Music History X Podcast · Scott Cardinal
Did Yoko Ono Really Co-Write IMAGINE? #Beatles #JohnLennon #YokoOno
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Granting Yoko Ono co-writing credit extended Imagine's copyright to her lifetime plus 70 years, benefiting her estate financially.
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A focused credit dispute episode that keeps pressing on what counts as songwriting.
The episode treats the Imagine credit fight as a real dispute instead of a tidy headline, and that helps. It points to Yoko Ono's 2017 songwriting credit, long after John Lennon's death, and ties that move back to Lennon's own comments about her influence on the song, including…
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