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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
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
Yes Yoko Ono, and a new album, Blueprint for a Sunrise , which was made with her son Sean’s deft band, IMA. She was going to call the record Sondown , she says, because she liked the play on words, but was pulled up short. ‘I thought, I don’t want to write a...
invited to interview her for a now-defunct world music magazine. Not only that, but I was informed that the interview would take place inside of Ono’s apartment at The Dakota, the legendary New York City apartment building she shared with her late husband John Lennon and their son, Sean ...
subsequently falling in with the clique of avant-garde composers gathered around the likes of John Cage, David Tudor and La Monte Young (whose first collection of musicians went on to become the Velvet Underground). Ultimately, this movement would be known as Fluxus, and Ono, as a pioneer of...
" under the name "The Plastic Ono Band." They settled in New York and continued to record and perform their own music during the '70s, yet whenever Ono performed her decidedly experimental music on her own, she received negative reviews. Their son Sean was born 9 October 1975, when ...
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...
” She emphasized in particular Lennon’s continuing importance to people who were only children when he was killed. “It seems like [young people] have their own way of being in touch with John’s spirit,” she said. “I have a teenage son, so I know that that generation seems to ...
Ono's son, Sean Ono Lennon, said in a statement that the medal was “an incredible honor.” “The history and list of past recipients is truly remarkable. It makes me very proud to see her art appreciated and celebrated in this way," he said. ...