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Yoko Ono Takes Early Lead in Fight Over Lennon Tapes

5/22/08, 10:40 am EST

Yoko Ono stepped closer to suppressing a black-and-white tape featuring her husband John Lennon writing songs, smoking marijuana and talking about putting LSD in then-President Richard Nixon’s tea. In a Boston courtroom yesterday, a judge ruled in favor of Ono while casting doubt on production company World Wide Video’s ownership of the tapes. The footage, edited down to a two-hour film entitled 3 Days in the Life, were supposed to make their debut at a school in Maine until Ono’s lawyers intervened with cease-and-desist letters. The tapes were shot by Ono’s pre-Lennon husband Anthony Cox and sold to World Wide Video in 2000.

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Ringo Starr | 5/22/2008, 11:24 am EST

Don’t touch me drums.

Paul | 5/23/2008, 12:21 pm EST

If I want to touch ya drums I will!

Where’s me joint?

George | 5/23/2008, 4:53 pm EST

I haven’t had much to say lately. I’m the quiet one.

JD | 5/23/2008, 6:53 pm EST

Did Yoko get a boob job?

Dr. Winston O' Boogie | 5/24/2008, 1:05 am EST

Imagine all the people, watching me smoke a joint, you may say I’m a dreamer, but I like to roll me joints! I knew someday it would be legal, and the world is really stoned.

Pete Best | 5/26/2008, 7:25 am EST

you bastards kept me out of the group

Ringomaster23 | 5/26/2008, 8:00 pm EST

alright im just gonna flat out say it… FUCK YOU YOKO ONO you ruined the beatles and ruined john. I’d rather be stuck in a solid plastic box listining to fucking “They Might Be Giants” Then ever have a positive thought about u (middle finger)

astkljmklm | 5/28/2008, 5:32 pm EST

Cash grabby stuff here. if she cant make money off of john then no one will (or she’ll try damn hard to make sure it wouldnt be worth it) she had a few rounds with the other beatles together, and individualy in the past over little crumbs and morsels of music, demos, even written lyrics on napkins, toilet paper ect. i personaly dont want to here a burn out talking about lsd and stroking his ego frankly. morsels are getting more and more rare, i wonder if theres a 3hr tape of him snoring somewhere? if there is yoko will pull it out of her a$$ be sure of that.

beej | 5/28/2008, 5:50 pm EST

hah putting lsd in president nixons tea eh? if he would have he would still be alive today, and still in prison~ or maybe not, but surely never able to step on north american soil ever again. ahh but probaly still in prison.. wow what a history that would have been listening to and reading his prison memoirs or whatever.

The Walrus | 1/9/2009, 11:03 am EST

I’ve died. Goo GOo ga Joob. Just been clubbed by a Japanese. Bye all. *spirit floats off*

David Nelson | 1/16/2009, 8:53 am EST

Lennon was a complicated man and sometimes he was not kind to Yoko. I suspect this might be part of the reason she doesn’t want it shown.

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