Yoko Ono’s publishing company pulls Stephen Harper’s “Imagine” performance off YouTube
It looks like the video of Stephen Harper and Maria Aragon singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” (a clip that both amused and confused us) has been pulled from YouTube. The page says it was removed “due to a copyright claim by Lenono music”—the publishing company behind Lennon and Yoko Ono’s music. We don’t know if Ono herself took the thing down, but she has a history of making sure conservatives don’t use her late husband’s song (back in 2008, she went to court to try to stop a creationist film from doing just that). So maybe the sight of Canada’s Conservative prime minister singing Lennon’s lyrics was a bit much. The person we feel bad for here is Maria Aragon, the young YouTube sensation from Winnipeg who sang with Harper. Then again, thanks to Lady Gaga she’s already way more popular than Harper.
 has been pulled from YouTube. The page says it was removed “due to a copyright claim by Lenono music”—the publishing company behind Lennon and Yoko Ono’s music. We don’t know if Ono herself took the thing down, but she has a history of making sure conservatives don’t use her late husband’s song (back in 2008, she went to court to try to stop a creationist film from doing just that). So maybe the sight of Canada’s Conservative prime minister singing Lennon’s lyrics was a bit much. The person we feel bad for here is Maria Aragon, the young YouTube sensation from Winnipeg who sang with Harper. Then again, thanks to Lady Gaga she’s already way more popular than Harper.){kind=link}
Just that thought of Harper performing that song demostates
how insincere he really is, his intent and actions are the opposite of what Lennon was saying. Thank you Yoko.
GO YOKO GO ! LOL..This MADE My Day After Reading Many Tragic Sad ‘stories’ of REAL GRIEF OVER LOSS OF LOVED ONES
i dont feel the slightest bit sorry for her….if you play around on the gutter you might get a little shit on you..she should learn to steer clear of any politicians looking to exploit her talents.
He is the guy who wants to take out the meagre check we writer get for copyrights, he doesn’t deserve to have even have one single member of his party elected, he should run in the USA foer Republicans, not here. I urge Canadians to flush him out for good!
It almost made me sick to watch Harper sing it. You’ve got to earn the right.
http://njnnetwork.com/2011/04/yoko-ono-cant-imagine-stephen-harper-singing-lennon/
Thank you Yoko, you’ve made my day! Using such a beautiful song to further that agenda, while doing the opposite of what the song portrays is beyond the usual dishonesty of politicians even.
This is a small victory, but one that should remind us that they do not need to hold all the power. We give it to them. Get out and vote! Make an informed vote. And for the sake of all of us, don’t let the media choose for you. Toronto, you are already feeling what happens when you do that – and this should be a lesson. There will be many other candidates than those in the spotlight(yes,even the Green party). Make sure you choose who “YOU” feel is right, whatever that is.
Yoko Ono is nothing but a spoil-sport. Her visual art is pretty junkie old hippie stuff, and she has no sense of humor at all. … There are a million spin-off of that silly song anyway.
Harper was very smart to play this. The song is ridiculous claptrap and he reaction just shows she still doesn’t know how to ‘imagine’. Serves her right for making John break up the Beatles anyway.
misspelling… its “her reaction just shows… “
If you think that we ought to have intellectual property in the first place, she’s got as much right to use it as anyone else does. If we stop Disney and Sony from hassling people over copyright, I’m sure she’d be happy to get with the postcapitalist program.
At least another Beatle’s song, “Fool on the Hill” is still an option for Harper’s next youtube photo-op. Talk about your Narcissistic personality disorder. The publishing company was right to pull the video.
My election/ post-election song on this topic.
Harper got his wish – “Imagine, there’s no liberals.”
http://www.youtube.com/howardgladstone
Howard Gladstone, Toronto
harper is vile, scum, selling out the nation to foreign multinationals and chicken hawking .
most canadians i know hate his guts, when he dies fireworks seen by NASA will fill the skys over canada.
tries to pull the troops danger pay in afghanistan and closes the Vancouver Coast Guard BAse while pissing away 10 million on chinese pandas.
Imagine
no Harper…
– with
new lyrics
http://youtu.be/FWI9GHIBusM
Imagine.
No Harper
http://youtu.be/wPCvSZQNvwM
Canadian Musicians Vote
http://youtu.be/iBR4vI9Ue2A
Imagine
there’s no health care…
http://youtu.be/Z34h3Axhys8
Harper doesn’t use Beatle’s mug, but one with an American
logo. What a putz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOk2Mmejy4&feature=player_embedded
Stephen Harper Concert Tour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfOB17V8Ak8
I have to say, I’m happy to see this happen :D
I love this, but have never seen the video, someone must have it archived somewhere??
Right after Conservatives used BTO song, legendary rocker
Randy Bachman said Harper didn’t get permission from him or his publisher to
use his classic “Takin’ Care of Business” as the theme song for a
major speech.
He said if PM had asked, he would have probably said
“no.”
“I don’t think he’s taking care of business for the
right people or the right reasons.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/09/15/randy-bachman-harper-music-speech_n_5824262.html
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“Imagine there’s no democracy in Canada…I wonder if you can.” Under Harper? Absolutely.
Huh?
You ain’t no artist. You’re an idiot.