Paul McCartney has said in a new interview that he doesn’t think Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles. McCartney told the Guardian that while Ono sitting in on the Beatles’ recording sessions was hard, he doesn’t think she had to do with the band’s demise. McCartney said, “She certainly didn’t break the group up, the group was breaking up. When Yoko came along, part of her attraction was her avant garde side, her view of things, so she showed him (John Lennon) another way to be, which was very attractive to him. So it was time for John to leave, he was definitely going to leave one way or another.” He noted that he didn’t think Lennon would have written songs like “Imagine” without Ono, saying, “I don’t think he would have done that without Yoko, so I don’t think you can blame her for anything.” As for who was at fault, McCartney placed most of the blame on manager Allen Klein, who took over after Brian Epstein’s 1967 death. He said, “I was fighting against the other three guys who’d been my lifelong soul buddies. I said I wanted to fight Klein.”