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The Yoko Ono Myth: Who Really Broke Up The Beatles? [Highlight From Episode 359] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Check out this clip from a recent episode of Booked
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  Speaker 1: on Rock. Our guest is author and journalist Madeline Bacaro
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  Speaker 1: or book in Your Mind The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest narratives around Yoko Ono is her
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  Speaker 1: relationship with the Beatles through her relationship with John. What
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  Speaker 1: are the biggest misconceptions about her role in that story?
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  Speaker 1: What does history actually show?
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  Speaker 2: History shows and the Beatles have actually stated that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they were on the verge of breaking up before she
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  Speaker 2: entered the picture, and there was so many tensions due
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  Speaker 2: to managerial problems, George wanting to put out his own songs.
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  Speaker 2: He had a double triple album pretty much ready to
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  Speaker 2: go all things must pass, and he was feeling stifled
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  Speaker 2: in the group. Everybody was upset except maybe Paul. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Paul wanted to continue, but you know, she just came
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  Speaker 2: along at that time. But actually she didn't want the
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  Speaker 2: Beatles to break up. When John told her he was
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  Speaker 2: leaving the Beatles, he actually turned to her and said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: now it's just you and me, and she was devastated.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, well, wait a minute, what's he going to do?
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  Speaker 2: When what's he going to be preoccupied with, well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing my work because she was first and foremost an artist,
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  Speaker 2: and she didn't know that were going to collaborate so
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  Speaker 2: well and hit the ground running. But they did and
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  Speaker 2: everything was okay. But you know, she was really nervous there.
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  Speaker 1: And that goes against the narrative that people thought that
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  Speaker 1: she was looking to break up the Beatles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and in the book, I have quotes from hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of quotes, mostly from her, but a lot from you know, John, Paul,
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  Speaker 2: people that worked with them, Ringo even and just musicians
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  Speaker 2: who worked with her and people who knew her, and
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  Speaker 2: it all they all weave the story and it's quotes
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  Speaker 2: from the time, so it's not anything people are saying
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  Speaker 2: in hindsight and speculating. It's all, you know, it's how
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  Speaker 2: the whole story happened.
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  Speaker 1: How did she get along with the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: members of the band and go Paul and George.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning, there's an audio tape of her saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Paul and John are so so close, and
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  Speaker 2: Paul has been very respectful to me. He's almost like
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  Speaker 2: a brother. It's really really nice. Like in the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, when John brought her into the studio.
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  Speaker 2: There was some animosity because nobody had really brought their
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  Speaker 2: others into the studio. But Ringo was always very cool
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  Speaker 2: with her. He loves her. They all have that piece
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  Speaker 2: and love vibe going, and you know, he visits her
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  Speaker 2: whenever he's in New York. And Ringo was always cool,
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  Speaker 2: and it was just really Paul that had a big
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  Speaker 2: problem and George, you know, but Paul came around later
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  Speaker 2: and said, look, if he really loves this woman, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to fight it anymore. So that was that.
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