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Her writing has appeared in The New Republic.

I love it when people tell me that listening to the way I talk about these people in. Also, by the way, Yoko totally had her own tragic stuff going on and has said things like Lennon was so obsessive about her that he would follow her to the bathroom, which sounds like he might have been less than a stand-up guy. Marvin Gaye, Disasterpeace, 60s girl groups, and the Coroner Talk podcast. Sarah Marshall grew up in Oregon and Hawaii and earned an MFA in fiction at Portland State University. Sarah Marshall is a writer and hosts the podcast Youre Wrong About. Sure, the whole lying in bed to protest the Vietnam War thing was insufferable (the irony of Gal Gadot and friends singing Lennon's "Imagine" is just *chef's kiss*) but to put the blame for the end of The Beatles on one woman alone (and, as the podcast notes, a woman of colour – check out just some of the hideous racism she endured) is insulting not only to her but also Lennon, who fans would apparently credit with being genius enough to write some of the world's best pop songs but not with having enough agency to resist becoming Yoko's 'prey'. I love it when people tell me that listening to the way I talk about these people in the stories that we tell, and just about the world generally, has made them practice empathy more.

As Hobbes and Marshall point out, this narrative conveniently ignores many things: differing tastes in music among band members after 10 years together, declining record sales, negative reviews, the fact that it was Paul McCartney – not John Lennon – who legally filed for the band's break-up. Sarah Marshall is a writer and hosts the podcast You're Wrong About.