Editing Neil Aspinall (section)

===Manager===
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Following the death of Epstein in August 1967, there was a vacuum in the management of the Beatles' affairs. The Beatles asked Aspinall to take over the management of Apple Corps in 1968, which had been founded in April of the same year.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=440}} Aspinall later said that he only accepted the position after being asked, but did not want to do it full-time, and would only do it "until they found somebody else."{{sfn|Granados|2004|p=12}} [[George Martin]] (The Beatles' [[record producer]]) was against the idea, as he thought that Aspinall did not have the necessary social qualifications to be able to speak to the [[upper class]] executives at EMI.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=735}} Aspinall accompanied McCartney and Lennon to New York on 11 May 1968, to announce the formation of Apple to the American Media.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=716}} Apple Corps had five divisions: electronics, film, publishing, records and retailing. Aspinall later spoke of the Beatles' business arrangements:
{{blockquote|We did not have one single piece of paper. No contracts. The lawyer, the accountants and Brian, whoever, had that. The Beatles had been given copies of various contracts, maybe, I don't know. I didn't know what the [recording] contract was with EMI, or with the film people or the [[Music publisher (popular music)|publishers]] or anything at all. So it was a case of building up a filing system, find out what was going on while we were trying to continue doing something.{{sfn|Granados|2004|p=19}}|author=|title=|source=}}

[[Derek Taylor]] (Apple's [[Public relations|press officer]]) said that Aspinall hated being stuck in the Apple office (at 3 [[Savile Row]]) all through the recording of [[The Beatles (album)|''The White Album'']] and ''[[Let It Be (album)|Let It Be]]'' album. Life in the Apple office, however, was improved by having a [[chef]] and assistants at hand: "The liquor bill was £600 per month and the food bill was close to that." This was mostly due to Aspinall's and [[Peter Brown (music industry)|Peter Brown's]] four-course lunches with expensive wines in the dining room at Apple.{{sfn|DiLello|2005|p=54}} After [[Allen Klein]] was brought in to be the Beatles' manager Aspinall was dismissed, but reinstated after complaints from the group, and because Klein realised that Aspinall was no threat to his control of the company.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=546}} Klein lost a [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] action in 1971 (started by McCartney) but [[lawsuit]]s between Klein and Apple kept Aspinall busy until 1977.<ref>The Sunday Times: The Culture: Section 10: 12 November 1995, pages 4–5</ref>