Shiloh Resident vs The Beatles

This is a David vs Goliath that you never would have guessed!

Beatles writer to get his songs back
07/03/2008
By Rachel Fletcher
An Israel-based musician who worked with the Beatles is fighting to reclaim songs he wrote 40 years ago for the group’s multimedia corporation, Apple.

David Bannister’s song Lovers From the Sky was published by Apple Corps Ltd’s subsidiary Python Music in the late 1960s, after he met John Lennon through a mutual contact.

He also recorded another song, Round and Round. Neither was ever released.

Mr Bannister, who was born in Britain, is now attempting to reclaim his songs and the master recordings.

But he alleges he has been told that he cannot mention their connection to Apple or the Beatles, or take further action to claim any other recording.

He also said he had not been paid for the recordings.

Mr Bannister, who now lives in Shiloh, in the West Bank, was 20 when he recorded the songs at Trident Studios in London. He played on the track Don’t Pass Me By on the Beatles’ White Album.

Mr Bannister told the JC: “They denied me the opportunity to do my music 40 years ago and now, 40 years later, when the songs are brought to their attention, they are doing it again. I wish I knew why.

“They are saying they don’t want me to have an association with them, but they have an association with me.”

Apple Corps Ltd refused to comment.

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