Yoko Ono, Japanese artist and musician who was an influential practitioner of conceptual and performance art in the 1960s and who became internationally famous as the second wife and artistic partner of musician John Lennon. Read more about her life and
ONO: Well, if you don’t have fluidity, then I think that you are finished in a way. MITCHELL: When you met George Brecht and La Monte Young and the other people involved with Fluxus, did you connect with them right away? ONO: Well, some of what we were interested in was the same...
unafraid and unapologetic in her mien. When Ono started to record in the 1960s, the music was profound and interrogatory even then, as evidenced in her two operas and associations with John Cage, La Monte Young and jazzman Ornette Coleman. She worked with Coleman on Emotion modulation...
” Yoko recalls. “George Brecht, Jonas Mekas, LaMonte Young, Jackson MacLow, just about everyone performed in it. And Richard Maxfield helped me on the electronic side. I set up everything and then made the stage very dim, so you had to strain your...
AlthoughTwo Virginswas to become one of the most controversial episodes of Lennon’s life, his union with Yoko Ono caused a monumentally significant personal shift. It marked the beginning of the end of his time as a Beatle, and, influenced by Ono, saw him increasingly challenge public expecta...
So how do you reach the young people and try to educate them? I think they’re going to start noticing it on their own. Two soldiers in Britain came back saying that they don’t want to do this kind of war where they kill civilians and all that, and I think that was a very cour...
Kino Lorber / Michael Lesions, Michael Ochs Archives, Getty Images SHARE TWEETIn 1972, daytime TV talk show The Mike Douglas Show got a pair of new hosts for the week: John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Now, a new documentary titled Daytime Revolution, will chronicle that moment in pop culture ...
Well, he was different over the years as he disintegrated. He ended up the kind of guy that you dread when he would come on the phone, because you knew it was trouble. He was really in a lot of pain. In the early days, he was all right, because he was young and confident. He...
The seven-day bed-in held byJohn LennonandYoko Onoat the Amsterdam Hilton ended on this day. Upon leaving the hotel, they flew to Vienna for a short trip. Embed from Getty Images Lennon and Ono held a press conference from Vienna’s Hotel Sacher. It received worldwide press coverage, as...
Yoko Ono. Archive Footage: The Beatles: Get Back. Yoko Ono was born on Saturday, February 18th, 1933, in her ancestral estate in Tokyo, Japan. Her father, Eisuke Ono, was the descendant of a 9th Century Emperor of Japan. Her mother, Isoko Yasuda Ono, was