Imagine What John Would Say
The widow of former Beatles member John Lennon is still protecting his interests, and Paul McCartney, for one, isn't singing her praises.
Paul McCartney longed for 'Yesterday' to be acknowledged as his own song, but Yoko Ono wouldn't allow it, the former Beatles member said.
'Yesterday' like most of the Beatle songs, was officially credited to the songwriting team of Lennon and McCartney.
"At one point Yoko earned more from 'Yesterday' than I did," McCartney said in an interview with Britain's "Radio Times."
"It doesn't compute, especially when it's the only song that none of the Beatles had anything to do with. I asked as a favor if I could have my name before John's on the "Anthology" credits for 'Yesterday,' and Yoko refused."
McCartney's not the only one annoyed with Ono.
British artist Joanne Shaw is stunned that Ono won't let her raise money for Lennon's childhood school by selling his portrait.
Shaw had donated a picture of the late Beatle to Dovedale County Infant School for a charity auction.
She then received a letter from Ono's attorneys saying that Ono had exclusive rights to merchandising Lennon's image and that Shaw could not auction off the portrait to raise money.
Shaw says Ono's response is "totally wrong" and that Ono has gone "over the top."
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