What an absurd (and somewhat offensive) 'question'...and you left out any number of other people who had a negative impact on the boys: Yoko Ono, Michael Jackson, Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover--the list is endless.

How ironic that the man who wrote, "Happiness is a warm gun" met his end at the hands of an obsessive psychopath. To compare the murderous Chapman to a simple gold-digger like Mills shows a singular lack of comprehension.

Shame on you.

I don't prefer either, but Heather didn't murder a Beatle. She was just a bitch to one.

i am very sorry, but i dont really see what all the fuss is about. i was just wondering who peope prefered, i knew it would be heather, because as rainandbomba said she didnt kill a beatle
and are you saying that yoko ono had a bad effect on john!!! john loved her!!!!!
shame on you too.

I prefer neither, but, as all of you had said, Mills did not murder a Beatle. So, I've to pick her.

I'm not really at all certain that "love" actually played a part in the Lennon / Ono pairing. John had a lifelong tendency toward distinctly self-destructive behavior and seemed, to me, to be more interested in dumping Cynthia that in finding Ono. Ono--herself a thoroughly failed "concept artist"--is universally portrayed, in the several dozen Beatle biographies I've read, as having simply wished to attach herself to John's fame and fortune and, after having done so, immediately started treating him as if he were just in the way. The other three were almost certainly well aware of this fact, and probably made some effort to save their friend from himself--hence the tension that broke them up.

While one or two biographies might be called into question on this matter, the sheer number of research authors who reached the exact same conclusion tends to make me believe that there is some truth to be had here. The last ten years of John's life are commonly represented as being quite lonely, unfulfilled and miserable for him.

Why would anyone vote for Chapman. OMG that would be horrible if soneone did.

that is quite true, but if they didnt really love each other why did they marry and why did they have sean??? i get what you mean by all the biographies, its the same with me but, yeah i just dont really get their relasionship, i suppose no one really does.

yeh it would be horrible if someone chose chapman

As I said, Ono simply wanted to attach herself to John's money and fame and John had an unerring instinct (and inclination!) for doing or saying whatever new thing would be the worst for him. He was also sleeping with their Asian maid, with Ono's blessing, throughout their 'marriage', so 'love' wouldn't seem to be much of a factor. Remember all of the bad publicity he generated for the Beatles by making cracks like, "We're bigger than Christ!" or incessantly referring to the Germans as "Krauts" when they played Hamburg? I've long wondered if John's mouth might even have played an unreported part in the beating that Stu Suttcliffe took, which ultimately resulted in his untimely death? John also might have seen Ono as a final means to dislodge Cynthia, who is said to have been quite reluctant to let him divorce her. A brilliant lyricist, to be sure, but apparently not much of a human being. Maybe we should ask Pete Best what he thought of John?

yeah thats pretty true but i think your over reacting and making a sort concpiricy theory just a little bit but thats just my opinion

sorry if i offend you by my misspelling of words

Not really so much a 'conspiracy theory' as an observable BEHAVIOR PATTERN. I tend to look at things this way because I was a clinical psychologist for thirty years. My intention is not to 'diss' our hero, but merely to understand him better.

Speaking as the worst typist on the internet, myself, your spelling doesn't bother me. I've seen MUCH worse!

thats pretty cool!!!

actually thats pretty funny cos i wanna be a psychologist

Good luck with that! Our society can use all of the really good therapists it can get at this point. You'll find it a very demanding, yet quite rewarding career.