Michael Jackson's Story Masters The Majority Of The Beatles

Portrait of the closeness between Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney in the 1980s. (Michaeljackson.com)

JAKARTA - Michael Jackson is a world famous legendary singer. He is not only good at entertaining the audience. However, he mastered many things related to the intricacies of the music world, from as a performer to being a businessman.

He was able to take advantage of his fame and wealth to acquire many music catalogs from world musicians. Michael's purchases were not kidding. He even bought most of the catalog of songs from The Beatles. As a result, the catalog of Liverpool's band songs became a source of Michael the King Pop's wealth.

The Beatles weren't in the band yesterday afternoon in the British music industry. The charm of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr is second to none. Their music was able to conquer Europe in the 1960s.

The world began to recognize the existence of The Beatles when they began to invade the United States (US) music scene in 1964. Their charm eventually spread everywhere. The Beatles songs began to play in various parts of the world.

Radio to television are competing to play their songs. Mainstay songs such as I Want Hold Your Hand, Let It Be, Yesterday, Michelle, to Helpmenan are captured in the mind of their fans. Even though The Beatles decided to disband in 1970.

The decision to disband is unfortunate for his fans. However, that does not mean the work and charisma of The Beatles in the music scene is missing. The Beatles remain an inspiration for many world famous singers and musicians. Michael Jackson, especially.

Michael, who initially joined the family music group, Jackson 5, likes to listen to songs from The Beatles. Some of the songs from The Beatles are like Eleanor Rigby to Yesterday being his favorite.

Dewi Fortuna fell into Michael's life. She was finally able to collaborate with one of the living legends of The Beatles: Paul McCartney. The cooperation between the two comes as Michael and his flagship producer, Total Jones worked on Michael's solo album,Off the Wall which was released in 1979.

Both produced the songGirlfriend. The collaboration between the two continued to produce other popular songs. There is the song Say Say SaydanGirl is Mine. Collaboration also resulted in closeness.

Michael is very happy to be working with Paul. Vice versa. Michael absorbs a lot of knowledge from Paul's experience in the music world. Michael was invited to Paul's house to meet and tell stories at the same time.

Michael usually has dinner at Paul's house, a Tudor-style house located on an area of nearly 1,000 hectares that can be taken within an hour of a trip from downtown London. Sometimes they will spend time in the kitchen with Paul's wife, Linda, and all of their children help cook," said Robert Hilburn in his article in the Los Angeles Times newspaper entitled The Long and Winding Road (1985).

Michael and Paul's closeness bore fruit. Paul has many stories related to his hobby of buying music catalog rights from world famous musicians as a profitable investment. Paul has been collecting catalogs of famous musicians for a long time. He even showed off his list to Michael to be amazed.

Michael was attracted and followed Paul's steps. He became fond of buying many catalogs from world singers and musicians. Michael's collection is piled up. He has a variety of collection music catalogs from singer Sly Stone to Len Barry. Enjoying choosing a song license began to be felt by King Pop.

At its peak, Paul opened Michael's room to acquire Beatles songs that have been taken over by British music publishing company ATV Music Publishing. Michael through his lawyer, John Branca, takes ATV Music as well as a catalog of songs in The Beatles seriously.

Michael is clearly attracted by 251 Beatles songs in the catalog of songs belonging to ATV Music. Purchase discussions took place from 1984 to 1985. At its peak, Michael managed to get a catalog of the Beatles' songs for 47.5 million US dollars, the majority written by John Lennon and Paul in 1985.

The Pop king was happy not to play. He managed to buy ATV Music Publishing as well as the Beatles catalog. The company then takes care of commercial matters such as the right to publish music and song lyrics used in radio, television, and film.

The purchase of the catalog came from Michael's personal money. It is said that the money from his music album, Trillier (1982) that exploded in the world music market. The success of purchasing the Beatles catalog made Michael even richer.

The Beatles' music catalog just changed hands when Michael Jackson had passed away for a long time. The catalog can only be fully controlled by Sony Music from the Jackson family in 2016.

Jackson's acquisition of ATV Music, a unit of British entertainment conglomerates, is described by industry experts as one of the biggest musical acquisitions an individual has ever made. This acquisition involves 40,000 song copyrights, including compositions by Little Richard, Pointer Sisters, Pat Benatar, and Pretenders.

"However, the core of the deal is the catalog of 251 songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles between 1964 and 1970. The songs include classic songs that are often recorded such as Yesterday, Michelle, Help, The Long and Winding Road, and Let It Be," said WM KNOEDELSEDER Jr. in his article in the Los Angeles Times entitled Michael Jackson Pays $40 Million for ATV Music : Beatles Song Catalogue Acquired(1985).