In 1968,
The Beatles hired Kass to run Apple Records for them. During his
tenure, many of Apple's various other divisions lost staggering sums of
money, but the record division under Kass (which not only had the
Beatles, but also Badfinger,
Mary Hopkin,
James Taylor, and others) was a
tremendous success, earning millions of pounds for the company and
offsetting all of the other loses. After Kass was fired by
Allen Klein, who
was brought in by
John Lennon to "save" Apple Corps in '69, the record
division quickly nosedived. Apple limped along mostly as a label for
the solo records from
The Beatles, until it ceased being anything much more
than an accounting house in 1975...at which time Kass was already
established and successful in motion pictures.