Paul McCartney Says Yoko Ono's Presence During Beatles Studio Sessions Was Workplace 'Interference'

Most women would have said "I don't want to go to work with you."

They should have used a younger Paul pic - before his nose Job

[quote] Paul McCartney Says Yoko Ono's Presence During Beatles Studio Sessions Was Workplace 'Interference'

Ono he didn’t!!

BEATLES STOP!

Yoko was a grasping cunt.

Of course.

No debate.

Except for the codependency drug usage, Yoko was a very positive influence on John, both creatively and personally. But Paul is right, her presence in the recording studio was awkward and disruptive to the dynamic of the Beatles recording process. But John was at a very dependent phase in his life at that point and needed Yoko as his crutch.

Still a dick move.

That Yoko BROAD is now

90 YEARS OLD!

[quote]"I was feeling guilty because I was with Yoko and I was leaving Paul".- John Lennon

[quote]Q magazine 1998: If John Lennon could come back for a day how would you spend it with him? Paul: In bed.

[quote]"John and I went to Paris on birthday money he received from a relative. He must have been fond of me to spend that money. He let me have all the banana milkshakes I wanted.".- Paul McCartney

[quote]Everyone blames Yoko for breaking up the Beatles and they are actually partly correct. What she did was break up John and Paul; she was the 'other woman' in the relationship, which led to their 'divorce' (John's words) and the eventual dissolution of Beatles as a band.

r5 = May Pang

John was the one who insisted on having Yoko present at all times and wanting her input on everything. It’s very obvious what happened: they told him they didn’t want her there and he said well then I’m leaving. His choice. It was always kind of inevitable though because after Brian Epstein died they had no leader and Paul tried to fill that role — and all the other guys, especially John, resented it.

Based on the Get Back docu-series, it looked like Heather McCartney was more a source of workplace interference. Cute kid but annoyingly hyper.

Paul had to have it his way, the real reason the Beatles broke up is because of a post let it be recording session argument shortly after Lennon played Toronto with Plastic Ono. Paul refused to let George have equal tracks and John said fuck it then I’m not interested anymore. Paul’s increasing bossiness was ten times the distraction and frustration that Yoko was.

Why dredge that up now when she’s in ill health?

There were also genuine and serious artistic differences at this time. Paul wanted to keep doing vaudeville-esque unchallenging pop music. John wanted to do experimental, politically incendiary stuff. George was tired of only getting one or two songs on each album, especially when he was bringing in stuff like “While My Guitar Gently Sleeps” and being met with “Rocky Raccoon”. One of them was bound to pull the plug, Yoko or no Yoko.

[quote]Why dredge that up now when she’s in ill health?

Too right r14. Yoko might get upset while browsing DL from her sick bed.

Is he filing for unemployment orsomething? Who cares at this point.

R16, OP’s article is from People Magazine, you moron.

She should be called yo-yo. How annoying, at least the lads got on with it

I like The Kinks better anyway.

[quote][R16], OP’s article is from People Magazine, you moron.

Yoko Ono is even less likely to be reading People magazine than browsing DL, r18.

R21, It’s the online edition, you idiot. If you don’t think she has staff members and/or lawyers checking on everything written about her, then you are incredibly stupid.

There's plenty of photographic evidence showing Linda all up in their business, too. In fact, Linda provided much of that evidence herself! Oh, but Linda was the nice, "sensible", blond girl, so...

[quote]It’s the online edition, you idiot. If you don’t think she has staff members and/or lawyers checking on everything written about her, then you are incredibly stupid.

Good for her. Then staff and legal can decide what to tell Yoko on her sick bed, r22, and People magazine & everybody else can carry on if they wish.

🥱 God On A Wheel! 🥱

Yoko ruined everything. Women always do.

[quote]John wanted to do experimental, politically incendiary stuff.

Oh really? When did he do that, then? I didn't notice Britain flying apart over any of his "works".

I notice Paul McCartney is no longer colouring his hair that curious shade of aubergine.

R27 I guess you missed the whole Some Time in New York City album?

(Note: it is not a good album. But I didn’t say this type of work was good quality, I said it’s what he wanted to do.)

It's no crime for Beatles to do as they please

As long as they're discreet and keep clear of disease

We ignore, we disregard

But once they allow a bit on the side

To move to the center where she's not qualified

We should all be on our guard!

She should get into her head

She should not get out of bed

She should know that she's not paid

To be loud but to be laid

Slut!

Dangerous Jade...

"Mind Games"? "Some Time in New York City"? That awful rock'n'roll album....John Lennon was burnt out. It seems like nobody will just say it. And "Double Fantasy" was sappy. Gimme some truth!!!!

*shrug* I love DOUBLE FANTASY. SOME TIME is John’s only weak album in my opinion

Well, OF COURSE her presence was interference. You're trying to make music and she sits in a chair, bored, reading a magazine. I know, I know: for anyone who wasn't a Beatle it WAS boring a lot of the time. So STAY HOME. And if John was incapable of being without her for five minutes (which probably was true), that's really sad, and the Beatles were doomed.

How the fuck was that man functioning before he met her, is what I'd like to know.

To paraphrase someone else, …. Paul McCartney reminds me of an aging actress of the 1940s who’s still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.

He never tires of the attention or of feeding the salacious history of his band that’s been long, long gone before many of us were even alive. No doubt Yoko was a pain in the ass, but I think most people always realized she’s half retarded. If this was just how things were, as he says, and it didn’t bother them and they “just got on with it“, why is he still rehashing it 50 years or so later? He has worked overtime to try and make himself the singular face of the Beatles. To hear him tell it, he knew everything, and he was at the heart of every ounce of success. Easy to do when the actual genius (and founder) of the band is long dead and his widow is too old and frail to clap back.

Well Paul, thanks for this timely update. OTOH, I remember people claiming Linda Eastman was as big a problem as Yoko.

DOUBLE FANTASY was as sappy and simple minded as anything Paul McCartney ever did.

R34 not very well. He drank a lot, took a bunch of acid, physically abused his first wife then abandoned her and their kid, and basically was a hot mess in his personal life.

He didn’t do very well during the time period when he and Yoko were separated either. Remember when he was wasted walking around with a maxipad on his head for no reason?

Whether folks like Yoko or not, it’s undeniable that she helped John get his shit together as much as was possible.

Yoko helped give John structure and guidance. Sort of a stabilizing mother figure.

PEOPLE.- "It's a Love Letter From John to Paul. Inside The Last Beatles Song 'Now and Then".

Many have theorized that Lennon was eying some form of reunion with McCartney prior to his murder on Dec. 8, 1980. No one will ever know for sure, but the thought certainly makes the words of "Now and Then" extra poignant:

"And now and then If we must start again We will know for sure That I love you"

Martin is unable to confirm the song’s lyrical significance to McCartney, but he has his suspicions. “I do feel as though ‘Now and Then’ is a love letter to Paul written by John. I mean, I've never really asked Paul about it, and I'm not sure whether Paul would say, ‘Oh, that's definitely it,' because he wouldn't want to second guess John. But that's the sense I get. And I get the feeling that's why Paul was so determined to finish it.”

Geez, get over it.

There were some really great old threads on here with genuine gossip (including one from a music industry person that closely worked with Jim Steinman among others) that l convinced me Paul and John had quite a “thing” going on for their entire lives. I wonder what will come out once both Macca and Yoko (and Ringo, ostensibly) kick the bucket.

FWIW, I believe most of Lennon’s problems were his own doing (he was batshit insane, something no one seems to really talk about it) but Yoko did alienate him from his friends and get him hooked on heroin.

I've always wondered if John and Paul had been intimate.

You know what? I like Yoko. Bitch is crazy.

[quote]There were some really great old threads on here with genuine gossip (including one from a music industry person that closely worked with Jim Steinman among others) that l convinced me Paul and John had quite a “thing” going on for their entire lives. I wonder what will come out once both Macca and Yoko (and Ringo, ostensibly) kick the bucket

The Beatles Were Bi Threads:

R45 That is one from 2021, the really good stuff was from the ones that are probably lost to the archives now, around 2010.

Paul needs t

Paul needs to quit rehashing old shit for attention. That new Beatles song sucks. He and Ringo are incapable of sitting down and writing a song for John and George so he puts out that boring ai harvest of the dead.

Yoko is a wonderful woman, I had a couple encounters with her years ago. Paul can shut up and fuck off.

R47 = Sean Lennon

I like Yoko’s music better.

[quote] Easy to do when the actual genius (and founder) of the band is long dead and his widow is too old and frail to clap back.

The songs that they wrote together are better than the songs they wrote separately. Lennon was not the "actual genius" of the Beatles. He and Paul had synergy.

Rolling Stone.-"The World's Greatest Musical Love Story"

[quote] “Now and Then” could have been cheap or cloying or overblown, but instead, it’s a pained, intimate adult confession. You can hear why Paul never forgot this song over the years, and why he couldn’t let it go. You can also hear why he knew this needed to be a Beatles song, and how right he was to pursue his mad quest to the end. In other words, it’s a real Beatles song, adding one more classic to the world’s greatest musical love story.

R6 Yoko poisoned John's ear with hatred for the Beatles, his first wife Cynthia and even his son Julian. She was wanting the spotlight for her talentless self. To show you how nice she is Julian Lennon, John's first son once said he'd been fighting Yoko for his inheritance from John for years. Julian felt that Ono had improperly influenced Lennon. She was an abusive spouse by all the definitions, cut him off from his friends, wanted his full attention and time 24/7. Extreme possessiveness is pathological. Controled all aspects of his life. Isolated him from family and friends. Violated his privacy (eg; was in on the recording sessions of the Beatles. Yoko took total control of John's lifestyle, friends, certain behaviors, and preferences on and robbed him of his individuality, his opinions, preferences, and relationships. An abuser does this over time, like a good bit of propaganda until the abused believes they are going along willingly as John did but in reality was completely under her thumb. After his death did you know she displays his bloodied glasses he wore when he was murdered? That is not because she wants to show how bad it was, it is a ploy to place herself in the media and the center of attention using his awful demise even after his death. She used the peace movement the same way, like a warmonger using war for their own personal gain Yoko used peace for HER own personal gain she made a lot of money from it. Public appearances, media attention and furthered her own fame. She is the classic case of an abusive spouse and it was a sick, relationship.

It was 60 fucking years ago, get over it.

Should we get over Vincent Van Gogh's paintings? They are from130 years ago, oh well so what? Or the history of the world, or art or music or people we once knew who have died? ...everything in the past, just 'get over it' what, what is the amount of time one should remember something, you deem? 10 years? Then poof! All should be dismissed? Guess so, according to R53. You know what they say, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. How many people are or have been under the thumb of an abusive relationship blame themselves unless it is recognized, revealed to them what is being done, how their personal worth is demeaned by an abusive spouse. It is an injustice to say the least. Oh, btw, Yoko who so called was so good for him stopped him from making any music at all for ten years. That John/Yoko sick, abusive relationship was and is an unfairness to their friends who were maligned and cheated out of their good friendship with John. It should b, exposed to the people who do not recognize the cruelty of spousal abuse. How it takes over a person for the sake of another person's selfish personal gain, exposed to the world for what it was and a lesson to be learned from.

John & Yoko was very much a co-dependency relationship. To claim Yoko was poisonous and abusive is a gross exaggeration of their personal dynamic. All relationships have some form a manipulation and power play. Yoko filled the void John had in his psyche at the right time which is why they clicked and completed each other. I'm by no means a big Yoko fan, but I do believe her purpose and function with John was more positive than negative.

Always thought it was interesting that both John and Paul integrated their wives so heavily into their music. I actually think Yoko was a good influence on John artistically and inspired him to take more risks.

Beore Yoko John was a successful and regularly productive working musician in the worlds most successful band, The Beatles. He had friends, a family. He was not happily married it is true but when Yoko got into his life he lied to his wife by concealing an affair with Yoko (Hey you've got to hide your love away). Yoko was the final nail in that marriage. Instead of working out his problems or being kind in a friendly breakup he was encouraged by Yoko to an acrimonious divorce. He could have done the right thing, been up front with Cynthia, not run around behind her back. Yooko and John lied and cheated on his faithful wife and cut them off from money. Do you really think she had nothing to do with this? Yoko became involved in his finances gaining control of the song rights. Yoko encouraged him to abandoned his family, abandon his son, abandon his friends and he left the most successful songwriting partnership in musical history. Left the best band he ever was in, a successful band and a successfully financial band. In other words through her he quit a good job. The two of them went on to heroin together so much he became a heroin addict. Ono openly joked about taking heroin being the couple's form of exercise. She indulged his ego and to me it was for self gain. She encouraging him in all sorts of ridiculous public tirades in which she bathed in the limelight. Baggism, bed in for peace, avant gard art shows centering around her promoting herself as a conceptual artist while they preached to the public to rid themselves of possessions while they both lived in the most expensive real estate in the world across from Central park in the Dakota with John playing the song Imagine on an expensive Steinway grand piano. The message peace in the world is at hand if only we would listen to them and do as they say yet they do not do as they say. He couldn't even be peaceful to his own family and friends with Yoko there beside him. This was not a stable relationship but a destructive relationship rife with jealousies and ego trips.

He wrote the openingly hostile song 'How do you sleep' about Paul McCartney. "The only thing you done was yesterday / And since you've gone you're just another day" are directed at McCartney, was a reference to the Beatles' 1965 song "Yesterday" and Paul's hit single "Another Day". Lennon initially penned the lyrics "You probably pinched that bitch anyway", as a reference to McCartney's claims that he was not sure if he had plagiarized "Yesterday", having asked Lennon, Harrison, George Martin and others if they had heard that melody before. Although Lennon received the sole writing credit for "How Do You Sleep?", a contemporary account by Felix Dennis of Oz magazine indicates that Yoko Ono, as well as Allen Klein, Lennon's manager, also contributed lyrics. This is the couple who are telling us how to achieve world peace? Give me a break. One look at the cover of Double fantasy tells you John was a skeleton of his former self due to addiction during that relationship. The truth needs to come out about this farce.

[quote]Yoko poisoned John's ear with hatred for the Beatles...

Let me get this straight. John was so ignorant and childlike that this woman was able to control his every thought? He had NO CHOICE in the matter?

Some people want to be controlled. Some people find it's easier to let someone else control them. A mind can be twisted, especially one that is damaged and so, willing. Childhood trauma leads to dysfunction. Lennon's was a man plagued by insecurities and repressed childhood memories of abandonment and emotional abuse. People from John’s innermost circle describe a troubled soul, whose erratic behavior could swing from violent outbursts to deep remorse. John’s had a long history of alcohol and drug abuse demonstrating and a tendency to self-medicate to escape a painful reality. He had a fragile self-identity. A fear of real or imagined abandonment. John intuitively knew he needed Yoko to hush his inner demons. Yoko became John’s lover, wife, and mother figure, an Oedipal composite of Julia and Mimi, the most influential women of John’s past. John couldn’t bear to be alone — a phobia that would stay with him for life. “He never did things on his own." “It was John and Paul McCartney, then John and Yoko Ono. He had to have someone else.” Ray Connolly, who befriended John as a journalist in the ’60s and has wrote 'Being John Lennon'.

An abuser sees these weaknesses and moves in. Those who are particularly vulnerable being selected as targets. Vulnerabilities of the victim are exploited. Yoko controlled John for her own advantage.

Spousal abuse exists. Propaganda works. Psychologists make fortunes from it.

^ EXCUSES, EXCUSES

More like background.

Just found out this song was written by Steely Dan for John Lennon. Well, finally, someone else agrees with me on that one.

He never had to work with Mary.

[quote]“With Yoko present, Paul McCartney’s reign as Lennon’s princess was doomed.”— Peter McCabe & Robert Schonfeld, Apple to the Core, 1972