Adagrose Ltd becomes McCartney Productions Ltd

In February 1969, Paul McCartney acquired Adagrose Limited, a company originally incorporated on December 30, 1968.

On this day, the company was renamed McCartney Productions Limited. It would later evolve into MPL Communications, which became one of the world’s largest privately-owned music publishing companies.

The first project undertaken by McCartney Productions Ltd — the acquisition of the film rights to “Rupert the Bear” — would be announced in April 1970.

Up until [1973], my relationship with music publishers had been somewhat troubled thanks to things like losing control of Northern Songs, our publishing company for The Beatles, at the end of the 1960s through to the court case still happening when this song was written, where I’d had to sue my best friends from childhood to ensure we would keep control of our songs, rather than ‘other parties’ controlling them. All of that played a big part in setting up MPL, my own publishing company.

Paul McCartney – From “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present“, 2021

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