BW writes:
George was not enamored with Yoko. There were instances were she supposedly hurt her back, yet George saw her walking around Abbey Rd. studio. She, also, was to have taken his food several times. But one of the big blow ups came when George asked John to appear for the concert for Bangladesh. John came with Yoko thinking they both could perform. George, however, informed John that he could perform but flatly refused to have Yoko perform. John stormed out!!!
ALI writes:
After a car accident in which Yoko supposedly hurt her back, John had a bed installed in the EMI recording studio so that Yoko could continue to participate in The Beatles’ recording sessions. (This, despite the fact that he was the only Beatle who wanted her in the room in the first place, and chose to ignore the hostility and tension she brought into the room every time she opened her mouth.)
So here they are, in the studio, most of them unhappy about Yoko’s presence, and Yoko supposedly in so much pain that she cannot get out of bed. They take a break. George goes upstairs into the engineering room, which has a window that looks down into the studio. He sees the bedridden Yoko calmly get out of bed, walk easily over to his amplifier upon which is sitting a package of his favorite biscuits, take several of his biscuits, and then calmly return to the bed as she eats them. George is angry on a few counts. First, if she’s well enough to walk over and steal his biscuits, she is not the invalid that she and John have portrayed her as (pardon my grammar). Second, for reasons that have never been explained, The Beatles didn’t share their food with anyone, including each other. Yoko, having hung around for months on end, would have sussed that out. So she took his food in full knowledge that in Beatle Land that act was not okay.
Quite frankly, it was not about the biscuits. Or the bed. It was about Yoko insisting on being the center of attention, sucking the air out of the room, and upsetting the delicate balance among the four Beatles that had been honed by years of togetherness. And George, understandably, lost his temper.
