The relationship between John Lennon and Yoko Ono is one of legends. But that legend has obscured the truth behind their unusual partnership. #TheBeatles #JohnLennon #Musicians Read Full Article: www.grunge.com...
She was well known to be into the occult. I honestly believe all jokes aside that she be-witched him. He became less intrested in the beatles work..stop writing books and basically became a slave to her
They were awesome and yoko the femist hippy Who won the freedom and the love she needed as well as lennon himself. Married and in peace Within our hearts❤
Lots of people thinks Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles, but it was just that all four were growing up and growing apart, as many people do. We all change as we age, so our relationships change too.
There is a great doc video series understand mccartney and lennon which chronicles their relationship and I will just says nothing is as it seems. John and Paul relationship was complicated, and had little to do with yoko.
@@meyerj75 Which was his right since he formed the band, out of the ashes of the Quarrymen, inviting Paul and later George to join him, as others left or were dropped, that last of which was Pete Best for Ringo Starr.
@@julianaylor4351 I did find out about Pete Best's life following his dismissal from the Beatles. It pisses me off on what he went through afterwards. Where were all the job offers for him? Session musician, backup for another replacement on a different band, what happened?
Yoko was John's exit strategy from the Beatles. Given the level of fame and adoration that he achieved, he obviously went slightly insane. Despite all of that, we got some great music out of him.
@@labspeciman7402 It's not a surprise how their heroin use is minimized by most writers. If you know anything about the fallout from that kind of addiction, you can see the "breakup" as inevitable.
@@labspeciman7402 Somewhere I read that Paul gave John's heroin addiction as the reason they broke up. Where did I read that? Gone down a rabbit hole in the past few months....
After Lennon’s death, Ono inherited the totality of John’s money and royalties. I read about 250 millions straight of the bat and wouldn’t give Julian anything. NOTHING. She made him battle in court for years before a settlement was agreed. That shows what kind of person Yoko Ono is.
John was killed suddenly. It's not like he was expecting to die at 40 years old. If Yoko loved him even a little she would have acted on John's behalf to see that his son got his rightful share. She did the opposite. She fought Julian tooth and nail for over 15 years while pocketing all the interest. What she ended up giving Julian, a few million, when she got a few hundred million, didn't even amount to the interest she made on keeping it back from him for half his life.
I'm sorry, but you do not bring your girlfriend to the recording studio while working on songs. Lennon was wrong for putting his band mates in that awkward position.
It's well documented that Yoko followed Paul McCartney around to no avail and then set her sights on Lennon. The thing about her not knowing who the Beatles were is complete rubbish. It would literally be impossible to be an artist on the NYC or London scene and not know who they were.
I'm normally all about white dudes getting with asian women - as I'm married to one myself, but this whole thing seemed like a toxic batshit insane situation. Her energy was never going to result in anything good. And I sure as fuck wouldn't want some crazy screeching girlfriend in the recording sessions of the most famous band in the world. It seemed like none of the Beetles had the balls to kick her the fuck out.
that was the problem, they were cowards, still scared of ol' Teddyboy Lennon. George was the only one who spoke his mind clearly at times. But one of the big blow ups came when George asked John to appear for the concert for Bangladesh. John came with Yoko thinking they both could perform. George, however, informed John that he could perform but flatly refused to have Yoko perform. So John also didn't perform.
By the accounts of all four Beatles, they had each threatened to quit at different times; Paul was the first to do it publicly. Yoko is just the scapegoat.
@@robd1329 Incorrect. She didn't come on to Paul at all. Paul was into Avant-garde long before John knew people in that scene. One of the people was John Dunbar at the Indica gallery. Her Avant-garde friend took her round to Paul's for some lyrics for a show they were doing. Paul couldn't help so told them to go to John's which they did and John gave her the lyrics to The Word.
Paul quit publicly AFTER John told him he was leaving the Beatles. And Yoko stalked John for two years before they met. She knew very well who the Beatles were. How old are you? I'm a boomer. Only a hermit living in some remote cave could have possibly escaped knowing about the Beatles. Granted, that doesn't mean she's responsible for the break up.
I had read about Ringo doing that and later on Ringo said it himself on a radio show. He was feeling tired and sad. He went to Paul first, saying, "It is you, John, and George. With me just there not part of the group" Paul says, "I thought it was you three." He went to John and said similar, and John said, "I thought it was you three." Without even going to George, he finally just laughed and went on a vacation from the Beatles. When he came back, they had flowers all over his drum set. So yeah, I actually liked Yoko at first, then went into indifference, and now don't care for her after learning more about what did, but at the same time I don't think she broke up the Beatles either.
Everyone historically says he became different once he met her, started focusing too much only on her than the whole group including himself. But even so, his lyrical concepts became deeper and more relevant after he knew her, so I don't think it was such a bad thing. The only weird thing is that she claimed that she didn't know him or even who he was while also trying to have a relationship. That part is weird, claiming in public not to know him at all while in private trying to have a relationship with him is pretty deceptive. But besides that, I don't think she's responsible for breaking up the Beatles I think that's the way it was going anyway.
Heard she actually was having a relationship with some guy she actually let move into John's home in the dakota. I say that because he paid for all of everything. That is so not right.
Here John has the beautiful wife and he leaves her for a Manly looking beast like Yoko who has the face that would make a freight train take a dirt road..
@@robd1329 It was strange. He could have had almost any woman in the whole world, you would think, but remember looks are not all there is in a relationship. Prince Charles left Diana for Camilla, who one might argue was old, wrinkled and scraggy, but he seemed to prefer her.
Truth was she was toxic for him. His energy seemed to change and she never seemed to want him to be doing his stuff. Happens in dv or toxic ltrs I was in enough of them to know
She just took way too much space, didn't contribute anything, pretty much messed up anything she touched. Men in general, need a love doll on the side, with the appproval of a mother figure in a day to day life. Yoko served as his mother. He felt lost without her. He was lost altogether anyway. IMAGINE is lyrically an ode to a One world authoritarian government, hiding behind and innocent peace and love wishful thinking prose. He admitted himself he had sold his soul, and can be seen flashing the devil horn sign on a promotion photo for Yellow Submarine. My point being Lennon was no angel. But then again, who can stay clean in this environment ?
This article doesn't mention that during Lennon's 'affair' his mistress encouraged his relationship with Jules, his first son. Lennon went to visit Ono one day and she dosed him with LSD, after which the affair ended, as did the close relationship with his son Jules. Ono required Lennon quit music to raise Sean as a condition of not having an abortion. Anyone who thinks Ono is a stand up person is misinformed.
She also abandoned her daughter from her prior marriage. Her ex wouldn't let Yoko near. He knew how unstable and manipulative she was. Never maternal. Always about herself.
Mr Lennon didn't have a will for his son Julian, Julian had to sue Yoko for a couple million from his dads estate, JEEZ LOUISE, TRASH both John and Yoko
Yep, the die hard fans of John and the Beatles keep blaming Yoko when John left behind his own son for Yoko and kinda forgot about Julian to the point of not putting his first son's name in his will. Other celebrities did that for their kids and even Burt Reynolds set up a trust fund for his ADOPTED son which I think is better to avoid inheritance tax.
I thought for years she broke up the Beatles until paul machartney himself said that she did not break them up it was a mutual agreement between the 4 Beatles
I don't really have much of an opinion on her. I don't love her, I don't hate her. I don't think any of the bad things said about Yoko mattered to John, he would have still stayed with her. I have no idea what happened at thins time because I wasn't around, but John was an incredible person, yes he had many many flaws but I will remember him very fondly and whatever happened in this relationship, I'm just going to stay out of it, because it's none of my business. (Also reason Yoko knew of Ringo, Ringo is apple in Japanese, I'm learning Japanese so...)
It's strange to see so many comments saying "Yoko would never let him get close to anyone" - yet she supported him meeting and exploring someone else before they settled down, seems like an odd contradiction to me. One of the two isn't true... I don't know which it is because I don't know these people personally.
I just found out what Yoko Ono did to John's wife at that time. She seems like a heartless woman and will do everything to get what she wants. She is just awful!
Even approaching her 90s, Yoko Ono is still not getting the recognition she deserves. At least, she was cleared from ever being responsible for breaking up the Beatles in which Paul accuses John for doing so.
@@DonRamiro1 Then stop believing the myth that Yoko broke up the Beatles. She had absolutely nothing to do with the Beatles breakup. None. Get over it.
Many people want to blame Yoko for the Beatles breaking up. As all of them were getting married and having kids, they just naturally would have drifted apart and pursued their own musical careers. I do think Yoko was instrumental in breaking them up soon rather than later. After watching May Pang's "Lost Weekend" I have the sneaking suspicion that Yoko was 1) A narcissist. She needed to be the center of John's universe and so she did everything possible to get between him and everyone else who meant anything to him. 2) A master manipulator. She knew how to push buttons and pull strings to work things to her advantage. Now, I've never met her but given what eyewitnesses have said, I don't think I'm wrong. I feel (I have no proof of this) but after listening to May and comments from the other Beatles and Julian, I don't think I'm wrong. When John ultimately returned to Yoko and The Dakota, I don't believe for a moment that his heart was in it. I think May Pang was the love of his life--she certainly made him a better person and his life better, happier and more stable. John was well read, well-educated and had a great deal of life experience. He didn't strike me as the kind of person that could be easily manipulated or controlled. It makes me wonder what Yoko had on him. Was it something from his past? Could it have kept John out of the U.S. permanently? Did she threaten to take Sean away and fight him for custody in a messy divorce? Was she blackmailing him. I just don't think John went back to Yoko willingly. I think she was holding something over his head that might have either destroyed him or his career.
It's really weird with all the people commenting how unattractive Yoko Ono was and being unable to understand what he saw in her. I always thought she was one of the -- if not *the* -- most beautiful and charming women I've ever seen in public media. No wonder he was enchanted. She gave quite a soulful impression. She's an old soul like him.
You got understand the extreme level of bigotry towards Asians that existed in the culture at this time. Not only through the propaganda from or War but on into the Korean War and then all the way into Vietnam. There was a huge segment of the population that absolutely detest it Asian people. So that's the reason that Yoko Ono is such a notorious
i rhink yoko was just misunderstood. she definitely is way ahead of her time. her & john just synced. plus they definitely practiced free love. one reason foe rheir bond is they were both misunderstood. just wish in a way she was his FIRST love instead of him breaking his first wife's heart...
I still can’t stand her at all. The way she did. Julian is absolutely horrible. When John and May Pang had there affair it was Yoko, who said the whole thing in motion. She didn’t want John anymore, but she didn’t want anybody else to have him. If it hadn’t been for John and his money, she wouldn’t have as much now as she does. Also losing her own daughter was her own fault. They were both strung out on drugs for many years and with the lifestyle they live who could blame the ex-husband for taking his daughter away from her. When she had Sean, she still did drugs throughout the pregnancy, and he was born addicted to drugs. What kind of mother does that to her unborn child? I would not be one bit surprised to find out what kind of untruths she has told Sean about his father and Julian. Wished John had been able to stay with May and not gone back to Yoko. He would’ve been a much better person for it. She was married at least twice before marrying John and at least twice after his death. God bless Julian for the man he has become . So sad John is gone.
he had his first son... julian... sean was his second son... that tells you everything.. terrible father to julian..supposedly so smart and modern thinking..still a shitty father...
If its love it happens despite marriage .. part of love ..she could sing joining living the music & love as one ,so beautiful ,so sad privileged to know their love❤
@@actsismmljcorrectlyobeyed6190 Why can’t someone do that while also loving & respecting people of a different race/ethnicity/background? Also, idk if you consider yourself a Beatles or John Lennon fan or not, but I hope you realize that what you’re saying is completely antithetical to the messaging behind their music & what they stood for.
@@oxkit0katxo413 You have to wonder if the comments you see on this platform are all genuine, some give off the impression they are written by agent provocateurs.
Yeah i wouldnt call it legend because yoko abandoned her family for John not a fan of anything like that plus can careless about any beatle !! Capesh !!
People always seem to say that Yoko is ugly but forget that his second big love May Pang was even less "pretty", lol. I mean Japanese woman are always more pretty than Chinese, that's a fact. The guy just had some weird tastes and obviously liked Asian woman
This is a racist video. John decided to back Yoko's art with his own money. It happens ALL OF THE TIME between artists and backers. The problem with videos like this is they never explain who Yoko Ono is, where she comes from, why she is or who she is or what she's all about. And there is no secret of John did back and forth with whoever. Its not our business. If you're looking for perfect people? Then go to church and good luck with that. The truth is John Lennon got out of that stuffy boring box of what was acceptable and what was not in the morbid society he was bread within. What a morbid life that is. It's pretty much why Harry and Megan got out too today, due to the racist nature of the situation. What people don't understand is that the Beatles didn't break up because of Yoko. Yoko was just there during what was already taking place. WHY DO YOU THINK JOHN HOOKED UP WITH YOKO FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE? He saw a way out to happiness. Beatles fans are the one's who are WAY OVERRATED if you ask me. You need to grow up now and move on.
I don't think Yoko necessarily broke them up.. but you can see how bringing your girlfriend around all the time to something you do with your lifelong friends that she knows nothing about, in which at the same time, she can "contribute to" because she's so "artistic" with her "brilliant mind" could be a problem in the group... she didn't start the fire but she didn't necessarily put it out.. fuel is what I'm saying...
He leaves his wife and child devastated and heart broken...but stands up for all kinds of, self proclaimed, righteous causes....hypocritical at best....poor Cynthia and Julian...
I so love John… it is sad that we lost agr8 human being … my dad looks so much like him… my father was adopted from Belfast Ireland I lost him when he died at 38 …
Sorry he was not a great human being. He was a great musician no doubt about that. But he was a pos to his son from his first marriage. Sorry about your father but please dont say things like great humann being for somoene who literaly abandoned his child to be with another woman. He didnt left him anything in his will and his son never wronged him in any way. What a terrible fate is to have a father that doesnt care about you and its not your fault. God knows how many years Juluan spent thinking where did he go wrong for his father to just be such an a-hole to just totally abandon him and not raise him.
I see why John wrote a song called "Woman is the n*** of the world", everyone has something bad to say about Yoko and these people never met her personally.
Paul was self centered to do this to his “brothers”. Third wheeling them in their own band. Yoko is the meaning of a pesticide. She just lingered around until she had taken John from his boys. And she even tried getting her intrusive foot in the Beatles good name.. Hell no.
Winnie Wallace... John Lennon appears to have fallen hook line and sinker once he met Yoko..She was his other half and he was hers. Their love for each other was unique. It's sad they received so much hostility from so many. Yoko bless her has kept soldering on, like she was giving them the finger..
Did Yoko "move on" before or after denying Julian's inheritance after his father died, whilst auctioning off a bunch of John's possessions. (which Julian had to buy back)?
@@hookooekoo2 you aren’t terribly bright. What I was saying is that although he didn’t believe in race (supposedly), because of his so called religion, why did he have a preference towards Asian women, dumb dumb? It seems Lennon was actually the racist, dipshit.
@@hookooekoo2 that word literally has no meaning anymore because of ignorant assholes like you constantly throwing it around. You are pretty tough through your computer though. 😂
After watching get back I don't think yoko split the Beatles but I think she took him to America to separate him from the other three and keep his entire focus on her.
She didn’t know who he was?! Omg c’mon! She didn’t want him to know she was stalking him! Who else would basically jump on his lap pushing his girlfriend out of the way not knowing it was JOHN LENNON. Suuure Yoko 😏 pull the other one. It wasn’t love it wasn’t even honest - it was obsession. She also lied about setting up his affair - a narcissist always needs to control the narrative. If she really didn’t care then why would she call that first girlfriend - who was the mother of his first born son - just to gloat in her face that he had died AND ban her from the funeral for no reason... yeah, sure Yoko
YOKO: FROM A MEDIUM, THE TRUTH AS FAR AS I CAN SAY: THIS IS DESIGNED AND TRUTHFUL WITH THE AIM OF ASKING YOKO TO REENT,K AND WHY: Yoko did NOT love Lennon, what she meant was in fact: John Lennon's fame to rub off onto her, his MONEY and it was NOT love at all, not the human emotion. She loved most of all: money. Later she called love, was either or both: luv that is truly a little pill, a drug most rock and rollers take, addictive too. She called her lusts "Love". John Lennon was shot because of the way he was living and the gunman was wrong, too. Lennon knew that reincarnation was often true, and now he's reincarnated, reborn, in Africa with a lovely black skin (that's honest, not a joke), and he's so poor he has no clothes, and because he wanted to be so famous, he's now more or less famous in Africa for being so poor that his mother cannot afford to buy any clothes for him to wear (didn't he go naked in public to 'shock em all dead"??? His mother is a beggar for food foir her and her child. Yoko, what have you done to yourselves by your own Karma? Selfishness and greed ALWAYS backfires on the selfish and greedy too. Don't shift the blame. Hell is cold, Heaven is warm and both are earned either way, by your OWN decisions/behavior, thoughts words and deeds. Why didn't you ask about what the Master said in India, more? Better give plenty of your greedy selfish money to the poor, a decent already existing charity and quit telling lies about how MUCH you gave. It was not even a drop in the bucket, john too. If you give the bulk of your hidden money to a real Charity helping give food to the poor, it's almost guaranteed that next time you reincarnate you will have food and water for yourself. We KNOW you have practiced in front of a mirror, often, about "how to tell a lie without it showing?". No longer can you fool the Police and FBI and CIA: They know about it now. Yoko you are GUILTY OF FRAUD. Don't go fundraising either,, you are too dishonest to trust. In fact, the money you gave was only $1,500 USD, and you said it was so much you could not count it up. Quit the half-truths too, your deceits work out about karma, as a deficit of funds, even IQ. ALL I WANT FROM YOU IS: REPENT. Make your Last Will out with PLENTY LEFT TO THE RED CROSS to help repay your spiritual debt, bad karma for all those times you mocked the Lord Jesus Christ and tried to fool the Christians, too. I'm tired of rock and rollers undercover satanism that backfires on them later on.
