Paul McCartney Says Yoko Ono Isn't Responsible For Beatles Split

Posted: Oct 29, 2012 7:52 AM by AP/CS

LONDON (AP) - Paul McCartney believes it's someone besides Yoko Ono who should be blamed for the breakup of The Beatles. UK's The Observer published an excerpt from an interview McCartney gave to David Frost in which he says Ono did not break up the band. McCartney says while he was uncomfortable with Ono sitting in on studio sessions, he feels John Lennon could not have written "Imagine" without her avant-garde influence. So who's to blame? McCartney says it's Allen Klein, the manager who took over after Brian Epstein died. He says Klein got them fighting with each other, and during the interview McCartney throws a mock punch at a photo of Klein.

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