Editing Yoko Ono (section)

===Relationship with the Beatles===
{{main|Break-up of the Beatles}}
Lennon and Ono were injured in a car crash in June 1969, partway through recording ''Abbey Road''. According to journalist [[Barry Miles]], a bed with a microphone was then installed in the studio so that Ono could make artistic comments about the album.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=552}} Miles thought Ono's continual presence in the studio during the latter part of the Beatles' career put strain on Lennon's relationship with the other band members. [[George Harrison]] got into a shouting match with Lennon after Ono took one of his [[chocolate digestive]] biscuits without asking.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/08/reviews/001008.08udovitt.html|title=Let Us Now Praise Famous Men|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Mim|last=Udovitch|date=October 8, 2000|access-date=February 21, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310222925/http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/08/reviews/001008.08udovitt.html|archive-date=March 10, 2014}}</ref>

The English press dubbed Ono "the woman who broke up the Beatles",{{sfn|Badman|1999|p=40}} which had been foreseen by Paul McCartney in 1969 during the group's rehearsals for their film and album ''[[Let It Be (album)|Let It Be]]'', when he said "It's going to be such an incredible sort of comical thing, like, in fifty years' time, you know: 'They broke up 'cause Yoko sat on an amp.{{'"}}<ref name=":0" /> In an interview with [[Dick Cavett]], Lennon explicitly denied that Ono broke up the Beatles,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALrFZTS1yM|title=John Lennon-on Yoko Breaking Up the Beatles|via=[[YouTube]]|date=January 11, 2008|access-date=August 24, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112025120/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALrFZTS1yM|archive-date=November 12, 2015}}</ref> and Harrison said during an interview with Cavett that the problems within the group began long before Ono came onto the scene.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vP84g-yn58|title=George harrison talks about Lennon, Paul, yoko ono and beatles beakup|via=[[YouTube]]|date=December 5, 1990|access-date=August 24, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328214448/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vP84g-yn58|archive-date=March 28, 2016}}</ref> Ono herself has said that the Beatles broke up without any direct involvement from her, adding "I don't think I could have tried even to break them up."{{sfn|Badman|1999|p=41}}

While the Beatles were together, every song written by Lennon or McCartney was credited as [[Lennon–McCartney]] regardless of whether the song was a [[collaboration]] or written solely by one of the two (except for those appearing on their first album, ''[[Please Please Me]]'', which originally credited the songs to McCartney–Lennon). In 1976, McCartney released a live album called ''[[Wings over America]]'', which credited the five Beatles tracks as P. McCartney–J. Lennon compositions, but neither Lennon nor Ono objected. After Lennon's death, however, McCartney again attempted to change the order to McCartney–Lennon for songs that were solely or predominantly written by him, such as "[[Yesterday (Beatles song)|Yesterday]]",<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2588861.stm|title=Talking Point &#124; Lennon-McCartney: Who do you give credit to?|work=BBC News|date=December 23, 2002|access-date=April 18, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407163230/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2588861.stm|archive-date=April 7, 2012}}</ref>{{clarify|date=August 2020|reason=unclear referent; primarily written by Lennon or McCartney?}} but Ono would not allow it, saying she felt this broke an agreement that the two had made while Lennon was still alive, and the surviving former Beatle argued that such an agreement never existed. A spokesman for Ono said McCartney was making "an attempt to rewrite history".<ref name="billboard_controversy"/>

In a ''Rolling Stone'' interview in 1987, Ono pointed out McCartney's place in the disintegration of the band.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/yoko-ono-blames-paul-mccartney-beatles-breakup-979558|title=Yoko Ono Blames Paul McCartney for the Beatles' Breakup?|last=Vultaggio|first=Maria|date=December 29, 2012|newspaper=[[International Business Times]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231180229/http://www.ibtimes.com/yoko-ono-blames-paul-mccartney-beatles-breakup-979558|archive-date=December 31, 2012}}</ref> On the 1998 John Lennon anthology, ''[[Lennon Legend]]'', the composer credit of "Give Peace a Chance" was changed to "John Lennon" from its original composing credit of "Lennon–McCartney". Although Lennon wrote the song during his tenure with the Beatles, it was both written and recorded without the help of the band, and released as Lennon's first independent single under the "Plastic Ono Band" moniker. Lennon subsequently expressed regret that he had not given co-writing credit to Ono instead, who actually helped him write the song.<ref name=PN/> In 2002, McCartney released another live album, ''[[Back in the U.S.|Back in the U.S. Live 2002]]'', and the 19 Beatles songs included are described as "composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon", which reignited the debate over credits with Ono. Her spokesperson Elliott Mintz called it "an attempt to rewrite history". Nevertheless, Ono did not sue.<ref name="billboard_controversy">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/73102/update-mccartney-reignites-beatles-credit-controversy|title=Update: McCartney Reignites Beatles Credit Controversy|magazine=Billboard|access-date=February 14, 2014|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004204132/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/73102/update-mccartney-reignites-beatles-credit-controversy|archive-date=October 4, 2014}}</ref>

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's "[[Free as a Bird]]" and "[[Real Love (John Lennon song)|Real Love]]", with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean to create the song "Hiroshima Sky Is Always Blue", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the [[Hiroshima Massacre|atomic bombing of that Japanese city]]. Ono publicly compared Lennon to [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], while McCartney, she said, more closely resembled his less-talented rival [[Antonio Salieri]].<ref>Garcia, Gilbert. (January 27, 2003) "[http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2003/01/27/paul_yoko/index.html The ballad of Paul and Yoko] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619034926/http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2003/01/27/paul_yoko/index.html |date=June 19, 2009 }}". ''Salon''. Retrieved April 4, 2011.</ref> This remark infuriated McCartney's wife [[Linda McCartney|Linda]], who was dying from breast cancer at the time. When Linda died less than a year later, McCartney did not invite Ono to his wife's memorial service in Manhattan.<ref name="Scot">{{cite news|last=Williams|first=Precious|url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/eternal-flame-1-1373461|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419170443/https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/eternal-flame-1-1373461|archive-date=April 19, 2019|title=Eternal flame|date=May 19, 2002|newspaper=[[The Scotsman]]|access-date=March 12, 2020|url-status=live|location=Edinburgh, UK}}</ref>

Accepting an award at the 2005 [[Q Awards]], Ono mentioned that Lennon had once felt insecure about his songwriting. She had responded, "You're a good songwriter. It's not June with spoon that you write. You're a good singer, and most musicians are probably a little bit nervous about covering your songs."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/yoko-ono-claims-she-was-misquoted-over-mccartney-outburst-319727.html?origin=internalSearch|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|location=London|title=Yoko Ono claims she was misquoted over McCartney outburst|first=Ian|last=Herbert|date=October 15, 2005|access-date=February 1, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225032027/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/yoko-ono-claims-she-was-misquoted-over-mccartney-outburst-319727.html?origin=internalSearch|archive-date=February 25, 2014}}</ref>

In an October 2010 interview, Ono spoke about Lennon's "lost weekend" and her subsequent reconciliation with him. She credited McCartney with helping save her marriage to John. "I want the world to know that it was a very touching thing that [Paul] did for John."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/profile/article/cant-buy-me-love-yoko-tells-how-paul-saved-her-marriage-to-john-l9twn3mhzzn|title=Can't buy me love: Yoko tells how Paul saved her marriage to John|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=October 9, 2010|access-date=September 3, 2013|archive-date=December 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219073553/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/article2759900.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> While visiting Ono in March 1974, McCartney, on leaving, asked "[W]hat will make you come back to John?" McCartney subsequently passed her response to Lennon while visiting him in Los Angeles. "John often said he didn't understand why Paul did this for us, but he did." In 2012, McCartney revealed that he did not blame Ono for the breakup of the Beatles and credited Ono with inspiring much of Lennon's post-Beatles work.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Paul McCartney: Yoko Ono Didn't Break Up the Beatles|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-yoko-ono-didnt-break-up-the-beatles-20121029|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=October 29, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160901124457/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-yoko-ono-didnt-break-up-the-beatles-20121029?fb_action_ids=10151294334734245&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582|archive-date=September 1, 2016}}</ref>