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JOHN & YOKO Wedding Anniversary 20 March 1969

Yoko: "Let's go back to the future, you know. That's why we're here. We want to talk mainly to the young people all over the world, because those are the people who are going to be the next generation. They're going to be the next world, you know, and we just want to say we are with them. We're not preaching or anything like that. We want to be with them and we're with them." Listen to John & Yoko on honeymoon spreading their peace message in Amsterdam.

IMAGINE PEACE2014-03-20T10:38:40-05:00March 20th, 2014|Feature, Interviews & Articles|

“New York Morning” – To Elbow, with love from Yoko

To Elbow: Dear Guy, Craig, Mark, Pete and Richard, Yes. New York has been kind to me as your song says. Thank you. For John, he always wanted to come and live in this city, ever since he saw Bob Dylan on the famous album cover (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan). And I played the catalyst to [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2014-05-18T23:06:16-05:00March 1st, 2014|Written work, Yoko listens|

18 FEB: HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOKO!

Message from Yoko Ono: Don't give up on our beautiful planet. Use your healing power and make it well. World Peace is around the corner. I love you! yoko Tonight is Yoko Ono's birthday! IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is lit in tribute and the Northern Lights are shining bright! See it all LIVE & send in your [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2014-03-03T13:11:10-05:00February 18th, 2014|IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, Written work|

Yoko Ono: War Is Over! (If You Want It) (MCA, Sydney, Australia)

Explore five decades of art works across a range of media by legendary artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono. The title comes from a text work by Ono and her husband John Lennon that first appeared in 1969 across public billboards in twelve cities worldwide, including New York and London. This survey of works by [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-11-15T10:27:27-05:00November 15th, 2013|Events & Exhibitions|

Lou Reed

The last time I saw Lou was when we did a show together in New York to raise money for the victims of the Fukushima disaster. Lou's song was full of anger. I couldn't help asking why. Lou just smiled a warm smile. I will never forget that smile. Lou will always be in our [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-10-31T17:07:17-05:00October 31st, 2013|Written work|

The Times: Yoko Ono interviewed by Nina Myskow

by Nina Myskow, The Times. “I know you’re not supposed to show your legs at my age,” she says with a giggle. Then she shrugs and adds without a trace of self-pity: “I don’t know how long I’ve got, so I’m just going for it. I thought I better just do what I want to [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-10-22T12:45:12-05:00October 22nd, 2013|Interviews & Articles|

Yoko Ono made an Honorary Citizen of Reykjavík, Iceland

Jón Gnarr, mayor of Reykjavík, nominated the artist YOKO ONO as Honorary Citizen of Reykjavík at a special ceremony at Höfdi House today. The City Council Executive Committee of Reykjavík agreed unanimously last week to make ONO an honorary citizen of Reykjavík, capital of Iceland. With this honorary title Reykjavík wants to thank Yoko for [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-10-11T08:55:53-05:00October 9th, 2013|Awards|

ONO – Walking On Thin Ice (2013 Remix) #1 in Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart on 3 Oct 2013

ONO SOARS TO THE TOP OF THE BILLBOARD HOT DANCE CLUB PLAY CHART WITH NEW REMIXES OF HER LANDMARK CLASSIC WALKING ON THIN ICE FEATURING EXPLOSIVE MIXES BY DANNY TENAGLIA, R3HAB, TOM STEPHAN (SUPERCHUMBO), DAVE AUDÉ, RALPHI ROSARIO, RICH MOREL, EMJAE, TEDD PATTERSON AND PETER RAUHOFER THE SINGLE MARKS HER 11TH #1 BILLBOARD CHART-TOPPER ONO continues her reign [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-10-07T01:34:26-05:00September 27th, 2013|Discography|

Magnet: Everything Was Beautiful – interview with Yoko Ono by Thurston Moore

EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL In a MAGNET exclusive, Yoko Ono talks family, art history and the revived Plastic Ono Band’s Take Me To The Land Of Hell with Thurston Moore. Portraits by Gene Smirnov We Americans aren’t very comfortable with avantgarde artists. Neither are most other cultures, taken all around, but there’s something distinctively American in [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-09-27T08:28:18-05:00September 27th, 2013|Interviews & Articles|

Yoko Ono to receive the Theodor Wanner Lifetime Achievement Award in Berlin

Yoko Ono will receive the Theodor Wanner Lifetime Achievement Award for her strong commitment to world peace and gender equality over her entire career. The prize will be awarded on October 17th in Berlin, Gemany. The award recalls the german manager and patron Theodor Wanner (1875-1955), on whose initiative the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-09-26T16:08:58-05:00September 26th, 2013|Awards|

WNYC Soundcheck Interview: Yoko Ono At 80: Dancing Through Life

Yoko Ono almost needs no introduction. The 80-year-old artist, activist and musician recently told a reporter for The Australian that “art is breathing” -- and she has been breathing, and making art for more than half a century. Among her recent projects is a new album with the Plastic Ono Band called Take Me To [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-09-25T08:25:04-05:00September 25th, 2013|Interviews & Articles|

Yoko Ono – Cheshire Cat Cry – for Peace Day

For #PEACEDAY, here is my new song CHESHIRE CAT CRY. I revised the lyrics for the version performed on September 15th at my Bowery Ballroom Concert. I love you! yoko CHESHIRE CAT CRY I’m rolling in your dreams Listening to your screams Cheshire Cat Cry The River is dry We the expendable people of the [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-09-29T14:56:02-05:00September 21st, 2013|Events & Exhibitions News, Written work|

Bicycle Piece For Orchestra – Homage to Yoko Ono from Norbert Krause

Dear Yoko, As I promised, this is my ‘Homage to Yoko Ono: Bicycle Piece for Orchestra’, performed by the Niederrheinische Sinfonieorchester Mönchengladbach. (trailer of a 7 minutes film, which is going to be seen in full length for the first time tomorrow at my studio) Do you like it? Love, Norbert Krause Dear Norbert, It's [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-09-21T15:15:28-05:00September 21st, 2013|Events & Exhibitions|

Yoko Thurston 2013

Yoko Ono & Thurston Moore played 4 Festival dates in August 2013, combining vocals, guitar, drums and spectacular visuals from Yoko and Thurston's film archives. 7 Aug Tranatlantyk Festival, Poznan, Poland Facebook Event 10 Aug Kampnagel Sommerfestival, Hamburg, Germany Facebook Event 18 Aug Huvila Festival, Helsinki, Finland Facebook Event 19 Aug Huvila Festival, Helsinki, Finland [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-09-09T18:08:21-05:00September 9th, 2013|Events & Exhibitions|

Yoko Ono awarded Transatlantyk Glocal Hero Award 2013

The most important event of the penultimate day of the Polish Transatlantyk Festival 2013 was the grand Closing Gala, held in the Concert Hall of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Jan AP Kaczmarek hosted the entire event with the openness and charm, so typical for him. The culmination of the evening was the presentation [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-09-09T17:54:44-05:00September 9th, 2013|Awards|

Yoko Ono: Performances at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 2013

Yoko Ono's legendary performance 'Sky Piece to Jesus Christ' is followed by Yoko Ono doing her 'Action Piece' painting, clearing the air in a scream, and then introducing a 'Promise Piece', in this video from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2013. In Sky Piece to Jesus Christ (1965) the members of a chamber orchestra are [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-08-27T16:43:39-05:00August 27th, 2013|Events & Exhibitions|

On Hiroshima Day – August 6th, 2013 by YOKO ONO

Yoko Ono pays tribute and lays flowers at the Hiroshima Memorial, August 2011. Dear Friends, The 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a tragedy of the greatest magnitude. Even now, 68 years later, many victims of the violence of atomic weapons are still suffering, physically, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-08-05T04:27:18-05:00August 5th, 2013|Written work|

CBC News Arts & Entertainment: Yoko Ono’s lifelong inspirations

Yoko Ono poses at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, central Germany, Thursday, Feb. 13. 2013. Four days before her 80th birthday the artist opened her exhibition 'Yoko Ono. Half-A-Wind Show' with her own works. The exhibition is open until May 12. (AP Photo/dpa, Arne Dedert) 80-year-old artist and musician looks back at [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-04-17T05:47:06-05:00April 17th, 2013|Interviews & Articles|

Yoko Ono & Thurston Moore live – Transatlantyk Poznan International Film & Music Festival,

Get tickets here Artystce towarzyszyć będzie Thurston Moore, kultowy amerykański gitarzysta i wokalista zespołu Sonic Youth. Legenda światowej awangardy Yoko Ono, gwiazdą Festiwalu Transatlantyk 2013! Artystce towarzyszyć będzie Thurston Moore, kultowy amerykański gitarzysta i wokalista zespołu Sonic Youth. Na zaproszenie twórcy Festiwalu Transatlantyk - Jana A.P. Kaczmarka, Yoko Ono i Thurston Moore po raz pierwszy [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-04-10T03:19:22-05:00April 4th, 2013|Music|

Ringo: Peace & Love – fIrst major exhibition to explore the life of Ringo Starr At The Grammy Museum

Premiers at The GRAMMY Museum® June 12, 2013 and Tour Selected Cities Through 2014 This one-of-a-kind, limited-run exhibit will offer visitors an unprecedented in-depth look at all aspects of Ringo's musical and creative life - as a musician, artist, actor, and as the man the world knows and loves simply as 'Ringo.' It will also [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-03-08T11:36:37-05:00March 8th, 2013|Events & Exhibitions|