JOHN LeNNON’s

widow Yoko Ono was not responsible for the break-up of The Beatles. so says Lennon’s younger half-sister, writer Julia Baird, who insists that it was the impossibility of playing live that led to the demise of the Fab Four. ‘A lot of people who saw The Beatles on tour between 1964 and 1966, say: “Could you hear anything?” No, they didn’t hear one word,’ she claims. ‘There was so much screaming [from their fans] that The Beatles didn’t even bother to sing, they just opened their mouths, played their instruments and nobody noticed. ‘At that stage, John said: “This is it, I’m not doing this again.” ’