The music business can be a dirty game, especially when there is sentimentality involved. One such case is the news that Yoko Ono has decided to file a lawsuit against an up and coming artist named Lennon Murphy for using…get this…her own name.

When Murphy was signed to Arista Records in 2000 (Sony BMG), she and her A&R people requested Ono’s blessing to use “Lennon” as her stage name. In 2003 Murphy was granted official trademark ownership of the name, but now, just before the registration is scheduled to expire,Lennon_Murphy.jpg Ms. Ono has is challenging this ownership, claiming that Murphy was causing confusion amongst the John Lennon fans by using the name. How very mean and petty of Ono.

In a distressed statement to her fans Lennon Murphy had this to say:

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