"Ovingtan Square" in London's prestigious dessert plating Kensington is the perfect hideaway for the greatest band of all time. The luxury store Harrods is just a few blocks, but over the small square with high old trees in the middle lies the sleepy silence. Along the pedestrian path crosses a young mother with sunglasses Chanel, which pushes a stroller. Nothing happens otherwise. House number "27" only a small plaque in the eye of the camera painful shiny intercom dessert plating system issue which is located at this address: Apple, wrote to the only bell to a green apple.
The name is familiar to all, but the company, dessert plating which has its headquarters here, is generally unknown. This is not a branch of Apple Inc., Redmond from California, and the office of Apple Corps Ltd. - Management dessert plating company of the Beatles' music rights, which is among the most secretive dessert plating in the entertainment business and was founded in 1968 and eight years before the Beatles Fan of Steve Jobs to launch your garage adventure of the same name.
Quiet corner in Kensington millionaire keeps most precious treasures of the music industry. 50 years ago, on October 5, 1962, then still completely unknown Beatles released their first single. Today, "Love me do" dessert plating is rarely heard, but then is born "Fabulous Four."
For several months the four musicians are world stars and today the group remains a unique phenomenon in the music business. Over the past 50 years the Beatles have sold at least 250 million sound carriers and only Elvis can come close to this success.
Businesses with their music is financial perpetuum mobile - three years ago when their works were published dessert plating in the audio version poizlaskana Remaster, fans did not get a single new song. However, in the hit parade in the world broke new Biytalmaniya - in the top 10 of the American Billboard chart came five classic hits of the group. Only in the United States for five days were sold over 1 million copies of the album.
"Earn money and shut up" - this is the motto of Apple Corps., The most important control center in the global Beatles business. Do not answer questions, requests for interviews end in dead ends. Today the company belongs to the four members of the band, respectively, dessert plating of their successors. The four board of Apple is like Olympus in the mythology of pop music. It includes the widow of Lennon dessert plating - Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison, dessert plating widow of George Harrison. The other two members are nominated by Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The manager of the Apple, a former manager of Sony Music, has officially just "General".
Check in the commercial register where the company publishes its annual reports, is revealing. In the five years to 2011 the company mainly through dessert plating revenues from licenses for sound carriers, has achieved a net profit of about 90 million. McCartney and Lennon heiress - Ono can earn millions of rights compositions proceeds of which, however, are not included in the books of Apple. Lennon / McCartney as sakompozitori have signed nearly 200 songs, but only "Yesterday" cover versions have done thousands of other musicians.
Whether it comes to video games or downloads of albums from the Internet - nothing in the universe Beatles related trade does not happen against the wishes of Apple. Moreover rights in sound recordings are excluded as they are the property of musical concerts EMI. Still have the last word Beatles, which have got their lawyers. Unwritten law of this partnership is quite simple, says expert Beatles Brian Southall.
When 45 years ago the Beatles created Apple, they are not interested in legal niceties. The new entity must be a company as the world has not yet seen, and was originally just one. Utopian spon * Concerto in which John Lennon one morning loudly gathered Board to inform the amblyopic El ** ESD consciousness astonished his associates that he had received enlightenment: now knew he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
At the same time, Apple is working full-time astrologer, according to witnesses dessert plating in the press service curled vapor smoke cannabis freeloading flourished, dessert plating employee costs were astronomical. dessert plating A Christmas party where the group was invited and Hell's Angels ended with a brawl. When they were ready the first tablets with the logo "apple", The Beatles sent a courier service with a snow-white Mercedes to Buckingham dessert plating Palace to bring the Queen revolutionary product.
The intention was to create "a kind of Western communism", the Beatles announced in the spring of 1968. "We want to know whether we can create creative freedom in a body corporate if we can produce and sell things without asking for triple of what
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