Inexplicably, Yoko Ono is there. The Beatles record the album that will become ‘Let It Be.’ Yoko Ono is also there. The Beatles play their final public performance as Yoko Ono looks on. The Barenaked Ladies song “Be My Yoko Ono” compares Ono to a ball and chain (for the record, Ono said of the song, “I liked it”), but as the sessions go on, she assumes a weightless quality. “Part of what your boyfriend teaches you is that Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles,” she writes.

Source: New York Times December 12, 2021 18:41 UTC