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David’s conversations with John Lennon at Electric
Lady confirmed his decision. John had just divested
himself of Beatles manager Allen Klein,
commemorated by one of his last great songs,
‘Steel and Glass’, which mocked Klein’s LA tan and
his infamous BO (‘you leave your smell like an alley
cat’). Defries frequently claimed to have learned his
trade from Klein; if John had had enough of Klein,
David had had enough of Defries.
Over Christmas, David attempted to contact
Defries, who was away on his favourite island
hideaway of Mustique, without success. The two
finally met up in January. The encounter was
strangely dysfunctional, as far as those close to them
can tell, with neither man coming to the point. David
told friends Defries had accepted his decision to
leave MainMan; Defries believed he’d smoothed
over David’s concerns and persuaded him to stay. In
later months, when their split became increasingly illtempered,
Defries would tell his friends how
‘disappointed’ he was in David. He was let down by
his ingratitude, his lack of understanding of
commercial realities, his addiction to drugs (for
added drama he speculated David was on heroin,
too).
Later, when friends asked Defries, the supreme
negotiator, why he had failed to negotiate a
settlement at his meeting with David, he would coldly
ask, ‘David had been working for me. Why would I
want to work for him?’
Defries also seemed to astutely judge Michael
Lippman, the lawyer David had found to represent