business deals that he had cut regarding the Beatles. There were so many murky deals, involving so many people and so much money, that it could even have been a deal that he failed to do that might have resulted in such rumors of vendetta and revenge. Subsequent court hearings over the years have showed that the Beatles were probably -- there is no information for this kind of data -- the most underpaid superstar performers ever. Given thier worldwide acclaim and the milions of records they sold, one would have imagined that they were millionaires many times over. That was hardly the case ... As Paul [McCartney] especially had started to try to dig into the Beatle business books, which they had never even thought to do during the Fab Beatlemania years, suspicions of Brian had started bubbling to the surface." [FLIPPO, C., 1988, pl. 244]

      Also after Epstein's death, in 1969 James sold the rights to the Beatles songs from under them. "It was the single most contentious deal arising from the Epstein-James era," says Coleman. "The Beatles were angry at what they regarded as betrayal." [COLEMAN, p. 306] Marc Elliot notes that James sold "his interest in Northern Songs to the notorious [British Jewish media mogul] Lew Grade, known in the film industry as Low Grade." [ELLIOT, p. 158] Epstein also had "good communication" with Grade's brother, Bernard Delfont, "one of the czars of London show business." [COLEMAN, p. 245-246]

      Epstein also managed the career of singer Cilia Black. "After Cilia's performance [in New York City]," notes Brown and Gaines,

"Brian threw a party for her in a hotel suite upstairs. The party was crowded with press and New York show business personalities when some woman within Brian's earshot remarked that the lobby of the Plaza Hotel looked 'Jewish.' Brian flew into a wild rage. The party came to a halt around him as he screamed, 'Madame, I happen to be Jewish!’.... It was a small miracle the incident didn't find its way into the press." [BROWN/GAINES, 1983, p. 183]

      Moving in the circles of rich and powerful, notes Coleman, "Brian had struck up a particularly warm rapport in London with Bernice Kinn, wife of the owner of the New Musical Express. An ebullient, intuitive Jew, she and her husband Maurice formed part of the core of London's 1960s show business hosts and party goers." [COLEMAN, p. 245-246] Another of Epstein's "close friends" was Lionel Bart (Beglieter), the Jewish song writer for many of pop star Cliff Richard's songs, and originator of the musical score for the musical play, Oliver! [PRESS ASSOCIATION NEWSFILE, 4-3-99]

      The Beatles' "official photographer" during their peak years (1962-67) was Jewish -- Dezo Hoffman. Paul McCartney's wife Linda (Eastman -- originally Epstein) was also Jewish. [GILBERT, G., 1996, p. 77, 172] Eastman's father also became active in legal squabbles between the Beatles, especially between McCartney and Lennon. McCartney's lawyer in this contentious era, Charles Corman, was an Orthodox Jew. [BROWN/GAINES, 1983, p. 333] The producers of the Beatles first movie, A Hard Day's Night, were Walter Shenson and Bud Orenstein. Richard Lester directed the movie, and is also Jewish. [JEWHOO; online] Famous Jewish singer Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) introduced the Beatles to marijuana the first time he met them, a gathering arranged by music writer Al Aronowitz. [BROWN/GAINES, 1983, p. 150]

After John Lennon's death, another Jewish agent, Elliot Mintz, has been for years Yoko Ono's publicist (he has also worked as a public relations man for Bob Dylan, and other capacities with pop singers throughout the years). Immediately after Lennon's assassination, an employee, Fred Seaman, and his "old college roommate," "psychiatrist and New York diamond dealer" Bob Rosen, set up a network (termed "Project Walrus") to market Lennon's stolen journals and other memorabilia [MINTZ, 1991]

Citations for the above, here.

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Dylan, the Beatles and a ‘blacklisted journalist’,
by curt schleier, Jewish News Weekly, September 10, 2004
"The son of a kosher butcher from New Jersey, Al Aronowitz, 76, is the last of the angry formerly young men. He covered the pop culture beat for the New York Post and Saturday Evening Post in the late 1950s and ’60s. He was one of the first people to take contemporary music seriously, and in the process became friends with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He introduced Ginsberg to Bob Dylan and Dylan to the Beatles and the Beatles to marijuana. The details are all in his self-published book, “Bob Dylan and the Beatles.” Kerouac, he said, became a “drunk and anti-Semitic.” Ginsberg made a pass at Dylan when they first met. “Allen had a certain great charm. Even when he came on sexually, he made it funny. And Dylan just laughed.” It was a pivotal time in cultural history, and not only was Aronowitz there, he knew all the players. “I considered Ginsberg and Kerouac to be immortals. When I say immortal, I mean their work will live forever, like Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart. When I met Dylan I considered him to be an immortal, too' ... Aug. 28, 1964, was the fateful day when, as he writes in his book, he became “a proud and happy shadchen, a Jewish matchmaker, dancing at the princely wedding.” He brought a reluctant Dylan — he thought the Beatles played bubble-gum music — to the Beatles’ suite at the Hotel Delmonico, a move that Aronowitz believes changed music history."

Wouldn't let him be,
By JOHN MARZULLI, New York Daily News, January 7, 2004
"The wife and son (below) of Beatle George Harrison (above), who died in 2001, have filed a $10 million lawsuit against Dr. Gilbert Lederman, his children and Staten Island University Hospital. George Harrison was forced to autograph a guitar on his deathbed for his Staten Island cancer doctor - and even had to endure an impromptu concert by the physician's 12-year-old son, a new bombshell lawsuit charges. When the ailing Beatle told Dr. Gilbert Lederman he didn't believe he could even remember how to spell his world-famous name, the doctor allegedly grabbed his hand and guided the musician, letter by letter, through the signature. "Dr. Lederman preyed upon Mr. Harrison while he was in a greatly deteriorated mental and physical condition" just two weeks before his death, charges a $10 million lawsuit filed yesterday in Brooklyn Federal Court by the legendary performer's estate. Harrison's widow, Olivia, and their son, Dhani, also are seeking the autographed electric guitar signed shortly before the death of the intensely private Beatle in November 2001 at age 58. The suit contends Lederman, who treated Harrison at Staten Island University Hospital, created a "circus atmosphere" by giving numerous press interviews and disclosing confidential information about the guitarist's treatment. But Lederman's "most offensive, insensitive, bizarre and inappropriate" act, according to the suit, was bringing his son and two daughters to a Staten Island home where Harrison was staying while undergoing stereotactic radiosurgery treatment. "Dr. Lederman took the children into the room where Mr. Harrison was bedridden and in great discomfort," the suit states. "Dr. Lederman had Mr. Harrison listen to his son play the guitar. Afterwards he took the guitar ... and put it in Mr. Harrison's lap" and asked him to sign it. Harrison resisted, telling Lederman, "I do not even know if I know how to spell my name anymore," the suit says. At that point, the suit alleges, Lederman said, "Come on, you can do this." He then held the right hand that had picked so many classic solos and guided Harrison through the autograph. A photograph of the doctor's son Ariel holding the guitar appeared in the National Enquirer two weeks after Harrison's death. Ariel, now 14, and Lederman's daughters Eve, 10, and Sarah, 18, who allegedly received autographed cards from Harrison, also are named as defendants in the suit. Harrison estate lawyer Paul LiCalsi said yesterday the legal action could have been averted had Lederman simply returned the autographed items and pledged not to talk anymore about the Beatle's health care. He said Olivia Harrison has even offered to replace the guitar. "Objects associated with dead celebrities obviously have a market," LiCalsi said. "This kind of trafficking is ghoulish and reprehensible." Lederman's lawyer Wayne Roth said the doctor, whose voice is heard on radio commercials for the hospital, has no desire to sell the guitar - but noted it had been appraised by Sotheby's at between $5,000 and $6,000. "It's his son's guitar, and the Harrison family doesn't have any right to that guitar," Roth said. "I think patients sign things out of gratitude for their physicians all the time ... and when the truth comes out, you'll learn the extent of the relationship between Dr. Lederman and Harrison and the circumstances under which it was signed." A spokeswoman for the hospital, which isalso named in the suit, said in a statement, "We have not violated patient confidentiality." Lederman, the hospital's director of radiation oncology, was reprimanded last month by the state Health Department for gabbing about Harrison and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine."

Riding with the Beatles. Larry Kane details relationships with the Fab Four in book, 'Ticket to Ride',
by Eric Tucker, Daily Southtown (from the Associated Press), November 30, 2003 "Larry Kane met the Beatles before John met Yoko, before the acid trips and the breakup and the solo ventures, before the music turned psychedelic and the world learned of strawberry fields and a yellow submarine. Which is why even now, after an accomplished decades-long career in broadcast journalism, Kane still finds himself talking about his experiences with the Fab Four. And why not? He holds the distinction of being the only American journalist to travel with the Beatles on every stop of their North American tours of 1964 and 1965. Kane's new book, "Ticket to Ride," details his relationships with John, Paul, George and Ringo, who together formed one of the greatest rock bands in the world. "It's a strange feeling ... to see people adoring them and idolizing them and to know that I was there at the beginning, riding in those airplanes, getting beat up by mobs, watching them at their infancy," Kane said in an interview. He received the assignment as a news director for a Miami radio station. As the Beatles prepared to barnstorm the country, Kane wrote the band's manager, Brian Epstein, to secure an interview in Florida. A subsequent letter from Epstein invited Kane, then 21, to join the entire tour. Kane caught up with the Beatles in San Francisco and would soon form what he called an "unspoken bond" with the band ... Some incidents are recalled with less levity. Kane writes about hearing a racial slur for Jews from the rear of the plane where the Beatles and a traveling press secretary, Derek Taylor, were sitting. Kane, who is Jewish, angrily confronted the group. Taylor initially acknowledged making the remark, but Kane recognized that the voice was not his. To this day, he said he has never learned who used the slur."

From: The Beatles. Unauthorized. Good Times DVD [Section 12 in the DVD]. (Excecutive producers: Ken Cayre, Joe Cayre, Stan Cayre).

Reporter at Beatles press conference: "Gentlemen, the New York Times Magazine of Sunday July 3 (196-?) carried an article by Maureen Cleave [spelling?] in which she quoted the Beatles -- not by name -- as saying 'show business is an extension of the Jewish religion.' Would you mind amplifying that?

Off-camera Beatle (Paul McCartney?): Did she say that?

John Lennon: I said that to her as well. Uh ... No comment.

Off-camera Beatle (Paul McCartney?): Come on, John. Tell them what you meant.

John: You can read into it what you like. It's just a little old statement. It's not very serious, you know.