Did Yoko love John? | Page 21 | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

C.R.A. said
So long as they’re your choices, no one should criticize you.

Surely that depends on the circumstances. You need people around you who will pull you up for your mistakes and be able to speak when they think you are making mistakes, doing something idiotic or going the wrong way. Its how its done, holding it and then using it against you later that is incorrect. Speak up and then if they choose to continue be there for them.

I really dont like ‘Oh Yoko’ or ‘Dear Yoko’. To me they are lazy, self-indulgent bores of songs; the latter being a dreadful mix (the outtakes are more listenable but still incredibly dull in my opinion). 

Paul probably realised that John wasnt happy and wanted to help his friend out. It probably helped that Wings were an established successful band by this time.

Zig said

meanmistermustard said

Fans look back and see John recording great music again, playing live, making noises over Beatles reunions and looking and sounding happy in interviews.

And then, for some, just as he’s about to go and make sweet music again with Paul, Yoko comes calling, and so after tying up the ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ project stops. 

I remain torn over whether this was coincidental or intentional. Part of me gives Yoko the benefit of the doubt. My steadfast opinion of her being a manipulative person (based on patterns of past acts) who always knows what she is doing tugs me in the opposite direction.

I personally feel that it was too coincidental time-wise for it to just happen the night before John was to go meet Paul, but who knows when Paul told Yoko and what the time gap was before Yoko acted. Its entirely possible that she acted last minute having spent an age deliberating and trying to decide, kind of like John, Paul and George waiting an eternity before sacking Pete.

According to the Daily Mail

As Yoko recounts, Paul and Linda McCartney visited her in New York early in 1974, and they talked long into the night.

Paul asked Yoko what would make her take John back and she told him that if John courted her she would perhaps consider it.

Paul then visited John in Los Angeles where he was living with May Pang, and according to Yoko advised him on how to get Yoko back.

The fact that John immediately tried to court Yoko, and came back to New York, was hugely important she says.

He made several attempts to woo her, including taking her to a Man Ray exhibition and to see a film, after she watched him perform at the Elton John concert and realised it could all begin again.

Less than a year after they were reunited their son Sean was born, on John’s birthday.

So Paul would only have seen how unhappy John was after having spoken to Yoko, maybe that confirmed it.