Peter Brown worked as a personal assistant to Beatles manager Brian Epstein and, after Epstein’s death, took on many of his former responsibilities.
This was a major position, but Brown claimed he wasn’t entirely satisfied with his salary during his Beatles years.
“No, I wasn’t [well-off financially when the band broke up],” he told Rolling Stone. “I was on a very good salary and had a lot of perks, but I didn’t make a fortune. They thought in an old-fashioned, Liverpool way, like, ‘Let’s be sensible, no sense getting carried away’ [laughs].”
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| Peter Brown, 1968 |
Brown said there were many benefits to working for the band, even after he left their employ.
“I really rather enjoyed it. It’s funny, because only since I’ve been in the U.S. has it been suggested that this or that happened because I was manager of the Beatles’ company,” he said. “And always my reaction is, ‘Well, how dare you think that!’ I suppose I certainly was lucky, but I just never thought of it that way. My ego has always been sufficient enough to think that I did it. I don’t have any affiliation with anyone now, but I still manage to get a decent seat in a good restaurant.”
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| Peter Brown, 2024 |
The Beatles claimed to not have as much money as people thought. This became especially clear to them after founding Apple Records.
“I think [Apple is] a bit messy and it wants tightening up. We haven’t got half the money people think we have,” John Lennon said in the book Lennon: The Definitive Biography by Ray Coleman, adding, “We have enough to live on but we can’t let Apple go on like it is. We started off with loads of ideas of what we wanted to do — an umbrella for different activities. But like one or two Beatle things, it didn’t work because we aren’t practical and we weren’t quick enough to realize that we need a businessman’s brain to run the whole thing.”
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