Funny story of the week (if it wasn’t true) is Yoko Ono trying to stop a singer called Lennon Murphy from using her name to record under. Murphy has used the name Lennon for her Metal band since before 2000.

You all know I’m anti-Beatles, and that extends to the widow of the most overrated man in pop. All that hippie propaganda about making love and not war. Oh, I love the sentiment, I’m a bit of a hippy myself.

But isn’t it funny that Yoko, who was so instrumental in that movement, is so trigger happy when it comes to litigation? She doesn’t mind fighting wars in the courtroom, especially when it comes to any perceived loss of earnings from John Lennon’s estate.

It’s actions like this that rape the legacy of bands like The Beatles and artists like John Lennon. All those iconic images are laid to waste when the same people who represented those values of the 60s and 70s are now lawyer-happy millionaires. I can’t help thinking that if John Lennon was alive today, he might also have lapsed into a saggy faced litigation fiend.

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