Paul McCartney says, "Yoko didn't break up the Beatles."

“She certainly didn’t break the group up, the group was breaking up,” McCartney told David Frost in an interview timed loosely with the Beatles’ 50th anniversary.
 
“I don’t think you can blame her for anything,” McCartney says in the interview for Frost’s program, which is slated to air November 9, 2012.   “When Yoko came along, part of her attraction was her avant-garde side, her view of things, so she showed him another way to be, which was very attractive to him. So it was time for John to leave, he was definitely going to leave” with or without Yoko in the picture."  They were all ready to leave the group.

John Lennon often noted that each of the Beatles had quit the band before the group’s formal dissolution in 1970, and also argued that anyone who blamed Ono for the band’s breakup by extension should be very grateful to her for the later music that they each created.

Source: LA Times

The ultimate in fan memoriabilia....

This weekend gone, Julien's Auctions held one of their regular 'Icons & Idols' auctions where true (cashed up) fans managed to snap up rare finds such as John Lennon's jacket:

This is a jacket that was given as a donation to the Salvation Army where a fan spotted it and salvaged it. The jacket, worn by Lennon in 1966 for a Life magazine photo shoot ... inspired the cover for the Sergeant Pepper album and a strong aesthetic that fans loved and copied and is still going strong today.

Other items that this company has sold this year include Madonna's stage worn 'Girlie Show Tour' bra, stage worn Loafers of Michael Jackson's, hand painted & signed Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones) guitar, 2 of Elvis' handguns, 1 of Princess Diana's ballgowns and a basketball signed by both Michael Jackson & Michael Jordan! Phew....that's a lot of authentic, un-replaceable serious gear right there AND if that wasn't enough, they have just held an exclusive 'Johnny Cash' auction.

So if you win the lottery this Christmas, click here and live the dream and if not, do what the rest of us do and stare in awe.

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