Wenner a letter about how working for Rolling Stone was “like being invited into a bonfire and finding out the fire is actually your friend.” He added, “Some people were fried to cinders, as I recall, and some people used the heat to transmogrify themselves into heroes.” I was tough, but I was also super-indulgent. “But I just would not take less than your really best effort. “I wasn’t raving around tearing up people’s copy,” he said, looking relaxed in a blue linen shirt and black pants at his Montauk home in August. “More than anyone I know, he’s always just done what he wanted,” said his friend Lorne Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live.” He turned a darkroom into an in-house drug-dealing operation called the Capri Lounge, as a perk for staffers. He gave out roach clips with subscriptions. His own mother told him he was the most difficult child she’d ever encountered. The founder of Rolling Stone magazine always had a baby face, but he was never timid. Rock may be dead, but Jann Wenner is still rolling. Lennon and his ex-wife Cynthia were already parents to a son, Julian, who was born in 1963, the same year Ono’s daughter Kyoko, with her previous husband American jazz musician/film producer Anthony Cox, was born.MONTAUK, N.Y. Following a brief separation in 1973/74, Ono gave birth to their son, Sean, in 1975. Lennon and Ono would go on to push their platform of pacifism and record collaboratively and as solo artists. No longer a combined artistic force, their musical tastes had diverged and the business of being the Beatles had overtaken whatever joy remained, in particular, the in-fighting over the decision of who to employ as the new manager with Lennon/Ono, Starr and Harrison choosing Allen Klein over McCartney’s choice of Lee and John Eastman, the father and brother, respectively of his then-girlfriend and future wife Linda.

It was 1970 when the Beatles officially ended, not with a grand announcement but words contained in a press release by McCartney for his upcoming solo album in which he declared his writing partnership with Lennon over and his time as a Beatle finished. Ono says she 'had nothing to do with breaking up the Beatles' The stories about her accompanying him to the bathroom, she would say later ‘he made me.’' “But it was John who was in effect hiding behind her, he brought her in. “In so doing, making her this joined-at-the-hip figure, bringing her into Beatle world where no other wives or girlfriends were ever granted that status in the studio, you can read that as, well, Yoko broke up the Beatles because she was the one that disturbed the order of things,” says Rodriguez. Previously a background figure, Lennon now ushered Ono into the inner circle. “So, she showed him another way to be, which was very attractive to him.” Ono was allowed in the studio, where no other wives or girlfriends were allowed “When Yoko came along, part of her attraction was her avant-garde side, her view of things,” McCartney told Frost in 2012.

He doesn’t go all in on Yoko until he becomes disillusioned with the Maharishi. 'The timing of it is very much in line with his psychological neediness and him wanting to replace something else. He’s very vulnerable and relapses back into acid,” Rodriguez says. “John is spinning coming off his acid period, suffering the psychological loss of Brian Epstein and having this great disappointment in India.

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