Does Michael Jackson control the Beatles music library?

Vinny Vincenzo · Post by **Vinny Vincenzo** » Jun 16th, '05, 06:04

This is an interesting piece on the Beatles collection, despite your opinion of MJ.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a951027.html

Post by **spanky** » Jun 16th, '05, 06:10

He had to put up half of his rights to the collection as leverage to some loans. The distressed debt was recently sold to a hedge fund.

Edit: More detail here: http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/13/news/ne ... _finances/

andyzee · Post by **andyzee** » Jun 16th, '05, 06:13

Heard and interview with Paul McCartney one day. He stated how he was talking to Michael Jackson about investments and gave him the idea of buying up song rights. Next thing he knows, MJ brought up the rights to the Beatles song library

XtremeJibber2001 · Post by **XtremeJibber2001** » Jun 16th, '05, 08:36

Word is...Jackson may be coming to Philly for Live 8....that'd put the icing on the cake for Street and the gang