John Lennon's son Julian has offered his support to the woman who inspired hit Beatles track Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Yoko Ono has dropped her copyright lawsuit against a filmmaker who used part of John Lennon's song Imagine without her permission.

Yoko Ono plans to fight her failed lawsuit against a filmmaker who used a clip from John Lennon's song "Imagine" without her permission. Ono and Lennon's two sons Sean and Julian joined publisher EMI

NEW YORK (AP) - Yoko Ono lost her legal bid Monday to stop the playing of a 15-second excerpt of John Lennon's song ''Imagine'' in a film challenging the theory of evolution.

Paul McCartney is hoping to launch his son James' music career - by helping him record a debut album. The 30-year-old drummer and guitarist - who is the former Beatles star's son with first wife Linda - has already appeared on two of his McCartney's solo albums, but is keen to launch his own LP.

American Idol judge Simon Cowell is to team up with Julian Lennon on a new musical project. The unlikely partnership will see Lennon, 44, come out of musical exile to release his first album since 1998's Photograph Smile. Earlier this week the son of former Beatle John Lennon told of Cowell's desire to meet up with him. The music mogul later confirmed the meeting.

John Lennon's son Julian has denied trying to follow in his father's footsteps by making a movie about the environment. Lennon junior produced documentary The Gathering: Return of the Whale Dreamers which premiered at this year's Cannes Festival.

John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has called for his murderer Mark David Chapman to be locked up until he dies. Chapman has been in prison since he shot Lennon to death outside his Manhattan home on December 8, 1980.

NEW YORK (AP) - Half brothers Julian and Sean Lennon have begun speaking to each other again. Their reconciliation follows Julian's eight-year feud with Sean and Sean's mother, Yoko Ono, the widow of the men's father, Beatle John Lennon, the New York Post reported in Sunday's editions.

MOUGINS, France (AP) - Sharon Stone played auctioneer, Kylie Minogue and Julian Lennon sang, and burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese did a saucy strip routine - all to raise money for AIDS research.