Why Did the Beatles Break Up?

Have you heard the Beatles have split up? This distraught cry could be heard echoed by countless voices around the world following Paul McCartney's shocking disclosure via press release on April 10, 1970, that he would no longer be working with the group. In fact, although not known publicly, John Lennon had already informed his bandmates (McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison) back in September 1969 of his own decision to leave the band.

This wasn't automatically viewed by the others as the end of the road, however. Starr himself had previously quit for two weeks in 1968, and Harrison for five days in January 1969. 

The Beatles taking New York City by storm during their groundbreaking North American tour in 1964. But what led to this increasing discontent and the true end of the Beatles? One important factor is pressure. There had been supergroups before, but the rise of the Beatles and resultant Beatlemania, not only in England and America, but around the globe, was unprecedented.

So ardent were the Beatles' fans that, as early as 1966, the group had decided to stop touring, due to a combination of exhaustion, a lack of being able to hear themselves onstage over the screams, and threats to their safety following Lennon's comment that the band had become more popular than Jesus.
"Granny Songs" and Growing Rifts

 Another key reason for the Beatles' split lies in a widening gulf between individual members' artistic visions. By the time of McCartney's press statement, both he, John Lennon, and George Harrison had already issued solo albums away from the band. Within the Beatles, internal rifts had been growing for some time.

Source: mentalfloss.com/Chris Wheatley

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