Son’s pride at Ono Imagine co-credit

John Lennon’s son has described the “proudest day” of his life as his mother, Yoko Ono, was officially named cowriter of the 1971 hit Imagine.

Sean Ono Lennon attended a ceremony by the National Music Publishers Association as his late father’s famous single was honoured with the centennial song award.

As he helped his wheelchair-bound mother, 84, on to the stage to accept the prize at the New York event, NMPA chief executive David Israelite declared the song a Lennonono creation for the first time.