Credit where credit’s due to Yoko Ono at last | Barbara Ellen

The news that a recording of Lennon crediting Ono as co-writer rather than muse for his 1971 hit Imagine is welcome

Yoko Ono has been recognised as co-writer of John Lennon’s 1971 hit Imagine by the National Music Publishers’ Association at its centennial annual meeting. In a recording played at the event, Lennon said that Ono always deserved credit and her omission was “selfish and macho” on his part.

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