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(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n
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In April 1970, The Beatles<\/a> finally split up, leaving the music world to mourn the divorce of rock music\u2019s most influential group. <\/p>\n This news came as a shock for some fans, but for many, including the members and their close friends and family, it was an inevitability. In retrospect, we know tensions were reaching a boiling point in the late 1960s, but at the time, public word of such friction was limited and subject to conjecture. Over the years since, some fans blamed the all-consuming nature of the relationship between John Lennon and Yoko Ono, while others blamed overcrowding of talent and a battle of the ego.\u00a0<\/p>\n As Paul McCartney claimed in a recent interview with Conan O\u2019Brien at the Tribeca Festival, Lennon \u201chad a really tragic life\u201d and cited a number of extremely personal events that shaped the budding musician\u2019s own personality traits.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a kid, his mother was decreed to not be good enough to bring him up\u2026His father had left the home when John was three,\u201d McCartney continued. \u201cSo that\u2019s not too wonderful. John grew up with these sort of little minor tragedies through his life\u2026 It made me realise why he had that vulnerability. I always admired the way he dealt with it because I\u2019m not sure I would deal with the stuff he went through that well.\u201d<\/p>\n Patently heard on Lennon\u2019s first post-Beatles album, John Lennon\/Plastic Ono Band, was a keenness to address more personal problems. \u2018Mother\u2019 heard Lennon using Arthur Janov\u2019s primal scream therapy to lament his case of parental separation. Further to the sexual side of Lennon\u2019s relationship with Ono, she served as a mother figure, a headstrong presence he could confide in.\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite this strong familial bond, Lennon entered what would become known as his \u2018Lost Weekend\u2019 in 1973: 18 months marked by a romantic affair with May Pang, a production coordinator who worked on his and Ono\u2019s music. Following a significant spell of marital issues, Ono and Lennon separated as Lennon embarked on a short-lived relationship with Pang. Lennon would later return to Ono, deeply regretting this period. <\/p>\n Contrary to expectation, Ono was fully aware of Lennon\u2019s affair and understood it as a transient fling. She welcomed Lennon back with open arms as he expressed public regret for his infidelity. <\/p>\n However, in an interview with Larry Kane in the late \u201970s, Lennon admitted that it had been love. \u201cYou know Larry, I may have been the happiest I\u2019ve ever been\u2026 I loved this woman [Pang], I made some beautiful music, and I got so fucked up with booze and shit and whatever,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n In 1975, Lennon put his music career on ice for a few years to focus on raising his second son, Sean. He wouldn\u2019t return to the studio until 1980, when he recorded Double Fantasy. Sadly, the album would be the former Beatle\u2019s last, released just three weeks before his murder on December 8th, 1980<\/a>. <\/p>\n![\"John](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/John-Lennon-Yoko-Ono-1969-The-Beatles-Far-Out-Magazine-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/a>Yoko Ono with John Lennon in 1969. (Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n