she was lennon's assistant before she became his girlfriend, and it was supposedly yoko ono who suggested they get together. beatles historians typically treat lennon's time with her as just an extended vacation from his responsibilities as a husband and father. the film—makers felt that pang's story was a necessary corrective to the narrative. my heart is in this story, as a woman. as a woman who feels that some of our stories are obscured, particularly women who wound up a little bit left behind. and we learned, you know, she survived, number one, and that she was a really good person and she was a true lover, companion, musical, sort of, muse, if you will. she was many things that have been obscured. most of what's in the film will already be known to hardcore beatles fans, and many of its anecdotes are merely amusing rather than revealing. what really stands out in the lost weekend is the film's treatment of yoko ono, depicted as a manipulator who allegedly pushed lennon into and then out of his relationship with pang. ono was not interviewed for the film, and her voice would have p

and, of course, yoko ono. as long as we're here, let's dispense now with that famous bit of beatles break-up mythology. the casual fan looking for "yoko ono broke up the beatles" might come away from this disappointed, i suspect. >> giles martin: yeah, i think that's a good thing, you know. i mean, yoko didn't break up the beatles. and-- and no one thing broke up the beatles. >> george martin: that's the original. >> giles martin: that's the original. >> wertheim: giles martin is the son of late beatles producer george martin. giles grew up in the beatles orbit, and has since remixed most of the band's albums. when peter jackson enlisted him for this series, martin plowed through all the hundreds of hours of audio and video. >> giles martin: you can see the cracks appearing. the one thing about this movie is that people understand why they were getting tired of each other. because you get the sense of what it was like to be in a room with them, which is such a privilege for all of us. >> wertheim: despite thos

. >> the fact is that yoko ono did not break up the beatles. time broke up the beatles, money broke up the beatles. business broke up the beatles. the desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fleshier and heavier beatle these days, respectfully married. when the kids come to his concerts, they don't scream any more, they listen. >> the significant thing is both john lennon and paul mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact they were deeply in love with a woman. ♪ but i'm not the only one ♪ >> mccartney went home and made the record where he plays all the instruments on his own. this kind of cozy domesticity, beautiful, wonderful, warm music. >> it's going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. >> this is just the mock-up, folks. >> the new album. >> it's going to be called "ringo's reviewer." >> i sell records. it doesn't matter if they've got the beatles or not. if they don't like the record they won't buy it. >> ringo, who to this day people dismiss w