Yoko Ono told Beatles legend Paul McCartney he 'hurt John Lennon' with 'decision'

Paul McCartney only realised he had "hurt" John Lennon by working on soundtrack music for a film after being informed by Yoko Ono. A new book, titled John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs, penned by author Ian Leslie, delves into the relationship between bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney . The book traces their journey from their first meeting in Liverpool in the 1950s to John's tragic death in 1980.

In one chapter, Ian looks back on John's trip to Almeria in 1966 where American film director Richard Lester invited him to be in his new film, a comedy called 'How I Won The War'. It was in Almeria where John, joined on the trip by road manager Neil Aspinall and first wife Cynthia Lennon, first began working on the iconic Beatles track 'Strawberry Fields Forever'. According to Ian, John returned to England in November that year to begin work on the Sgt.



Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album but, during the time he was away, Paul had also been exploring other ventures. The 82-year-old had collaborated with George Martin writing music for the comedy/drama 'The Family Way', for which he later won an Ivor Novello. However, Ian writes that John was upset by his band mate's decision to work on the film, a fact that Paul only learnt after the star's murder in 1980.

Ian writes: "Like the 'Eleanor Rigby' incident, this episode exacerbated John's insecurity. Paul only found out John had been hurt by it from Yoko Ono, after John's death. Paul: 'He [John] went off to make a film.

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he wrote his books. "[Working with Martin on 'The Family Way' was in the spirit of all that..

.. But what I didn't realise was that this was the first time one of us had done it on songs.

" John spent two months working on 'How I Won The War' and, according to Ian, was a "diligent" member of Lester's cast. It was also during this period that Lennon first started wearing his iconic round, wire-framed glasses. "He turned up on set every day, even when he wasn't needed," Ian writes.

"At twenty-six, he had very little experience of adult life outside of being a Beatle. "'I could hardly speak, I was so nervous,' he said later. 'I don't mind talking to the camera - it's people that throw me.

' He was given a pair of round, wire-framed spectacles for the part. "They didn't have lenses, but Lennon started wearing them on and off set. They became a prop not just for the film, but also for the new self he was piecing together.

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