Chords for Paul McCartney on Beatles catalog & Michael Jackson

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When we first came [Gbm] down from Liverpool [G] we didn't [Bb] think songs could be owned me and John we just thought they were in the sky
Just people just listen to them Yeah
well pretty soon you had to get to know they could be owned because someone else knew they weren't in the sky and
He owned them.
So that's what happened to us on the northern song sing which was me and John very early on we we got managed
_ Very well into a little situation.
So that meant that the lion's share of whatever songs we did were taken by someone else _ _
Actually one guy we never even met _ _ _ _
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[G] We've always been trying to sort of get control of them really so I suppose the thing about
The only difference is that now I suppose Michael knew I was trying to sort of get control of him and I kind of thought
He was joking.
I used to work with him and and he'd say I'm gonna get your records, you know
I'm gonna get no he's gonna get your songs.
I'm gonna buy your songs and I'd say
_ Love it.
You know, I thought it was a joke.
Anyway, he [C] ended up doing that.
So, I mean I can't blame him
You know, they're on the market _ _ _ _ _ _
They love you, [Em] too
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_ [C] _ [G] other thing too that [E] I don't think's too clever [C] is the commerciality of it because
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In something like Buddy Holly's [Am] case
[Dm] He did commercials [G] buddy and was well into all of that
And so if if any of his songs get used these days as commercials
_ It's with the knowledge that he would have liked it or that his family wanted that this is people wanted and they are very happy
To get the money off him.
So there's no objections anywhere _ in our case
The trouble is like the Nike thing that came up, but don't have you heard about that?
But the trouble is that we never did do commercials with the Beatles.
We had lots of big offers
From soft drinks companies, you know to do stuff obviously, but we always thought now it kind of spoils it
Just takes that little edge of it the people people who like real stuff kind of go _ nowhere man _ and
Revolution, they kind of feel something for it, you know, _ and that was what we tried to do
That's what we were all about was trying to resist all those commercial offers
Now if you know somebody else wanted to do it and _ fine, it's fine
But that's what's happening now is our songs are tending to get a little bit commercialized now
Which I don't I'm not too wild on because it kind of spoils him a little bit for me _ _ _
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Think the the common theme is the love of music love of the thrill of actually doing that thing
It's like if you like painting splodging paint on is a thrill for me splodging music on a
Piece of paper or onto a record.
It's a great thrill the basic
_ _ Other incentives have changed because it one of the big incentives used to be money.
We'll write a swimming pool now
We'll write a car
I'm John and I used to sit around and think that you know
It was big incentive man when you didn't have a swimming pool, you know
Now I must say I'm a father of four like, you know, I've had a lot of fame.
I've had a lot of money
So that's not the big
_ priority now it's trying to get some kind of message over but
Sort of discreetly so it doesn't look like I'm preaching
_ And [Am] as I say, but the