The Truth About John Lennon And Yoko Ono's Relationship

May 2024 ยท 1 minute read

The Beatles were already breaking up by the time Ono came along. Paul McCartney told Howard Stern that as early as 1968, Lennon was talking about leaving the group. As Biography quotes the conversation, "But looking back on it you think, 'The guy was totally in love with her and you've got to respect that.' So, we did. And I do."

Whether in love or not, the relationship had its difficult moments. Lennon had an 18-month "long weekend" starting in 1973, separating from Ono and engaging in an affair with May Pang, the couple's assistant (via Biography). In an extraordinary move, Ono gave the affair her blessing, telling The Telegraph in 2012, "The affair was not something that was hurtful to me. ... I needed a rest." She added, "I was prepared to lose him, but it was better he came back." Ono and Lennon reconciled and went on to have a son, Sean, born in October 1975. Ono was with John when Mark David Chapman fired the fatal gunshots on December 8, 1980, outside their New York apartment building, killing the 40-year-old Lennon.

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