Yoko Autobiography in the Works

The London tabloid Daily Express is reporting that Yoko Ono plans to write an autobiography:

IN WHAT will be one of the most hotly anticipated pop autobiographies ever, John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono, the woman blamed by some fans for breaking up The Beatles, is finally set to write her memoirs.

Yoko has a lot to answer for: for example, ruining--with her hideous caterwauling (at 1:19 and 2:35)--John's much-anticipated opportunity to play "Memphis, Tennessee" with his boyhood idol Chuck Berry on the Mike Douglas Show in 1972:



As bad as this is, the break-up of the Beatles was not Yoko's doing. She may have helped John transition from being a Beatle to a solo artist; but the Beatles were bound to break up as soon as the titanic personalities at the core of the group--Lennon and McCartney--discovered each other. The creative energies that were unleashed by their partnership could not forever be contained in the group. Like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge--another pair of hugely influential English poetic collaborative competitors--Lennon and McCartney were able to sustain their partnership for only about ten years. After that, all the arguments, recriminations, and simmering resentments that destroyed their friendship and broke up the band were just symptoms of Paul's and John's irresistible drive for complete self-sufficiency. Ironically, their partnership gave each so much confidence in his own greatness that--after a while--each saw the other as an obstacle, rather than a means, of artistic self-fulfillment. The Beatles were destined to break up. For all her irritating pretensions and lame performance-art absurdities, Yoko was--in the final analysis--a bystander in the dissolution of the Beatles.