Yoko Ono and EMI Records have dropped a lawsuit against Premise Media over the unauthorized use of John Lennon’s song Imagine.

A documentary entitled ‘Expelled:  No Intelligence Allowed’ which is about the theory of intelligent design, used a 15 second clip of the song,  irking Yoko.   Now the New York State Supreme Court has denied a motion to prevent the film from being shown and Yoko and EMI Records have dropped their claim of copyright infringement.

Anthony Falzone, who is the executive director of Stanford’s Law School Fair Use Project and lead counsel, said about the case…

“The right to use copyrighted material to criticise it is essential to free speech and public debate, and that’s what was at stake here. We think it was clear from the beginning that our clients had every right to use the Imagine clip as they did, and we’re happy we’ve vindicated that right.”

Well, you win some you lose some, but something tells me this isn’t going over too well with Yoko.

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A one-man show entitled “A Bard Day’s Night” is the brainchild of Chris O’Neill, who plays Sir Paul McCartney in a Beatles tribute band called Backbeat Beatles in the show. Words from Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays are put to the music of the Fab Four, making for an interesting combination. In explaining his inspiration for the show, O’Neill says:

“I woke up and wrote down all these ideas about the Beatles going back in time and meeting Shakespeare.” “I get my complete works of Shakespeare out and give myself some tasks – sometimes it might be a speech – and I just sit there with a piano.

“The speeches are harder to do, sometimes I can’t really get my head around the timings of how they are spoken,n but the sonnets seem to be very easy. They are perfect to put into music.”

I’d like to see this. Sounds so very unique!

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Are you ready for this? Heather Mills has a brand new idea to get her name in the papers…she is backing a plan by PETA to convince ice cream giant Ben and Jerry’s to make their famous ice cream with human breast milk rather than cow’s milk. By doing this, crazy Mills says that it will be a major relief to the suffering of animals that are used for their milk for human consumption, and this will also improve everyone’s health.

In other news, Mills has also found herself in hot water with her local council in Sussex, England, for beginning work on a swimming pool without permission. She was in the process of building the pool on her $6 million property when it came to the attention of officials that she had not obtained the proper permits for it.

The arrogance of this woman is unbelievable. And this idea of ice cream made with human milk is another laughable attempt by Mills at making people believe that she “cares”.

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David Gilmour is pissed, and rightly so.  It seems that the huge outdoor music event held in England, the Glastonbury Festival, turned their noses up at David’s request for Pink Floyd to play a set there this past June.

Richard Wright, Pink Floyd’s founding member who passed away in September, wanted to play an outdoor festival as one of his last wishes, but the Glastonbury organizers would have nothing to do with them.  Says David…

“We weren’t able to do that due to all sorts of strange reasons, which, again, is a sadness.”

An organizer of the festival told the BBC that she was “upset” to hear Gilmour’s remarks, but couldn’t put them in at such short notice without having to yank a headlining act.

What a bunch of crap.  How can you turn down Pink Floyd???   I doubt the headliners had a musical reputation and outstanding history like Pink Floyd does.  That is no way to treat musical legends, now is it?

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It’s been reported that Rolling Stones guitarist and resident wacko Ronnie Wood has been spending money at an alarming rate to “spite” his estranged wife, Jo. It seems he’s been blowing in the neighborhood of $20,000 a week on anything and everything, and Jo is getting worried that there won’t be anything left for her when it comes time to settle the divorce. Ronnie seems to have a taste for antiques and “fast living” which is eating away at his fortune.

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For the first time since leaving wife Jo for a young Russian, Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood will meet with his long suffering estranged wife in an effort to iron out details of their impending divorce settlement. The payout promises to be huge by all reports, but despite that fact Ronnie is determined to keep things as civilized as possible. Britain’s News of the World says that Ronnie is aiming to settle out of court and has plans for a “peace summit”. A source who is close to Ronnie says:

Legendary cultural and musical icon Bob Dylan has revealed something nobody has ever known before.

Giant music store HMV has a campaign right now called My Inspiration, in which artists reveal some of their favorite lyrics.  A song written by Scottish Poet Robert Burn’s, ‘A Red, Red Rose’,  has apparently had a huge effect on Bob’s life, more than any other.  Who would’ve thought, eh?

The director of the Centre For Burns Study at the University of Glasgow, Dr Gerard Carruthers, believes the song to be one of the most romantic ever.

Dylan has a new album coming out on Tuesday, October 7th, entitled ‘Tell Tale Signs’.

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Paul McCartney and his love Nancy Shevell were spotting out and about in Paris yesterday, strollling arm and arm.   He did something as simple as buy flowers from a street vendor and plopped them in a lowly bottle of mineral water.  Now how cute is that I ask you?   He surprised her with the flowers when they lunched at Laperouse in Paris.

It seems that Nancy is making an effort to please her man.  Her steak dinners have gone out the window in favor of veggie meals and even her political views are starting to change.    She’s softened on the Republican party and is leaning towards more liberal thinking, just like Paul.  Now THAT’S serious!

Oh btw, Paul and Nancy are in Paris right now to attend a fashion show from the collection by his designer daughter Stella McCartney.   It sounds like an absolutely perfect week-end to me….strolling around Paris, arm in arm with Paul McCartney.  Some people have all the luck, don’t they?

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Ronnie Wood’s girlfriend’s 75 year- old grandmother, Liyudmila Ivanova, had some scathing words concerning the relationship between her granddaughter and Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. To say the woman is dead set against her granddaughter having anything to do with the rocker is an understatement. She is completely horrified at the whole thing, calling Ronnie an ‘ugly and disgusting creature,’ among other things. And this grandma held nothing back when she spoke to the Daily Mail newspaper. Here are some of her gems:

‘To me this is pure idiocy. She should get her head screwed on.

‘If Katia asked me for some advice, I’d tell her he’s obviously using you to make himself believe he’s still potent at his age.

‘But looking at him, do you think he’s got anything potent there? When I first saw him on TV, I was so horrified I nearly fell off my chair.’

She goes on:

‘He’s got a good family and he’s almost the same age as me in Heaven’s name.’

She also called Ronnie an “old fool” and added this:

‘Katia will probably marry and if something goes wrong, she’ll end up with money.”

Oh, she certainly will…that is, if Ronnie has any money left after wife Jo gets finished with him.

Ouch!

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Well, I wonder what took him so long?  Paul Mccartney  has finally cut loose on Heather Mills, his ex-wife that raked him over the coals in a recent divorce settlement.  Seems he’s written a new song, a little ditty entitled “Nothing Too Much, Just Out of Sight”.

The track will be featured on his latest album coming out in November,  ‘Electric Arguments’ a dance album penned with his side gig The Fireman.  A line from the track, which I personally love and I think it’ll really hit home with Ms. Mills, goes something like this…

“And you have money/ And no manners.”

Isn’t that just so beautiful?  Poetic, even.

The Fireman’s new CD, along with producer The Youth, will be the first album of theirs to feature vocals.

I am so looking forward to it!

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