Paul McCartney said the Beatles’ breakup wasn’t Yoko Ono’s fault after all, said BBC.com. Bitter fans have for years held John Lennon’s widow responsible for the band’s split in 1970, but McCartney said this week that Lennon was planning to leave anyway. “I don’t think you can blame her for anything,” McCartney said. “She showed him another way to be, which was very attractive to him.” Looking back, McCartney felt it was the right time for the band to split, said The Guardian (U.K.). The Beatles left “a neat body of work,” he said, so it “wasn’t that bad a thing.”
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