PAUL MCCARTNEY is setting the record straight that JOHN LENNON was the one to break up THE BEATLES.
In an upcoming BBC Radio 4 episode, Paul says, quote, “I didn’t instigate the split. That was our Johnny . . . John walked into a room one day and said ‘I am leaving the Beatles.’ Is that instigating the split, or not? . . .
“This was my band, this was my job, this was my life . . . so I wanted it to continue.”
He says after John’s announcement, he, RINGO STARR, and GEORGE HARRISON were left to “pick up the pieces” . . . and were told to keep quiet by their manager since business deals had to be made.
Paul added, quote, “The point of it really was that John was making a new life with YOKO [ONO]. . . John had always wanted to sort of break loose from society.”
To be clear, Paul isn’t blaming Yoko. He even said, quote, “They were a great couple . . . There was huge strength there.”
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