Dan Richter lived with and worked for the couple. He talks about his ringside seat at the bitter end of Lennon, McCartney, the Telegraph report
“I do think John used Yoko to help him break up The Beatles,” says 83-year-old actor and mime artist Dan Richter, who lived and worked with John Lennon and Yoko Ono as their personal assistant from 1969 to 1973. He was present at the recording of the band’s final album, Abbey Road, where Lennon insisted his second wife should be a central – and antagonising – presence.
At the time Ono was recovering from injuries sustained in a recent car crash and Richter describes her being placed “in this gigantic brass bed, all covered in white in a white night dress, right in the middle of the studio…So sitting at the [mixing] board all you’re looking at is Yoko in a bed. The rest of the band were just appalled.”
“At that point John wanted The Beatles over with…It was a big problem for him: how do you break up The Beatles? They were worth millions of dollars. Apple was a major business. Paul was going to go on forever. And John had decided he wasn’t going anywhere or doing anything without Yoko. So there she was, in bed in the studio…”
Richter famously supplied the pair with heroin during the Abbey Road recording sessions. “I didn’t want them to be using,” he tells me. “But I really didn’t want them to be using street heroin, killing themselves.” (Read the full article on Telegraph)
John Lennon: "I was always waiting for a reason to get out of the Beatles"
"I was always waiting for a reason to get out of the Beatles from the day I filmed 'How I Won The War' (in 1966). I just didn't have the guts to do it. The seed was planted when the Beatles stopped touring and I couldn't deal with not being onstage. But I was too frightened to step out of the palace. (Read the full interview HERE)
