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"The Ballad of John and Yoko" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in May 1969. It was written by John Lennon [3] and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership, and chronicles the events surrounding the wedding of Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Lennon's and McCartney's artistic avenues became more disparate, [30] with McCartney disapproving of Lennon and Ono's experimental sound collage "Revolution 9", [31] and Lennon contemptuous of light-hearted McCartney songs such as "Martha My Dear" and "Honey Pie". [32]
Yoko Ono and John Lennon when they married, March 1969. Ono's first contact with any member of the Beatles occurred when she visited Paul McCartney at his home in London to obtain a Lennon–McCartney song manuscript for a book John Cage was working on, Notations. [37]
McCartney's 2002 live album, Back in the U.S., also used the credit "Paul McCartney and John Lennon" for all of the Beatles songs. [46] When Ono objected to McCartney's request for the reversed credit to be used for the 1965 song " Yesterday ", McCartney said that he and Lennon had agreed in the past that the credits could be reversed, if ...
In 1994, Yoko Ono gave the recording to Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, in addition to demos for "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love," which were released in the '90s as part of The ...
At the time, many fans blamed Lennon's wife Yoko Ono for driving a wedge between the band members, however McCartney has previously addressed this rumor, vehemently denying that Ono was at all ...
In 1994, Yoko Ono gave Paul McCartney cassettes containing demo recordings of four of John Lennon's unfinished songs: "Grow Old with Me," "Free as a Bird," "Real Love" and "Now and Then." Ono played at least three of the songs, including "Grow Old with Me," for McCartney on a visit to the Dakota.
Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono Getty Images(2) Paul McCartney is sharing how he really felt about Yoko Ono’s presence in some of The Beatles’ last recording sessions as a band. During a recent ...