Diary Kept by Wife of Beatles Press Officer Derek Taylor Up for Auction

Via Metro UK:

...a diary kept by the wife of ‘Fifth Beatle’ Derek Taylor is up for auction, documenting 1969 and the demise of the Love Me Do hitmakers.

Taylor was the press officer and close friend of the four, working at Apple Corps as their head of publicity in 1964 then again between 1968 and 1970.

The diary, written by Joan Taylor, covers arguments which happened almost a year before the official end of the beloved band, widely credited to John Lennon’s exit.

‘George has walked out of The Beatles and won’t go back,’ wrote Taylor of George Harrison who was the second person to threaten to abandon the quartet.

...She also touched on the introduction of notorious recording boss Allen Klein who is said to have influenced The Beatles split.

‘Allen Klein going to handle business affairs for The Beatles, which has put the cat among the pigeons,’ the diary reads.

Taylor also revealed a rather scathing view of Sir Paul McCartney, who her husband didn’t appear to get along with, causing ‘sleepless nights’.

She detailed a ‘rotten day with Paul’ as well as recording ‘more trouble with Paul’ during that turbulent period, which ‘went on most of the day and night’.

‘Pattie bought Derek home after visiting George in hospital,’ Taylor wrote. ‘We are both pretty exhausted by it all. I think this is the beginning of the end for Derek at Apple.’