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[Headlines] (HL-예술/취미/종교) Yoko Ono Named Co-Writer of John Lennon’s ＇Imagine＇
최고관리자  |  17-06-29 23:53

Forty-six years after its release, John Lennon’s classic song “Imagine” is formally getting a co-writer -- his widow, Yoko Ono. The British musician first gained worldwide fame in the early 1960s, as a member of The Beatles. The group officially broke up in 1970, shortly after Lennon married Ono, a Japanese singer and activist. By then, Lennon was already writing songs of his own. Perhaps no Lennon song, however, is more famous than “Imagine.”
* release = (대중들에게) 발표[공개]; 개봉; 발간; 출시/ formally = 공식적으로, 정식으로/ co-writer = 공동작가/ widow = 미망인, 과부/ gain fame = 명성을 얻다/ worldwide = 전 세계적인/ break up = 끝이 나다   

“Imagine there’s no countries,
It isn’t hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion too.
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace.”

The song was released in 1971. It called for peace during the Vietnam War, and urged people around the world to live in unity. Its message, music experts say, has remained important and relatable through the years. In 2011, the magazine Rolling Stone named “Imagine” the third-greatest song of all time. It wrote, “John Lennon wrote “Imagine,” his greatest musical gift to the world, one morning early in 1971 in his bedroom….His wife, Yoko Ono, watched as Lennon sat at the white grand piano….and virtually completed the song.” That story, however, changed this week at a National Music Publishers Association event in New York City. On Wednesday evening, the association honored “Imagine” with its song of the century award. Its chief executive, David Israelite, also made a surprise announcement. He said Ono would officially receive credit as a co-writer of “Imagine.” Israelite said the decision was made based on Lennon’s wishes. John Lennon himself said in a 1980 interview with the BBC that Ono played a role in writing the song. He said it “should be credited as a Lennon-Ono song, because a lot of it, the lyric and the concept, came from Yoko.” Lennon also said that some of the ideas of “Imagine” came from Ono’s book “Grapefruit,” and that not including her as a writer was “selfish” on his part. Parts of that interview were played Wednesday during the announcement. Israelite said it was his honor to “correct the record” and give Ono credit for “Imagine.” Ono and her son, Sean, attended the event to accept the song award. Israelite’s announcement, however, came as a surprise. Sean Ono Lennon told Billboard magazine that Wednesday “may have been the happiest day of mine and [my] mother’s life.” He also described the surprise announcement on Facebook. He wrote it was the “proudest day of my life” and that “patience is a virtue!” John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married from 1969 until Lennon’s murder in December 1980.
* call for ~ = ~을 요구하다; ~을 필요로 하다/ urge = (~하도록) 충고하다[설득하려 하다]/ live in unity = 조화[결속]하여 살다/ of all time = 역대[지금껏]/ virtually = 사실상, 거의/ receive credit as ~ = ~로(서) 공적을 인정받다/ came as a surprise = 놀라움으로 다가오다/ patience is a virtue = 인내는 미덕(참는자에게 복이 있다)