Paul McCartney recently revealed that The Beatles were most likely struggling with mental illness at the height of their fame. Instead of talking about it with each other, “they talked about it through [their] songs.”
John Lennon (1940-1980)
The popular Beatle is thought to have had ADHD due to his disruptive behavior and inability to focus on his lessons growing up. When he dropped out of school at a young age, no one could imagine the heights of fame he would reach in the music industry (see what we did there?).
As far as we fans know, none of the Beatles were ever officially diagnosed with any mental health problem. Looking at their lives we see that maybe John Lennon suffered from some depression, and may have been ADHD (which is not a mental illness).
Their hit song “Help!”, however, was written solely by Lennon himself after experiencing high levels of anxiety throughout the band's rise to fame.
'" Around that time he began to feel physically unsafe in crowds. "With what was going on," he said, "with presidents getting assassinated, the whole magnitude of our fame made me nervous." Harrison was just 27 when the band broke up. Beatlemania had left him with something like post-traumatic stress disorder.
Ringo. One future Beatles did experience a Dickensian childhood combining poverty, ill health and paternal abandonment. Richard Starkey grew up in an area of the city notorious for crime and poverty. But he would not meet the other Beatles until October, 1960.
He was 58. Harrison died at a friend's Los Angeles home following a battle with cancer, longtime friend Gavin De Becker told The Associated Press.
Ringo Starr also "had a major drinking problem" (who is now sober) said Sir McCartney, but he still regards the group were "reasonably well adjusted" to fame.
McCartney and Asher were together from 1963 to 1968. Towards the end of their relationship, however, he began to have a wandering eye. In 1968 McCartney started a secret affair with American star Francie Schwartz. Asher found out when she returned from an acting job early and found the Beatle in bed with Schwartz.
Pete Best - the forgotten Beatle
He played drums with The Beatles for two years before he was thrown out of the band, never to have contact with them again.
Both John Lennon and Ringo Starr have openly admitted to being abusive to their spouses and neglectful fathers; Why is Jonn the only one who still gets ripped apart for it on Reddit? Yes, he did do all of those things, plus being a serial cheat.
Ringo Starr Admitted to Being Emotional and Upset When Paul McCartney Threatened Him - IMDb. Even Ringo Starr wasn't spared in The Beatles' bitter breakup. His drumming increasingly shone through in the music (he praised his work on “Get Back”) in the later years, but none of that mattered as the band dissolved.
John Lennon's trauma
There are people who say that part of his lifelong anguish and eternally hidden sadness might have come from his childhood. His father was a sailor who left early on. His mother also left him for a time, and she had him stay with his aunt and uncle.
Starr contracted peritonitis aged six following an appendectomy and spent several days in a coma. As a result, he had a twelve-month stay in Liverpool's Myrtle Street children's hospital, dramatically affecting his education.
In a 1987 interview, McCartney said that the other Beatles idolised Lennon: "He was like our own little Elvis ... We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest."
No, the genius was the aggregate contributions of John and Paul. And while they were busy being amazing (Lennon/McCartney), George blossomed into the guy who wrote some of the Beatles' greatest songs: “Something,” “Here Comes The Sun,” “Taxman,” “Within You Without You,” and “Think For Yourself.”
It was 42 years ago Sunday (January 16th, 1980) that Paul McCartney was arrested in Tokyo, Japan for bringing 7.7 ounces of marijuana into the country.
McCartney and Lennon were embroiled in a bitter relationship for several years post-Beatles, with Lennon putting down McCartney's first solo works and releasing songs such as "'God" and "How Do You Sleep," which included pointed lyrics toward his former Beatles bandmate.
Wrath. One of the main criticisms of John Lennon is that he was a hypocrite. For many people, Lennon's 'Bed-in for Peace' in 1969 with Yoko Ono was too rich as he was notorious for his violent outbursts. By his own admission, he was physically and verbally abusive to his first wife, Cynthia Powell.
During their various trips to Hamburg, Pete Best stuck to alcohol, and Paul McCartney was reportedly less keen on indulging, but John Lennon, in particular, became a frequent user of stimulants. The speed thing first came from the gangsters. Looking back, they were probably thirty years old but they seemed fifty…
In the last years of his life, John Lennon discovered that his eyesight was so poor that, without his glasses, he was legally blind. He also discovered that he was dyslexic.
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American man who murdered English musician John Lennon in New York City on December 8, 1980. As Lennon walked into the archway of his apartment building The Dakota, Chapman fired five shots at Lennon from a few yards away with a Charter Arms Undercover .38 Special revolver.
According to those present, his final words were: “Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.” To his wife, he said simply: “Olivia, you'll be fine, you'll be fine”.
While travelling in the car on the way back from The Record Plant, Lennon spoke to Ono for the last time. “I said, 'shall we go and have dinner before we go home?'
Nov. 9, 2001 -- Former Beatle George Harrison is undergoing radiation to treat a brain tumor, but experts say it won't stop the spread of cancer from his lungs.