John was in L.A. doing Pussy Cats with [Harry] Nilsson and having a generally crazy time of it all, fighting with photographers and haranguing the Smothers Brothers […]. Yoko came through London and visited us, which was very nice. Linda and I were living in this big old house in St. John’s Wood. She came by and we started talking, and obviously the important subject for us is, “What’s happened? You’ve broken up, then? I mean, you’re here and he’s there.” She was very nice and confided in us, but she was being very strong about it. She said, “No, he’s got to work his way back to me. He’s got to work at it.” Which was good. She would have been mad to just go and prostrate herself at his feet.
And I said, “Look, if I see him—do you still love him?” and she said, “Yes.” So I said, “Well, would you think it was an intrusion if I said to him, ‘Look, man, she loves you and there’s a way to get back?’”—sounds like a Beatle song. I said, “Would that be okay? I might see him around, and I’d like to be a mediator in this because the two of you have obviously got something pretty strong going.” And she said, “I don’t mind.”
It was weird meeting [John in L.A.]. He was in the house with Nilsson, Keith Moon and a few other guys and it was a crazed house. It was pretty wild days. So I said to him, “Look, come here. Come in the back room. I want to talk to you privately.” So I took him into the back room and said, “I feel like a matchmaker here, but this girl of yours, she really still loves you. Do you still love her?” And he said, “Yeah, I do, but I don’t know what to do.” So I said, “Well, I’ve talked to her and she still does love you, but you’ve got to work your arse off, man. You have to get back to New York, you have to take a separate flat, you have to send her roses every fucking day, you have to work at it like a bitch! And then you just might get her back.”
Which is sort of what he did, but you’ll never hear that story. We told him to go back to Yoko and not long after, he did. You won’t hear that from them, because I’m too much in the story then. I mean, if you hear it from John’s point of view, it’ll just be that he spoke to Yoko on the phone and she said to him, “Come back.”
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