![]() ![]() Paul McCartney on Life, Art and Business After the Beatlesīy 1979, after several more acquisitions, Lee Eastman told The Washington Post that MPL was “an empire,” as well as the largest independent publisher in the United Kingdom. (That revenue comprises McCartney’s touring revenue, as well as his royalties from recorded music, including that of The Beatles the band got a 50% royalty from EMI for streams and digital sales, according to label sources, although that could have changed once Universal bought EMI.) financial filings, with a peak turnover of 32.86 million pounds ($52.25 million) in 2014. pull in over 350 million pounds in the last 25 years, according to U.K. The publishing company, MPL Communications Inc., has helped MPL Communications Ltd. MPL now controls over 25,000 songs - from McCartney’s post- Beatles work to songs by Buddy Holly, Fats Waller, Bert Berns and Bessie Smith. Morris catalog for “a reported $15 million,” according to The Washington Post. The company made its first major acquisition four-and-a-half decades ago when Lee Eastman - Linda’s father and a powerful entertainment lawyer who also represented the abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning - convinced him to purchase the Edwin H. During the past 50 years, Paul McCartney and his lawyers have built MPL from a small company that once occupied half of a small office in Soho Square to a formidable publishing force that now owns and occupies the entire building. ![]()
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