Protecting an icon

"What they're doing is protecting the names of The Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. And they have to be really looked after. So it's important that people like me don't come along and make a mess of it. Of course, we weren't intending to make a mess of it." So, philosophically says Ian Watts, who found out the hard way that nobody makes a musical on the life of the late John Lennon without permission from Yoko Ono. Her lawyers apparently told Watts: "Your head's above the parapet and Yoko's crosshairs are firmly fixed on your forehead." Not necessarily the most appropriate analogy given what happened 25 years ago today.