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Yoko Ono reportedly told the late John Lennon how to take heroin, according to a new book about his band the Beatles.
Several new excerpts from the book All You Need Is Love have been published by Sunday weather.
The book features interviews from the early 1980s with former Beatles members Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, as well as John’s widow, Yoko.
In an interview, Yoko, now 91, and who was married to John from 1969 until his death in 1980, told John about using heroin, but denied that she “put John on H,” something that, According to her, George, John’s bandmate, had accused her.
He added that John “wouldn’t take anything unless he wanted to do it.”
Yoko Ono is said to have told the late John Lennon how to take heroin, according to a new book about his band the Beatles (John and Yoko pictured in 1970).
In an interview, Yoko, now 91, and who was married to John from 1969 until his death in 1980, told John how to use heroin, but denied that she “put John on H” (John and Yoko in the photo from 1980).
According to the excerpt of the interview published by The Sunday Times, Yoko “smelled” heroin for the first time in Paris and said she had “a beautiful feeling” as a result of the drug.
She said: ‘It was just a nice feeling. So I told John.
Yoko said John would ask her about her experiences using heroin, adding that she thought he “wanted to use it, that’s why he asked.”
The artist added that they ‘never injected’ the Class A drug.
MailOnline has contacted Yoko representatives for comment.
In 1970, John remembered the first time he used heroin and told her Rolling Stone “it wasn’t much fun” and “nothing was ever injected.”
He said: ‘We sniffed a little when we were in a lot of pain.
“We all had a very bad time, and I and Yoko, especially Yoko, have been criticized a lot.
George Harrison is said to have accused Yoko of inducing John to take heroin (Beatles (LR) members Sir Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon pictured in 1967).
‘Like Peter Brown in our office, and you can put this, after we arrive, after six months, he comes and shakes my hand and doesn’t even shake it.
“That happens all the time.”
John added: ‘And we are suffering so much that we have to do something about it.
And that’s what happened to us.
‘We chose “H” because of what the Beatles and others were doing to us.
“But we got through this.”
The book All You Need is Love was written by two members of the Beatles’ inner circle, Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines, who first interviewed the band members for the 1983 book, The Love You Make.
It was not well received by the band or fans, and was dubbed “The Muck You Rake” by its devotees.
According to The Sunday Times, Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Linda ‘tore up the book and burned it in the fireplace, page by page’ after its publication.