Yoko Ono introduced her then-husband John Lennon to heroin and said she experienced “beautiful emotions” with the drug, in a new book about the Beatles that includes never-before-seen interviews from the 1980s. There is.
According to an excerpt from “All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words”, the 91-year-old Ono denied in an interview that she had “had sex with John.” The Sunday Times announced, adding that the Beatles members “don’t take on anything unless they want to do it.”
The book includes interviews with band members Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, It also includes interviews with their families and business associates.
Lennon was assassinated in 1980.
Paul McCartney says the Beatles allowed Yoko Ono to perform this act because they showed ‘respect’ for John and were non-confrontational.
Yoko Ono said she introduced John Lennon to heroin in an excerpt from an old interview published in a new oral history book. (Getty)
“These transcribed interviews reveal only a small portion of the content,” the book’s synopsis says. “The interviews are unique and candid. The information, stories, experiences, and authority of the people involved have historical value. A collection like this will never be assembled again.”
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In one of her interviews, Ono said she first “sniffed” the drug in Paris and told John Lennon, to whom she was married from 1969 until her death in 1980, “It just felt good. So I said to John, “It was,” he said. . ”
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine published in January 1971, Lennon said that heroin “wasn’t really fun,” adding that heroin was “just a little sniff when I was really having a hard time.”
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married from 1969 until his assassination in 1980. (Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)
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Both he and Ono said, “I have never had an injection.”
“Everyone has been very bad to me and a lot has been thrown at me and Yoko, especially Yoko,” he said at the time. “You can put this in there, like Peter Brown in our office, but when we come into the office six months later, he comes down and shakes my hand and says, We don’t even say hi to each other. It’s always going on and we get nervous.” It hurts so much that we have to do something about it. And that’s what happened to us. ”
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The Beatles pose together in 1965. From left to right: musicians George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr.
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He said the couple turned to heroin “because of what the Beatles and others did to us. But we grew out of it.”
John Lennon said he and Yoko Ono “did heroin because of what the Beatles and others did to us. But we got out of it.” (Susan Wood/Getty Images)
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A representative for Ono declined to comment to Fox News Digital.
Described as “a groundbreaking oral history of one of the most enduring musical acts of all time,” written by Brown and Gaines, “All You Need Is Love” will be released on April 9th.
