“It’s not that we didn’t like each other. I’ve compared it to a marriage a million times, and I hope it’s understandable for people who aren't married, or any relationship- It was a long relationship. It started many, many years before the American public, or the English public for that matter, knew us. Paul and I were together since he was 15 and I was 16... and George was whatever... It’s a long long time that the four of us had been together. And what happened was through boredom and just too much of everything and people bothering us with business… the whole pressure of it, finally what people do when they’re together, they start picking on each other - it was like ‘it’s because of you, you got the tambourine wrong that my life is a misery’, you know, and it became petty. But the manifestations were on each other because we were the only ones we had.”
-John Lennon talking to Elliot Mintz in January 1976, broadcast on Earth News Radio
