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Parlophone

<p class="MsoNormal">It was <b>Lockwood</b> who appointed <b>George Martin</b> to take charge of the <b>Parlophone</b> label (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lockwood" target="_blank">wiki</a></i>) and is know to have socialised with the <b>BEATLES:</b></p>

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<b>L.G. Wood</b>, a former Managing Director of <b>EMI Records</b>, laughed as he recalled how <b>John (Lennon)</b> invariably showed little respect for authority, adopting a familiar attitude with people no matter how high-ranking their position.</p>

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"<b>EMI</b>'s Chairman, Sir <b>Joseph Lockwood</b>, was a first class man at handling artists, and every now and then he would throw a dinner at the Connaught ," Wood remembered, "inviting the <b>Beatles</b> and their wives or girlfriends, <b>George and Judy Martin</b>, and me and my wife. Now I, along with everyone else, would always address him as 'Sir Joseph,' but the <b>Beatles</b>, of course, would just call him 'Joe,' and I remember one occasion when we were all leaving the Connaught, and John came rushing back in and shouted right across the restaurant, 'Joe, get your bloody Rolls-Royce out of the way!' He had absolutely no concern for the fact that he was talking to the Chairman of a massive great company like<b> EMI</b>! He really was a very natural fellow." <a href="http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/john-lennon21.htm" target="_blank">source</a>&nbsp;(my emphasis)

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