I wonder if John really thought Ray Connolly would tell the news or not. Was he upset with Ray before Paul told all first? Maybe John wasn't entirely sure if he wanted it to be public or not.
I don't think John quite meant it when he told Paul he wanted a "divorce". The Beatles were ending in many ways, but I also suspect John was testing Paul's Oh! Darling claim that he wouldn't be able to make it without John. You can't live without me? Fine, I want a DIVORCE just like my DIVORCE from my wife CYNTHIA.
When Paul announced the break-up the way he did John's first thought was probably that he had been wrong: Oh! Darling and The Long and Winding Road and all those songs had not been autobiographical after all. The musical communication he had though had been going on had not been. And then Ram came out, where Paul seemed to be saying that he had been devastated, and "I guess you never saw, dear boy, that love was there", and Linda saved his life.
Speaking of Linda - As you said before, taking on the Eastmans was a huge gesture of trust in Linda. I wonder if that was part of the problem for John. Especially since Paul seemed more trusting of the Eastmans than of Yoko. I mean, in Paul's defense, John brought Yoko into the studio in an aggressive way designed to push Paul's buttons. But there still might have been resentment on John's part that Paul trusted the Eastmans so thoroughly and not Yoko.
I actually think John really wanted to accept the Eastmans. "All I want is you / everything has got to be just like you want to do", right? But accepting Paul's in-laws was too much. And I think that's part of why John was so vicious towards the Eastmans. John had a history of taking out his anger at himself for how he treated someone on the person whom he had mistreated ("I hate your fucking laugh", to Julian, being one of the most horrifying examples).
Re: Management Issues II
I don't think John quite meant it when he told Paul he wanted a "divorce". The Beatles were ending in many ways, but I also suspect John was testing Paul's Oh! Darling claim that he wouldn't be able to make it without John. You can't live without me? Fine, I want a DIVORCE just like my DIVORCE from my wife CYNTHIA.
When Paul announced the break-up the way he did John's first thought was probably that he had been wrong: Oh! Darling and The Long and Winding Road and all those songs had not been autobiographical after all. The musical communication he had though had been going on had not been. And then Ram came out, where Paul seemed to be saying that he had been devastated, and "I guess you never saw, dear boy, that love was there", and Linda saved his life.
Speaking of Linda - As you said before, taking on the Eastmans was a huge gesture of trust in Linda. I wonder if that was part of the problem for John. Especially since Paul seemed more trusting of the Eastmans than of Yoko. I mean, in Paul's defense, John brought Yoko into the studio in an aggressive way designed to push Paul's buttons. But there still might have been resentment on John's part that Paul trusted the Eastmans so thoroughly and not Yoko.
I actually think John really wanted to accept the Eastmans. "All I want is you / everything has got to be just like you want to do", right? But accepting Paul's in-laws was too much. And I think that's part of why John was so vicious towards the Eastmans. John had a history of taking out his anger at himself for how he treated someone on the person whom he had mistreated ("I hate your fucking laugh", to Julian, being one of the most horrifying examples).