John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono blamed Sir Paul McCartney for splitting up the Beatles in a newly-discovered interview with music executive Joe Smith from the 1980's. The interview suggests that Lennon shared the same opinion as his wife, despite rumors claiming Ono was the reason.
Click here to listen to the newly discovered interview.
In the interview, it clear that Ono feels if it wasn't for McCartney the Beatles "divorce" as she put it would have never happened. The news of this newly discovered interview comes just weeks after McCartney conducted an interview with David Frost where he defended Ono once again.
"She [Ono] certainly didn't break the group up, the group was breaking up," said McCartney in the interview.
McCartney also credited Ono for influencing Lennon to new things such as culture and art. He also felt at the time Lennon was going to leave the group one way or another and that Ono shouldn't be the one to take the blame for it according to the interview with Frost.
Ono feels the same, only doesn't think that her husband is to blame. In the recently discovered interview that each of the Beatles were becoming "very independent" and all of them were looking for an out.
While she did manage to credit McCartney for being the only one who tried to hold the band together, she said his efforts only drove them further apart. Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison eventually started to feel like it was becoming more McCartney and the Beatles and they didn't appreciate how McCartney was treating them.
"The other three thought Paul would hold the Beatles together as his band," said Ono during the 1987 interview. "They were getting to be like Paul's band, which they didn't like."
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