{"id":30406,"date":"2024-09-20T18:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-20-1969-john-lennon-informed-the-beatles-he-was-leaving-the-group\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:02:32","slug":"on-this-day-sept-20-1969-john-lennon-informed-the-beatles-he-was-leaving-the-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-20-1969-john-lennon-informed-the-beatles-he-was-leaving-the-group\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 20, 1969: John Lennon informed The Beatles he was leaving the group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-20\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Sept. 20, 1969 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>John Lennon<\/strong> privately informed <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong> and <strong>Ringo Starr<\/strong>\u00a0that he was leaving <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>, although the news was initially kept quiet, as the band was about to sign a new recording contract.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McCartney then publicly announced his own departure in April 1970 as he released his debut solo album, angering Lennon, who later shared, \u201cI started the band. I disbanded it. It&#8217;s as simple as that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The\u00a0Beatles officially disbanded following McCartney\u2019s announcement. They released their final album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Let It Be<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, one month after their breakup, although it was recorded before their previous album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Abbey Road<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which came out in September 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although Lennon died in 1980 and <strong>George Harrison<\/strong> passed in 2001, The Beatles released a new song, &#8220;Now and Then,&#8221; in 2023, which used vocals<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Lennon<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>recorded on a demo in the late &#8217;70s, along with guitar Harrison<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>recorded in the mid-&#8217;90s, and new recordings from\u00a0McCartney<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Starr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Sept. 20, 1969 &#8230; John Lennon privately informed Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr\u00a0that he was leaving The Beatles, although the news was initially kept quiet, as the band was about to sign a new recording contract.\u00a0 McCartney then publicly announced his own departure in April 1970 as<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-20-1969-john-lennon-informed-the-beatles-he-was-leaving-the-group\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}