The 3 Men Who Actually Ruined the Let it Be Sessions! Did They Ensure the End of The Beatles? 

Sadly when Brian Epstein died they were screwed. Around Sgt peppers John was so strung out Paul had to take control which I think pissed John off but that could’ve been the end of them. Always loved Paul even though for the longest time it wasn’t cool. To me John became one of those ...I think they’re called limousine revolutionaries...something like that. Anyway with the things some bands are doing hell Paul & Ringo should do a show with Dani Harrison & Sean Lennon lol. Just kidding. Anyway I hated Allen Klein & Jann Wenner.

I always thought McCartney received rough treatment for many years. There's a Jan Wenner interview of Bob Dylan on RU-vid. He asks Dylan about what he thought of Lennon, and Dylan quickly turns it around to how astounded he is at McCartney's talent and gift for melody: "I'm just in awe of him". I bet that stuck in Wenner's craw, the prat!

You left out two things. John started to hate Klein and by 73 basically said that Paul was correct. Also, John did talk about making another album after Abbey Road a few weeks after the release. He also talked about working with the band a few years later but said the logistics were difficult. They had all become independent artists by this time. This was around the time he and Paul started talking again.

The breakup was bound to happen no matter what. It was a great life cycle for a rock and roll band. They started at #1 in the United States 🇺🇸 with, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and ended at #1 with, “The Long and Winding Road.”

I've alluded to it here earlier and someone has touched on it in this thread as well. Losing Brian Epstein was the beginning of the end. He was the only one that could keep the Beatles on an even keel. He's the one they all trusted completely and he was also their friend, a real friend (particularly John). Without him, it was only a matter of time. Also, you're absolutely correct as usual... The narrative of blaming the women was just a red herring to protect the interest of Klein, et al. Granted, Yoko had no business being in the studio and her constant presence and power over John did not help matters but the breakup was inevitable the moment Epstein was laid to rest and to put that burden on Yoko or Linda is about as unfair as it can get.

I agree, RAM was a masterpiece. Overall Rolling Stone Magazine, then and now, is a rag. I do believe if Yoko wanted John to carry on with the Beatles they would not have broken up at the end of 69. I’m sure they could have made two or three more album through 72 or 73. Given the outstanding solo material available during that time, the potential new album(s) would have been just as great if not better than what had proceeded any future records. Great video and topic. 👍

The Let it Be single was great! Remember, they broke up after Abbey Road. Yoko’s presence, her involvement in the Beatles, her introducing John to heavy drugs plus, Alan Klein and his manipulation of John by playing up his understanding of Yoko and desire to promote them ; both those factors hurried John along into leaving. After that you can see where John got the insane idea that we all wanted to buy recordings of songs about him and Yoko; that we wanted to see films about their every move day to day (as if each second was historically monumental and earth shaking! Nope. We wanted The Beatles!

11:33 ... Exactly!! I still listen to McCartney and Ram today and they are as terrific as when I first heard them over 50 years ago!

Michael outstanding review brother. Once again you fill in the blanks for us. These details are easily lost over time, great job my man!

Michael always good to get you deep opinions on music. You are leading me back to more Beatles music, as well as viewing others commenting positively on Beatle Greatness. One great loose comment, listen 1,000 times and hear something new each time. PS not from remix but the original albums or CD.

I was born in '65 but my grandparents owned a tavern so I was a Beatles fan when they were still together. I remember it seemed that the critics dismissed the solo efforts because they compared them to the Beatles, not because they thought the music was bad. Like if we ignore their solo work maybe they'll get back together, but these are early memories.

Honestly, how many bands stay together with same lineup as long as the Beatles did (particularly if you discount Ringo since the other 3 were together far longer)? And how many were essentially children at the start? Imagine how well they knew each other and how much they had changed from childhood to their late 20s. It's remarkable they stayed together to 1970.

Great video and commentary!

Absolutely a wonderful analize ! Congratulations.I love your chanel.

Great perspective Michael. With all that was going on with their lives there’s no way they could have continued as a band. Total tragedy.

Hey buddy ✌️ Thank God Yoko didn’t have a microphone on the rooftop concert.

Thought I saw an interview with George Martin where the label wanted him listed as producer on Let it Be and he resisted cause of Spector’s work, finally said they could list produced by George Martin and over produced by Phil Spector.

Absolutely fascinating Mike. Keep up the good work👍

Uao love your video man! As a big macca fan love to check people who really know how things really happen !

So cool hearing you singing the praises of Paul's first two albums. Love this vid.

Lovely work, great presentation.

Excellent analysis.

This is a superb perspective of the real reason. These 3 just wanted to capitalize on the greatest band of all time. Finally some true insight 🙌 bravo!!

great video

Excellent analysis. Painful, but excellent. Thank you.

Interesting, I learned something about the Let It Be sessions and the political dynamics that helped break up the Beatles. When you watch the recent 3-part Get Back documentary, the Beatles had a lot of camaraderie with each other and diligently worked on each other's songs. Although the Beatles weren't living parallel lives anymore, and George being frustrated and wanting to be heard, they were friendly with one another for the most part. It took Klein, and a lesser extent, Wenner & Spector to further divide the Beatles. Fine presentation!

Very insightful and interesting.

Very good!

Ram is so good, I remember discovering it and then being perplexed when I learned it had been panned.

I think Paul's solo career is very good material... Solid work

GREAT JOB

Great report! I had never considered that these men did indeed destroy any chance that the tenuous breakup would pass. I have always assumed it was the Beatles themselves tiring of being in the group. But thanks to you I have a better understanding of the breakup.

Love ur channel greetings from Germany ….Mach so weiter

I pretty much agree with your assessment of the break up of The Beatles. At the heart of it, the 3 to one division of the Beatles over Klein was the end. If they just would have stepped back and found someone they all could agree on, they could have gone on indefinitely. Yes, they definitely needed a separation to explore solo projects but their wouldn't have been any bad blood between them.

Hmm may as well call him Col. Alan Klein.

They were responsible. I could see in the documentary that they were all ready to move on. They were getting older and their priorities changed. Remember they were together from the Hamburg days. That’s a long time.

The thing about the break up that I often think about is: Could it had been avoided? in some ways it was inevitable, there are a series of factors that led the break up, like the death of their manager Brian Epstein, The financial turmoil of Apple Records, The musical disagreements, rancour,bitterness,and distrust,drugs,egos,-and finally the Beatles had become domesticated with Wives and children. one asks: if only conciliatory opportunities had not been missed,that the differences of opinion had been resolved, that the buisness difficulties of Apple had been sormounted, where compromise could have trumped confrontation, where negotiation pacified provaction...one asks if only...

Thank You. This is one of those videos you wish wouldn’t end. The Beatles will never end.

I was born in 1962 when the Beatles broke up it made the front page of newspapers and in my Philadelphia neighborhood you could walk around and see people crying on their stoops …we thought it would last forever

This video sounds reasonable, good job!

This was really interesting. I've often wondered about the last year and the reasons for their break and this hits on one of my 'suspicions'. Admittedly I am a huge fan of Mac but I never bought that the underlying cause was John and Mac's new relationships. I knew that it, of course, played a part, but now I further believe that 'others' kind of encouraged it and tried to keep it that way, to their benefit of course. I always suspected Kline and Specter were a part to this and now one more. I don't put this as a big nefarious conspiracy or coordinated in any way - just unfortunate. Thank you for mentioning 2 of Mac's best albums. I often make the joke that one of Paul's best solo songs was probably only a couple months away from being a Beatles song (Maybe I'm Amazed). McCartney, as brilliant as that album is, I think of it as a collection of Beatle demos for Paul to take to the 'boys'.

Very interesting view Michael !! I do agree with a lot of what you said here. The main point is these 3 guys messed up any chance of The Beatles getting back together.

Now we know how Springsteen keeps getting 5 stars in Rolling Stone.That's one clown I just can't stand

I was born in 1971. And by time I was 9 years old I was a major Beatles fan. My whole family loved them, and I heard all of the albums in my house growing up. My whole family always said that their break up is what bands do when they want to go out and explore their true talent on their own. So I just thought it was par for the course. That was until the day Lennon was killed. I never cried so hard in my life. It was at that moment I know that there would never possibly be any new Beatles album coming. Even to this day. If Lennon was alive. I am sure they would (excuse the pun) come together, and put out a couple more albums. But one crazy fan made sure that wasn't going to happen. Personally I never liked Ono. Mainly cause she was just weird. For everyone else. Their albums they put out solo, had their moments. Can't say anything bad about them at all. I was a bigger Lennon fan I admit. But I never bought into any of the other BS cause I was a young kid. The music I like is what was my driving force in life. To this day. When people look at my music collection. It makes their head spin cause they all think I am just a metal head. I am way more complexed then that. I was a DJ and Karaoke host for 20 years. So my taste in music crosses many lines.

When I first played Let it be, the album, I didn't know anything about who did what, who hated what, whatever, it was just a magical record. Starting with 'Two of us', when I saw PM in concert, the way the band played 'The long and winding Road' was exactly with the Phil Spector orchestrations. Maybe Paul didn't originally like it, but once heard. difficult to unhear it. It remains a great song, one of his all time greats, and he's written one or two! I cried when I heard it the first time, it was just so beautiful. As George sang later, All those years ago! Alan Klein was a sh*ite of the first order, he should never have been allowed anywhere near the band. The wonderful thing about the Beatles was they were of their time. They changed music in the world forever just 4 lads from Liverpool who wanted to make music rather than go to work. A band would never survive forever with 3 genius' songwriters out of 4, and I'm not putting Ringo down by saying that. He had the best back beat in town and the rest of the guys knew it.

I admittedly grew up with the Phil Spector versions of "The Long And Winding Road" and "Across The Universe", so I am imprinted on them. But still, I think they are better for his orchestral and choral arrangements. Without them, they both sound like demos at risk of being ultimately shelved before being developed fully.

It appeared to me in the movie Get Back that they were enjoying working together.

Nice post! Though I've heard McCartney say himself that he was a bit in a rut for a short period.

Nobody broke up The Beatles. They simply took it as far as it would go. They ran out of creative gas. Imagine living in that bubble. Nobody can. There’s only four people that know. It was a wonderful ride. Thanks, guys!

after seeing this video i admit id never thought that it could be those weasels that finally caused the Beatles to call it quits, you are most likely right about that. and i never thought it was Yoko or Linda , i absolutely knew it had to be deeper than that. thanks!

great analogy. I feel you are correct

I love this explenation.yesss I Agree all.

I heard it was George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Richard Starkey who broke up the Beatles.

Great insight Mike! You also got to say they stopped touring,can't go to the local pub for pint,.....it has to wear on the lads,...damn shame.Yet we still have the MUSIC!

Interesting that Ram was slammed….. it’s considered the father of indie albums

Totally agree that it wasn't Yoko, but what do I know (I wasn't even alive yet). I would have thought it was inevitable as talk has always been that The White Album was actually a bunch of solo albums. I like your take on this, but I would say these guys were just the straw that broke the camel's back would be more fitting. Your channel and one other has really got me digging deeper into the McCartney / Wings solo albums. I feel I have unearthed a treasure.

I love your content, Michael! I get it, John was the first to officially break up the band. However, just notice what happened after Yoko came flying into John Lennon's limo! John breaks up with Cynthia in a fashion so cruel that, well, it seems only Yoko was truly capable of acheiving from behind the scene and below the bed cover! Then what happens? Ringo leaves. Then George leaves and when he comes back we can observe Yoko quietly encouraging George to record his own album by the aggressive encouraging shaking up and down of her head as he tells her about it! Then what happens? John and little miss Yoko find Alan Klein and John shares it with the other Beatles, convincing two of it while alienating Paul (Yoko's body language shows utter disdain for Paul throughout the newly released"Get Back" footage. And finally, Yoko succeeds in separating Julian from their lives almost entirely, convincing John not to give a penny to Cynthia or Julian. The poor guy has to sue her many years later in order to receive his rightful inheritance! PS...Yoko decides to leave John and provide him with a secretary mistress and what does John do with it? Once again, he goes along for the ride! It's Yoko, behind the scenes and most everyone believes it to this day. Why? Because most people are pretty good at reading a bad apple when they see it!😉

Interesting content ! 👍 I guess I have always suspected that there *had* to be more to the Beatles break-up, than just the Yoko and Linda thing. And I totally agree, that Phil Spector didn't do the "Let It Be" album any good.

Interesting analysis, and I think you are right on all points. I am not as big a Beatles fan as you are, but Let It Be would have been my favorite of their albums if it wasn't butchered by Spector so much - I love the raw sound that is underneath it all, and that is heard in the footage that Michael indsay-Hogg shot. Some of this was fixed with the Let it Be - Naked release, but I have always felt that release had some issues too to become the right replacement. For my own pleasure I have therefore, in my iTunes library where my enthire music collection is brought together, compiled a version of the album that I believe comes as close to what could have been the best version. All of these tracks are easily available, but playing them together in this fashion, I believe, gives the best representation of this particular music overall. Try it, if you have the time some day 😃 1. Two Of Us (Album Version) 2. Dig A Pony (Album Version) 3. Across The Universe (Naked Version) 4. I Me Mine (Naked Version) 5. Dig It (Album Version) 6. Let It Be (Naked Version) 7. Maggie Mae (Album Version) 8. I've Got A Feeling (Album Version) 9. One After 909 (Album Version) 10. The Long And Winding Road (Master Track, no Spector alterations; Anthology 3 Version) 11. Don't Let Me Down (Single Version) 12. Get Back (Album Version)

Not to dispute anything (I actually agree with just about everything), but where does the Abbey Road sessions fit into this timeline? It was after Let It Be, and although Abbey Road, especially Side 2 and its medley of half finished songs, does have the feel of "it's our last album, let's go out with a bang" there were apparently some discussions about another album (resulting some very interesting fan ideas of which tracks would've been on it).

Whether Paul liked it or not, it's my favorite version of Long And Winding Road

I truly believe that had John Lennon lived, The Beatles would've reunited in the 1980's, even if it were just a brief, one-off album, appearance, or whatever. The legal messes had been pretty much settled and seeds for a possible reunion had been sown by the late 1970's. It just never happened, and John's murder fully put an end to it ever happening. People are very quick to simply blame Yoko for her near-constant presence in the band's inner circle, what was left of it by this time, but there was a lot more going on that led to their eventual undoing. In fact, Yoko really didn't have as much to do with it as many make her out to; she was just there, more or less, and once John broke the "no wives or girlfriends in the studio" scenario, very soon after, the rest of the band were bringing their better halves around, and the added footage in "Get Back" proves it. Brian Epstein's death first and foremost really sent them into a tailspin, one they would never recover from; his absence left a gaping hole in everything, and the band were ill-equipped as well as prepared to take on the business aspect of things when they'd had everything completely taken care of for them before. Apart from that, they were just growing apart as artists and as people; they were going different places. The Beatles really had run their course by then, and there was nowhere else for them to go in terms of musical and professional mountains; they'd already scaled them and plateaued....so where else to go but away? All things must pass...

I agree with your analysis. 👍👍

I've heard Let It Be Raw. I know it was Paul's preferred mix, but frankly it sounds like a collection of demos. I happen to like what Phil Specter did with the mix, which we originally came to know and love.

Well put. Did you read what Geoff Emerick was saying about Phil Spector's approach to mixing the Beatles?

I agree with you that McCartneys post Beatles work was excellent.

Thank you for telling me why The Beatles actually disbanded, I needed this!

Very insightful video on some of the characters who didn't break up the Beatles, but ensured they wouldn't reunite when the door was still open. But I would add four major decisions throughout the 70s: - Paul suing the Beatles in Dec 1970 to dissolve the Beatles partnership. I think that decision really cemented the two irreconciliable "camps" in the band (Paul vs. the other three), and led to the lowest point in the Beatles' internal relationships which was 1971 with the press wars and with How Do You Sleep. - John's decision in 1971 to move to New York. This may be the single biggest reason why the Beatles never reunited, and some people even think this ruined John's career. - Yoko's intervention in January 1975 to get back with John (who was dating May Pang and making good music with Walls & Bridges), which immediately prevented John from flying to New Orleans to play on Paul's Venus and Mars album. The closest we ever got to a Lennon-McCartney reunion. - Mark David Chapman's murder of John.

Would have been cool to reunite on the 70's Saturday Nights Live. I know SNL offered a handsome sum to play, $3,000. 🙃

I truly believe their breakup was a blessing. If they had stayed together they would most likely have gone down the black hole of disco. John even said in an interview with Tom Synder in 1974 he liked the disco trend that music was headed into. I just believe as a hard-core fan that it would have tarnished their legacy. It was just the right time in history for them to go their separate ways.

I always thought the critics thought Paul was just a "pretty girl" man who made bubble gum music. The DJs would say so, especially after John died. But even before they would get a woody over all of John's music. John was always considered more talented, more creative, more profound. IOW the "MAN". He had a huge male following and was put on a pedestal for all the inner meanings to his songs, even when he said there were none, it was all word play or copying and pasting sentences from a circus poster. It's not to say John wasn't talented - he did have a gift for words, even if they made no sense, but I think the music industry which is mostly, if not all, men and that includes record producers, DJs, music journalists - they were the ones along with all of John's fan boys, who attacked Yoko. I never heard them criticizing Linda, but it doesn't surprise me. All painting her as someone who wormed her way in as if she held a gun to John's head and he had no free will. Which, to me, looking back, it was kind of a contradiction because all his worshiping fans made him look kind of weak that he would let a woman control him. And they all dismissed Paul's talent. If his post album McCartney showed anything, it showed he was responsible for the Beatles' "sound". When I first heard it, I thought it was the Beatles and he was criticized for sounding the "same". As if. He took it to heart and ended up moving away from that Beatles sound. I personally thought it was a mistake.

I've never had any problem with the Let It Be album. The Long and Winding Road is beautiful, and it was all I knew for 30 years, before they put out Let It Be naked.

I hoped that you would have mentioned Abbey Road as The Beatles final album, anyway, I loved your video on Let It Be. Thank you!

Michael, do you have a FB page? I wanted to foreword an article to you that I think you would find of interest about digital vrs analog.

WELL DONE!!! But remember how Cline was able to work on John and Yoko personalities flattering them and knowing how John was frustrated for JOHN'S not appreciation of Yoko by his bandmates. In Get Back documentary we can clearly see that when John speaks about Cline just when Paul was.absent and try to convince George in a.very enthousiastic way. He was backed and strengthened by Joko who was very happy about Cline who had promised her an exposition in Syracuse. John was.pushed by her to try Cline anyway and he knew Paul wouldn't like him. So he was able.to convince his mates against Paul. And Linda? Why didn't she understand that the other 3 guys would never accept her father as a manager of the group? So I think.that Joko and Linda played a negative role in the situation even if minor. Your analisi is perfect. Thank you! It's the first time I've ever heard that. Good!

Richard Hewson was the person who did the arrangement on 'The Long and Winding Road', not Phil Spector. Spector just produced the recording. McCartney knew Hewson and had worked with him prior to 1970. McCartney actually quite liked Hewson's arrangement of 'The Long and Winding Road' and used it in his live performances of the song in later years. McCartney also had Hewson do the arrangements for his 'Thrillington' version of the 'Ram' album in 1971, so there was no bad blood between the two of them.

As a huge Beatles fan since the 70´s when i was just a little kid i really love the way Spector produced the Let it be album especially The long and winding road. Paul is a total genius and he can say whatever he likes but i dont agree, i think since he is so close to his own vision of his music it may be the reason why he didnt like it. I am a composer myself although not famous and i can totally see myself disliking if someone changed the vision of my music even though everyone else thought it was much better, it can be really hard to see the other side of the argument when you are that close to the material.

Good video with many valid points. I love the McCartney and Ram albums but the latter is the stronger album of the two. McCartney has it's homemade charm but is not on par with Ram IMHO.

Really good for the most part thanks Michael. I *disagree* tho' on Phil Spector's actual work on Let it Be. The Beatles 'canon' is incredibly complex, diverse and eclectic hey? (and I'm sure all true Beatles fans would agree that's a *good* thing). The Luxurious production and 'vocal arias' on 'The Long and WInding Road' and 'Across the Universe' have always been divisive among fans - but I find these touches *astoundingly* beautiful!! For me, they're a lovely part of the whole Beatles story, (when viewed in a purely musical context). So maybe we should just 'let it lie' (or even 'Let it Be') at least from the standpoint of critiquing this album musically?... Bottom line: There are 2 or 3 Dodgy Lennon 'fillers' on that album - and if anything should be negatively criticised on Let it Be, then surely it's those?... 🙏🙏🥰

Very interesting, as a big Beatles fan, I was certainly aware of the slimy Allan Klein (John later said "Paul was right!"). I also knew about Phil Spector. Perhaps his motivation was not only to continue his working relationship with John and George ($) but also a bit of revenge about Paul's negative comments about his production on the Let It Be album. But I never knew that Jann Wenner had such animosity towards Paul. I didn't think a lot of him for the way he ran the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this video did nothing to improve that!

George, Paul and John put out solo music before the Beatles broke up. John had 3 charting hits which gave him the courage to end it.

Howard Stern asked Paul this exact question and he said John broke up the Beatles a few years ago.

Hi Michael, having been the child of divorced parents in the early 60's, coming from a community where this was uncommon and was frowned upon, I was always sensitive to any kind of breakups. I vividly remember when the Beatles broke up. It was literally headline news. The media & many in general often seek to lay blame for what seems like an unreasonable outrageous event. As I recall it was mostly Yoko who was scapegoated and suffered the brunt of the blame for The Beatles eventual dissolution. I did wonder beyond that simplistic theory who else might have had a hand or two in the separation of the Fab Four. Klein always seemed to be a scurrilous strozo. Phil Spector, (not yet accused of criminal activity) may have been a genius but always came off as an unnerving control freak. Wenner, I never considered his participation in this regard. However, yours is the most plausible explanation that I've ever heard. There's always more than meets the eye. Thanks for this insightful video.

Important and interesting video. I’d argue George was a big obstacle as well for a long time. He finally had creative freedom and support. I’m sure Spector wasn’t a positive influence, but at least through the Concert for Bangladesh george was arguably the biggest sales/act. McCa eventually eclipsed all of ‘em sales wise, and his mostly robotic (at this point) body is still playing some of the biggest and most profitable tours ever, but producing music at that rate for that long created easily the least consistent catalogue. To my tastes after those first couple years he was so hit or miss. I’ve had two points in my life where I’ve stopped buying his new works for years at a time.. Chaos and Creation in the Backyard was the last Paul record I legitimately still enjoy and did from the first listen through. Keep pumping out the deep dives man! Cheers!

it would be great to hear from McCartney on your channel

My take on the breakup is rather different, because I attribute it less to personalities than to their having matured stylistically as individuals with each going his own separate way. I don't consider the White Album a Beatles LP at all, and in fact critics at the time said that although the material was great it just didn't hold together stylistically. At the time I didn't know that they had pretty much recorded their own songs solo or nearly so, with little participation from the others. I recently tried to come up with one disc worth of Beatles songs from the White Album, and didn't come close to finding enough Beatle-ish material.for even two sides. Most of those songs on the White Album belonged on their solo LPs, not on a Beatles album -- because of style, not because of quality. In particular the John Lennon contributions are not Beatles songs at all -- which, again, is not to diss them. IMO, what they needed was for an impartial mentor whom they all respected to present a radically new vision for their future. Said mentor should have told them: "Lads, listen to me. You're maturing as artists, you're going in your own directions, and that's not a bad thing. Start working on your solo albums, but if you should happen to write anything Beatle-ish, put it aside. When enough Beatle-ish songs have accumulated you can come together to do another Beatles LP, say every two years or so. In the meantime, give some thought to what a 1970s Beatles would sound like, how it would be '70s and fresh but still distinctly Beatles." Unfortunately, there was no precedent in those days for such a farsighted approach. When bands broke up, the members went their own ways. But if there had been someone who could envision all of them having solo careers while still coming together every few years for a new Beatles album, he might have saved the day and we might have another 3 or 4 Beatles albums to be talking about today.

I had heard these 3 stories individually but never put them together. Good stuff. Specter was a great producer when collaborating with an artist, but he was on his own with Let It Be. Its serviceable, but needed more Beatles production values.

You have put forward a good argument here even though most people have long realised that Allen Klein was a main contributing factor in the break of The Beatles. Adding Jan Wenner to the list of suspects is a new one to me and I can see what you're getting at. I feel though that you have missed two people out and that Lee and John Eastman and the fact that they were Paul's in-laws probably pushed the other three in favour of Klein. Also the Eastmans badly handled the situation with The Beatles, both as negotiators and with their lack of understanding of the music industry. Ultimately though it was John and Paul who were to blame and the fact that they were drifting apart musicaly.

The main thing is they had grown apart. They were having families and meeting new people.They were on different paths musically. That was it. Enough said.

I always wonder why Linda McCartney got blamed for the break up of the Beatles. She never encouraged the break up of the Beatles. She actually attended the Shea Stadium concert the Beatles had in 1965. She was a Beatles fan.

There’s actually photographs of the Apple office the day John said he wanted a divorce from the Beatles. John, Paul and Ringo were there as George was not: he was visiting his mother Louise who is suffering from cancer. It is in the famous Anthony Fawcett book “One Day at a Time” book on John Lennon. That day was supposed to be the day where Alan Klein announced the bigger royalty payments for Beatles albums and everybody was supposed to be celebrating, and then Paul was going off about future Beatles plans and that’s when John laid down the law

spot on !

Fantastic, FANTASTIC!

Oh my I couldn't agree more - those 3 men had *major* influence on the break up - It was not Paul's 'bossiness', it was not Yoko or poor Linda. Those men cashed on the Beatles' breakup and contributed to the bad relationship of John and Paul at the time. Jann Wenner built his newspaper's empire on the ruins of the band. Phil spector was a sociopath and Allen Klein a manipulative bully. Those three stood between John and Paul and prevented them from talking. An accurate video! it is time to reconsider the biases of the 70s narrative bullshit that John pushed in the begining.

The Beatles had pretty much run their course by then. No one thing broke them up, it was 1000 little things that would eventually break up the band. The death of Epstein, family life, changing musical tastes, needing space to do their own thing, ect ect, and probably sick of each other. I think management, record company, and the press created more drama for the band than there should have been. These pressures probably made the lads more bitter towards each other than there was. Perhaps they would have just taken an extended hiatus and would have eventually gotten back together. Who knows but I enjoy and appreciate the material they made to this day. Their legacy will not be forgotten.

My theory of the cause of the Beatles’ breakup is their phone call to Frank Zappa. They were shocked to learn that Frank was running the band’s business affairs. This motivated them to start Apple the difficulty of the running of which broke up the band.

This is highly interesting and Jan Werner’s interview with John needs greater scrutiny. I bought the book when it came out and this was at a time just after Primal Scream and this was John at his most bitter and angry. When you compare this with Bob Harris’S interview with John a few years down the line, you see a much more relaxed, mellow and witty man who is much more human and understanding. Not sure how much Wenner influence John or was it John’s handiwork only. It wasn’t John’s most objective analysis though Paul is heard to say of John that he would shoot his mouth off from time to time and “go overboard” with things and Paul learnt to ride this foible of John and that he cherished the lovable side of John . It is very feasible that these three men were in the background and did the damage to the Beatles. Certainly Klein was a greedy ripoff merchant and Paul was right about him.

I've been a Beatle"Manic" since 1990-something, I was in my teens then. I've also always been more of a McCartney fan than any other Beatle post Beatles. Even today when I've decided to check more of George's and John's solo efforts out I'm not sure what to think of John's works.

I really think as both a serious content createt and as a true Beattle fan, you should quote or reference sources for some of your affirmations, such as Ian telling another music reviewer to do a negative one for Ram.

I love how Paul says he didn't like what Phil did with The Long and Winding Road.....but he continues to use the backing tapes when he does the song live. 🤷‍♂️