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If you’re one of the many firm believers that Yoko Ono kinda, sorta had a habit of wedging herself into all Beatles-related affairs when it came to her relationship with John Lennon, the news that she is to officially receive songwriting credit for “Imagine” shouldn’t surprise you.

After all, Lennon himself informed us way back in 1980 that he felt she should be credited for the song that he penned in 1971.

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In a BBC interview, he can be seen announcing that the song “should be credited as a Lennon-Ono song, because a lot of it — the lyric and the concept — came from Yoko. But those days I was a bit more selfish, a bit more macho, and I sort of omitted to mention her contribution. But it was right out of Grapefruit, her book.”