while that window of opportunity was open, i -- it was a great thing for myself, mary hopkins, jackie lomaxof other lucky acts who were, you know, but it was only a year or so that the label still had other non-beatle performers on it but, anyway, we were -- we were - [ light laughter ] >> seth: i imagine that was a weird meeting day where they said, "you know what, i think we're just going to be the beatles. [ laughter ] "we think our record label should just be the beatles for here on out. [ laughter ] >> well, a guy named allen klein, who was actually i think a new yorker convinced, i think john and yoko that he'd be a good manager for the beatles this is after brian epstein died and allen klein basically threw everybody off the record label is what happened >> seth: but you worked on this song with the -- it wasn't just the label. you went and brought it to the beatles and worked on it with some of the beatles. >> with that particular song, well, it was -- i wrote it while we were recording. we took a break. well, that is to say, the beatles took a break, so the studio that they were us