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Did John and Yoko split because of Richard Nixon? The making of revelatory music film One to One

The director of One to One: John & Yoko reveals how he was given access to a trove of intimate and family archive material that changes how we see the star couple

Out of these questions and his interactions with the counterculture figure Jerry Rubin, the Yippies (Youth International party), and a host of activists who were in New York at the time, Lennon and Ono became a regular fixture at marches and political gatherings. He began to see himself as a troubadour – reporting in song from the streets – and for the only time in his life, briefly embraced the idea of violent revolution as the sole response to the continued bombing of civilians in Vietnam. Photograph: Bob GruenHalfway through the edit, the film-maker Simon Hilton, who works intimately with the estate, told me they had found a box of phone recordings from the period I was interested in.

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