Business and ego broke up The Beatles.

Yes. The widely accepted primary reason was the death of manager Brian Epstein in 1967 and the resulting chaos. Without him, the band had no mediator. The Get Back/Let It Be sessions, Apple Corps financial disaster, and McCartney vs. Lennon power struggle did the rest. Yoko Ono was a convenient scapegoat, not the cause. She accelerated Lennon’s exit, but the fractures were already there.

The breakup wasn’t one event. It was a slow bleed that started when they stopped touring in 1966. Epstein’s death just pulled off the bandage. They couldn’t agree on direction, money, or control. By 1969, they were four separate businesses sharing a name.

Yoko catching flak for it is one of pop culture’s bigger misdirections.