Yoko blames Paul McCartney for the Beatles band break up time before she started dating John Lennon, and said that Ringo Starr and George Harrison were the first to consider leaving the group.
"John, in fact, was not the first one who wanted to leave the Beatles," says Yoko Ono in a newly released interview.
"Ringo one night with Maureen (Starkey, his first wife) came to John and me and said, well, he wanted to leave. And George was the next, and then John. Paul was the only one who was trying to hold the Beatles together. But then again, the other three felt that Paul was going to hold the Beatles together as his band. They were getting to be like Paul's band, which they didn't like."
"Each one of them [was] getting independent," she added. "John, in fact, was not the first one who wanted to leave the Beatles. [We saw] Ringo one night with Maureen [Starkey Tigrett], and he came to John and me and said he wanted to leave. George was next, and then John."
In fact, two years before the Beatles announced their breakup in 1970, Starr left the group for two weeks during sessions for The White Album. But by the time the mop-tops were recording their swan song, Abbey Road, Ono said, it was Paul who was essentially left with the task of keeping the dream alive.
Ono's story matches up with what McCartney recently told British interviewer David Frost in October, that the Beatles were already in the process of breaking up by the time Ono came on the scene.
