How Yoko keeps John Lennon's memory alive ... with a tacky musical based on his life and Lennon ice cream
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Artist:John Lennon/Yoko Ono
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Track:Woman Is The Nigger Of The World
"*From the Daily Mail*":http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=534211&in_page_id=1773:
She has even found time to engage in a little light legal action - you never seem to get too far away from the lawyers where Yoko is concerned - this time against a young girl rocker named Lennon Murphy.As to John's reaction to the pun - we *are* talking about a man who wrote a book entitled *A Spaniard in the Works*...
Yoko has accused her of trying to gain exclusive rights to use the name Lennon for performance purposes, and has notified the US Patent and Trademark Office of this, and of the "tarnishment" of her late husband's name.
(The skirmish was reported on one showbusiness website under the headline: "Another Reason To Hate Yoko Ono." It follows the legal kerfuffle a few years ago over whose name should come first on the credits of most Beatle songs: Lennon/McCartney or McCartney/Lennon.)
All this is rather curious since Yoko is also engaged in milking John Lennon's artistic legacy for all it's worth.
His likeness and his drawings have appeared on everything from coffee cups to sun screens, thanks to Yoko, and she even made a Broadway musical out of his life story.
She also offered for sale a replica of the bloodstained spectacles picked up from the street after his murder.
Her latest money-spinning deals are to allow his song Real Love to be used in TV advertisements for the downmarket chain store JC Penny and his name to be used for a flavour of Ben & Jerry's ice cream which came out this week.
It is called Imagine Whirled Peace and features toffee cookies and little peace signs made out of fudge. John Lennon's signature appears on the tub.
This venture is so undignified that it is almost comically inappropriate. Wouldn't John shudder at the indignity - not to mention the frightful pun?
But then Yoko, a formidable businesswoman, has never shown any aversion to making money where, and however, she can.
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