Yoko: They Were Getting to be Like Paul's Band
In a newly-released 1987 interview, Yoko Ono talks about the Beatles’ breakup—which she calls a “divorce”. She told Rolling Stone’s Joe Smith: "The Beatles were getting very independent. Each one of them [was] getting independent. John, in fact, was not the first who wanted to leave the Beatles. [We saw] Ringo one night with Maureen, and he came to John and me and said he wanted to leave. George was next, and then John. Paul was the only one trying to hold the Beatles together. But the other three thought Paul would hold the Beatles together as his band. They were getting to be like Paul's band, which they didn't like." Yoko also said she felt John missed his bandmates so much that it put pressure on her, because he "expected all that to be replaced by me." The interview, along with Smith’s interviews with Paul and George, can be heard on the Library of Congress website.
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