From the moment Beatlemania broke out, Lennon and McCartney's publishing company Northern Songs was a potential goldmine. It would eventually become the most valuable song publishing catalogue in the world.
The history of that catalogue – how Lennon and McCartney lost it, and the complex financial and legal wranglings that took it into other hands – is the epic music industry story of the 20th century.
The hi-jacking of The Beatles song catalogue is a staggering saga of incompetence, duplicity and music industry politics. 'Northern Songs' lays it all bare in a groundbreaking investigative book that is as compulsive as it is astounding.
