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AS IT IS 2017-06-16 Yoko Ono Named Co-Writer of John Lennon’s 'Imagine'

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John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono speak at a press conference, March 2, 1973, in New York. (AP Photo)

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Forty-six years after its release, John Lennon’s classic song “Imagine” is formally getting a co-writer -- his widow, Yoko Ono.

 

The British musician first gained worldwide fame in the early 1960s, as a member of The Beatles. The group officially broke up in 1970, shortly after Lennon married Ono, a Japanese singer and activist.

 

By then, Lennon was already writing songs of his own. Perhaps no Lennon song, however, is more famous than “Imagine.”

“Imagine there’s no countries,

It isn’t hard to do.

Nothing to kill or die for,

And no religion too.

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace.”

 

The song was released in 1971. It called for peace during the Vietnam War, and urged people around the world to live in unity. Its message, music experts say, has remained important and relatable through the years.

 

In 2011, the magazine Rolling Stone named “Imagine” the third-greatest song of all time. It wrote, “John Lennon wrote “Imagine,” his greatest musical gift to the world, one morning early in 1971 in his bedroom….His wife, Yoko Ono, watched as Lennon sat at the white grand piano….and virtually completed the song.”

 

That story, however, changed this week at a National Music Publishers Association event in New York City. On Wednesday evening, the association honored “Imagine” with its song of the century award.

 

Its chief executive, David Israelite, also made a surprise announcement. He said Ono would officially receive credit as a co-writer of “Imagine.” Israelite said the decision was made based on Lennon’s wishes.

 

John Lennon himself said in a 1980 interview with the BBC that Ono played a role in writing the song. He said it “should be credited as a Lennon-Ono song, because a lot of it, the lyric and the concept, came from Yoko.” Lennon also said that some of the ideas of “Imagine” came from Ono’s book “Grapefruit,” and that not including her as a writer was “selfish” on his part.

 

Parts of that interview were played Wednesday during the announcement. Israelite said it was his honor to “correct the record” and give Ono credit for “Imagine.”

 

Ono and her son, Sean, attended the event to accept the song award. Israelite’s announcement, however, came as a surprise.

 

Sean Ono Lennon told Billboard magazine that Wednesday “may have been the happiest day of mine and [my] mother’s life.”

 

He also described the surprise announcement on Facebook. He wrote it was the “proudest day of my life” and that “patience is a virtue!”

 

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married from 1969 until Lennon’s murder in December 1980.


Words in This Story

 

 

widow - n. a woman whose husband has died

 

virtually - adv. very nearly : almost entirely

 

lyric - n. the words of a song

 

patience - n. the ability to wait for a long time without becoming annoyed or upset

 

virtue - n. a good and moral quality

 

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