John Lennon Opens Up On WHY The Beatles Broke Up | The Dick Cavett Show

Dick Cavett welcomes musician John Lennon and Yoko Ono to the show where they discuss out-growing The Beatles.
Date aired - September 21st, 1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@asianconservativelawyer1531]

I can’t believe they cut out Forrest Gump in this interview. He even just earned the Medal of Honor prior to this interview.

[@joepermenter7228]

The irony of Forrest's overdub talking about somebody shooting him taking place when he is making the face when Yoko is finishing the interview shouldn't be lost on people.

[@michaelstevens5588]

Lol

[@asianconservativelawyer1531]

Test86 One4 what?

[@suzannahw.1295]

Julie Riddick ikr I realized it was from this interview the other day lmao

[@mariatheocampo307]

Haha Just watched Forrest Gump last night

[@MCO18]

“Some years later, that nice young man from England was on his way home to see his little boy, and was signing some autographs, and for no particular reason at all, someone shot him.”

[@nossasenhoradoo871]

"Some years later, that nice young man from England was on his way home to see his little boy, and was signing some autographs, and for no particular reason at all, someone shot him.” No, he wasn't. John Lennon faked his death - as all "celebrities" do! The Beatles ended because they were an Intelligence project after 1966. They wrote none of the songs which is why they had no rights to them!

[@dannycheesums]

Sam Samoa riiiiiiiiiight 🤔

[@nossasenhoradoo871]

@@dannycheesums "riiiiiiiiiight 🤔" Of course it is. That is why "Paul McCartney" complained about not having the rights to 'Yesterday' even though he wrote it. But he never did, that is why he he no rights to it. If I wrote a great song you'd have to shoot me to take away my rights!

[@HermeticWorlds]

@@nossasenhoradoo871 I'm going to assume you're being serious and not trolling. Celebrities are just people like you and I, and people die all the time. It's highly improbable that John faked his death for the following reason - the more people that need to be involved in a cover-up, the less likely it is that a cover-up happened. John Lennon would have needed many people to be involved with covering up a faked death , which leads me to believe he actually died.

[@kydalchemy]

Sam Samoa dude you got it all wrong. My professor used to babysit George Martin’s kids. He never accepted money. James Kippen is his name btw. In case you want to look him up. He was my music history prof. Anyway he never took money, his payment was, to sit in on the Beatles sessions. He saw them working out all the parts with George Martin, and strumming on the acoustic, and recording. So before you go off half cocked with the conspiracies just know they were a band that put in more work than any other band on the planet. Look up their time in Germany. When they were the quarry men. No conspiracy just hustle, and 10,000 + hours of songwriting practice.

[@bearcb]

“I don’t want to be singing She Loves You when I’m 30”. Paul still sings it at 78!

[@dustpot4668]

SO! JUST BECAUSE PAUL WANTED TO DOESNT MEAN HE HAD TO

[@dan_gabriel]

And Paul still rules and rock!!!

[@joeschmo7834]

monkauma wallop Lennon would’ve gave in and sung it if the Beatles had a reunion.

[@Kelvinack]

And that's the difference between Lennon and McCartney

[@JohnWilson-qy8en]

Junior wdym if John was still alive today I’d bet my house that the Beatles would have had a reunion at some point before George passed and he would’ve sung the old hits. John’s just saying that in this interview when everyone knows it’s bs

[@Jay-in6dl]

Really classy of John to give all the lads credit for their post Beatles success. They might’ve fell out personally but they still respected each other massively.

[@Adamdidit]

one of many reasons why they all mended the personal fences with one another to one degree or another

[@cards0486]

Thanks to God that they were all close again when we lost John. Paul wouldn’t have been able to bear it. George, Ringo and John performed on each other’s recordings. Paul, Ringo and George did too. Paul and John talked about it, and planned it. But things just never came together. They thought they had years more.

[@sirkjohno0129]

@@cards0486 It is sad how life can pan out. I imagine they pair of them just needed some time apart to discover themselves as individual songwriters and musicians, after all they had pretty much spent their entire careers up until 1969 working with each other. Upon being in a studio together again, they'd have hopefully loved it. Maybe not as a long term thing, but as a once in a while treat they'd have done some stuff together, and maybe... just maybe, along with George and Ringo again

[@ethancenteno6928]

@@sirkjohno0129 they would have most probably gotten back together for live aid.

[@ianbauer4703]

John spoke the truth... respectively, some of the four's best work came along right after the band broke up.

[@shatnershairpiece]

It’s hard to fathom the fact that he is only 30 here and he already experienced so much and had given so much to music.

[@thatweirdbeatlesgirl8285]

shatnershairpiece It’s hard to fathom that he died about ten years later

[@strangebrew1231]

That’s the craziest thing about the Beatles. They did so much so young

[@2255-o1j]

At 19, he was in Hamburg, in the brothels, trying to be a hit.

[@kevinzhang3313]

Mozart was 35 when he died and his impact resonates in many genres of music.

[@leslieadams1965]

And then just 10 years later, he’s gone! Sad sad sad. On another note, I think he was shocked and hurt when Paul basically broke up the Beatles. And, I do think that there is a lot of revisionist history being planted by Paul now, and how much he thinks he was The Beatles.

[@ringolennon827]

who else got sad when he was talking about being 50 years old :(

[@enriquegarzaruiz4177]

I felt sad about him mocking Yesterday :C

[@adityasuthar]

@@enriquegarzaruiz4177 i found it pretty funny lol

[@juliameller501]

Oohhh☹️☹️

[@juliameller501]

me :(

[@EmmAPestilenciA]

@@adityasuthar and that he was mocking a Paul song, not his songs, and that Paul does actually still get up on stage and sing yesterday as an old man, lol.

[@marty48]

She was living in London in the 60s and didn't know who The Beatles were... Sure, Yoko, sure...

[@nadjak3410]

She said she was neither Beatles or Lennon fan. She didn't state that she didn't know about them.

[@marty48]

@@nadjak3410 Yes, she did. Listen to what Lennon said, and he said the same in other interviews. She made him believe she didn't know who The Beatles were.

[@nadjak3410]

@@marty48 Idgaf what Lennon says about her. If I am to judge a person, I'm gonna do it based on their own words.

[@lucaslaino7292]

Even guys that were on pipes or sewers knew about beatles existance

[@marty48]

@@nadjak3410 He says in front of her she didn't know who The Beatles were, and she doesn't correct him. I think it's not necessary she repeats the same, it's obvious she made him believe that lie. If you want to defend Yoko, that's OK with me, but she is still a liar.

[@redadamearth]

It's still incredible to me that the Beatles did everything they did in just 8 years *before* they were 30 years old. And that all of their stunning solo work was done just in their 30's. As for them breaking up - anyone who's ever been in a band will tell you that it's a MIRACLE that any band stays together for THREE years, let alone 8. The bands that stay together for 50 years, etc. - they're extreme anomalies.

[@itsallgoodman4108]

I mean, who wants to end up like Metallica. Thats like being locked into an abusive relationship for life

[@jetsamperes5762]

Giving her credit for the music after the Beatles is like giving Osama Bin Laden credit for NYC's new skyline.

[@reijosalminen7502]

-maybe you realize that it was just John's way to say everybody how stupid it is to blame her for the Beatles-brokeup.

[@Stantheman848]

haha are there still people who believe in osama bin laden hehehehe

[@miguelpereira9859]

@@charlesdavis7142 Meaningless drivel

[@Snowman13230]

Double Fantasy is a masterpiece, and I really love Yoko's input, it's nearly as good as John's. And btw, I prefer the new NYC skyline with the Freedom Tower though I'm in no way a fan of Bin Laden.

[@baq8680]

@Jama Thaughn that was awesome right there!!!

[@viniciuseneas4036]

"I don't want to be singing She Loves You when I'm 50". Funny, that is exactly what Paul is doing with 70.

[@sarumanforpresident1792]

Even he couldn't see his 50.

[@beatlecost]

And that's why as John said, they grew apart. Different priorities.

[@garethparr649]

Not a huge Beatles fan but find it hard to figure John Lennon is he self effacing in a dry sarcastic way or is just dismissive and sarcastic maybe even pompous

[@junaspalms]

Poklando dark

[@markin_]

People wants different things for their lifes....

[@thespyinthecab7538]

Yoko is actually exactly right. . . . Having that many insanely talented people working together, bringing songs to the table, having to change things, conceded to others opinions, etc. is extremely difficult for a creative mind that sees a vision of their art. It's a miracle that they had 3 solid, genius minds writing songs and didn't kill each other by the second album.

[@abbeybelanger8118]

Agreed. Like, Yoko may not be 0% to blame, but the main reason they broke up was to be free. They all changed so much over the years, they just needed to do their own thing

[@mvl6827]

Four actually. They all wrote songs.

[@boxerfan2]

True. They each made my favorite songs as solo artists.

[@ct6852]

Ey!! Ringo is cool too.

[@gregh5061]

@@ct6852 most people won't acknowledge that I'm guessing

[@subblazer]

John seems like an old soul, Paul has never stopped being a young man and their paths crossed to form the Beatles.

[@BinaryRex18]

Yoko's point at the end is a good one. We should be grateful that The Beatles ever existed at all.

[@RSTI191]

" I was 30 last October". That was 50 years ago - FIFTY. 50 years prior to this interview was the roaring 20's. 50 years from now, I'll be in the history file. Wow, how time/life goes by in a blink... Still missing you John...

[@sewary5431]

It's fake, I don't see Forrest here:(

[@leomullaney1035]

SEWARY well it’s easy if you try dick

[@irishmusico]

Haa. I was thinking the same thing

[@makemarker]

He haaaeed to paeeee

[@jenniferbedrosian5100]

@@leomullaney1035 this is not the point. My REAL son spent time in Iraq. He earned what John lennon is portraying. Its a disgrace!!!

[@Sapphrodite10m]

They edited Yoko in

[@desertwind306]

I can still remember seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, it ran on Sunday evenings, and the next day at school it was all anyone, and everyone was talking about. How lucky I am to have lived in their time. I will always be a fan of all of them. Their music is timeless.

[@FigmentSALabel]

Nice.

[@sotv72]

You summed it up my friend, right place right time, they really were the greatest. Much live front Birmingham England

[@tbone-spartacus3357]

To be fair. Musicians are basically garbage today. Talent isn't required and few and far between. A synthesized package of nothingness.

[@tomdooley4226]

Perhaps. But after the first few years and when they started using drugs, their music, for me, wasn't as appealing.

[@jamiemiddleditch1999]

Funny..... Paul McCartney is 77 and still sings yesterday 😂😂

[@terragthegreat175]

I bet if John had lived he'd be too 😂😂. That kind of stuff seems to happen as you get older. John at this point was still a young man who was looking for the next big thing to get into.

[@aldrinvilladolid8082]

When u got old u want to get young and dude its YESYERDAY 😂😂😂

[@waynehanley72]

But not, "She Loves You!"

[@2255-o1j]

So this new Paul is fucking brilliant. He just wrote some of the most beautiful songs ever made.

[@amaterasu1941]

cubomania3 ur dumb

[@thefearedESK]

"And Starr backwards is rrats." Man he had a real wit. I wish his ego and insecurities didn't dictate his behavior.

[@TheThaggs]

His ego and insecurities were part of who he was. Which was a great artist, who was brutally honest about those insecurities.

[@jondstewart]

Tetsuo Soprano John Lennon had type O blood, which was why he was such a douchebag.

[@mikemartin5749]

I have type O blood, a-hole.

[@oona60]

@@jondstewart thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard. its like saying your name is jon, thats why you're such a douchebag

[@jeolives9223]

John Lennon made better music when he was beating his wife

[@nicholasdelsignore451]

There’s a level of respect, understanding and acceptance on the part of John and Yoko of the Beatles simply drifting apart. Sometimes it’s best things just end naturally rather than being forcing things to stay together over sentiment

[@abukondonozorj.4340]

Thats what it should be, then Someone lost his life.

[@heroicjourney2508]

Yokos final assessment was on the nail. They were all amazing musicians In the truest sense of the word! For them to have been cohesive for as long as they were was miraculous, and as a result, the greatest band of all time!

[@williamwalker7177]

this comment needs more yoko ono hate in it

[@jilewa]

Yoko, the woman the West loves to hate. i think she is rad and its so boring and predictable for grieving Beatles maniacs to lay blame at her feet. Did they not do enough? Is she too Asian? Too female for you? Enjoy the magic they had and that they had the grace to call it quits on their own terms.

[@perry5654]

@@williamwalker7177 ??? tiny mind huh

[@mr.l4461]

Julian having to buy his father’s belongings from Yoko proves she is nothing but a gold digger

[@carlh429]

Despicable behaviour

[@francescabento1705]

I quite agree.

[@surality]

Proper BItch, never know she might of had him shot

[@francescabento1705]

@FK 2nd Ok whatever

[@papayer]

@FK 2nd John's will mentioned Julian was to inherit some of his possessions, which she promptly prohibited as soon as she found out, simply because she felt like it. So we do in fact know what was going through her mind.

[@adayinthelife5772]

Imagine there's no Yoko It isn't hard to do.

[@nyagechiram9761]

No Yoko below us Above us only Paul..

[@EdwardCheek]

Good one!

[@ankitaich2111]

Imagine all the beatles Living for today...

[@icebear1209]

Yuhuu uu~

[@oliviamcbeth8324]

You may say I don't like her. But I'm not the only one...

[@matthew4155-h6e]

Imagine actually believing she had never heard of the Beatles before meeting John

[@Danoie67]

Yea right.....bullshit

[@tnickknight]

it is possible

[@MICHAEL_MAY_8]

@@tnickknight she lived in the US during Beatlemania dude.

[@rusty1491]

She didn’t recognize him. Admittedly John looks very different after losing weight, shedding the mop top and wearing glasses.

[@chikkipop]

She knew who they were. I've heard she originally went after Paul, who wanted nothing to do with her.

[@MS-xu7jm]

"miraculous that they were together" given their individual talents is quite insightful

[@bsasxoxo]

I agree. She was absolutely right.

[@georgeevangel3233]

No one realizes the hard work these guys did to put out their music and to keep a band together.These guys were teenagers and playing all night in Hamburg They were also together 5 years before making it big

[@peterh1353]

That includes Pete Best who did the early work!

[@theunknowngamer5477]

All those hours spent in Lady Boy bars must have been hard work.

[@harold3165]

Paul was the one who put in the hard work. The others were notoriously lazy.

[@b.g.5869]

@@peterh1353 Pete Best was in the band for approximately 15 minutes (figuratively speaking) only because his mother had a recording studio.

[@peterh1353]

@@b.g.5869 She didn't have a recording studio. She had a strange club in the cellar of her house called the Casbah.

[@rosario508]

She didn’t know about The Beatles? I find that extremely hard to believe.

[@petergrossett6763]

Ross Cicero Heather Mills McCartney hadnt heard of the Beatles either supposedly.

[@DarkMsStress]

Agreed. She moved to NY in 53, Went to Sarah Lawrence, and was in the downtown artists scene. There's no way she didn't know by the time she met John in 66.

[@skysmindgarden]

@@petergrossett6763 I wonder how that even happens? How did she NOT know about the Beatles?!

[@tomryan7748]

no internet back then, kiddies ;P

[@margo3367]

They were everywhere.

[@amygalvin1799]

They started out as kids and at the point they ended it ,they had put in so many years together and produced such amazing music . They grew up and wanted to move on and pursue new things individually and we were lucky to get even more amazing music from them all!!

[@ZombiZohm]

You get it. Some rock groups Stay Together and play their hits over and over year in year out. The Beatles together and individually had so much more to offer than that

[@venize3050]

I gotta say, Yoko’s respectful words about the 4 at the end are quite profound.

[@ericschilling9064]

That eyebrow raise and tongue in cheek John does when Yoko says all four of the Beatles were brilliant and talented musicians.

[@bravetherainbow]

Haha it's cute... "Heh heh, brilliant and talented, did you hear that guys? That's me"

[@debbiemccarthy3864]

Lovely to hear John’s voice .. miss him 😢💔

[@wetpants96]

So you miss a wife beater and hypocrite cheater, congrats :D

[@briankreezan7843]

They will all be missed We're lucky to be to be around at the time they were. " There music will go on for ever and ever"

[@tomdooley4226]

I'll always prefer Elvis. 🎸

[@AlmostEthical]

She was right. John and Paul were major talents with increasingly distinctive approaches so it was only natural that they would split so they could express themselves.

[@wilaustu]

What Yoko said at the end is one of the most beautiful statements on the Beatles that I've heard.

[@andrewvictor5422]

On that day, John Lennon met Forrest Gump and got inspired to write "Imagine"

[@borismuller86]

Andrew Victor no possessions?

[@hennyriung5105]

No religion too?

[@MikeeHollMartz]

Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.

[@dianemoonstone4715]

Good one! Ha ha!!!

[@jerome2022]

He actually began making the music for imagine in 1969 during the let it be session

[@Dana-wq5tp]

"I just met him as another artist." Sure, Yoko. Sure.

[@koaladelespace]

she is so wanna-be edgy and cringe-worthy

[@judygarland9265]

@@koaladelespace she's not edgy shut up

[@koaladelespace]

@@judygarland9265 *wanna-be edgy is what i said

[@judygarland9265]

@@koaladelespace you want to be a jerk is what I said to you right now! 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠

[@biohead66]

@@judygarland9265 Hey Yoko take your Advil dude.

[@josephdoherty5403]

Unfortunately, Yoko's last point is absolutely true. Four such brilliant individuals could not sustain themselves as a group. It WAS miraculous they went on as long as they did - and we were blessed with 10 years of miraculous music.

[@loydkline]

Rolling stone stay together

[@J..398]

@@loydklinewhat are your thoughts on Brian Jones

[@loydkline]

@@J..398 do not have any thoughts of Brian Jones

[@J..398]

@@loydkline do you know him

[@redadamearth]

The Rolling Stones were different people.@@loydkline

[@SgtPepper4019]

I’m just thankful that this exists. r.i.p John Lennon a brilliant songwriter and person

[@davidbarber2010]

Person married wrong woman

[@tedgegi155]

John reinforced in this clip what George Harrison also said when interviewed by Cavett: that The Beatles were already drifting apart prior to Yoko's arrival. I tend to believe them.

[@mohdazmi10]

tedGEGI after they ceased touring in 1966.

[@LifeIsBrief]

True but let’s not pretend Yoko wasn’t one of the many factors that caused them to split up

[@prairiedoggie1111]

@George Washington hahahah its true and you are funny

[@twotone3471]

I like to think Yoko and John's addiction to Heroin went hand in hand. The Beatles splintered in part due to Paul doing most of the work, George becoming spiritual, and John becoming a addict. They were simply different people than when they became famous. Ringo deserves mention, but in a way he never stopped being a Beatle. And of the four, Ringo had the best life.

[@yetanotherYTuser2]

1. Bryan Epstein died 2. John found drugs and George found spiritualism 3. Paul wanted to be front and center always (but also he was the one working the hardest) 4. Finally, Yoko came

[@tylerboi]

you know it's the 1970s when they are smoking on the set on air.

[@luvsnatch]

Ahhh the good old days

[@tsopmocful1958]

Your international passport to Marlboro country, and isn't that all the time? (ad references PS, M + BH)

[@angelt7166]

The best

[@Kgio-2112]

Now you can't even drink out of styrofoam but they say bitch and ass on television

[@charmingferret5916]

Pushing smoking on the youth was a part of the agenda then and now. They used their heros as role models. Lennon was doing what he was told in this interview.

[@NxDoyle]

I can't see or even think about Yoko without being reminded of John and Chuck Berry performing Memphis, Tennessee on The Mike Douglas Show. The look on Chuck Berry's face when Yoko started her caterwauling... and later the look on Yoko's when she discovered her mic had been turned off.

[@sandraolson1022]

That's hilarious! I'll have to look that one up. :)

[@Libby-o7e]

Thank you for that, it is the only time I don't object to seeing her

[@CoolDude246-S]

Can't believe it's been over 50 years since this interview happened. I'm from Liverpool like the Beatles and went to the same primary and secondary school as John Lennon.

[@caneface87]

Making fun of himself being old “50” and singing the same songs, if only we were able to have him that long! RIP

[@juliameller501]

💔💔💔

[@sgtpeppers94]

The Beatles needed to end. Nothing that great can last. It’s amazing they were even together those 10 years and managed to create so much in that time. But lennon and yoko are both right. They were drifting apart, and in all honesty they did all make great music after the Beatles. They ended before they did any wrong. And we should all be thankful for the music they gave us, not wondering what it would’ve been like if they stayed together.

[@cultfilmfreakreviews]

they did end on top that's for sure.

[@maxmaxneolit]

@@cultfilmfreakreviews thankfully. When I was young I regretted Beatles were no more but I didn't realise how spectacular and precious this was. That they ended while being on top of their game. These days, I can't stand the bands that survive into infinity. Solo artists, yes, I like them being productive and artistically active, but bands... no. They should stop when they still have something to offer and not get mummified, frozen in some awkward point in time and not move an inch artistically.

[@Morrow45105]

Tell that to The Rolling Stones

[@jojandy1963]

@@Morrow45105 just about to write that lol

[@forumchatter09]

Yep. They had peaked after Revolver/Peppers. As much as I like Abbey Road/White album, it was on tail end of creative output and more individual efforts. Let it Be album is not great. Extremely rare for a band to sustain greatness after 4-5 albums. The Stones (certainly not in Beatles stratosphere) have not made a good one since early mid 70s

[@raydingo7081]

They say love is blind, but in that case it must been deaf as well.

[@JC-xc8rx]

LOL

[@McFlyGuitarsandStuff]

lol infinity

[@mogadon7]

CIA - 40 years since they killed Lennon. Check out - JOSE PERDOMO - security guard.

[@Kai-bz9ym]

PFFFT

[@Puppy_Puppington]

Lmfao

[@dougpeters1625]

It was very heartwarming for John and Yoko to give the other lads credit.

[@cumbitafuntasticworld3264]

She didn’t know about The Beatles? Is she a girl from Yesterday movie?

[@2kosher]

Cumbita funtastic world 😂

[@cruzcontrol1303]

Lmaooo

[@anjanuprety9921]

😂

[@JoeMama-tl4tr]

You can tell he was madly in love with her and very protective

[@unpopularopinion5449]

As a man should be.

[@senseichess8688]

Yes

[@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094]

Great artist - didn't have the best taste in women

[@scottm8579]

George Harrison says that literally days after this interview John wrote, "Happy Christmas (War is Over)".

[@ContemplativeCat]

Yoko made a good point it being amazing that a band of such talented artists stayed together for as long as they did. I've seen it among bands. In most cases a band will have one major songwriting talent who is the driving creative force behind the group. Where there's more than one it's not often that it actually lasts very long. There's ego's at play,, personalities, and diverging interests pulling in different directions that result in differences that most bands don't survive. The ones that do last are very much in the minority. Now consider the Beatles with at least three formidable songwriting talents in the group. George for example: His growth into a songwriter who could rival the Lennon/McCartney duo on his own and consequent growing dissatisfaction with the Beatles is well known. He once said the best career move he made was joining the Beatles, and the next best one was leaving the Beatles. All things must pass.

[@seal_ow7102]

Paul: Y' know John: Y'know HOLY SMOKES. IT STILL LIVES.

[@kevindoyle3614]

When I was 5 my mum told me that happiness was the key to life. I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up ? I said I wanted to be happy. They said I didnt understand the assignment, I told them they didnt understand life.

[@staceykeeley4219]

Sorry Kevin but he never said that.

[@kevindoyle3614]

@@staceykeeley4219 That quote is attributed to him

[@staceykeeley4219]

@@kevindoyle3614 Lots of quotes are attributed to him online but he said none of them. I've learned over the years that if it's not from an interview (written or verbal) or it's not from one of his lyrics, he never said it.

[@kevindoyle3614]

@@staceykeeley4219 Very well have a wonderful day

[@staceykeeley4219]

@@kevindoyle3614 Have a great day too Kevin ☺️

[@donicsm7684]

They made like 20 albums within the span of 10 years. That’s tough on any band. Tensions are sure to arise.

[@michaelfowler6381]

Only the four of them knew what it was like to be a Beatle. Paul always wanted to be a Beatle and has kept being one all these years. George was frustrated by having L&M overriding his songwriting contributions (helped along by George Martin’s devotion to the duo). Ironically, the product of that frustration was All Things Must Pass, the best solo product of any of them. John was a troubled and restless soul - look at his upbringing - and felt constrained by all things Beatle. Ringo just moved on and continued with his zest for life. Yoko was right, it was remarkable they even came together so maybe we should just be happy that they did. I know I am.

[@jorgefarill3891]

Best solo?? Naaah, far from it... imagine, watching the wheels, band on the run, live and let die... and many many other songs are better

[@scooterwood2034]

Thank you for saying what you said. I’ve been a little bummed out lately after watching PJ’s Get Back bc I wish they had stayed together. But you’re right.

[@jaysmith3095]

They outgrew the vehicle created as teenagers.

[@k12rswow]

I think you summed it up apropos

[@benjaminrooker5793]

@@jorgefarill3891 He meant the best solo album. He's right in my opinion.

[@daniel-zh9nj6yn6y]

That video of Yoko Ono interrupting John and Chuck Berry while singing is a great symbol of her activity as an ''artist''.

[@bco0t6]

Interviewers back then really knew how to beat around the bush lol

[@laughspirin202]

Only in Europe the interviewers are pushy while in America ... not so much.

[@Bankside1997]

John Lennon comes on as feeling ashamed of what the Beatles were. I guess the real reason why the Beatles broke up is that John Lennon felt he was better than the Beatles and Yoko just reinforced that on him. Any how, Yesterday is one of the greatest songs in music history. It was the Beatles that made John, Paul, George and Ringo famous. The Beatles is the example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

[@mohammednihal1128]

@John O'neil Americans think they know everything. Lol.

[@barbaranelson8617]

Bankside1997 One of the greatest songs in music history? Uh,up Paul’s ass much?

[@vadouis-rt3of]

According to John, Paul would come to the studio with one of his songs and go and rehearse the song with the other three numerous times until Paul felt it was perfect. When John introduced his song, Paul would rehearse it with him 2 or 3 times and that was it. Not to mention that Paul would be dismissive of George's song contributions. Fair?

[@vadouis-rt3of]

@@Ethan-tn4jc Those "outsiders" bought their albums and they were in the public eye and gave their opinions on life publicly. Now those "outsiders" have to be silent and carry no opinion? Says who?

[@lferreira1673]

@John O'neil he is forgeting the 2nd most important Beatle after Paul, George Martin

[@bipolarminddroppings]

Dick: Why did the Beatles end? The Entire Audience: *stares at Yoko*

[@phylazen5649]

all the band members have literally pointed to John with no hesitation.

[@MrDaiseymay]

McCartney is on record saying, he hated seeing yoko in the recording studio, intervening and advising john on music issues, that had effect on already agreed ideas

[@ianbauer4703]

The band was already drifting apart. They'd been together for 10 years; long time for a rock band.

[@MrSinister718]

There's no way a band can make such a large catalog of bad music and want to play and hear it over and over. John made that clear in this interview. they'd rather fail as solo musicians making their own terrible music than have to hear Paul's awful, repetitive, and formulaic crap. They're all hacks but they know bad music when they hear it. Thats why they tried to copy everyone else.

[@richsackett3423]

@@phylazen5649 Exactly. He brought his woman into the middle of the band rehearsing. He knew better. That has never been allowed in bands. Ever.

[@duchovny2]

I could never understand what he saw in her

[@auroraskywalker4475]

A tight p*ssy!

[@kevinzhang3313]

How CAN you understand? They're the ones who lived their lives as they did and knew each other personally. You only know the Beatles from the interviews, so you do not and can never hope to know them - only things about them.

[@lucalone]

she was 7 years older than him, he never had a mother, so I think he so a mother figure in her.

[@tylerdavid4557]

Heroine

[@visceralmacabre7510]

@@lucalone he *did* call her mother

[@BabyBoomerChannel]

The Beatles were drifting apart. They were together intensely for 7 years - it was a natural progression for four talented musicians. Yoko was the fall guy - but made the split contentious.

[@NewtonTheGreat69]

Paul and John (1957-1970) they first met at a concert where john perform with a bunch of other mates in his developmental band called the quarrymen. Paul George and John (1958-1970) Paul introduced george to John to persuade him on letting george join the band. Ringo, Paul, John, George (1962-1970) Soon after the 3 mates saw Ringo play at a concert with his soon-to-be former band they were impressed by his drum skills and asked him to join the band in which soon they kicked Pete best out because John considered him as a lousy cunt and an atrocious drum player. So through the timeline they been together for about 8-13.

[@billthecat666]

The White Album was the least group effort. They were going in different directions. Paul recorded a solo album and worked on the movie soundtrack by himself before the group disbanded.

[@ferdiahunt9899]

@@NewtonTheGreat69 Pete wasn't an atrocious drummer he was just incredibly average Ringo was far better of course but Pete wasn't absoulotly awful and John actually got on the best with Pete out of the three of them Pete even said he was closest to John and not close to Paul or George

[@ferdiahunt9899]

I'd say the whole thing about them being jealous of him because the girls absoulotly loved him and not the 3 frontmen as much was a small factor and another reason to boot him

[@strutmac]

Pete went his own way after shows while the other 3 hung out together. I heard that Pete was the better drummer but Ringo was a better Beatle.

[@davidsharounoff8521]

2:24 that little dig at Paul and also predicting Paul's future.

[@hyzercreek]

I think it's funny when Yoko ends every sentence with "you know" the way John did, you know?

[@YYZed12]

Ikr lmaoo

[@christopherlees1134]

"You know" was the "like" of that era.

[@oonojoe]

I know. Ya' know?

[@hyzercreek]

@@christopherlees1134 But they said "like" all the time too, check out Maynard G Krebs

[@RiotNrrrdUTube]

@@christopherlees1134 "dig?" was the "you know?" of that era.

[@koolbiga]

They simply wrote the best music ever. 12 magnificent unique masterpiece first class albums. The Beatles is the best band still.

[@deadchannel1875]

Yoko: says she doesnt know about the beatles Also Yoko: marries a Beatle

[@LilyAmongThorns]

Just as believable as when Meghan Markle said she knew nothing about the British Royal family, then marries Harry, lol, and now it comes out she has always obsessed about William, Harry, and the late Lady Dianna.

[@tartanroach1559]

Mhm, she literally stalked John and hung around the house while he was still with Cynthia for about a year before John got together with her.

[@kushpathak4097]

She said she was not the fan

[@jimmcnicholas9670]

I wouldn't be surprised if that spiteful women put out the hit on lennon for the money.

[@r.p.mcmurphy6623]

dumb

[@CMRinehart]

It’s a fact Yoko would go to the recording studio and Paul definitely did not want her there.

[@angiethebeatlesgirl228]

However Paul brought Linda

[@CMRinehart]

@@angiethebeatlesgirl228 That was after John brought Yoko. Paul has said in interviews they never had anyone in the studio that wasn't directly associated with the band.

[@angiethebeatlesgirl228]

@@CMRinehart honestly I believe nothing that Paul McCartney says It makes me very upset that he was always very ungrateful to John and he was also very mean to Yoko This is very sad

[@ahlads]

Having watched the new Beatles doc it is quite clear that Yoko had nothing to do with breaking up the Beatles. In fact they all seem like perfectly nice and respectful people, having some laughs, clearly friends but artistically frustrated. That's ultimately what broke them up. They still managed to get one more classic album done (Abbey Road) before they called it quits but it was inevitable.

[@meddows2576]

If you're talking about Peter Jackson's production, you clearly missed the part where John hadn't shown up as expected, and Paul+Ringo and the film crew talked about the destruction Yoko was creating. Paul was very polite, but he seemed frustrated that she was a part of every thing they tried to do, and John was at her mercy.

[@ahlads]

@@meddows2576 I think you’ll find nobody agrees with you in that except maybe a few bitter Beatles fans

[@ahlads]

@Tz_mzU1 foreigner? So if she was English it would have been fine?

[@ahlads]

@Tz_mzU1 bit if a strange word to use. The thing is all of the other Beatles themselves disagree with you. If you have to resort to insults then you have no argument

[@andrew6978]

They broke up well after Let it Be sessions, so we don't see the breakup, didn't Yoko get a bed in the studio during Abbey Road?

[@doraesparza1249]

Can you edit Yoko out and upload it again.

[@scottyjenkins8212]

Search on google---->-global truth project

[@vb8428]

You're pathetic. Blame the egos of the Beatles members you fool

[@jayforan5929]

Heres yoko oh no !

[@alisayed6889]

Watch Forrest Gump

[@TheBoris777777]

Hahahaha, 👏👍🏻

[@imyourgodmachine]

She does make a good point though. 4 people that are that talented and most likely have huge egos working together for that long truly is a miracle.

[@jasilcas]

Paul is 77 and hi still sings "Yesterday"

[@gretchennelson9965]

More’s the pity.😖🙃

[@jimireynoldsmusic]

I've never heard John being so candid about his personal life

[@garrybaldy327]

During press interviews for Double Fantasy, Yoko would insist the interviewer direct 50% of the questions to her and 50% to John. A lovely lady.

[@aboxofbroken8tracks983]

How do you know that John didn't make that stipulation?

[@thunderlips350]

As much as some people hate Yoko...maybe what she said at the end was true....basically, it's hard to have so many talented people together in the one room. Eventually there is going to be issues.

[@BrObstreperous]

That's why John chose the talentless Yoko over the Beatles

[@adamlewis1961]

Master Harrison Esq. had too many songs...for them...Paul had too many songs, John had too many...they had too much material and didn't want to scrap songs they'd written. Not only that, they'd started to tell each other what/how to play THEIR songs...and probably stifled a lot of individual members creativity because of it...

[@jimquantic]

Talented or not it's hard for people to get along. Looks like Yoko would be hard to get along with--and she seems to have about zero talent as just one example.

[@SilentKnight43]

Rush stayed intact from 1968-2015 ('74-2015 if you count when Peart joined the band). That's over 40 years.

[@jaidendeprez1842]

@@SilentKnight43 Who tf cares?

[@Acidicju]

Cavett says "the wedge..." and Yoko corrects him "the witch".

[@DOSkywalkR]

I think she just "repeated" what he said in that she misheard him.

[@noahturnbull2376]

@@DOSkywalkR she called herself a witch

[@Poetically_Incorrect]

@@DOSkywalkR nooOpe. after hearing it a 100 times and analysing over the tone and the reaction time of her reply i can fairly assure you, she said the witch and therefore corrected him.

[@avfx]

I was born on the 21st september 1971 when this was filmed haha epic. its ma birthday!!!

[@in2food]

Hilarious that he considered 50 as old age.

[@torchkit]

And that 50 brings asthma and tuberculosis.

[@AnnusMirabilus]

John's responses were always terse yet brilliant. I studied him mostly when I was in my early twenties. Now I'm three days away from 42. I can't believe that I've outlived this man by two years. Absolutely insane.

[@ContemplativeCat]

His sons are older now than their dad was when he died so tragically at 40. That kind of messes with my brain a bit.

[@LazyLizzy706]

3:07 John is literally thinking “Not this story again... This is gonna take a while. Should I smoke? Well... I... Yeah, I’m gonna smoke.”

[@33774500]

haha well put. The inner smokiloquy

[@markmonahan2642]

😆 🚬

[@markmonahan2642]

@@33774500 eXACTly! 😆

[@billsmith7758]

He may have been one of the cheeky ones when he was young, but he always had wisdom and understanding, perhaps more than any other Beatle. As he grew older you could see that in his positive demeanor on everything. I would have loved seeing him today in his 80's

[@KowloonHK]

Yoko didn’t know who the Beatles were just like Meghan Markle didn’t know who Prince Harry was 🤥

[@wesmo_]

Perfect!

[@wesmo_]

Why some brits love ugly witches?

[@tomlafferty4651]

She didnt, she was immersed in the world of avant-garde art and film-making, she didnt have a care in the world for established or popular music. They met when John came to one of her exhibitions, as he was becoming interested in avant-garde himself

[@manudollfie]

@@tomlafferty4651 That is the story she likes to tell. She already did met Paul, who has talked about it, and she was really adamant to get in touch with John. The same exhibition you mention, its documented that John was freaked out by her insistence to meet him and be with him, that he left. Months latter they did meet again.

[@rgcdn]

@@tomlafferty4651 nah dud, she knew, everyone knew. My grandma in rural Yugoslavia knew, and her neighbour as well. Everyone knew the Beatles back in the day

[@No2theBS]

Beats me what he saw in her but love is blind i suppose.

[@lisac4215]

@Chris Anagn. Too funny and too true 😂

[@weavvek]

He really was blind as a bat....lol

[@TheOliverKraft]

maybe she was amazing in bed?

[@CaptainAlsClassroom]

Whatever he saw in her is his business, and he is CERTAINLY entitled to it after giving awesome music, blood sweat and tears and living through the insanity he had to go through as a Beatle. She was a very radical departure from the life he had lived and she provided a major change which he really wanted. He wanted to have fun, let loose and be "crazy" for awhile. Let him have it, he deserves it doesn't he? I got a "kick" out of the things they did together, liked some more than others...but whatever. John is entitled to his own life and his own decisions. I think people are way to critical. Let it Be.

[@HermanFalckHow]

She didn't see him as one of the four.

[@JustinLeeper]

I enjoyed hearing both of them speak their minds freely! Yoko always struck me as an intelligent, creative person. And we know John is legendarily - even if I consider myself a bit more Paul leaning.

[@davidbarber2010]

John married woman who like to control jonn like a dog 🐕

[@violinmke]

Yoko held the torch of John's memory and their mutual pursuits of peace activism for 40 years after he died and that's more than enough for me.

[@gc8032]

love how John reaches into his pocket and grabs a smoke can you see that happening today

[@ellirose5441]

I have always been a non smoker and i hate it. But John Lennon smoking in a TV show looks quite cool. Thats so typically 70ies/80ies🥰🤩

[@paulrodriguez4061]

"Yesterday , all my troubles seemed so far away" (yoko) Lennon was what they call now a days "whipped"

[@versioncity1]

Too many bands go on far too long. The Beatles got it right. Break up in your prime and leave people wanting more.

[@docholiday7758]

I used to live on Abbey Road about a block north of the zebra crossing and studio, albeit several years after the Beatles broke up. Every day of the year, people of all ages from all over the world still gather to take pics of themselves walking across the zebra crossing...pretty much nonstop. Things haven't changed much in the neighborhood since then.

[@pault8470]

Brilliant point by Yoko at the end as I've never thought of it that way . Indeed 3 geniuses Ringo was cool but I'm talking about writing songs and those 3 all had individual takes on music . So ye it was a miracle they lasted as long as they did as I can't think of any other band were all the front men are geniuses in they're own right . Amazing

[@piteusx8440]

Paul said Yoko was hunting a Beatle. She went to Paul first before he point her to John's house. It is what it is. I'm happy John was happy which is what only matters ... but Yoko knew what she was doing.

[@Oly1y]

Led zeppelin

[@jsogman]

I believe animal collective come close but of c that depends on whether you love animal collective many dont lol

[@MrNrj6490]

Dan Cooper sure they’re all geniuses in their own right, but I disagree with Yoko based on the premise that they started that way. When the Beatles first got together one man at a time, it wasn’t like the four hottest artists in the world starting a band together, it was four dudes from Liverpool. They didn’t start out geniuses, they were in a band together, they worked well together, and became geniuses along the way through that and by working off of one another.

[@pault8470]

@@MrNrj6490 cream always rises to the top . I agree and disagree with you as one way or another these guys would have made it but the part I do agree with is they brought the best out in eachother

[@1954telecaster]

I like that John uses paper matches instead of a snobby lighter

[@murray6512]

Jon lennon actually died on the 4th april 2003 as a result of a road traffic accident whilst fiddling around with a silly little box of matches. Are you still happy? RIP Jon J. Jack Lennon

[@dombomb8679]

Uh.... what??

[@farhad1999]

Murray what the fuck are you saying? John lennon got shot by some stupid lunatic.

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

@@murray6512 I think you may be thinking of a different pack of matches, this pack of matches was discarded in a trash bin after the show. I still have them on display.

[@murray6512]

Bilb Ono shit, if u insist chief

[@hsd287]

I feel so sad looking at john alive and moving here as they all say the good ones pass the earliest he would be 80 years old by now RIP John 😔❤

[@andreaalcocer4369]

It makes sense that the Beatles broke up. They were individuals that had their own artistic goals and eventually wanted to go on their own musical journey. My opinion is that artists owe nothing to their fans (creatively speaking). I prefer that they put out their most authentic work instead of being a crowd pleaser or forcing themselves into an a situation they are not comfortable with.

[@cultfilmfreakreviews]

they were basically three songwriters each writing their own song and the band playing each song so it was like three bands in one.

[@nicolaslopezcarranza5724]

We don't want to be playing yesterday with asma at an old age. Paul: hold my beer...

[@missyb9438]

Nicolas Lopez Carranza wow, how original

[@brianhensley1970]

Asthma dumbass

[@gerrymcguire7521]

Only thirty years old here. To me he'd already lived 5 lifetimes by then compared to my simple life. It all must have been a big blur. It's hard to imagine what the 4 of them went through. Only they know what it was really like, good and bad. It must have been exhausting

[@gretchennelson9965]

Yeah, I imagine it must have been insane. I wonder, if at times, the whole thing seemed like a dream to them.

[@keithbrown8814]

​@@gretchennelson9965that's what Harrison said about his time in the Beatles...it didn't derm real...like a dream that he struggled to remember...Dee his interview with DC...sidepoint... I think Cavett insulted George twice in that discussion...he could be a jerk!!

[@theyakkomanguy7522]

"Some years later, that nice young man from England was on his way home to see his little boy and was signing some autographs, for no particular reason at all, somebody shot him." -Forrest Gump 1994.

[@kitrichardson2165]

The fact that they were together for eight years is a small miracle as Yoko just said. they’re all brilliant and you have this intense fun mirror effect of being famous, and people are egomaniacs when they’re not famous so you can imagine how incredibly tough that is to stay sort of yoked together and have your will or even your whims strongly influenced and sometimes controlled by others. When you see similarly, talented groups, stay together for even longer times, they normally break up and then find out they can’t really succeed without their partners, and they are more or less forced back into the partnership But all of the Beatles were rather successful as solo artists Also, there was no real pressure for them to do that.

[@euanelliott3613]

For four people with developing lives to stay together four eight years is quite an achievement in itself. They were discovering that they all had something to say artistically and they didn't need each other to say it. I personally think they split at the right time as they would have faded into the 1970's and become irrelevent against ABBA and The Bee Gees who owned the charts in those days. Led Zeppelin would have eclipsed them in popularity as well, as they did the Stones. John was right, who wanted to hear the Beatles singing She Loves You in middle age? Eight years is a long time for any band. They did it all. (And yes I spelt for wrong).

[@fernandosalazar241]

would they have vanished in the 1970s???, jajajajaajjajja, paul filled stadiums in the usa. same harrison abba, bee gees and zeppelin were finished at the beginning of the 80s paul in the 90s he was still filling stadiums and today he continues to do so. jajajajajajaajajajajaj. john was wrong about that, the public likes to hear she loves you or you cant buy my love nowadays

[@countalucard4226]

What a genius we lost. R.I.P. dear John.

[@willreznicek4202]

That body language at the end tells the tale by John fo sure.

[@Orteth]

That video, plus the new Disney Documentary, made me like Yoko Ono.

[@RoldanRR00]

The incredible thing is not that the Beatles broke up, but how long they were able to stay together.

[@gagahernandez7544]

John is right when he says everyone should be thanking Yoko for all the great music after their break-up.

[@kazabushy]

@Spiritualistic Did they? Between 3 of them they had four #1s as solo artists. I guess you weren't there.

[@kazabushy]

@Spiritualistic You don't know? Yawn. I rest my case.

[@kazabushy]

@Spiritualistic Sounds like you are baiting to find out. Go fetch. You can't even manage to Google it? I lived that era you are clearly lazy in yours. Good luck with the shortcuts we enabled you with.

[@ramirofonseca9815]

I still don't like Yoko.

[@ramirofonseca9815]

@Get Real Politics no. still don't like her.

[@jacklong5158]

WARZONE

[@firstnamelastname061]

Nobody does. She's a horrible person.

[@drumsno]

She seems like a dunce

[@peepas2633]

Open your heart, and your world opens too.

[@thenewmaniscoming6533]

" no four blokes ever loved each other so much." RINGO STAR.