Interview for MOJO

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John and I were taken for a ride. No doubt about it. We were in a little mews in Liverpool one morning and there was this lawyer, who we later found out was sort of ours. He didn’t look like ours and he certainly didn’t do a deal like he was ours.

We’d signed the whole thing away one morning before getting on a train and we didn’t understand what it was. Later, when we tried to readjust it, the publisher (Dick James) said ‘I can’t’. I know now through having a publishing company that you can, at any point. So in other words, yeah we were signed to a slave contract.

Paul McCartney – Interview with MOJO Magazine, September 2005