THE BEATLES Reunion Planned By LENNON And MCCARTNEY In 1974 'Was Scuppered By YOKO'
July 17, 2009, 14 years ago
LIz Thomas from Dailymail.co.uk is reporting:
JOHN LENNON and SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY planned a BEATLES reunion in 1974 but it was scuppered by Yoko Ono, a new book claims.
In Paul McCartney: A Life, author Peter Ames Carlin suggests that he missed working with Lennon and tried to orchestrate a comeback.
Carlin claims that thirty five years ago Sir Paul, paid a surprise late night visit to a studio in California where Lennon was recording.
According to the book the pair played music into the early hours of the morning with Stevie Wonder, who was also working there.
The session went so well Lennon invited Sir Paul, now 67, and his first wife Linda over for dinner at his rented house in Malibu with girlfriend and assistant May Pang,
According to reports Mr Carlin spoke to Miss Pang, who the late singer was seeing during a break in his marriage from Miss Ono.
She told him she had heard Lennon talk about ‘getting the guys back together’ for a concert in the autumn of 1974.
But Mr Carlin states that Sir Paul inadvertently doomed the comeback by telling Lennon that he had recently seen his estranged wife and that she was keen to see him.
Miss Ono has often been blamed as the cause of The Beatles bitter split in 1970.
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