Lewisohn

"This was downtime for them in a very busy time and it was an attempt to be discreet," said Mark Lewisohn, a historian, biographer and well-respected authority on the Beatles.

"At no point when the picture in Tywyn was taken was John thinking The Beatles were going to break up," added Mr Lewisohn.

"He had a life-long affinity to Wales after going there as a child and John Lennon's mother's family had a Welsh connection," Mr Lewisohn said.

“That was the night we broke the Beatles,” he later explained to music historian Mark Lewisohn.

“That book was a shame,” Mark Lewisohn, the pre-eminent Beatles scholar, said in a recent interview.