Did Yoko Ono actually break up the Beatles?

In Beatles lore, no person is as divisive or controversial as Yoko Ono, the lover and eventual bride of John Lennon, who arrived on the scene as the band was facing its toughest hardships. It was a time of deep loss, psychological questioning and bitter in-fighting over leadership and business that would ultimately end in the band’s split.

But was Ono to blame for the breakup of the Beatles?  The Beatles were already 'breaking up' before Ono came around

Regardless of public record in the intervening decades since the group went their separate ways, many fans still lay the blame at Ono’s feet. Addressing the rumor directly in 2012, Paul McCartney told British interviewer David Frost that Ono "certainly didn’t break the group up, the group was breaking up."

“There is not a Beatle fan out there that doesn’t have strong feelings toward her, either hating on her or thinking she and John had the greatest love story ever,” says Robert Rodriguez, author of Revolver: How The Beatles Reimagined Rock ‘n’ Roll, and host of the podcast Something About The Beatles.

Ono entered the world of the Beatles in 1966. The 33-year-old conceptual artist had been living in New York but was now in London and first met Lennon, then 26, when he previewed an exhibition by Ono at the Indica Gallery in November 1966. They would not officially become a couple until 1968 with their marriage to follow in March 1969.

Source: biography.com

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