“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
Not to be outdone by Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook” speech at The Contemporary Resort, The Polynesian Resort has its own piece of American history.
In May Pang’s book, “Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon,” she writes, “At the end of 1974, after three years of court battles and acrimony, the final dissolution of The Beatles was about to happen. The meeting was scheduled for December 19 at New York’s Plaza Hotel – ironically, this was the first place the group stayed in America in 1964. George Harrison was in New York on his Dark Horse tour. Paul and Linda McCartney came in, and of course, John and I were already in the city. Only Ringo was missing, but he had signed the documents in England.”
“George, Paul, assorted lawyers and family members were at The Plaza and waiting on John to arrive,” she continues. “George said out loud what everyone was thinking: ‘Where’s John?’… I was with John and it was up to me to tell Harold he decided not to attend the meeting. Although John was concerned with shouldering a major tax burden because he lived in the United States… His official reason for not showing was ‘the stars aren’t right.’”
“John, Julien, and I left New York the following day to spend Christmas in Florida. On December 29, 1974, the voluminous documents were brought down to John in Florida by one of Apple’s lawyers. Take out your camera, he joked to me… He finally picked up his pen and, in the unlikely backdrop of the Polynesian Village Hotel at Disney World, ended the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in history by simply scrawling John Lennon at the bottom of the page.”
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