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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+00:00March 20th, 2014|Feature, Interviews & Articles|

YOKO ONO LIVE – Two surprise London shows with Thurston Moore & Steve Shelley; Nels Cline & Talvin Singh – instantly SOLD OUT

From London’s CAFE OTO: We’re thrilled to welcome Yoko Ono back to Cafe OTO for two very special performances – A trio with Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley next Saturday (22 March) and an NYC-style late night set the following Tuesday (25 March) with Nels Cline and Talvin Singh. Obviously, this is an incredibly rare opportunity to see one of the most important figures of the twentieth century [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2014-03-17T12:52:36+00:00March 17th, 2014|Events & Exhibitions, Music|

YOKO ONO: HALF-A-WIND Show (Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain)

Q&A YOKO ONO. HALF-A-WIND SHOW. RETROSPECTIVA: Performance Pintura de acción YOKO ONO. HALF-A-WIND SHOW. RETROSPECTIVA: Performance Pieza cielo para Jesucristo Nuevo Spot de la muestraYoko Ono. Half-A-Wind Show. Retrospectiva The Guardian: Yoko Ono show at Guggenheim shines light on pioneering conceptual artist Bilbao exhibition of installations, music and films demonstrates avant-gardiste's true talents, her reach [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2014-12-31T09:37:44+00:00March 14th, 2014|Events & Exhibitions News|

“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+00:00March 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+00:00February 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+00:00November 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+00:00October 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+00:00October 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+00:00October 9th, 2013|Awards|

Dream Power John Lennon Super Live 2013 concert – 7 Dec 2013 at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan

The 2013 edition of the Dream Power John Lennon Super Live Concert will be shown on TV. The event, held at the Nippon Budokan on December 7, will be broadcast on the CS "Fuji TV Next Live Premium" channel. The channel can be seen on SKY PerfecTV!, cable, and Hikari TV. The details of the [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2014-01-03T20:57:21+00:00September 28th, 2013|Events & Exhibitions|

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+00:00September 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+00:00September 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+00:00September 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+00:00September 25th, 2013|Interviews & Articles|

The Talkhouse: David Harrington & Yoko Ono

David Harrington There was a recent article in the paper about how ancient redwoods and sequoias are growing faster now than at any other time in their long lives. When I read this I had just begun my first listenings to Yoko Ono's Take Me to the Land of Hell. That's when I began to [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-09-23T04:06:21+00:00September 23rd, 2013|Music News|

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+00:00September 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+00:00September 21st, 2013|Events & Exhibitions|

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Take Me To The Land Of Hell

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL is the new album by YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND out Sept 17th on CD, vinyl & digital download. TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL features the talents of YOKO ONO, Sean Lennon, Yuka C Honda, Keigo “Cornelius” Oyamada, Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu, Yuko Araki, Nels Cline, tUnE-yArDs, [...]

IMAGINE PEACE2013-09-25T09:28:04+00:00September 17th, 2013|Discography|

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+00:00September 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+00:00September 9th, 2013|Awards|

320 page book on the making of the Imagine album and film and the John & Yoko story from 1971 - in John and Yoko's words and with contributions from the people who were there.

Translated Standard Editions are available in Japanese, German, French, French Canadian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Czech.

IMAGINE JOHN YOKO
Collector's Edition (unsigned)

496 pages: 176 extra pages with expanded and additional chapters, 150 extra illustrations and massive gatefold pullout panoramas.
Boxed, clothbound with numbered print.
Limited Edition of 2,000. Unsigned.