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Andocrates wrote:As weird as she is if you read more about her ... you start to understand her a bit...I never got what the big deal was so I don't see her as the enemy.
Yoko Ono:
Mother and Child Reunion
Salon.com 1999
Interviewer: ..people are only just now beginning to reconsider how much racism and sexism played a part in your public demonization.
Yoko Ono: I understand how people felt about it, especially considering the times. It must have been very hard on them that suddenly their hero is standing with a woman. It's hard enough to see him with a woman, but an Oriental woman at that...
Steve Bildermann wrote:Through a mutual friend I've met Ono Yoko many times over the years. In the sixties she was rich, weird and very determined to be a success (at whatever - it didn't matter)
She hung around the London art scene and through the sheer force of having lots of daddy's money to throw around made a name for herself. As an artist she was crap then and things haven't got any better since. I once said so and she sort of shrugged knowingly. I guess she'd heard it before.
She got married to John and that became her success story. Every time we met after that she was living the life as a celebrity. I told her she was the oriental Za Za Gabor without the glamour. She thought that was funny.
After John got shot she inherited his life and has turned it into a multi billion dollar business. She's estranged from John's older kid (who's a weirdo in his own right) and has poured millions into Sean's rather humdrum music career. In Japan she's obscure. She doesn't act Japanese when you meet her. It's not all bad. She's seems sincere in her work for peace. She supports quite a few charities and I know she's taken care of people who helped John in his early days.
kamome wrote:Where did her family get its money from?
AssKissinger wrote:I'm a pretty big Yoko Ono fan and I get tired of seeing her vilified. She's actually a great artist herself. She is influential in the creation of Revolution # 9 which was a cornerstone in bridging avant-garde to pop music and bringing collage in sound and tape loops to the public's attention. Some of her coolest music is very obscure but indeed excellent. One example of this is her work with a band called the Tater Tots on the album Alien Sleastacks from Brazil.
She stays in New York even after her husband's murder and 9/11. God Bless Her! Plus she's 70 now and still looks pretty damn good.
Have you ever seen this thing where she had strangers from the audience come up and cut her clothes off with scissors? It's cool.
Ok, who's pipe you been puffin on? Someone slip LSD in your coffee?
Why do we adore Andy Warhol and despise Yoko Ono,
Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
In rare cases, consistency can become a self-perpetuating monster: It has to be used for a purpose. A foolish consistency is one that serves no benefit for the end user. Making things look and work the same is pointless if the user can no longer accomplish their tasks. Rank making things useful above making them consistent.
On September 15 she will recreate Cut Piece, at the Theatre le Ranelagh, almost 40 years after she first performed it in 1964 in Japan.
As in the original, she will stand on the stage wearing a long white gown, before inviting the audience to cut pieces from it. This time she will invite the members of the audience to cut a piece smaller than a postcard out of her clothing, "wherever you like", and send the scrap of fabric to someone they love.
Steve Bildermann wrote:I guess she heard we were discussing her artistic merits and decided to give all her fans here on FG a bonus. Guess what she's gettin nekkid again! FYI Date of Birth 18 February 1933 (you do the math)
May Pang was drawn into a romantic relationship with John Lennon in 1973, at the insistance of his wife, Yoko Ono. It is perhaps one of the most unusual love affairs of all-time, still perplexing Lennon fans around the world after almost 30 years.
Last year, in his own bid for more immortality, McCartney wanted Ono to let him drop Lennon's name from the Beatle songs he didn't write. When that didn't work, McCartney reversed the traditional order so they read "McCartney-Lennon." Now it seems Ono — who took umbrage at McCartney — has gotten her revenge.
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