Well....he may have been portrayed as the villian because he simply wouldn't allow the group to play on the music, just sing...someone somewhere had told them that they could (told Mike and Peter anyway), and so then he comes in and says no way, you see. It is true that their record sales went down after he was gone, but it was still in the millions for a couple more albums yet, i.e. Headquarters and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones Ltd....