Reportedly reflecting on the breakup of The Beatles, Paul McCartney, in a yet-to-be-aired episode of BBC Radio 4’s series This Cultural Life, set the record straight on who was behind the decision to split up the band. “I didn’t instigate the split. That was our Johnny,” he said of John Lennon in a preview of his interview shared on The Guardian. 

“John walked into a room one day and said I am leaving the Beatles. Is that instigating the split, or not?” He also added, “This was my band, this was my job, this was my life, so I wanted it to continue.”