At 82, Paul McCartney FINALLY Reveals Who Really Broke Up The Beatles 

It was time. They had done and achieved it all. I'm just glad I was able to experience it. We'll never see anything like it again. 100 years from now, people will still be listening to the Beatles! What an amazing legacy.

I think there is not only one reasonn for the breakup. It's a sum of many reasons. They were very young at the beginning of their career and each one of them developed in a different direction. I am so thankful we got the Beatles. But I am also very thankful for their solo careers that brought us such great musical highlights as well ❤. So sad because of the death of John and George 😢 (and Linda 💔😢). The Beatles will always be my favourite band 🥰

I think they truly loved each other but John & Paul couldn't both be the boss. When John steered more towards Yoko's persuasion (she was a junkie), Paul dove into "something new". George just kept creating serious music & Ringo was ready for anything. They had to grow up & they grew apart. I lived thru this period & was intensively involved in their music, especially Abbey Road. I will never stop loving the artistry of The Beatles. Even at age 71, I look forward to more.

There will never be another like the Beatles ever again!

I do not think anyone was to blame, no matter what the surviving members say! The Bealtles reached the end of the road! They needed to go their own way. Sad for fans, but we all had the memories😊😊😊😊😊I loved being in that era, saw them live quite a few times! ❤❤❤I really miss those we have lost❤❤❤😢😢😢❤❤❤

I had all those 45’s. Wish I had them now.😮

You couldn't bottle up that much creativity and talent. It was inevitable for them to reach their highest potential.

If only they could have kept the Beatles together while exploring solo career's. Thats what they actually wanted but management and money got in the way. Its amazing Paul kept them going after Brians premature death in 1967. They put out a hell of alot of great material after '67

Paul made it possible sensing that john is no longer interested.

They all wanted out, except for maybe Ringo. They knew it was time.

Most people who have played for any length of time in a band know that relationships get strained to the limit. They were cooped up on the road and in the studio. If you add Beatlemania into that, they would have to burn out. Thank God they did so many great albums before then. I believe it is that simple.

Well Lennon is not here to say anything about it but as they said in many interviews the band fell apart because they were not the same young guys that started together, they evolved in different ways. Yes Lennon got more political, Harrison more spiritual, Ringo went for cinema and didn't take himself so serious, Meanwhile Paul had a successful career with brilliant & commercial ideas, a real talent. What makes the Beatles great in my view is that they were 4 different personalities, 4 amazing solo artists in one band. The band finished in the right time, unfortunately 2 of them died too early

If you really want to know the truth, seek out Ringos explanation of what really happened. The most even keeled Beatle reveales the truth with utmost sincerity and love for his mates.

Ringo said Paul was behind the prolific work behind the many albums.

Paul says John broke up the band, and John probably said Paul did. But it was obvious Paul and John wanted to go in different directions, George was tired of being a second stringer despite material that was arguably the best of their later efforts, and Ringo was just tired of the bickering. At least they left artistically on a high note with Abbey Road, though the earlier recorded and far inferior Let It Be was released later, evidently for contractual reasons.

When they all were no longer willing to continue together it was time to call it a day. Simple

Ringo said if it weren't for Paul (the workaholic) they would have never made all the music. He is a gifted musician and song writer. He has been blessed with long life!

They were big in Jamaica also. My aunts use to love them but I was a little child those days.

A fact which is mostly ignored with relation to the Beatles' break up is Lennon's increasing use of heroin in this late period. This was why McCartney had to assume creative control. John and Yoko were both into it and explains why they asked to have a bed for her in the studio: she was zonked out and if you look carefully at footage of Lennon at this time you can see he is too.

The fact that Paul says that it was John that initiated the break up is not a “revelation”. It’s been known for decades that John quit the group pretty much right after the recording of Abbey Road.

Lennon abandoned his leadership with LSD and then with a heroin addiction and Yoko.

I miss these times,so much !!

They didn't leave each other..they just left.

One name Alan Kline!

Nice video 📹 and workmanship!!! I like the Beatles

Lennon and yoko

Watch Get Back. Epstein died and no one replaced the void. They were rudderless and exhausted, but could still make music. Fame and management-wise, it was unexplored territory. I think Epstein would have made them take vacations from each other and then brought them back together after each did their own thing for a bit. They were fragmented and still very young.

We all knew it was Yoko

Lennon said to paul the marriage is over , said i want a divorce

As individuals, George comes across as the one I'd want to spend time with, the three others forget it.

No one had impact like the Beatles.Their contracts had certain legal ramification.When they played Portland,in 1966,they got 100.000 dollars in a plain wrapper,besides ticket sales.The people who paid them are gone so no problems.THANKS FOR THE TICKETS DAD.....RIP THEY WERE GOOD.

It's what we knew all along Yoko Ono instagated the breakup of the Beatles. Evil woman !

I never really got into Wings, so much. I do miss Linda .

Unparalleled is right!

why did macartney sued his bandmates? did they committed a civil or criminal offense against him? When Lennon left Beatles there are still 3 members intact until macartney break the intact group; and then excusing himself that it was Lennon who started the break-up.

You have to remember that John was always the proclaimed band leader, but McCartney superseded him by out producing him in number of songs. Lennon was an artist, McCartney was too, but had a business sense. With Epstein's death, the mega Global Group lost fundamental guidance. McCartney wanted the Easement Family---Linda's family---Who were a substantial Business Law Group to take over the management. Lennon wanted Alan kline, manager of people like the Rolling Stones to take over the duties. Lennon, like many Rock Bands, thought Kline was a great manager. Remember John was a pure artist and pretty flakey when it came to business. Everyone who dealt with Kline got ripped off. He was a crooked promotor type. The disagreement over management caused the break up. Lennon was temporarily fortunate in his later comeback to get Dave Geffin to manage him during the production of Lennon's last two albums and was there for Yoko at the time of Lennon's assassination.

The FACT is when Brian Epstein died, Paul took over the band. It was Lennon's band from the beginning and he resented Paul assuming leadership. In addition Paul did not care for George's guitar playing and he walked out of several recording sessions because of Paul criticizing his playing, John lost interest in the band because Paul took over leadership and John Quit.They did not get along.

Too many big egos together!!!!

They should take a long break for year or two and everything would be different.

Yeah Lennon make it big time along with the another Beatle - Yucko Ono. He just threw away his complete legacy overshadowed by the witch. He was maybe genius , but big time messed up...

Paul replaced the other guy and did a better job it seems.

George Harrison refused to play on some tracks and not even turning up to the recording studio, plus being the first to say he would never tour again as a Beatle. He was in open dispute with Lennon and Macca about allowing him more of his own tracks on albums. I think a lot of people agree as I do he simply walked out and never came back there for being the first to leave.

it was Yoko

John Lennon's mother died 15 July 1958 when John was 17.

I blame Ronnie Pickering for the break up 😂😂😂😂😂😂

It was evil dragon lady Yoko - she poisoned group harmony!!

John was ready to leave the group in 1965 he was burned out with Beatle Mania…… the big question is would John Lennon ever have made it in music without the Beatles happening..possibly not, he himself said he more than likely would have been a criminal. So with that being said it is safe to say that Paul was actually the leader of the group. Sorry Lennon fans all the facts point to that realization. After Paul joined the quarryman the other members dropped out cause they were not up to Paul’s standards.

If John never met Yoko, they would have stayed together. Case closed

Many people thought it was the new modern sound of the jazz-rock bands like: Blood Sweat & Tears, Chicago, War, Tower of Power, Earth Wind & Fire that gradually began to overshadow the Beatles style since 1968.

Macca told the truth as he saw it. Handy when Lennon and Harris are both no longer alive to contradict him.

Forget Ringo the Winner or last one standing writes history ,When John was killed i remember the quote it's a drag ,Fame yeah ,yeah ,yeah. just keep telling your truth Paul.

The members of Wings were paid a salary, something that disturbs me about Paul. George and Ringo never got any residuals based on their work developing most of the Beatles catalog.

How many songs from George Martin did they use?

Momma Miss America was Paul's best solo tune

Yoko broke up everything!

Bossy McCartney and mis-handling of finances ( Apple Corp) was responsible for the termination of The Beatles. Perhaps the expired sell by date as well.

maybe JL would have stayed if McCartney hadn't nixed every idea he and george had to change the band

Yeah, he can say what he wants now that John is dead and can't refute him

We've always known it was him (and his screeching wife) who were responsible

John Lennon said it all quote John said IT JUST A ROCK BAND IF UD WANT TO REMUNISS UD GOT ALL THE OLD RECORDS TO HEAR TH R M QUOTE UNQOTED JOHN LENNON

McCartney lost the Lennon, the true poet John Lennon and the music box, George Harrison. He because he became what he really a punk.

Never cared for their screaming

Lennon left the group and told Mcartney he didn’t want to carry on long before the end of the Beatles. But greedy Mac just carried on by himself.

Paul's lust for power.

I’m not, totally convinced, that the Paul we see now, is the original.

Paul was jealous of Yoko’s musical talent.

A Perfect Band!