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Paul McCartney defends Yoko Ono

Paul McCartney says The Beatles were doomed regardless of Yoko Ono’s influence on John Lennon
 
Despite the bad rap that has dogged her for years, Yoko Ono did not break up the Beatles, says none other than Sir Paul McCartney.
The former Fab Four rocker tells British journalist David Frost that despite what many have said over the years, John Lennon’s romance with the divisive Japanese artist didn’t lead to the break-up of the band.

The Guardian reports that in an interview set to air in the UK next month, McCartney says that the band was already on its last legs when Lennon began showing up at the studio with Ono in tow.

“She certainly didn’t break the group up, the group was breaking up,” McCartney is quoted as saying.

Though the rocker admits he wasn’t fond of the idea of Ono sitting in on the band’s recording sessions, he believes that Ono pushed Lennon forward, making it possible for the songwriter to pen such later hits as ‘Imagine.’

“I don’t think he would have done that without Yoko, so I don’t think you can blame her for anything,” McCartney reportedly tells Frost.

“When Yoko came along, part of her attraction was her avant garde side, her view of things, so she showed him another way to be, which was very attractive to him. So it was time for John to leave, he was definitely going to leave [one way or another].”

In 2010, the Daily Mail quoted Ono saying, ‘My small hand could not have broken these men up. They broke up because they had reached an end, but in doing so they all also created new wonderful beginnings.’

Meanwhile, McCartney is apparently already recording new tracks for his follow-up to Kisses on the Bottom. NME reports the rocker is working with Kings of Leon producer Ethan Johns and Amy Winehouse producer Mark Ronson.

Source: www.inmusic.ca