In a recorded interview from 1987, that has been recently released, Yoko Ono, the woman often blamed for breaking up the Beatles, said that she was not to blame for the breakup of the iconic British band. Ono was married to John Lennon until his death in 1980.
"The Beatles were getting very independent," The Huffington Post reported that she said, "Each one of them [was] getting independent. John, in fact, was not the first who wanted to leave the Beatles. [We saw] Ringo [Starr] one night with Maureen [Starkey Tigrett], and he came to John and me and said he wanted to leave. George [Harrison] was next, and then John. Paul [McCartney] was the only one trying to hold the Beatles together. But the other three thought Paul would hold the Beatles together as his band. They were getting to be like Paul's band, which they didn't like."
Paul McCartney has also affirmed that Yoko was not at fault for splitting up The Beatles.
"She certainly didn't break the group up," McCartney said in a broad casted TV interview with Al Jazeera according to the BBC. "I don't think you can blame her for anything."
He also added that John Lennon was planning on leaving the group already.
McCartney credits Ono's presence in Lennon's life as a help in the concept of the song Imagine.
"When Yoko came along, part of her attraction was her avant garde side, her view of things," McCartney said to Al Jazeera. "She showed him another way to be, which was very attractive to him. So it was time for John to leave."
The Beatles split in 1970. Lennon was shot and killed outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980, shocking the nation.
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