Did John Lennon keep in touch with the other Beatles?

Answer 1

After the hiatus of the break-up had died down, all The Beatles were one reasonably good terms and kept in contact with each other. Lennon recorded with Harrison and Starr and occasionally met up with Paul. Lennon never recorded with McCartney, but there does exist a bootleg recording of Lennon and McCartney playing together in 1974. It's purely of historic interest only. _____ Not actively, after his 1975 reconciliation with Yoko Ono, and the dissolution of the Beatles's business partnership. Paul McCartney went through a period of turning up at the Dakota unannounced; Lennon visited with him a time or two, but turned him away on a subsequent visit, telling him "The old days are over." (He wasn't rejecting McCartney; he simply preferred that he call before he came by.) Lennon was upset with Harrison for being conspicuously absent from Harrison's autobiography I Me Mine, and was in no hurry to speak to him after it was published. Ringo Starr nursed a drinking problem from the 1960s to the late 1980s, and Lennon didn't want to be drawn into that. (He had had enough, drinking with Starr and Harry Nilsson in Los Angeles a couple years earlier.) Go Solo.

Answer 2

George Harrison and Ringo Starr remained close friends, even after Starr discovered Harrison in bed with his wife Maureen. Harrison resented both Lennon and McCartney, whom he felt stifled him as a Beatle and didn't take him seriously as a songwriter.

Harrison and Lennon appeared once on each other's solo albums (Lennon on All Things Must Pass and Harrison on Imagine), but otherwise never worked together again. Lennon was scheduled to appear at Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh, but pulled out when it transpired that Yoko Ono would not be allowed to perform. He similarly was supposed to guest-star with Harrison during his 1974 US tour (while Lennon and Ono were separated), but Harrison withdrew the invitation when the two clashed over Beatles-related business.

Lennon was conspicuously absent from Harrison's autobiography, I Me Mine, and expressed his upset at this in his final Playboy interview in 1980. Years later, Harrison said it was easier for him to think of Lennon as still living in New York and not returning anyone's phone calls, than to think of him as having died.

McCartney and Harrison had the least post-Beatles involvement of all; Harrison had grown especially resentful of McCartney's trying to tell him how to play his own instrument, in their later years. They became civil toward each other over time, and McCartney and wife Linda sang backup on "All Those Years Ago" in 1981, but they did not play together again until 1994. When they did meet, they usually limited their conversations to talk about their earliest days together, or their current family lives.