{"id":3565,"date":"2017-07-07T08:07:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T23:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2017-07-07T08:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T23:08:04","slug":"no-yoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/no-yoko\/","title":{"rendered":"No Yoko!"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you screech “chutzpah” in Japanese? Yoko Ono had herself added as coauthor<\/a> of the song,\u00a0Imagine,<\/em> based on a 1980 statement by John Lennon that he based the song on supposed\u00a0anti-religious sentiment<\/a> expressed in in her 1964 book,\u00a0Grapefruit<\/em><\/a>, which also had a number of passages beginning with “Imagine”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Less than a decade ago, she threatened action against Paul McCartney for reversing the Lennon-McCartney order on the liner notes for his album, “Back in the U.S.<\/em>“, which featured Beatles<\/em> songs on which McCartney was primary or exclusive author and Lennon had acknowledged as such. McCartney took the position:\u00a0“I think it is fair and accurate for the songs that John declared were mine to carry my name first.<\/a>“<\/p>\n

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How do you screech “chutzpah” in Japanese? Yoko Ono had herself added as coauthor<\/a> of the song,\u00a0Imagine,<\/em> based on a 1980 statement by John Lennon that he based the song on supposed\u00a0anti-religious sentiment<\/a> expressed in in her 1964 book,\u00a0Grapefruit<\/em><\/a>, which also had a number of passages beginning with “Imagine”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Less than a decade ago, she threatened action against Paul McCartney for reversing the Lennon-McCartney order on the liner notes for his album, “Back in the U.S.<\/em>“, which featured Beatles<\/em> songs on which McCartney was primary or exclusive author and Lennon had acknowledged as such. McCartney took the position:\u00a0“I think it is fair and accurate for the songs that John declared were mine to carry my name first.<\/a>“<\/p>\n

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