A new book reveals that Yoko Ono taught John Lennon how to use heroin

A new book about The Beatles understood that Yoko Ono he was the one who taught him John Lennon consume heroin.

It’s simply called All you need is love and it will be on sale today, April 11th. It is based on several interviews from the book The love you makewritten by Steven Gaines AND Peter Marronepersonal assistant to the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein.

The Beatles apparently didn’t like the original book, and Gaines told the Times at the time that “Paul and Linda McCartney destroyed it and burned it in the fireplace of their home“. The love you make It was published in 1983.

“There was a silencea code of silence around the Beatles, and they didn’t believe anyone would tell the truth,” one of the authors declared. Time has passed and now Gaines and Brown are back on the scene with All you need is lovewhich is inspired by the revisionist idea of ​​the documentary Take up againby Peter Jackson.

The book is full of secrets about the band. For example, in one part he includes an anecdote between Lennon and Mick Jaggerconsidered a “uncomfortable moment”, according to the authors. What happened?

Contrasting common denominator

It turns out that Allen Klein He was starting to do the Beatles’ accounting. Year 1969. This caused the dismissal of some people who worked at that time. Paul McCartney didn’t even like Klein, because he was closer to the interests of Lennon and Ono.

Klein had been close to the Rolling Stones in 1965, but Jagger didn’t trust him either and wanted to get him off his back. Years later, interestingly, Klein crossed paths with him and went to work with the Beatles.

The book tells it Lennon wanted to wreak havoc “and in his wonderful way made Klein go to a meeting just when Jagger was in the same office. “This made Mick very angry,” says the author.

Yoko’s heroine

Another chapter refers to how Yoko taught her partner to use heroin. “It just felt good to be high. So I told John,” says Ono, who supposedly tried the drug for the first time during a trip to Paris.

According to what I read, and in Yoko’s words, “Lennon wouldn’t take anything unless he wanted it. And John wanted to try”, clarifies Ono, who does not feel responsible for the initiative and says that his partner “never gave himself the injection”, but simply snorted it.

In 1970 Lennon spoke openly about drugs in a long interview with Rolling Stone. “It just wasn’t very fun,” she said at the time. “I never got the shot or anything. “He huffed a little when she was in a lot of pain.”

And I add: “We got the “H” (heroin) for what the Beatles and others were doing to us. But we managed to get out of it,” he said of an alleged addiction that coincided with the band’s contentious split.

The book’s press release states this All you need is love “is an innovative oral history of the Beatles”, based on interviews never published before nor heard of Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and their families, friends and business partners. “It is a historical book containing extraordinary new revelations about the biggest band in the world.