“Yoko Ono is to finally put pen to paper and tell us why the Beatles broke up,” says a Guardian report by Sean Michaels. The 76-year-old widow of John Lennon said she would tell the story in a memoir she plans to publish “by 2015,” as the report delicately puts it. The book will focus “on the duo’s intense relationship, the myths surrounding her role in the Beatles’ break-up, the bed-in for peace, Lennon’s infamous ‘Lost Weekend’ and more.” However, Michaels notes Ono’s previous statement that she would never talk about the final days of the Beatles: “There are things that I can’t write because it may hurt someone. I think about how it might hurt [their] children, and I don’t want to do that.

In any event, she won’t be the first Lennon wife to write her memoir. His first wife, Cynthia Lennon, whom he famously left for Ono in 1968, has so far written two memoirs about their time togehter, 1978’s not-so-fond-remembrance A Twist of Lennon, and 2005’s much warmer John. And then there are the two books from Lennon’s girlfriend May Pang, 1983’s Loving John and 2008’s Instamatic Karma ….