Where's the Money?

Ron Decline (John Belushi)

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Comedy

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• Rutles

[SEANFIR]

This is his parody of real life ASSHOLE Allen Klein... the biggest scammer the music business ever knew... the person who broke up the beatles and NEARLY broke up the rolling stones. The person who got all of Sam Cookes' back-royalties and POCKETED them ALL! May his carbonized bones rot in hell!

[Jonnybass7]

@SEANFIR "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- Hunter S Thompson

[MissPoitier]

@SEANFIR In Cooke's case the motive could be money as well. I read he planned paddling his own canoe and maybe going to law because of dues of music. After his demise everything went respectively stayed to/in Klein's estate... But I am really not sure. Maybe it was pure misfortune in his case actually...

[MissPoitier]

@SEANFIR I think the death of Frank, the builder, was a good opportunity to blame it on someone else who isn't around any more to defend himself or even go to jail... So, they thought, they could sort out every suspicion... Just my two cents...

The money, the band's name, the people being threatened, the testimony of Anna and other people... It all adds up in my opinion...

[MissPoitier]

@SEANFIR The story about the deathbed confession came from Keylock who later denied it.

If the builder really killed Jones because of conflicts between them.. I don't think he had had the power/money to threat people or getting support by Keylock or even Klein. I also read the builders stealed things from Jones and Keylock burned stuff like clothes, tapes etc. (maybe evidence?) after his death.

I think it was murder by hire... and Keylock, the builder or maybe sb. else did the 'dirty work'.

[SEANFIR]

@MissPoitier I also heard that the guy that allegedly did it made a death bed confession recently. Not sure of the veracity of this... I didn't hear anything about Klein though... just that he did it because Jones was such a jerk to him for most of their lives... how he was a hanger-on and Jones was very abusive to him.

[MissPoitier]

@SEANFIR And lately I don't want to forget Anna, Jones's last girlfriend, who was there the night he died as well. She was taken to her home country as soon as possible after it happened and claimed Klein himself advised her to "keep her mouth shut". If it was just an accident or manslaughter or, whatever, murder by Keylock or the builder because of private conflicts... I cannot believe Klein would protect these guys, spend energy and money for it or even take the rap for them. How come?

[MissPoitier]

@SEANFIR Additional Tom Keylock, who later admitted he was at Jones's house that night, contradicted himself many times when it came to Jones's death. Keylock was just a 'little' road manager and stood under Klein. Many people around Jones and the Stones claimed they had been threatened by 'henchmen'. 1. Why should a 'little' roadie kill 'his' artist? 2. If so, does he really have the authority and the money to threat and (maybe pay) people to shut their mouths? I don't believe it.

[MissPoitier]

@SEANFIR I am not sure what happened to Cooke. Maybe this, maybe that...

But in Jones's case.. I am nearly sure. He was fired by the group or left it. And he owned its name. Additional they promised him a huge pay-off and something like a payment of salary as long as the band exists. I read Klein was very upset about 'having to pay this little shit'. They knew he was getting himself together after their split, and they knew he was a very smart guy and they also knew he owned the name...

[SEANFIR]

@MissPoitier I've looked in depth at the life and death of Cooke and his seems like pure misfortune... Brian Jones seems like it was a muder... There were too many variables in the Cooke case... not much motive either... it still seems unlikely that Klein had anything to do with either though...

[MissPoitier]

@SEANFIR I don't know it for sure... but if you look deeper into the fatalities of Sam Cooke and Brian Jones of the Stones... it seems very suspicious.