John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney planned a Beatles reunion in 1974 but it was scuppered by Yoko Ono, a new book claims.

 

In Paul McCartney: A Life, author Peter Ames Carlin suggests that he missed working with Lennon and tried to orchestrate a comeback.

 

Carlin claims that thirty five years ago Sir Paul, paid a surprise late night visit to a studio in California where Lennon was recording.

 

According to the book the pair played music into the early hours of the morning with Stevie Wonder, who was also working there.

 

The session went so well Lennon invited Sir Paul, now 67, and his first wife Linda over for dinner at his rented house in Malibu with girlfriend and assistant May Pang,

 

According to reports Mr Carlin spoke to Miss Pang, who the late singer was seeing during a break in his marriage from Miss Ono.

 

She told him she had heard Lennon talk about ‘getting the guys back together’ for a concert in the autumn of 1974.

 

But Mr Carlin states that Sir Paul inadvertently doomed the comeback by telling Lennon that he had recently seen his estranged wife and that she was keen to see him.

 

Miss Ono has often been blamed as the cause of The Beatles bitter split in 1970.

 

The couple had agreed to spend time apart with Lennon living in California and his wife in New York.

 

He famously called this 18 month hedonistic period his ‘lost weekend’.

 

After Sir Paul’s message the pair were reconciled and the plans for a reunion concert were cancelled.

 

Lennon was murdered on December 9 1980 by Mark Chapman, who shot him four times.

 

Carlin’s biography is out in November – he has previously written about Beach Boys star Brian Wilson.

 

Last year Sir Paul revealed that he wanted to reunite with ex-bandmate Ringo Starr.

McCartney told US chatshow The View: "Yeah, I would love to [work with Ringo]. We do things from time to time together, but it doesn't always come up."

 

He confessed that getting his schedule to work with Starr's is the most difficult hurdle to overcome.

 

"Sometimes he'll be on tour when I'm not," he said. "But we don't rule it out, it'd be great. He's a great drummer and we're used to each other.’

 

The surviving Beatles last worked together in 1994 when they put overdubs on home recordings by John Lennon with the help of George Harrison, who passed away from cancer in 2001.

 

Source: Daily Mail

 

 

 

 

Yes, I knew about what happened in 1974, another reason why some over obsessed Beatles fans are not big fans of Yoko Ono.

 

Just imagine if they had reformed around 1976/7 and made an album ..... :thinking: .... It probably would have been not even as good as the latest then by Supertramp or ELO.

 

 

Although I couldn't really see Paul breaking up Wings in 1976, maybe a few years later. Even if it was slightly worse than their heyday, I am sure any record they made would have sold millions.