John used to be a deeply troubled man throughout his life. And here you feel like he finally got a grip and found himself. As if he had made peace with himself. Then talking about that song and really starting over, that hits so hard. I can easily understand how people feel tempted to experience pure hatred towards Chapman
It's a common human desire, most evident among those whose careers involve the desire for approbation and approval from large rooms filled with other people.
The sad thing is that John seemed finally at peace within his own skin when he was shot..... such a great loss (and he would have been SO entertaining on the internet!) Miss him, miss him, miss him.....
@@danielbouju1688 It's a reference to the Paul Is Dead hoax. When you play part of Revolution #9 backwards you can hear Turn me on dead man. When you play the end of Strawberry Fields Forever backwards you can hear: Paul is dead. Miss him. Miss him.
I don't know about the drug part but John was also starving himself on some whacked out diet. I read that he'd drink tea and wouldn't eat anything for days and when he did eat something it was some sort of English Biscuit. In some of John's pictures he's nothing more than skin and bones...
I was really impressed by the way John would take the time to stop and sign an autograph. I understand Paul wasn't like that. I think John evolved into a very likeable guy.........
Pity he was so obsessed with Yoko and so disinterested in Julian. To say it was not all good with John Lennon is quite an understatement. But yes obviously hugely talented.
@@pippipster6767 Yes, he was not a good father to Julian. Yoko influenced him. I don't like to see her. She annoyed the other 3 Beatles at the end of the Band.
Tearing down the mystique indeed - he and Muhammad Ali were the only celebrities of that level to make the personal choice of potentially destroying their careers for matters of principle. Of course when they were done they came back very strong. When John with Yoko came out with "Two Virgins" I did not understand at the time and I hated it. Later I did understand, he was trying to have an intellectual conversation with the public, trying to deconstruct the very concept of fame and stardom and say hey, we're just people like you. Then he continued into total realism in his next couple of records in the early 70's - reporting the news, naming names, talking about what was going on in the world rather than doing pop music. That's why Nixon tried to kick him out of the country - I've always admired that.
Ironic, how ready he was to make his comeback, he sounded so determined, and strong in his thoughts. He was so sharp at that time in his life. By the way, there are a lot of great pictures in this clip, ones that I don't recall ever seeing before. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Long live the legend of John Lennon's life. RIP
John was really excited at that time he even said * the 70s were kind of a drag you know . But I'm really looking forward to the 80s nan ....the 80s are gonna rock and this is my time "
It seemed like John Lennon had a new outlook on life. I have tried to imagine what all he might have done over the years if he had not been shot. It is hard to believe he would have been in his 80's if he were still alive. 😊
John was always so honest & spoke so much sense about life. Love listening to him. I will never get over the loss of such an amazing, intelligent & talented individual. Miss you John.
It was a cosmic crime that has affected millions over the last 42 years. A bright genuine guy with extraordinary talent who touched our souls for all-time God bless you John 🙏 ❤⭐
What a great composition here. Its been going on 35 years now and its unreal how I still mourn a man I never met but loved so dearly just as my father and sister...Great work here.. Thank you..
It's funny because my earliest memory is probably around 2002 or 2004 (I'm 19). I'm just now discovering the Beatles and the first time I listened to John Lennon's 'imagine' I almost cried. I can't wait to hear more of his music.
Robbie Deery that's the impact of the Beatles and Lennon. Timeless music!! I think we [Lennon fans] all feel like we knew him on a personal level, which is a very strange effect for one man to have on multiple generations past, present and future!! I was 3 when the news of his murder hit our family back in England and I remember everything appeared in black and white for months after that. My strongest memories from that time was Starting Over, Octopuses Garden and the entire Rubber Soul LP. To address some previous comments, Paul did have the most musicianship talent, even John recognized that, but as far as songwriting talent, they were equal. Only things that separated the two were their songwriting styles and their 2 distinctive vocal sounds. Paul did become the unofficial manager of the group and although that wasn't ideal for everyone, that's not what broke up the band. Paul's ego is what broke up the band. Although Paul's songwriting really started to shine in '66, starting with Revolver, his desire to be front and center, dictate the bands direction, and decide what songs would make the album cut, essentially made the other 3 very resentful of him. No one wanted anything to do with Paul for a while after they disbanded in 1970. They've all said this in separate interviews. There was always a friendly competition between John and Paul, with regards to songwriting, that's how both of them exceeded the boundaries of songwriting and recording techniques, however the other 3 felt that Paul would have George Martin, and all the other engineers involved, spend way more time and effort on his own songs and on the production of his songs, than anyone else's. Perfect example is John saying he felt the production on 'I am the Walrus' and 'Strawberry Fields' were rushed and felt sloppy and thrown together as opposed to a 'Penny Lane', or 'Hello Goodbye' that John felt so much production effort and time went into and which the other Beatles were excluded from as well, like so many other McCartney songs (Eleanor Rigby, For no One, Yesterday, etc). After a while, it felt like all 3 of them were sidemen to Paul which no longer made them feel like the Beatles, but rather Paul's backup band. So it's fine to say that, for some time, the Beatles needed Paul's leadership to keep the band going after Brian died, however he took it way too far and ended up alienating himself from the rest of the band. Paul's ego broke up the band, not Yoko
Summed up perfectly!,,.,I went to New York for 4 days last November on the 36th anniversary of Johns death and visited the Memorial sight at Central Park and it just felt very familiar.,RIP JOHN.,.,.,PEACE AND LOVE!
Daniel Brown of course yoko didn't break them up how utterly retarded that it was her so stupid. what I think is freaky and bizarre is a generalized hostility towards yoko inspired by woman hating racism and people imitating woman hating racism. clashing egos is what has divided every band breaking up incidently. but Paul refusing to reject the fact that his ego (it was really clashing egos not just Paul ego but they all had one which was getting trampled by paul they felt. but they werent getting along. period). and Paul rejected in his mind that he was an issue and in his mind blamed yoko. John was changing creative partners on one level. Paul started blaming her because that was easier for him and the wider public imitated him out of adulation for him. her demonization is freakish and inspired by woman hating racicm. I love her and think she's utterly fascinating. the bed in for peace would not have happened with out her. it is a stunning feat of conceptual art/political activism which should be studied by historians, artists, students, anarchist political activists and anyone who is anti war foreve4 as a singular event. I love her. she was responsible for evolving john into a feminist and peace activist. I love her and am in awe of her and think her freakish victimization is so outrageous.
Imagine what John would be like on social medias. I really wish he was with us and he was taken away us unfairly. I miss a man I've never even seen on TV when he was alive...
John Lennon was a very troubled man... he had a difficult childhood that was frequent full of pain... His father abandoned him and his Mother and was not heard from again until after John's Mom was dead, and then he only showed up when he had learned that John was a musical and financial success story. Good role models were in short supply in John's growing-up years. He learned to be tough and hard-nosed because he had to be to survive. He had a great deal of talent, but that didn't mitigate his troubled psyche. He and Paul were brothers in music, talent and ambition for success... but they were very different people, and Paul was from a far more positive and stable family background. To a great extent, they sparred and help one another to grow and to find out who they were, ... as The Beatles gained success and maturity... They were, after all, only kids when they first met... and they grew up through the rough 'n tumble life of struggling musicians. My impression is that John was filled with bitterness and yes, even hostile cruelty and violence, and he struggled to keep all that under control. He was very vulnerable when he encountered Yoko, and I will always believe that Yoko recognized that weakness and played it for all it was worth. Yes, I never liked her and thought that she used John rather cruelly... but only John's opinion of her really matters... I respect that the other three Beatles tried not to judge her too harshly out of their love for John. I was stricken when The Beatles split up, and I knew they would likely never play together again... it was publicly known that the breakup was acrimonious and bitter. All four had individually walked out on the band and then returned... except when Paul was the last one to leave... and from that there was no going back. .... .... It was over. so ... ... Rest in Peace, John. You didn't ask for the life you got... but you worked hard, succeeded grandly, and your end was both tragic and senseless... and we are left to only speculate what your continuing life might have been... 'Hopefully it would have been happy an' successful. I hope your soul is at peace.
Yoko doesn't. She showed no shame, no respect when Cyn came in and saw them together, like it was the most natural thing in the world. She's wheelchair bound now. Maybe she can ponder all the hurt she caused and pray for redemption before she leaves this world.
I have been a fan of Lennon almost from birth. Grew up in the 60s and had older siblings that played the music and it is deeply ingrained in me. Having said that, as a very mature woman now, it is plain to see that Lennon had an eating disorder, never really kicked drugs and was a psychological mess. He looked 60 when he died, not 40. I am astonished by how old he looked. I was young at the time and didn't see it then. wow
John did age terribly, heroin I’m sure must have serious effects on the body when you use it for 5 years as he did. Japanese seem to retain their youth at 80 Yoko looks 40 and it’s said she also used H the same time as John. He was a mess psychologically from a young age with not having a father as a constant in his life, living with his aunt, and tragically losing his mother. The formation of 4 young lads with a dream gave them all purpose. Liverpool was pretty hard living back then, so the drive to get out and do better was certainly instilled in both John and Paul, they wanted a better life. Sadly neither got what they deserved, children were their greatest gift along with the magic of their music that they gave the world. John should have come home to his roots, his family, he needed that, at this very time in his life, but fate had a different outcome planned that day. The world lost a great man, he had his challenges, but owned them and worked hard trying to resolve them. Fate just didn’t give him the time to fix what he needed to fix, thankfully forgiveness is found and heals 2 broken hearts.
While I agree with some of what you said. I fail to see why you would be astonished on his appearance in his last days. I am 41 as of the date I wrote this and while I can't say I had a life like Lennons, I often get mistaken for being quite a bit older by about 10 or 15 years older. My hair is virtually all white, and my face has roughly the same level of lines as he did in his last days. Never did illegal drugs like heroine and maybe I could eat better. So really, what is 40 supposed to look like? Men aren't supposed to be pretty. Middle age is middle age.
This man was a creative genius. The man and the creative genius are two separate things. He had a traumatic childhood. He tried to deal with this, through the lens of this fan in an area where there was relatively little knowledge of difference of trauma. We must cut him some slack as we must cut all people including myself some stop. Imagine.
I will comment about John from interviews and he always comes across as honest I carnt comment about his personal life as I did not no him I have never been offended by him because I like him 🎸✌️
So John had two creative partners he discovered, Paul and Yoko. He thinks he was 2-0 in picking talent. But he was 1-1. Yoko was the end of John Lennon. Exactly the type of person he DIDN'T need.
He needed her in the late 60s as he was in a real bad place before he met her. However, he should have gotten out of it while he could on his 'lost weekend'.
John Lennon always spoke the truth about what he believed in if there were more people out there that did is he did maybe the world would be a better place to be in it was a tragic loss when he passed away way back when but his song still to this day have been played over and over and over and probably will after all of us are gone two generations that don't even know how great they were it was really tragic when he did pass away I don't really at this time remember how old I was but sure wish you was here to see what kind of music keep me playing now
Thats what attracted him to her. The saying, opposites attract. He probabably thought, she aint going lala for me. And then she found out who he was made it more interesting for her. After that...game on.
Thats BS! She knew who he was and bewitched the poor guy! Her time is coming...all the money wont save her soul unless she repents it all and confesses to Jesus!
John is the best ever no.1 with me, he has been since day one , his genius, his life, every song he wrote means so much to me, I will always be his no.1 fan , he had so much to live for, it’s not right, John Lennon forever with us
There's no way in hell, that Yoko Ono didn't know "EXACTLY" who John Lennon and the Beatles were! You would have had to have been living alone on Mars.. to have not known who that group were! They were beyond HUGE at that time... you couldn't escape them if you tried! Their promo machine and the hysteria it built, ensured that their image and music was 'everywhere, all at once'... they were a complete worldwide phenomenon and cultural smash!! Every single artist, producer, radio and TV exec were falling over themselves to get a piece of the action. There's no way on earth that Yoko bloody Ono... didn't know EXACTLY WHO THEY WERE.
@@Ltb3105 Exactly.. my mom, a 1940s suburban immigrant house wife from Croatia knew who the Beatles were! But Yoko Oh no.. established New York avantgarde artist had never ever heard of them! Yeah right… 😏
Paul tells a story that he met her first because she wanted some of his lyrics to turn into art but he said no But you should ask John so she knew exactly who they were
This woman was just a disgrace in John's complicated life, he's always looked and acted miserable all the years they were together. I don't drink at all the " peace&love" bla..bla..bla propaganda and all their "artistic" outputs.. In the end he was just a weak man and she was the manipulative freak with no talent that he needed... What a fool you've been John, your life could have been much better...
He was such a great artist, he was an awaken person who gave us a lot of messages which maybe led him to his dead. Nobody is perfect, John forgot he had an older son, isn’t it a pity?
After two or three years from the breakdown of the Beatles, chemistry gradually dissolved, they became excellent authors, but as there were many others (the love for Yoko, beautiful, could not give him what Paul artistically gave him). Paul was perhaps the only one who understood this: that together they were a 'miracle'.
I miss you so much john.... Since i was in elementary grade... Up to now im 66 ... I love beatles most of the time.. their song are really legend!!!! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭♥️♥️♥️♥️
Great interview, I used to love when he would show up on WNEW to be interviewed. I miss his insightfulness and what he had to say. Like Norman Mailer and James Baldwin, He always had something worth hearing . Thank you for posting this, it catches John in his final months. We lost him too soon.
I’m pretty sure John was much more insecure than Paul McCartney but he needed to express himself much more than Paul. John was an artist 👩🎨 with every aspect of his life, much more than any of the Beatles...John is probably STILL growing in the afterlife I’m sure (just one fans impressions of course)
@@raymondcampanini6847 John was a deeper and more honest thinker than Paul not a weaker person. If anything he was stronger. He went through what was needed to break through his blocks and traumas. Paul liked to dominate.
I love this, it shows the love between them. Yes John made, said and did many bad hurtful things in is life... (Like all of us) But he also had a very charming, gentle, carrying, humble niyeve and loving side to him... And I think this really shows here. But never the less it still makes me sad and hurts to think about what Cinthya Lennon (bless her) had to go through. She really was a remarkable woman and I think we... and (John for what it seems) greatly underestimate her.
Cynthia was fantastic for John. She gave him unconditional love from the very start. She was there when his mum died and comforted him, she cushioned his blows on what I think what would've been alot worse if Cynthia wasn't there, she supported him throughout his career even when the Beatles didn't know if they were the real thing or not, she gave up her dreams of becoming an art teacher to raise their child and so John could achieve his dreams. I honestly truly think John loved Cynthia the most and that Yoko was just a stupid obsession and drug Buddy and he got in too deep with her. If John never loved Cynthia why would he write things in letters to her like "you are wonderful, I adore you, I want you, I love you, I need you, don't go"? Why would he say things like "Well, she’s beautiful, you know, and what people don’t know is how smart she is. No matter what’s happening, you know, she’s always there for me"? I feel like John is just saying things to disregard his whole relationship to Cynthia in this interview because obviously Yoko wouldn't want him fondly remembering her would she? She hated Cynthia purely because she was John's wife. She wanted and still does want to be seen as the only important person in John's life.
I find it a bit odd how many Lennon fans dislike or even despise Yoko. Doubt said fans would ever say any of that to his face. Hearing how she actually got along well with Ringo during the Beatles sessions I've heard, bootlegs and things like that, helped change my mind about her. Ultimately she's her own person anyway. Don't think John would have stayed with her for so many years if she was actually that terrible.
To the day he died he still lied about his relationship with Yoko. Not only about they met but also when they started being intimate. Paul and Cynthia will tell you a completely different story.
Yeah Yoko OBSESSIVELY STALKED John until he gave up and gave in to that home wrecking whore, and SHE is why he abandoned his wife and Julian, and that was his demise, Just saying
Initially I believe she was hounding Paul? Paul just sort or kicked her to John and well...he was hooked. But she was looking to sink her claws into some Beatle. Or somebody famous
i love this story! The compendium of photos creates a loving portrait of John and Ono...i always admired him, but i was too young - being born at the cusp of the 50s-60s. BUT I REMEMBER taking records out of the library ~ my intro to John's music. i didn't get the Yoko Ono thing...but now i do a little better. i remember how deeply freakin' sad i was, when hearing of his death - i was in college.
It always amazes me how “fans” of John Lennon can say horrible things about yoko - the man obviously loved the woman - who cares!! - I just loved the amazing talent of him and if he was happy with yoko then so be it - some people don’t find that love in their lifetime I’m thankful he did in his too short life 😔
They were not very happy last years. John looked weird and ill, maybe he was doing drugs, Yoko too. She told later, after he died, they would maybe separate because he was too jealous, maybe violent.
Yes you're right it's high time people get over that stigma and recognize how real the guy was. He could have had any number of blonde bimbos but he fell hard in love with this freaky Japanese artist and shared it with the world openly. I used to hate her too, as we were influenced to do, but over the years I've come to respect John - and Yoko - even more because of that. It's kind of a message to people to just be real and honest.
I know it would bug me if everyone felt entitled to criticize my life choices, even though they had no concept of what things I was dealing with. He's was great artist. Artists don't see things like conventional people. That's how they got to be artists.
its really a damn shame this wasn't filmed. everybody makes a video now a day and it is a shame that we dont see their faces in action while they speak. not enough visual interviews of this couple.
My lovely Liverpool boy, when all the layers are stripped away, he was the same as everyone else apart from his special talent for writing very clever and heartwarming songs, and I am still gutted that his life was snubbed out in such a cruel and ridiculous way.....
I find it confusing that on some photos he looks so different, I mean some where he has his hair like flat styled back... I love to just think a little bit about how he may look today, what he would be doing, how he would think about technology use the internet and things like that. I really love his character and what a great genius intelligent person he was... Such great people like the Beatles are rare...
Yoko saw The Gravy Train in John and latched on, she played to his weakness and insecurities. His infantile need for her was his blindspot. I'm OK with the Beatles breaking up but she was the obvious wedge. And she is still living off of his legacy.
Thank you for including lots of pictures of May Phang. She tends to be washed out from Lennon's life by Yoko as though she didn't matter. The 18 months he spent with her were some of the most creative times of his life. He had his only no 1 hit post Beatles. He reunited with his son Julian and most importantly Paul. According to May (whom he continued to see on and off after reuniting with Yoko) they were planning to buy a home together and were supposed to go to New Orleans to work with Paul in his new album. The lost weekend turned out to be 18 months and John was not showing any signs of going back to Yoko. Yoko had to go see Paul in England to ask him to tell John that she was ready to take him back!
At 0:38, that's John at the Record Plant with his unique Sardonyx guitar. The sessions for Double Fantasy went so well, John had his assistant round-up all John's entire collection and bring it down to the studio. The musicians were stunned to see John's original Beatles Ric, his Eppy Casino, all these classic guitars of John's. God Bless John Lennon. I hope God allows me to meet him in heaven.
I still think he would’ve been happier with May Pang. She treated him right, she didn’t use his insecurities against him and manipulate him. I understand they loved each other, but I also think she manipulated the entire situation for her own benefit and gain. I also think he’d still be alive had he stayed with May Pang. They looked so good together!!
John was always my favourite out of the beatles. And i loved the early 'Liverpool' sound that they were known for. He was clearly (for reasons beyond me,) besotted with Yoko Ono, And expected everyone else to be, even though she certainly didn,t had any vocal skills.
Didn't Yoko try for Paul first and then moved to John? I thought she turned up at the studio one day looking for written lyrics and then started hanging around outside stalking John? I read once she was stood out in the rain and John saw her out the window and said to Paul "she's there again", anyone confirm this?
@@karendalsadik7119 Their family was bankrupt because of their problem in Japan. All their assets was taken by Japan govt so they went to US and there she find a great asset (rich & talented John).
@Joe Cosgrove Wake up dude. “It (“Getting Better") is a diary form of writing. All that “I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her and kept her apart from the things that she loved" was me. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women.” John Lennon.
Yes, cruel is the word. Cynthia wasn't a groupie. She was the person who was there for him after his mother died. She was the person able to love him when he was still completely broke. John became that agressif with her after he met Yoko. He didn't slap Cynthia anymore after he did once in the early days. But those words are worse than a physical abuse.
John’s an ass! He was married to a REAL WOMAN! He acts like Cynthia never existed, meanwhile she was there for him after his mother was killed, when he was broke, & gave him unconditional love & support for 10 years! She was the mother of his first born child. A statement like that proves he used people as much as Yoko did. 2 vile people.
John Lennon , did he understand just how special he was to everyone. I don't think he did. He didn't see what a big deal he was which is what made him so special.
She got him on the smack for a few years.. throw in some terrible business choices and the tension in the band with her being there all the time. It's no wonder they split up. That's a lot of stress.
My Heart is still breaking from the age of 13 when I first saw The Beatles on the Ed. Sullivan Show but I finally put the pieces of my broken ❤️ together at age 70 and a half in April this year Luv John and Paul and Ringo and George forever and a day yeah yeah yeah yeah sincerely Gussie jean Lowe Green from the bottom of my Heart to the top
On top of everything else, John was delusional;. Yoko has never been anything close to being an artist! What a slam in the faces of others who worked with him! All this BS about when they met he FAILS to mention he was MARRIED!
@A A huh? She had very little reputation before John, so what the heck are you talking about? She wasn't on her way to becoming the next great performance artist!
I think 🤔 John was a purist to his music 🎶 interests when he was with the Beatles and a purist still when Yoko introduced him to concept art 🖼 and always demanded absolute truth from himself as an artist 👩🎨 in either form (just my impression of course) who am I to truly understand what John Lennon thought 💭 about anything! Every interview in his life AFTER the Beatles he was begging 🙏 us to love 💕 him for who he was that very moment in his life.
I honestly believe had he not been shot he would have been right along side the other Beatles when they came together to do the anthology series in the 90’s. I think by then enough time would have passed where they would have probably gotten back together to at least play a one off show or some shows and maybe that would have even led them into the studio to possibly record a new album.
He sounds happier around age 40, but physically he got so frail- compared to what he looked like in the 1960s I could believe that by 1980 he had cancer or something that was causing him to waste away.
John... I guess you know the truth about Yoko now. I believe you "...just had to let go..." I know you have nothing but love for your sons. I hope Julian feels this today. And Cynthia was *"a real woman"* you just didn't know this at the time...but you know this now and the myth of you & Yoko fades...
I think John lennon loved cynthia more than he did Yoko on. . Yoko knew that john cared more for Cynthia. And Juliean than he did. Yoko used John for hi s fame . she wanted to be someoneand she couldn't do it without John. She was the downfall of john. She was a gold digger and John was a ticket to her fame. He may have care for some but john was a weak and insecure person because of his life growing up. She comes john into her way of being and he let her run him. He can say all he wants but all the things she did doesn't say much for her as his wife. Especially her having john gettingctigether with may pang. She kept him away from his son Juliean for many years. I think she has treated Juliean wrong as far as not letting Juliean has some of John's belongings and money was another thing. I feel sorry for Julian . He will live with the losses if his Dad the rest of his life. He will survive because he is a much stronger person than his father was. He will survive.
Lmao CYNTHIA?! the girl who trapped him into a marriage at the start of his career ? He was in his 20s and did the right thing by marrying her but he did not love her. He resented her. She made her bed by trapping him. He was seeing his son until he moved to the states and couldn't leave and cynthia would not send julian. Until john was seperated from yoko and in California and only then after 3 yrs of no communication she shows up. He couldn't stand cynthia you all have no idea who he was
Julian sold his precious momentos and then cried for them back. Are you that stupid that you can't figure out how postcards sent to julian in London from John in Newyork ended up at auction? Did yoko slip into Cynthia's house and take it? No he sold it himself or cynthia.
@@raquellambropoulos279 she never trapped him! They were intimate for 2 yrs before she became pregnant and they even spoke of getting married one day. Read her book!
09:41 that pic of him was taken on the day he died.. 10:13 pic reminds me of a young Chris Cornell...not sure why...again 10:15 taken the day he died. ugh what a senseless and stupid tragedy. 10:24 11:20 11:30 that photo session was from early Nov 1980 I believe? the album cover was from the 11:30 photo sessions not sure because the cover of double fantasy was from this session... jack Mitchell photographs? but it might of been Bob Gruen his photographer who was printing the pics he took on Dec 6th on Dec 8th.. I believe they were took after being inside The studio all night and made it out the morning and then they took some pics...
That's the impact of the Beatles and Lennon. Timeless music!! I think we [Lennon fans] all feel like we knew him on a personal level, which is a very strange effect for one man to have on multiple generations past, present and future!! I was 3 when the news of his murder hit our family back in England and I remember everything appeared in black and white for months after that. My strongest memories from that time was Starting Over, Octopuses Garden and the entire Rubber Soul LP. To address some previous comments, Paul did have the most musicianship talent, even John recognized that, but as far as songwriting talent, they were equal. Only things that separated the two were their songwriting styles and their 2 distinctive vocal sounds. Paul did become the unofficial manager of the group and although that wasn't ideal for everyone, that's not what broke up the band. Paul's ego is what broke up the band. Although Paul's songwriting really started to shine in '66, starting with Revolver, his desire to be front and center, dictate the bands direction, and decide what songs would make the album cut, essentially made the other 3 very resentful of him. No one wanted anything to do with Paul for a while after they disbanded in 1970. They've all said this in separate interviews. There was always a friendly competition between John and Paul, with regards to songwriting, that's how both of them exceeded the boundaries of songwriting and recording techniques, however the other 3 felt that Paul would have George Martin, and all the other engineers involved, spend way more time and effort on his own songs and on the production of his songs, than anyone else's. Perfect example is John saying he felt the production on 'I am the Walrus' and 'Strawberry Fields' were rushed and felt sloppy and thrown together as opposed to a 'Penny Lane', or 'Hello Goodbye' that John felt so much production effort and time went into and which the other Beatles were excluded from as well, like so many other McCartney songs (Eleanor Rigby, For no One, Yesterday, etc). After a while, it felt like all 3 of them were sidemen to Paul which no longer made them feel like the Beatles, but rather Paul's backup band. So it's fine to say that, for some time, the Beatles needed Paul's leadership to keep the band going after Brian died, however he took it way too far and ended up alienating himself from the rest of the band. Paul's ego broke up the band, not Yoko
The fifteen years John and Paul were together were the most important years for personnel development. People aged 15 to 30 undergo change in every aspect of life. They go from dependent kids to mature adults who have dependent kids. It was time to end the Beatle relation for a while. Unfortunately the breakup got ugly and disrespectful in a somewhat childish way. Fortunately everybody got on with each other before death entered the scene.
John and Yoko cite the Indica Gallery meeting as their first encounter, but there is evidence to suggest that they met earlier. But that suggestion requires you to go look for yourself. If you believe that John & Yoko met for the first time at Indica, fine. The lore is intact. But if Yoko met Paul first while on the hunt for contributions forming part of a birthday present for John Cage, then what follows will blow your mind about Yoko and her intentions, all the way back in 1965/66.
Yoko lead John into a deeper, meanful concept of art. Which we all need, to survive Wetherby, folk~art, ,folk~rock or conceptual we all have a necessity towards art in some shape or form.
She actually has a handful of songs that I quite like, there you go..I'll admit it...and 'Walking on Thin Ice' is very good...yes, her voice is fragile but it's suited to a song like that. Yes, the Lennon connection helped her get her music recorded but there are worse things happening in this world than the fact John Lennon got Yoko Ono on a record.
Her ancestors may have lived not at “ 柳川 (Yanagawa, Willow-River) in Japan ”, but at “柳河 (Yanagawa, Willow-River)” in Manchuria, where many Koreans had lived... but it’s not sure... It’s sure Yoko was born as an Imperial Japanese, and speaks Japanese very fluently and politely. To see her recent music, I suppose that one of what Yoko has been wanting to do was written on her masterpiece book named “Grapefruits”... These are my own personal opinion and not a definite one...
