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Yoko Ono: Enjoying music is enjoying life (LA Record)

Yoko Ono is one of the most polarizing figures in rock ‘n’ roll history. The people that love her LOVE her and the people who don’t love her never will. Aside from being married to John Lennon, she also created the blueprint for avant-punk and electronic music, and remixes of her songs have been regularly charting in the top ten of Billboard’s dance music chart for the last decade. Ono has an amazing new CD, Between My Head and the Sky, that continues her artistic progression and has to be the greatest rock record ever recorded by a 76-year-old.

IMAGINE PEACE2010-02-25T09:24:44-05:00February 25th, 2010|Interviews & Articles|

Mother Jones: 15 mins with Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono still wants to reconnect humanity with its long-lost id. From Fluxus to songstress, the 77-year-old has used every free-associative vocal, literary, and visual avant-garde tool at her disposal to help resuscitate the uncensored thoughts of audiences around the world. Born in 1933 in Japan, Ono was the first female artist to market experimental primal wails as legitimate music at a time when demure vulnerability was prized over a woman’s angst-ridden screams. Her proto-feminist punk, often orgasmic vocals were inspired by childbirth; musically, her spawn includes bands like Deerhoof, Animal Collective, Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill and the whole riot grrrl gang- who owe their flagrant embrace of the loud and the absurd to Ono's radical displays of freedom.

IMAGINE PEACE2010-02-23T08:45:29-05:00February 23rd, 2010|Interviews & Articles|

Pop Quiz – Yoko Ono [SF Chronicle]

Last year, Yoko Ono revived the Plastic Ono Band for its first studio album in decades, "Between My Head and the Sky." It's hard to blame her for the delay; her time has been occupied by making art, campaigning for peace and handling the affairs of her late husband, John Lennon. Ono, 76, tells us it was their son, Sean, who suggested bringing back the group - which at points counted Eric Clapton, Keith Moon and Frank Zappa as members - with a new lineup that includes Japanese indie-rockers Cornelius and Yuka Honda. The Plastic Ono Band kicks off this year's Noise Pop Festival with a performance Thursday at Oakland's Fox Theater.

IMAGINE PEACE2010-02-21T11:02:32-05:00February 19th, 2010|Interviews & Articles|

Approximately infinite, still [Kimberly Chun, SF Bay Guardian]

by Kimberly Chun, SF Bay Guardian MUSIC The simplest, most singular words and images have always been Yoko Ono's most potent artistic tools — depth charges designed for maximum impact, unexpected wit, and subtly change-inducing effect. And though words like "empowerment" feel too tapped-out to draw from the same power source as Ono-connected words like [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2010-02-20T13:43:43-05:00February 19th, 2010|Interviews & Articles|

Top Live Show: YOKO ONO [Time Out, NY]

The legendary artist reconvenes Plastic Ono Band for her first local shows in years. By Jay Ruttenberg, Time Out New York There’s a great old yarn about an avant-garde figure who emerges from a mental institution in the late ’60s and attends an event downtown. John Lennon and Yoko Ono make their entrance. “Who’s the guy with Yoko?” the avant-gardist inquires. The anecdote isn’t inconceivable. Before her path collided with Lennon’s, Ono was, of course, a macher in an art underground that paid no heed to popular culture.

IMAGINE PEACE2010-07-31T07:56:13-05:00February 10th, 2010|Interviews & Articles|

It’s Me, I’m Alive: A Conversation with Yoko Ono (by Thomas Britt, PopMatters)

Yoko Ono began 2010 by participating in “Art Adds,” a project that exhibits her artwork on New York City taxicabs. Replacing advertisements that traditionally decorate the rooftops of taxis, Ono’s peace-promoting works (along with pieces by Alex Katz and Shirin Neshat) move throughout the city as a kind of public art. In Carol Vogel’s New York Times article about the project, Ono likens the experience to a dance, saying, “The message is always in motion.”

IMAGINE PEACE2017-01-09T13:44:02-05:00February 8th, 2010|Interviews & Articles|

Everett True’s 10 Greatest Female Singers of the 20th Century: #9 Yoko Ono

9. YOKO ONO She has borne herself with more integrity and dignity than all her critics combined. She has generated an incredible body of work -- articulate, experimental, feminist, inspirational -- as 1992's massive Ono Box Set proves. She positively influenced John Lennon -- possibly the most important popular music icon of late 20th century -- encouraging him to lose his misogyny and become politically active. (She was also directly responsible for Lennon's finest work, the primal scream therapy of Plastic Ono Band.) She has influenced generations of left-field musicians, from PiL to Sonic Youth to Huggy Bear. Ono is America's most underrated artist.

IMAGINE PEACE2010-01-25T01:22:28-05:00January 23rd, 2010|Interviews & Articles|

Sean Lennon’s holidays with his father (Times, UK)

"Out on the ocean, sailing away / I can hardly wait for you to come of age" (Beautiful Boy, John Lennon) by Sean Lennon, Times Online I don’t belong to that group of people who keep their childhoods neatly folded and tucked away, seldom seen, in a dresser drawer. My memories are scattered about the room like dust mites floating in sunlight. I’m unable to climb aboard even the tiniest steam train of thought without running over old origami animals in the Wild West of my youth.

IMAGINE PEACE2010-06-07T14:25:49-05:00January 16th, 2010|Interviews & Articles, Yoko reads|

The Lowdown: Yoko Ono (interview with AltSounds)

by MitchdeFarla, AltSounds Yoko Ono needs no introductions. She has been making music for 40+ years, is an artist, a political activist and most famously of all (for me anyway) she was the love of the late John Lennon's life. Together the pair proved an unstoppable force both making music together and in particular for [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2010-07-31T08:03:33-05:00January 15th, 2010|Interviews & Articles|

Yoko resurrects The Plastic Ono Band with a little help from her son

Photo by Greg Kadel ©2009 Yoko Ono by Tony Bonyata, Concertlivewire.com, Jan. 6, 2010 She's been referred to as a witch, a dragon lady and, perhaps most famously (and inaccurately, it should be noted), as the woman who single-handedly broke up The Beatles. While Yoko Ono first made her name in the early '60s through [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2016-12-16T08:58:21-05:00January 9th, 2010|Interviews & Articles, Music|

Yoko Ono (The Perennial One) (New York Press)

Yoko Ono (The Perennial One) It was a big year for Yoko Ono. By Alex Littlefield, New York Press This fall, the 76-year-old artist released Between My Head and the Sky, her first album since 1973, with the Plastic Ono Band, and a release that marked her first time sharing the studio with her son, [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2009-12-23T22:05:49-05:00December 23rd, 2009|Interviews & Articles|

Esa Mujer / That Woman by Juan Forn, Pagina 12 [Argentina]

That Woman By Juan Forn, Pagina 12 [Argentina]. This week has been the anniversary of John Lennon’s passing, and as every year when this time arrives I said to myself: “Another year gone, and once again I haven’t written what I really think about Yoko Ono yet”. I’ll make it clear: In some of the [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2009-12-14T12:21:55-05:00December 11th, 2009|Interviews & Articles|

Yoko Ono talks drums with Modern Drummer

by Billy Amendola, Modern Drummer, Jan 2010 issue At the young age of seventy-six, there’s just no slowing down for artist, activist, and avant-garde queen Yoko Ono, widow of the late Beatle John Lennon. Her latest CD, Between My Head And The Sky, made with her new Plastic Ono Band, was coproduced by Yoko and [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2010-07-31T08:05:18-05:00December 8th, 2009|Interviews & Articles|

Yoko Ono: Between Her Head and the Sky (Crawdaddy)

Yoko Ono: Between Her Head and the Sky By Denise Sullivan, Crawdaddy, 3 Dec 2009 “I’ve passed the time when I used to think I’m going to surprise people with this, break the sound barrier, I’m going to put in some chords that nobody has ever put in or whatever. That day is over. I [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2010-07-31T08:06:49-05:00December 6th, 2009|Interviews & Articles|

The Continuing Adventures Of… YOKO ONO [Esquire, Dec 09]

by Arsalan Mohammad, Esquire, December 2009 Yoko Ono has just made one of the year’s best avant-garde records and is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Give Peace A Chance. What more does she have to do to prove she’s an icon of our times? Each October for the past three years, a black-clad widow has [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2010-07-31T08:07:14-05:00November 25th, 2009|Interviews & Articles|

Oh Yoko! 20 Ways of Looking at an Art-World Icon [Bitch Magazine]

Oh Yoko! 20 Ways of Looking at an Art-World Icon by Ellen Papazian, Illustrated by Shen Plum, appeared in issue Art/See; published in 2009; filed under Art. Who is Yoko Ono? She is one of the most famous figures in the world, yet also one of the most misunderstood, enigmatic, and, at times, vilified. Quite [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2009-11-23T19:24:48-05:00November 23rd, 2009|Interviews & Articles|

BMH&TS is better than any post-Beatles album by McCartney, Harrison or Starr [L.A. Record]

Review by Scott Schultz, L.A. Record. Yoko Ono’s new album, Between My Head and the Sky, is better than any post-Beatles album by McCartney, Harrison or Starr. Yeah, I said it. While the former two were baby boomer marshmallows and the latter was a novelty act, Ono has pushed the boundaries of dance music for [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2009-11-17T12:37:22-05:00November 17th, 2009|Interviews & Articles, Music|

The Ballad of Yoko Ono (Richmond.com)

by Hays Davis, Richmond.com There’s a fact about Yoko Ono that has been obscured over the past few decades due largely to her life and work with her late husband. Early in her career, Ono became an acclaimed and influential artist in her own right through her development of fascinating conceptual and performance pieces. Having [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2009-11-12T04:01:50-05:00November 11th, 2009|Interviews & Articles|

Yoko Ono in a minute (Sunday Times)

by Alice Fisher, Sunday Times SA. When I think of Japan I think of food. I miss the Japanese spirit, the culture and civilisation that we had and lost. Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch. John [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2009-11-08T19:34:32-05:00November 8th, 2009|Interviews & Articles|

Yoko Ono, forever a force for peace (The Japan Times)

photo by Charlotte Kemp & Sean Lennon ©2009 Yoko Ono Yoko Ono, forever a force for peace Artist, musician, Lennon's widow — a lifetime of trying circumstances has 'prepared' her By DAVID F. HOENIGMAN, Special to The Japan Times Even before she married John Lennon, even before she embarked on a career as an avant-garde and [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2010-07-31T08:10:35-05:00November 6th, 2009|Interviews & Articles|