Strawberry Fields Forever...just don't call it a cereal!

[Blondie]

Yoko Ono has alerted her lawyers that Kashi, an organic-food company owned by Kellogg's, is marketing a cereal under the name "Strawberry Fields."

The breakfast giant has filed for a trademark on the name, which Yoko thinks is too close to the Lennon-McCartney hit "Strawberry Fields Forever." (Ironically, Lennon once admitted he wrote the tune "Good Morning, Good Morning" after hearing the phrase on a TV commercial for corn flakes.)

 

[olena]

Does she own the rights to the song? I thought Michael Jackson owned the rights to all the Beatles songs.

 

[Blondie]

I'm not sure Olena...sounds like Yoko is trying to own the name "Strawberry Fields."

 

[olena]

Or garner publicity.

 

[Micca]

The song was based on an actual place in England called Strawberry Field. It was a Salvation Army children's home. They didn't sue John Lennon when the song became a hit.

 

[doxdogy]

Did a strawberry fields search on google. At least 10 pages came up. Some of them with the name strawberry fields as the name of their companies. Wasn't there a clothing store years ago called strawberry fields? Sounds like she has way to much time on her hands. Edy's dreamery ice cream even has a strawberry fields flavor.