# The band Yoko Ono didn’t want John Lennon to work with: “Even though they’d been quite successful”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-band-yoko-ono-didnt-want-john-lennon-to-work-with-even-though-theyd-been-quite-successful/
- Published: 2026-11-09T21:15:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T22:42:16+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/band-yoko-ono-didnt-want-john-lennon-to-work-with/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Cheap Trick members recorded early versions of two Lennon songs.
- Yoko Ono reportedly opposed their contributions appearing on *Double Fantasy*.
- The songs were re-recorded before the album’s release.

## Summary

Producer Jack Douglas brought Cheap Trick musicians Rick Nielsen and Bun E Carlos into sessions for John Lennon’s 1980 album *Double Fantasy*. According to Douglas, Yoko Ono objected to their involvement, believing he was trying to give the band a boost, and their contributions were replaced before the album was released.

The pair had worked on early versions of ‘I’m Losing You’ and ‘I’m Moving On’. Douglas said in a 2010 interview that Ono wanted the songs re-recorded so Cheap Trick could not claim a place on the record, despite the band’s success and work on an album with George Martin. *Double Fantasy* received a mixed reception at first, but gained a warmer audience after Lennon’s death less than a year later.

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