This all seems very plausible to me.coniferouspine wrote:I don't have any details or evidence to back what I say, but I am pretty darn sure that there is something very heavy going on (behind the scenes) with the "de-Spectorization" of the Lennon solo albums that is not just musical. Like, I think maybe Spector might get points and royalties on the old original ones, also Allen Klein maybe, and then if it's a new Imagine "piece" in 2006 with a new catalog number, then presto, ol' man Spector doesn't get any points or revenues on the sales of the Imagine album anymore, or something like that, that's my first guess. Second guess being, they are trying to get Spector's name disassociated from Lennon's, because Spector has obviously been in headlines and jail lately for some pretty serious bad stuff, and maybe they want to distance Lennon's legend from him. Thirdly, Yoko does not like Spector because he was the one around John during the "Lost Weekend" and my guess is he probably told Spector a lot during those drunken nights, and I bet Spector knows a lot of dirt and a lot of where the skeletons are buried and stuff nobody else knows about Lennon, Yoko and even what went down with the Beatles. Or something. I definitely don't think it has 100% to do with music, actually.
Anyway, I don't know why the big deal - last time I checked, you could get most of the original lp's for less than $10 a pop..