Yoko slams Paul

buttmunch · October 11th, 2005, 05:50 AM

Yoko Ono (search) picked up an award on behalf of John Lennon (search) — and appeared to take a dig at his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney (search).

Accepting the special trophy at the Q Awards, Ono said Lennon had sometimes felt insecure about his songs, asking why "they always cover Paul's songs and never mine."

"I said, 'You're a good songwriter, it's not June with Spoon that you write. You're a good singer, and most musicians are probably a little bit nervous about covering your songs,'" she said Monday.

McCartney has sometimes clashed with Ono, Lennon's widow.

She objected when McCartney reversed the traditional "Lennon-McCartney" songwriting credit on his 2002 album, "Back in the U.S." Ono's spokesman accused him of attempting to "rewrite history."

McCartney had earlier complained that Ono wouldn't let him take credit for "Yesterday," a song written entirely by McCartney.

Oasis took the best album trophy and the people's choice prize at the awards, sponsored by British music magazine Q. Coldplay was named best act in the world.

butterbean · October 11th, 2005, 10:54 AM

Yoko is insane. To publicly insinuate that Paul McCartney has no talent proves her insanity - that cow still riding the coattails of Lennon

LynnieD · October 11th, 2005, 10:56 AM

OMG! That chick needs a serious beating already! *blood is boiling*

stargazer · October 11th, 2005, 11:16 AM

Yoko is loco.

Grimmlok · October 11th, 2005, 11:51 AM

Those guilty of profiting from history due to a shortcoming of their own talent have no place accusing others of trying to rewrite it.

butterbean · October 11th, 2005, 02:38 PM

That is why Lennon (Broadway musical) closed after six weeks - because it was Yoko's perspective, and of course, she took the liberty of re-writing history.

lennonfan · October 11th, 2005, 05:47 PM

I did think it was tacky of Paul to change the credits after all these years. I'm not sure what purposed that served.

Grimmlok · October 12th, 2005, 11:52 AM

"I'm not dead, he is, I take precedence."

lennonfan · October 14th, 2005, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Frank_Rizzo

Paul only wanted to change the credits on the songs he wrote... which I do agree is stupid and pointless after all these years. But they really should've been McCartney/Lennon in the first place. Can't blame him for wanting his name first on the songs he wrote, it's just way too late to change it now!!

Yeah, they had an arrangement and I think he should have stuck to it. It's random to do it at this point in time. The fans know who wrote what and other people don't care. It seems like he was stewing over it all this time. It doesn't seem...gentlemanly.

MgMMD · October 14th, 2005, 06:27 PM

It was a song he wrote about his dead mother. Maybe it was a "thing" with him since Linda died.

Yoko has no room to comment on talent, this is a woman who has put out albums whose lyrics include

"YEEEEEEEEEEOW"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
and whose influence gave us Revolution Number 9.

HWBL · October 14th, 2005, 06:42 PM

Yoko has been taking the blame for a very long time for much more than just "breaking up the Beatles". I'm always amazed at how much power people give her by that simple statement and how much power they take away from the band members themselves, who were - after all - not children anymore at the time of the break-up.
Sure she's a talentless hag, as far as music and art goes, but she is a shrewd businesswoman. Lennon was not the saint that many of his fans have made him into, either. And McCartney has proven over the years through some of his actions and statements to be a kind of an asshat from time to time as well.
Looking in from the outside as a person who enjoys some of the Beatles music and some of the individual members solo efforts, I have this sneaky feeling that they would have broken up around the time that they did, even if Yoko had still been a struggling artist in Japan. The guys started very young together and by the end of the sixties/beginning of the seventies they'd all reached that age that most people want to carve out their own niche, their own identity. In a way it was inevitable. Heck, even the Beegees broke up once, going as far as cutting off family ties, and they were related!
What I don't understand is that such ridiculously rich people, even after all these years, keep bickering through the media over relatively trivial stuff. After the deaths of Lennon and Harrison they should by now be aware that life is too short for such nonsense

lennonfan · October 15th, 2005, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by HWBL

Yoko has been taking the blame for a very long time for much more than just "breaking up the Beatles". I'm always amazed at how much power people give her by that simple statement and how much power they take away from the band members themselves, who were - after all - not children anymore at the time of the break-up.
Sure she's a talentless hag, as far as music and art goes, but she is a shrewd businesswoman. Lennon was not the saint that many of his fans have made him into, either. And McCartney has proven over the years through some of his actions and statements to be a kind of an asshat from time to time as well.
Looking in from the outside as a person who enjoys some of the Beatles music and some of the individual members solo efforts, I have this sneaky feeling that they would have broken up around the time that they did, even if Yoko had still been a struggling artist in Japan. The guys started very young together and by the end of the sixties/beginning of the seventies they'd all reached that age that most people want to carve out their own niche, their own identity. In a way it was inevitable. Heck, even the Beegees broke up once, going as far as cutting off family ties, and they were related!
What I don't understand is that such ridiculously rich people, even after all these years, keep bickering through the media over relatively trivial stuff. After the deaths of Lennon and Harrison they should by now be aware that life is too short for such nonsense

ITA here. BTW, if Yoko had ANYTHING to do with the breakup of the band, it was that Lennon needed a strong partner in order to have the courage to leave his long-term professional relationship with McCartney, and she fit the bill. I think he wanted to leave the band but was scared to stand on his own, so she was the answer to that problem.

ourmaninBusan · October 16th, 2005, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by HWBL

Yoko has been taking the blame for a very long time for much more than just "breaking up the Beatles". I'm always amazed at how much power people give her by that simple statement and how much power they take away from the band members themselves, who were - after all - not children anymore at the time of the break-up.

A friend of mine who knows the history of rock backwards and
forwards tells me that Lennon was upset at the formation of
Apple Corps. records, and didn't like the Beatles going corporate.
It didn't have much to do with Yoko's presence; the erosion of
the Fab Four was well underway, sez my Expert.

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Sure she's a talentless hag, as far as music and art goes, but she is a shrewd businesswoman. Lennon was not the saint that many of his fans have made him into, either. And McCartney has proven over the years through some of his actions and statements to be a kind of an asshat from time to time as well.

I'm far from an expert on the Beatles, but of their solo careers,
I'd say Lennon came up with more interesting material than
McCartney. Perhaps Lennon was the better songwriter of the two,
and McCartney wants to crawl out from beneath the shadow of
deification cast by Lennon's death....
...it seems tasteless to pull this "McCartney/Lennon" switch now
that John's dead and can't intervene.