BEATLES BREAK-UP ATTORNEY, AON CHIEF COUNSEL

Raymond Skilling

John Lennon was one of the most famous men across the universe when attorney Raymond I. Skilling met the Beatles and asked the lads to introduce themselves to him — and explain which instrument each of them played.

The question annoyed Lennon, who almost walked out of the meeting with Mr. Skilling, one of many attorneys involved with the Beatles during the era of their break-up.

“John Lennon got really upset with the question and wanted to leave, but someone talked him into staying,” said Mr. Skilling’s son, Keith.

When Paul McCartney squared off against the other three Beatles, Mr. Skilling was called to attend a late-night meeting with Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison; the raptor-like music manager Allen Klein, and Beatle consorts Yoko Ono and Maureen Starkey, according to the Peter Doggett book, “You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup.”

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