Mail Online UK December 30.2010 I didn't break up the Beatles. My small hand could not have broken these men up': The world according to Yoko Ono Lennon.Already an acclaimed avant-garde artist and musician, Yoko Ono became infamous worldwide when she began a relationship with John Lennon.‘I had no idea when I met this man in my gallery how everything would change,’ she says. ‘Nothing was ever the same again.