THOSE OLD FEUDS DON'T DIE EASILY

Apparently realising her comments at the Q Awards about how shit McCartney's songs were made her sound like an embittered old crone, Yoko Ono has been trying to limit damage by falling back on that old favourite, 'I was misquoted':

"I was saying about how humble John was and how human John was and that was all I was saying," Ono declared as she unveiled a sculpture at Coventry Cathedral, which she and Lennon had started to construct in 1968.

Despite the clarity of her original statement, at the Q Awards, Ono claimed to have been misquoted. "It's amusing at best and it's the kind of thing that I've witnessed the press to do many times," she said. "I think Paul's a great songwriter."

The trouble is, while you can get away with claiming you were misquoted in a one-on-one interview, if you stand up in a room packed with journalists and video cameras, and enunciate clearly into a microphone, it gets a little trickier to claim that you've had your words misrecorded.

Meanwhile, she seems to have gone and got herself misquoted again:

Her mixed feelings for McCartney were also apparent in an interview with the Liverpool Echo this week in which she said: "Paul was the one who knew how to deal with the world and John was the poet. But when John was doing his individual work, I know he felt that people were not so much into his songs."

[Thanks to Jim McCabe for the link]

If Yoko was hoping that blaming the media would solve her way out the hole, she might be feeling thwarted this morning. Paul McCartney has taken time off from checking the pies and veggie sausages to respond. And what will really rankle with Yoko is that he sniggers rather than bristles:

"I don't think she's the brightest of buttons," he said. "I don't want to get into a bun fight but she's said some particularly daft things in her time."

music yoko ono paul mccartney john lennon