Yoko Ono Allows Human-Rights Charity to Use Lennon Music

After refusing countless organizations and companies over the years, Yoko Ono has granted permission to Amnesty International to use her late husband John Lennon’s song “Imagine” in a campaign, reports the Post Chronicle.

The organization will use the song, recorded in 1971, on a new CD entitled Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur, which will raise money for aid in Sudan. All the other songs on the album are covers of the former Beatle’s solo songs.

“I’m not afraid to say no. There are so many people and organizations who’ve had that same request, and I’ve said no to everybody,” says Ms. Ono, whose husband, the former Beatle, was murdered in 1980. “The Amnesty International people brought this proposal to me and I responded very quickly because I had been doing some projects with them before that and had a very good feeling about them. So in this case it was a big ‘yes.’”