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PAUL AND RINGO: THE BEATLES WERE BROTHERS John was one quarter of The Beatles – along with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison – a British rock band from the Sixties which became

one of the most influential bands of all time. He was known for frequent fallouts with his writing partner, Paul, and for his music career with his wife Yoko Ono after leaving the Beatles.

Due to their global success as a group, fans often blamed Yoko for the band’s split – and an interview from shortly after their disbandment revealed what John thought of his band’s approach

to his wife. RELATED ARTICLES Rolling Stone interviewed the rock star in December 1970, the year when the band officially broke up. John said “the Beatle people” – who helped make their band

a success – “despised” Yoko. But, he continued: “I had to either be married to them or Yoko, and I chose Yoko and I was right.” The interviewer Jann Wenner then asked: “How would you

characterise George’s, Paul’s and Ringo’s reaction to Yoko?” John Lennon and George Harrison (Image: Getty) The pair were both in the Beatles (Image: Getty) John replied: “It’s the same. You

can quote Paul, it’s probably in the papers, he said it many times at first he hated Yoko and then he got to like her. “But it’s too late for me. I’m for Yoko.” John then explained one

particular incident within the band. He said: “And George, s***, insulted her right to her face in the Apple office at the beginning, just being ‘straight forward’ you know, that game of

‘well, I’m going to be upfront because this is what we’ve heard and Dylan and a few people said she’s got a lousy name in New York, and you gave off bad vibes’. “That’s what George said to

her and we both sat through it, and I didn’t hit him. I don’t know why.” READ MORE: HOW KATE MIDDLETON 'STOPPED PRINCE WILLIAM FROM GETTING THIS TATTOO' John and his second wife

Yoko Ono (Image: Getty) RELATED ARTICLES George and John were known for being particularly close in the earlier days of the Beatles and began experimenting with drugs together. The

antagonism between them was less publicised than the ongoing spat between John and Paul, but his disputes with George were equally harsh. John asked: “Why should she take that kind of s***

from those people? “They were writing about her looking miserable in the ‘Let It Be’ film but you sit through 60 sessions with the most bigheaded, up-tight people on earth and see what it’s

f***** like and be insulted – just because you love someone.” ‘Let it Be’ was a 1970 documentary which showed how the band recorded and rehearsed for their album of the same name. Yoko is

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officially in 1970 (Image: Getty) John added: “I was always hoping that [the other Beatles] would come around. “I couldn’t believe it, and they all sat there with their wives, like a f*****

jury and judged us.” However, the Beatle did concede “Ringo was all right” as was Ringo’s first wife Maureen, but said both Paul and George “really gave it to us”. He added: “I’ll never

forgive them. Although I can’t help still loving them either.” During the explosive interview, John also revealed how he would “have expanded the Beatles and broken them and gotten their

pants off and stopped them being God”. However, it was John himself who caused controversy when he said The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus” during a 1966 interview. Paul and John also

had famous fallouts but reconciled before John's death (Image: Getty) Speaking to the Rolling Stone in 1970, the singer pointed out how his wife had hoped to come in and perform with

the rest of the band “like you would with any group” but there was always “a sort of coldness about it”.  Yoko and John worked together on his famous single ‘Imagine’ from 1971, and before

his death, he emphasised how she had assisted him with his creative ventures. He even wrote to Paul to say the pair of them had “more intelligent interest” in their work when compared to his

time in The Beatles. However, Paul and John are believed to have resolved their conflicts by the time John was assassinated by an obsessed supporter in 1980. George, on the other hand, was

devastated after his death although they had not had much contact in the years leading up to it. After the murder he told the press: “After all we went through together I had and still have

great love and respect for John Lennon. I sam shocked and stunned.”