The case was sparked after Levy claimed that the Lennon and McCartney song Come Together infringed the copyright on Chuck Berry’s You Can’t Catch Me, owned by Levy’s publishing company, Big Seven Music. John Lennon, second from left, with lawyer Jay Bergen, right, at a lunch during the trial. He wants to cheat me like he’s cheated other singers and songwriters.” I want to put a stop to them… I don’t want to do any deals with Morris. They were stored in his garage and, returning to them recently, he realised that Beatles “fans would love reading the testimony” because it is a largely “untold story”: “I have all of the transcripts, and I spent hours and hours with John.”īergen’s copious notes record Lennon telling him: “I want to be rid of him. In May, Bergen is publishing Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer: The Untold Story, which draws on thousands of pages of trial testimony and notes. He was a “business” associate of Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, the reputed head of the Genovese crime family, and inspired the character of ruthless record label boss Hesh Rabkin in The Sopranos. Levy was notorious within the music industry and beyond: he beat up a policeman, causing him to lose an eye, but the criminal case disappeared mysteriously from court records before being brought to trial. The character is said to be based on the music mogul Morris Levy. Jerry Adler, second from right, as Hesh Rabkin, a record producer, in The Sopranos.
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