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Yoko to share credit for ‘Imagine’─── 06:47 Sun, 18 Jun 2017
“Imagine”, John Lennon’s seminal 1971 ballad for a Utopian future without religion, borders or property, is getting a co-writer: Lennon’s widow and collaborator, Yoko Ono.
New York Times reports that David Israelite, the chief executive of the National Music Publishers Association, announced at an industry event in New York earlier this week, at which “Imagine” was honored with the association’s “Centennial Song” award, that Ono would be added as a writer.
“Tonight, it is my distinct honor to correct the record some 48 years later, and recognize Yoko Ono as a co-writer,” Israelite said at the ceremony.
Ono, 84, attended the event, where the rapper and producer Pharrell Williams was also honored for his songwriting.
Ono posted the news of her inclusion as a co-writer on Twitter after the event, and her son, Sean Lennon, wrote on his Facebook page that the announcement of the joint credit had come as a surprise.
New York Times
