Yoko Ono + Bullet = P.R. News Gaffe
08/06/2008
No comment from the Mark David Chapman camp yet…
By Fred Mills
As one BLURT staffer groaned when the press release came in — Oh, no (pardon the pun). Tell me they did not just use the phrase "#1 with a bullet" in a press release about a John Lennon composition.
Well, er… yes, yes they did…
BLURT gets press releases all day long. Hundreds. Most we delete. Some we print out and use as t.p. And still others we hang on to, savor, and find a way to utilize the information contained therein to benefit both you, dear readers, and the artists themselves.
And then sometimes others arrive that leave us staring, gape-jawed, at our computer screens.
Yoko Ono has released some remix collections via Astralwerks and they’ve garnered critical acclaim and noteworthy club play (not to mention doing pretty well commercially). This week her “Give Peace A Chance (The Remixes)” reached number one on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Play Chart.
The press release that was sent out to hail this accomplishment bore the following bold-faced header:
ONO’s “GIVE PEACE A CHANCE” (THE REMIXES) Hits #1 With A Bullet On Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Play Chart This Week!!
Yup. With a bullet.
(Aside from the Lennon stuff, does anyone really use the chart-topping phrase “with a bullet” anymore? We thought that went out with the Mothers At Fillmore East.)
