Yoko Ono in startling new evidence over claims she broke up The Beatles

Monday, July 14, 2025

Yoko Ono was not a factor in the break-up of The Beatles despite being blamed for decades, a historian claims. Martin Lewis points to Apple TV’s recent Get Back series as evidence her presence in the Beatles studio did not cause the tension between John Lennon and his bandmates many insist was behind the demise.

Yoko being at the 1969 Let it Be album recordings has gone down in music folklore as the beginning of the end for the Fab Four. But Martin, who has worked with both her and Paul McCartney in recent years, said: “The fans wanted a villain. The media likes a villain. We all do. That’s natural, but not reality.”

‌Speaking about the Apple TV series, he added: “They are in the studio. Yoko’s there, which was unusual. They didn’t normally have wives or girlfriends in the studio. Who does John relate to through the whole eight hours? He looks at Yoko once in a blue moon. His eyes are on Paul. He’s with his buddy of the last 13 years. It’s all about John and Paul.

‌“Yoko was there, she wants to be there. He’s not rude. He’s just not interested. He’s working with his mate and having fun. The whole film gives the lie to that nonsense. It’s John and Paul, but bonding, writing, having fun, reminiscing. He’s polite to Yoko.

"She didn’t break up the Beatles. John and Paul have been together since July 57, when they were 17 and 16 respectively. They were nearly 30. That’s a long time. So they were growing apart. She’s not the villain.” ‌

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Martin also claimed racism played its part in the treatment of Yoko and her public perception. Speaking at the LA Jewish Film Festival’s opening night film Midas Man, about Beatles manager Brian Epstein, he said: “A lot of it was racist because John was dumping his English rose wife and going off with a Japanese and an Asian woman. John made a very interesting point… up until Yoko, he was [called in the media] John.

Source: mirror.co.uk/Tom Bryant