オノ・ヨーコが「イマジン」の共作者として名を連ねることになった。発表から46年後だ。すばらしい！
(SeanのPostより）Proudest day of my life: The National Music Publishers Association just gave the centennial (song of the century) award to Imagine, but WAIT! Surprise! They played an audio interview of my father saying (approximately) ‘Imagine should’ve been credited as a Lennon/Ono song, if it had been anyone other than my wife I would’ve given them credit.’ Cut to: my mother welling up in tears, and then Patti and Jesse Smith played Imagine! Patience is a virtue! ✌️❤✌️❤✌️❤✌️(PS then they officially declared Imagine to be a Lennon/Ono song! 🙏)
Yokoさん大好きの私。以前の記事はこれ
2014年、Yoko 81歳の「私たちは本来みな若いのよ」の発言、素敵💛♡ いつまでも過激でいてほしい。
Yoko Ono added to Imagine writing credits
By Mark Savage/BBC Music reporter
15 June 2017
Shortly before his death in 1980, John Lennon said his wife deserved a writing credit for Imagine
More than 40 years after the song’s release, Yoko Ono is receiving a songwriting credit on John Lennon’s classic Imagine.
The surprise announcement was made at an annual meeting of the National Music Publishers Association in New York on Wednesday.
They explained the move by playing a clip of Lennon saying Imagine “should be credited as a Lennon-Ono song”.
“A lot of it – the lyric and the concept – came from Yoko,” he said.
“But those days I was a bit more selfish, a bit more macho, and I sort of omitted to mention her contribution.
“But it was right out of Grapefruit, her book. There’s a whole pile of pieces about ‘Imagine this’ and ‘Imagine that.'”
Yoko Ono posed with Sean Lennon, Patti Smith and her daughter backstage at the awards
Ono and her son, Sean Ono Lennon, were at the ceremony to pick up a song of the century award in honour of Imagine, and were not expecting the announcement.
“When they officially acknowledged – through my father’s account – that my mother co-wrote Imagine, the song of the century, it may have been the happiest day of mine and [my] mother’s life,” Lennon told Billboard magazine.
She did not allude to these events at Wednesday night’s ceremony, but said a recent illness – she appeared in a wheelchair – had given her a new perspective on Imagine and life in general.
“This is the best time of my life” she added.