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Paul McCartney: Yoko Ono did not break up The Beatles
Sunday Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4:09PM GMT 11 Nov 2012

Posted on 11/11/2012 7:30:05 PM PST by Olog-hai

Sir Paul McCartney has admitted that “it wasn’t that bad a thing” for John Lennon to leave the Beatles and said that Yoko Ono did not break up group.

In an interview with Sir David Frost for Al Jazeera, Sir Paul, 70, said the departure of John Lennon from the band in 1969 was expected by the whole group. …

Sir Paul also absolved Yoko Ono, Mr. Lennon’s then-wife of responsibility for the group breaking up. “She certainly didn’t break the group up,” he said. “The group was breaking up and I think she attracted John so much to another way of life that he then went on to, very successfully, add a sort of second part to his career, writing things like ‘Imagine’ and ‘Give Peace a Chance’. I don’t think he would have done that without Yoko.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: beatles; johnlennon; paulmccartney; wasteofbandwidth; yokoono
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To: CaptainK

I liked Maccas first few solo albums, Ram was one of the first albums I ever got as a kid, still think it’s great. At times as good as anything he did with The Beatles.


41 posted on 11/11/2012 8:55:58 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

She certainly broke me up.

Still does.


42 posted on 11/11/2012 8:58:54 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

Dennis Leary put it best:

“What kind of country is this, where John Lennon gets six bullets in the chest, and Yoko was standing right next to him and not one bullet? Explain THAT to me!”


43 posted on 11/11/2012 9:01:04 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: John S Mosby

One world /sarcasm ON.

Lennon and Ono a study in self absorption, much like Hillary finally growing up to realize there are other people in the world and it’s not about Her, or Them.

“Four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire-— now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall”-— all that from making up a song from the newspaper.

Maybe it is true anyone can do that. But there are very few who could write Eleanor Rigby or Yesterday— and Paul did that (not too much from Lennon there).


44 posted on 11/11/2012 9:02:01 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: dfwgator

And Johnny Carson said something as funny:

“There’s no justice in this world, if there were Elvis would still be alive and all those Elvis impersonators would be dead”.


45 posted on 11/11/2012 9:04:18 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

But then, anyone could write “We are sorry Uncle Albert”!


46 posted on 11/11/2012 9:06:36 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: John S Mosby

Or my all-time favorite Beatles song, “Penny Lane” the perfect pop song. Wonderful melody....Lennon couldn’t touch that if he tried.


47 posted on 11/11/2012 9:07:00 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: djwright; kabumpo

‘Imagine’ is not a Beatles song.


48 posted on 11/11/2012 9:08:18 PM PST by Borges
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To: Olog-hai

Paul McCartney? I thought he was dead?!


49 posted on 11/11/2012 9:13:03 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: dfwgator

Instant Karma?


50 posted on 11/11/2012 9:15:07 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Beowulf9
Yes Lennon was the fellow who pushed money to the IRA Provos by laundering it through Libya and generally acted as a stooge for Maoist crackpots everywhere. Then, and I have no idea what caused this, he did a volte face. In 1980 he donates to the max to Reagan's campaign and writes RR a personal letter wishing him victory and saying he only wished he could vote for him and recanting most of his leftist politics.

Yoko was enraged by her husband's radial change in political orientation and there was a lot of real angry stress in their relationship in its final years. The question always has been did she in cahoots with some other ‘progressives’ in Hawaii arrange for the obsessed and crazed fan to be brought to NYC to eliminate Lennon before he started to divorce Yoko and pull his fortune away from ‘progressive causes’.

51 posted on 11/11/2012 9:28:55 PM PST by robowombat
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To: richmwill

Some claim that Paul was the best guitarist as well as bassist, I like his lead playing more than Harrison’s. Not bad on the drums either. He played all the instruments on his first solo album.


52 posted on 11/11/2012 9:30:46 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Lead guitar break on “Taxman” is played by Paul.


53 posted on 11/11/2012 10:05:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I was shocked to learn that was Macca’s solo on Taxman, considering it was a Harrison song, and his solo had a heavy Indian influence, which definitely suggested it would have been Harrison.


54 posted on 11/11/2012 10:15:45 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai
My favorite song by the Beatles is The Girl That I Love. I'm saddened to hear that the group has broken up.
55 posted on 11/11/2012 10:36:05 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Borges

Yes, I do know that, but it came out of the Beatles thing. Didn’t like them as a group, really didn’t like Lennon.


56 posted on 11/11/2012 11:23:55 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Olog-hai

This is the replacement Paul, not the original one who died in a car accident.

The investigators in 1966, said he lost control of his Austin-Healey sports car because of his greasy hands holding the steaks that he was constantly chewing on when he wasn’t performing in stdio, or on stage.


57 posted on 11/12/2012 12:50:32 AM PST by ansel12 (Todd Akin was NOT the tea party candidate, Sarah Steelman was, Brunner had tea party support also.)
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To: Olog-hai

Senility.


58 posted on 11/12/2012 2:22:14 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: o-n-money

Probably not.


59 posted on 11/12/2012 2:30:59 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Olog-hai

Only relevant to people who live in the upper west side of Manhattan and the left coast. Everyone else works for a living.


60 posted on 11/12/2012 3:00:58 AM PST by veritas2002
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