🍷national portrait gallery
🍷eyes of stormは10月5日まで！
🍷john eastman・ NYtimes昨年の記事 83歳で死去
💮national portrait galleryでは躍動する想像力豊かな現代女性達の
💮national portrait gallery 繋がりで。御大が投稿 暫く lyricsの簡易版発売やツアー発表絡みで写真展の宣伝が疎かになってたから 若干唐突感があるようなのでないような（笑
💮早いなぁ、御大の義理の兄 john eastman・ NYtimes 83歳で死去 の記事を読んだのはもう1年前か。
Updated Aug. 16, 2022
早いものでリンダのお兄さんが亡くなってからもう1年。
御大とはビジネス上も顧問弁護士としてlee eastmanと共にsupportして貰いながら リンダのお兄さんとして家族だったのよね。
Their connection was both professional and personal. Mr. Eastman was the brother of Linda McCartney, Mr. McCartney’s first wife, and Lee was her father.
The Eastmans became involved in the fight over the Beatles’ business empire in early 1969. Mr. McCartney had hired the Eastmans, father and son, to be his representatives and tried to persuade his three bandmates to put them in charge of the group’s affairs. Despite their enormous success, the Beatles were then on the brink of insolvency.
But John Lennon and the other Beatles had selected another New Yorker to manage the group: Allen Klein, who had worked with Sam Cooke and the Rolling Stones. Mr. Klein had a reputation as a ferocious negotiator and, as Mick Jagger once described him, a “gangster figure” — the opposite of the refined Eastmans, whose townhouse office in Manhattan was lined with museum-quality paintings by de Kooning and others.
The conflict between Mr. Klein and the Eastmans, and the disagreement within the group over those men, would consume the Beatles for years to come, even after their official breakup in 1970.
To break Mr. Klein’s grip over the band, and to secure Mr. McCartney’s independence, Mr. Eastman masterminded a lawsuit, filed in London on Dec. 31, 1970, to dissolve the Beatles’ partnership agreement. As part of their preparations for the case, Mr. Eastman suggested that his brother-in-law wear a suit and tie to court. Mr. McCartney half-complied: He appeared in a suit, but no tie.
The other Beatles responded to the lawsuit in frustration. “I still cannot understand why Paul acted as he did,” George Harrison said in an affidavit. In March 1971, the judge ruled in Mr. McCartney’s favor, appointing a receiver for the Beatles’ business interests until the dissolution of their partnership could be negotiated, which came several years later.
leeさんはMPLの立ち上げにも尽力 彼のアドバイスのお陰でMPLが成功したと言っていい。
leeさんは1991年にお亡くなりになってるのね。その7年後の1998年に娘のリンダが亡くなった。
ソニーを訴えたのは2017年か 存外遅い。この前MPLのサイト見たらほぼ全曲MPLのたカタログに入ってた。何年か前に見た時はlove me doとか一部の曲しかカタログには含まれてなかったのに。
Early in their work with Mr. McCartney, the Eastmans helped him set up what would become MPL Communications, his entertainment company. It owns many valuable copyrights, including the music publishing rights to songs by Buddy Holly, Fats Waller and Carl Perkins and from hit Broadway shows like “Annie” and “Grease.”
With the Eastmans’ guidance, Mr. McCartney also acquired ownership of all of his recordings and songwriting rights since the breakup of the Beatles. Lee Eastman died in 1991, and Linda McCartney died in 1998.
In 2017, Mr. Eastman steered a lawsuit by Mr. McCartney against Sony/ATV, the music publisher (now known as Sony Music Publishing), to regain his share of the United States copyrights in Beatles songs that he wrote with Mr. Lennon, citing an amendment to federal law that allows creators to recapture those rights after set periods. The case was settled; the terms were not disclosed, but Mr. McCartney has been registering the American ownership of those rights under MPL.
leeの息子 リンダの兄 john eastmanのお母さんはclevelandでデパートをやってた祖母の遺産を継いだとか、その子供だからぼんぼんね。
John Lindner Eastman was born on July 10, 1939, in Manhattan, and grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y., the eldest of four children of Lee and Louise Lindner Eastman. His mother had inherited a fortune from the Lindner department store in Cleveland.
His father, who had changed his name from Leopold Epstein, set up a successful legal practice representing high-profile musicians, artists and writers, among them the bandleader Tommy Dorsey and the songwriters Harold Arlen and Hal David.
John Eastman graduated from Stanford University in 1961 and from the New York University School of Law in 1964. The next year, after briefly working in the office of the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, he and his father set up Eastman & Eastman.
They developed a specialty in working with pop musicians whose business had suffered under previous representatives. Aside from Mr. McCartney, they were best known for working with Mr. Joel in the late 1980s and early ’90s, when he sued his former manager and lawyer. The case was settled, and the Eastmans helped Mr. Joel rebuild his business.
NYtimes誌のにMr.joelはjohnが請け負った芸術家を守る為にいかに強硬になるか語っている。
johnさんはアメリカ自然史博物館や米国の音楽出版団体 米国作曲家作詞家出版社協会 通称ASCAPとして周知されてる団体や他にも著名な組織の取締委員にも名を連ねてたみたい。
息子にleeと名付けたか^^;もう一人はjay、息子２人と娘２人、孫11人！
大家族じゃん！御大はきっとこの人たちとも親しく親戚付き合いしてるんだろうな。しかし御大一族の命名法もリンダの実家の命名も 親や親族の名前を受け継ぐという存命してたらややこしい手法をとってるのね。
“He was fierce when it came to protecting artists’ rights,” Mr. Joel said in a statement to The New York Times, “and I credit him with whatever longevity I have achieved in my career.”
Mr. Eastman served on the boards of a number of prominent organizations, including the american museum of natural history, and two music groups, the National Music Publishers’ Association and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, known as ASCAP.
In addition to his son Lee, he is survived by his wife, Josephine; another son, Jay; a daughter, Louise; two sisters, Louise Weed and Laura Malcolm; and 11 grandchildren.