“I jammed with Paul,” Lennon revealed in a later interview. Lennon was at Burbank Studios on March 28, 1974, producing a record for Harry Nilsson - when an unannounced visitor stopped by: McCartney, along with his wife. They began to reconcile during Lennon's 'Lost Weekend' periodįrom the summer of 1973 to early 1975, Lennon disappeared into a creative and outrageous period of his life dubbed his Lost Weekend - which included an accidental reconciliation with McCartney. One of the most heated passages reads, “Do you really think most of today’s art came about because of The Beatles? I don’t believe you’re that insane - Paul - do you believe that? When you stop believing it you might wake up! Didn’t we always say we were part of the movement - not all of it? - Of course, we changed the world, but try and follow it through. Lennon and Oko’s joint company, it reads, “I was reading your letter and wondering what middle aged cranky Beatle fan wrote it,” going on to point the finger at McCartney’s wife, Linda. Written on the letterhead of Bag Productions Inc.
A letter from Lennon, estimated to be from about 1971, which was auctioned off by Boston’s RR House in 2016, captured the level of the anger in typewritten font. The end of The Beatles wasn’t the end of the rivalry between Lennon and McCartney. READ MORE: How The Beatles Got Together and Became the Best-Selling Band of All Time Lennon wrote McCartney an angry letter It’s as simple as that… the dream is over.”īut McCartney countered that The Beatles breakup was because of “straightforward jealousy” and that he wasn’t to blame since “Ringo left first, then George, then John. “I was a fool not to do it, not to do what Paul did, which was use it to sell a record. “I wanted to do it and I should have done it,” Lennon said. McCartney beat Lennon to the punch, officially announcing the band was over. And in April 1970, after McCartney refused to push back the release of his solo debut to allow Let It Be to come out first, the break-up was complete. Ultimately contract disputes, creative disagreements - and oh-so-many heated arguments (in one, Lennon wanted his songs and McCartney’s songs on opposites sides of a vinyl record) unraveled into disrepair. READ MORE: Did Yoko Ono Break Up The Beatles? When The Beatles broke up, Lennon said 'the dream is over' However that played out behind closed doors, it’s clear that McCartney and Lennon hardly collaborated on music together again after Ono got so deep into the picture. McCartney also said that the discovery that Lennon and Ono were using heroin “was a fairly big shocker,” compounding the stress. Instead, it added to the tension, as they started leaving one by one.
Their global success was so far out of comprehension that they sought to find purpose, taking a retreat to study transcendental meditation at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in Rishikesh, India. Since Lennon started the band, he technically had seniority, even though they always split their votes evenly four ways. The band’s dynamics had always been fair, but subtle. While fingers have been pointed at Lennon’s love, Yoko Ono, and on the band’s new manager, Allen Klein, a myriad of factors piled together caused the legendary breakup in April 1970. It was a telling moment, which eventually led to the band’s breakup the next year.
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