The Beatles introduced they have been splitting up in 1970, simply weeks earlier than the discharge of their twelfth and last album, Let It Be.

The news got here as a shock to followers all over the world, but it surely wasn't a complete shock to John Lennon.

Ten years later he gave his last ever interview earlier than he was assassinated on December 8, 1980, and he confessed the writing was on the wall for the top of The Beatles years earlier, in 1966.

Although the Fab Four's break up was supposedly over inventive variations, arguments inside the band, and disagreements about administration, Lennon defined Yoko Ono was the rationale behind the band's finish.

"The old gang of mine was over the moment I met her," he mentioned. "I didn’t consciously know it at the time, but that’s what was going on."

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Lennon first met Ono on November 9, 1966, in London at an exhibition.

At the time he was married to Cynthia Lennon, with whom he had wed on August 23, 1962.

Sparks flew between Lennon and Ono, and earlier than lengthy, a passionate love affair started between them. Within the following few years, Lennon break up from Cynthia and moved in with Ono.

Lennon continued: "As soon as I met her, that was the end of the boys, but it so happened that the boys were well-known and weren’t just the local guys at the bar. These were guys everybody else knew."

Ono was not a controlling pressure for Lennon as soon as they bought collectively, however she was his one and solely focus. The draw of the band and their work now not him because it as soon as did. So his shifted focus meant The Beatles have been no extra.

The Imagine singer ultimately married Ono on March 20, 1969. They remained collectively till Lennon's loss of life in 1980.

As a results of Lennon's adoration for his new spouse, The Beatles' followers started theorising that Ono had by some means initiated the band's break up.

Paul McCartney backed up Lennon's feedback, calling the theories about Ono's involvement within the dissolving of the band a joke.

"It’s just going to be this comical thing in 50 years’ time," he mentioned. "You know: 'They broke up because Yoko sat on an amp.'"