20 Bitter Band Breakups: The Beatles

The "Let it Be" sessions were not the Beatle's most creative work and since the finished tapes were given to Phil Spector to produce one can argue how 'disastrious" the project was. But the "Let it Be" album itself created three number one singles plus an Oscar for best movie soundtrack, hardly a disaster.

It is a shame that they could not have just taken a break from one another at the hight of their discontent instead of going their seperate ways. The Stones are at each others throat after every tour/recording session. However, they then take an extended break from one another and eventually make peace, at least long enough to make some new music and treat us to another tour.
One can understand George's bitterness as he was creating such wonderful music and was being dismissed as a younger child is dismissed by his older siblings. In hind sight Paul said that he treated George badly and wishes he had allowed him more space in their sessions. Whereas, John had major abandoment issues that he needed to work through and that explains the strong hold that Yoko had over him, but he loved her for whatever reason and we should not blame her for the break-up. If they had just been able to get through the "Klien era" perhaps they could have come back together, but you all know how money distroys relationships be they personal or business and The Beatles was both. There will never be another musical or cultural force to equal The Beatles at least not in my lifetime. Long live The Beatles! "All we need is love!"

Many reasons, ego's - directions, but when George quit & talk of replavement ( including Clapton) shows where real genius took a back seat. His spiritualism and slide guitar shared w/ more musicians than the others combined.

The reason the Beatles broke up is they finally had plenty of money courtesy of the new record deal. Minus that, they stay together for at least another year.

It wasn't Yoko, or Drugs, or Ego, or any of that crap to which people like to lay blame, WE broke up the Beatles. We simply wouldn't let them be.

No one wanted to be a Beatle anymore. And we all lost something very rare... Every rock and roll band since Ed Sullivan in 1964 owes some tribute to the Beatles. They took, Buddy Holly, Elvis and Jerry Lee, Don and Phil, Little Richard and Albert King through them all in a pot, stirred it up and introduced something entirely NEW. No one since them has done anything like that...

i am a beatles fan but i understand the break up of the beatles its like when 4 people live together all those years it gets kinda old !! john lennon found his love of yoko worth more than the beatles music. the time he was in the studio he was wanting home with yoko as i am sure paul and george and ringo was missing their wifes as well.they didnt need the money and i am sure they wanted to be with their kids watching them grow up and to leave their fans one last great album called abbey road before the final break up which they did . as for today paul and ringo are the last ones alive and may they find happiness and may john lennon and george harrison rest in peace !! long live beatlemania

Chelsea's comments have the most accurate reasons. My opinions are based on reading many books on the subject and being old enough to remember. John was tired of being a Beatle, hated Paul's "granny music", and couldn't be bothered to play on several of George's songs. George also disliked songs like "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". Paul would do nearly anything to hold them together, including being the only other Beatle to play on John's "Ballad of John and Yoko." - nearly everything except trying to get his own way, pushing for live performances. With George being so against live performances, it's a bit ironic he was the first one to put on a BIG live show. (Lennon's Live Peace wasn't nearly so big.) Disagreement over business issues widened the gap between them. I would credit Yoko and Linda's involvement in the break up no more than if Lennon & McCartney had met two other women.

When are the Beatles going to reunite?

I think that people need to stop blaming Yoko. True, she's a horrible musician and she definitely fueled the break-up, but they were going to break up with or without her help. Any true Beatles fan would realize that the band started deteriorating at around Magical Mystery Tour with artistic differences between McCartney and Lennon. Things got worst at the White Album when you can tell by listening to it that everyone was moving in different directions musically. The Let It Be sessions was just the icing on the cake to the band's break up. That, and no band lasts forever, no matter how great they are. Even The Rolling Stones will have to break up at one point or another...

Don't speak ill of the dead.Chuck