One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today.
This is an archival story that predates current editorial management.
This archival content was written, edited, and published prior to LAist's acquisition by its current owner, Southern California Public Radio ("SCPR"). Content, such as language choice and subject matter, in archival articles therefore may not align with SCPR's current editorial standards. To learn more about those standards and why we make this distinction, please click here.
Too Little, Too Late: Paul McCartney Says Yoko Ono Didn't Break Up The Beatles
Yoko Ono (vipflash / Shutterstock.com)
The idea of Yoko Ono breaking up The Beatles is so pervasive at this point that any girlfriend anywhere who gets in between a group of male friends runs the risk of being likened to the avant garde artist.
But in a new interview with David Frost for the Al Jazeera English TV channel, Paul McCartney says that the commonly held belief about John Lennon's second wife and her ultimately permanent impact on the band isn't true. The LA Times reports:
“She certainly didn’t break the group up, the group was breaking up,” McCartney told Frost...“I don’t think you can blame her for anything.”
The admission comes a little bit late in the game in terms of changing the public's opinion about Ono, but we appreciate that McCartney's heart is in the right place.
He goes on to say that Ono can probably be thanked for such Lennon greats as "Imagine," and for other solo work that former Beatles members went on to do.
One year ago, Congress voted to defund public media, eliminating a critical $1.7 million from our budget every year going forward. But they couldn’t silence us, and we’re not going anywhere. LAist is now 100% community funded and that means we’re taking our future into our own hands and turning to you to keep local reporting strong.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
Senior Vice President News, Editor in Chief
