In 1985, Jackson acquired the ATV Music Publishing catalog (which held the rights to nearly every Beatles song) uncontested by McCartney, and the two "drifted apart" after Jackson didn't give McCartney the "raise" he asked him for.
Jackson acquired the ATV Music Publishing catalog (which held the rights to nearly every Beatles song) uncontested by McCartney. This was in 1985. In 1985, the two "drifted apart" after Jackson didn't give McCartney the "raise". This was what he asked him for.