When did the beatles break up paul
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Why did The Beatles break up? The true story of who left the band first
22 August 2024, 19:00
Sir Paul McCartney insisted that he didn't break up the Fab Four - it was John Lennon. However, as Radio X reveals, all four members had reason to walk out on the greatest band of all time...
“I didn’t instigate the split. John walked into a room one day and said I am leaving The Beatles. Is that instigating the split, or not?”
For half a century, Paul McCartney was the man who "splitThe Beatles". When he announced the release of his first, self-titled solo album in April 1970, the world was shocked to hear that the Fab Four were no more. But, he maintains to this day, he was not the one who quit - it was John Lennon.
History still painted McCartney as the bad guy. He told the BBC in October 2021: "I had to live with that because that was what people saw. All I could do is say, ‘no’.”
Peter Jackson's documentary Get Back tells the story
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Paul McCartney announces his break from the Beatles
On April 10, 1970, when promoting the release of his forthcoming solo album, Paul McCartney announces that he is taking a break from the Beatles, the legendary rock band he had been a part of for a decade.
It wasn't that much of a surprise. The Beatles spent the better part of three years breaking up in the late 1960s—and even longer than that hashing out who did what and why. By the spring of 1970, there was little more than a tangled set of business relationships keeping the group together. Each of the Beatles was pursuing his musical interests outside of the band, and there were no plans in place to record together as a group.
But as far as the public knew, this was just a temporary state of affairs. No one had yet gone on the record with a definitive break-up statement. Paul, for his part, hedged his bets.
The occasion for the statements Paul released to the press that day was the upcoming release of his debut solo album
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Break-up of the Beatles
Account of the factors leading to the Beatles' dissolution
The Beatles were an English rock band, active from 1960 until 1970. From 1962 onwards, the band's members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Their break-up is attributed to numerous factors, including the 1967 death of their manager Brian Epstein, bandmates' resentment of McCartney's perceived dominerande behaviour, Lennon's heroin use and his relationship with Yoko Ono, Harrison's increasingly prolific songwriting, the floundering of Apple Corps, the Get Back project (renamed Let It Be in 1970) and managerial disputes.
During the latter half of the 1960s, each of the band's members began to assert individual artistic agendas. Their disunity became most evident on 1968's The Beatles (also known as "the vit Album"), and quarrels and disharmony over musical matters soon permeated their business discussions. Starr left the group for two weeks during the White