Remembering Apple Records

On the heels of remastered reissues of most of the Apple music catalog, The Independent recounts the story the Beatle-spawned label and related businesses.

"We've got all the money we need," Paul McCartney, then a worldly wise 25-year-old, told me at the time. "I've got the house and the cars and all the things that money can buy. So instead of trying to amass money for the sake of it, we're setting up a business with a social and cultural environment where everyone gets a decent share of the profits. I suppose it'll be like a sort of Western communism."