Paul McCartney claims John Lennon 'instigated' the Beatles’ breakup in a new interview
The Beatles kept the breakup quiet so their then-manager Allen Klein — who McCartney refused to align with — had to tie up loose ends business-wise.
“So for a few months we had to pretend,” McCartney told Wilson. “It was weird because we all knew it was the end of the Beatles but we couldn’t just walk away.” McCartney added, “I had to fight and the only way I could fight was in suing the other Beatles, because they were going with Klein. And they thanked me for it years later. But I didn’t instigate the split. That was our Johnny coming in one day and saying ‘I’m leaving the group.’”
The bassist also claims that he preferred the band had stayed together as they were still creating “pretty good stuff.” “This was my band, this was my job, this was my life, so I wanted it to continue,” McCartney says in the BBC Radio 4 interview, ahead of
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