Yoko Ono might soon be getting credit for her role in writing John Lennon's 'Imagine'

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published 15 June 2017

Nearly five decades after John Lennon's iconic ballad "Imagine" was released, Lennon's 84-year-old widow Yoko Ono might finally be getting credit for co-writing the song. The surprise announcement was made Wednesday evening at the annual meeting of the National Music Publishers Association in New York.

On Thursday morning, Ono tweeted a portion of an old interview in which Lennon admitted "Imagine" was inspired by Ono's poetry collection, "Grapefruit," and "should be credited as a Lennon-Ono song." "But those days I was a bit more selfish, a bit more macho, and I sort of omitted to mention her contribution," Lennon said.