“We Got Over All the Actual Fighting”: John Lennon Said the Beatles Broke up for This

Whenever a band breaks up, especially one as globally ubiquitous as the Beatles, everyone assumes the reason they broke up must be something salacious or contentious. Our parasocial connections to these groups make it difficult to imagine a reality in which the musicians wouldn’t want to keep going unless something awful happened between bandmates.

But sometimes it’s not that dramatic at all. Sometimes, as John Lennon explained in a 1975 interview on Tomorrow with Tom Snyder, the reason a band like the Beatles broke up was as simple as a case of ennui.
John Lennon Had Surprising Reason For Why The Beatles Broke Up

The Beatles were much of the world’s first interaction with a bona fide rock ‘n’ roll band. There was no distinct frontman and backing band lineup, and all four members shared the stage playing their respective instruments and singing harmonies with one another. So, when that seemingly unstoppable team force started to crumble in the late 1960s, people began scrambling for a reason to explain why the Beatles were breaking up. For most fans and critics, they assumed the band simply couldn’t get along anymore.

“We didn’t break up because we weren’t friends,” Lennon explained to Tomorrow host Tom Snyder. “We just broke up out of sheer boredom. Boredom creates tension. It was not going anywhere, you know. We’d stopped touring. We just sort of say [mimes picking up a telephone], ‘Time to make an album.’ Go in the studio, the same four of us would be looking at each other playing the same licks.

Source: americansongwriter.com/Melanie Davis

Read More<<<