My Sweet Friends! I am so glad that Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Prizes are given to those in need. (I must have needed a lot this past July!) Obama needs all the encouragement he can get at this point. Let's all send him the love and trust he could use as his [...]
by Ryan Adams, Blackbook In a world of trash heaps and disposable art, digital-only records and flashback culture, it’s comforting to know that we still walk among mythic artists. Yoko Ono is one of those artists. Her observations are so direct, so simple and so devoid of bullshit that they constantly remind me to reevaluate [...]
Yoko Ono Her signature howl made her brand of avant-garde music famous. But in recent years, Ono found mainstream success with five number one dance singles. Now, forty years after she founded the original Plastic Ono Band with her late husband, John Lennon, she's recording under the same moniker, with the couple's son, Sean. Ono tells Kurt what [...]
Create a rock ‘n’ roll map of London showing the hot-spots past and present, you’d be left with a big empty space called Knightsbridge – it’s about as rock ‘n’ roll as Harrogate. Which explains why I haven’t been near the place for 20 years or so. I park my car at the back of [...]
オノ・ヨーコ インタビュー 「表現者」の現在・過去・未来 ｜SPECIAL ISSUE | moonlinx Moonlinx Special Issue Vol. 004 Interview with Yoko Ono Text: Daisuke Ark Kozuki Photographs: Hiroki Obara Website Flash: Yoshihiro Toda Art Direction & Design: Keigo Anan Original version here.
Interview Performance: "I'm Going Away Smiling" Yoko Ono & Sean Lennon on The View, 30 October 2009 with Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar & Sherri Shepherd. “The View,” recipient of the 2003 Daytime Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Talk Show,” is ABC Daytime’s morning chatfest, featuring a team of dynamic women of different ages, experiences [...]
The New Plastic Ono Band By John Schaefer, WNYC They say time heals all wounds. With the passage of four decades, maybe all those Beatles fans who lay the demise of their favorite band at the feet of Yoko Ono will get over it. Various books over the years by people associated with [...]
by Carol Clerk, The Quietus Some of us may be surprised at just how good Between My Head And The Sky, the new album by the Plastic Ono Band, actually is. Not Carol Clerk, who met up with Yoko to talk about her music and peace projects . . . It's a beautiful September morning, [...]
By Gordon Smart, The Sun THE Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge is a popular spot with A-list divas passing through London. Whitney Houston launched her comeback there while Britney Spears loves the opulence of the five figure- a-night suites. Another female solo artist - who has generated more albums than the two put together and [...]
The musician and artist on The Beatles, Lennon's revolution and why music is the best education... JOHN CREATED THE BEATLES, BUT THERE WOULD BE NO BEATLES WITHOUT PAUL. "John created The Beatles - he put it together. He named it. He was the leader. He encouraged everybody to go out there and make it happen. [...]
THIS MUCH I KNOW Yoko Ono Artist, 76, London Interview: Alice Fishes, The Observer Photograph: Albert Watson When I think of Japan I think of food. I miss the Japanese spirit, the culture and civilisation that we had and lost. I know that most parents don't like the culture of their children, but I do [...]
Yoko Ono: In Her Life / Shining On After 40 years of being unfairly accused of breaking up the Beatles and harshly mocked for her avant garde art and pop music, Yoko Ono is finally being recognised as a true pioneer. By Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph Soon after I sit down to talk with Yoko [...]
by Linda Laban, Spinner, 16 Sept 2009 The release of 'Between My Head and the Sky' marks the first time that music has been issued under the iconic Plastic Ono Band name since the early '70s. There's only one original member on board, though, and that is namesake Yoko Ono, who chatted with Spinner as [...]
Interview: Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, Old and New By Andy Battaglia, The A.V. Club, September 17, 2009 Yoko Ono was exposed to music early in her life and started performing at "happenings" of various avant-garde kinds in the '50s. She was an early follower of John Cage, figured into the post-Dada '60s art movement [...]
Yoko Ono is a huge Take That fan from monstersandcritics.com The widow of Beatles singer John Lennon has praised the British foursome - consisting of Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Howard Donald and Jason Orange - and revealed she is in awe of their pop sound. She said: "I love 'Shine'. I know most of their greatest [...]
Photo by Charlotte Muhl & Sean Lennon (C) YOKO ONO 2009 Numero Ono By Seth Colter Walls | NEWSWEEK Published Aug 28, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009 To talk about Yoko Ono is to talk about The Scream. An impossibly long, warbling vocal tremor, it confirmed the public's worst prejudices about [...]
La nouvelle ballade de Yoko Ono by Ivan Essendi, A Nous Associée à jamais au mythe John Lennon, Yoko Ono reste à 76 ans l’une des personnalités les plus controversées et inclassables de la culture pop. Si sa sulfureuse aura a souvent pris le dessus sur ses visions artistiques, elle rectifie définitivement le tir avec [...]
From MYFOXNY.COM Of the many passions legendary singer and songwriter John Lennon had was his love for New York City. Yoko Ono- his widow and former partner in life- spoke with Rosanna Scotto as they toured a new exhibit in SoHo honoring Lennon: "John Lennon: The New York City Years." "He was passionately in love [...]
Yoko Ono: The 'Inside The Actor's Studio' Questionnaire What is your favorite word? All words are beautiful. If you use them well. What is your least favorite word? I love all words. What an incredible way the human race has developed to express themselves. What turns you on (creatively, spiritually or emotionally)? Brilliant ideas. What [...]
When the good folks at the Huff asked me to write a piece for the launch of the New York page, it was kind of like the feeling I might get if a friend or my sister ever asks me to be the maid of honor in one of their weddings: first, delight. Then, utter [...]