Yoko Ono: her 20 greatest songs – ranked! -by Alexis Petridis, The Guardian
As her album Feeling the Space turns 50, we appraise the best of a bold and often underestimated artist - by Alexis Petridis, The Guardian
How Yoko Ono and a publishing temp saved the Beatles’ Holy Grail from the scrap heap
A detailed account of how one woman refused to throw out road manager Mal Evans' invaluable records - by Kenneth Womack, Salon.
Yoko Ono’s Art of Defiance – by Louis Menand, New Yorker
Before she met John Lennon, she was a significant figure in avant-garde circles and had created a masterpiece of conceptual art. Did celebrity deprive her of her due as an artist? By Louis Menand, New Yorker, June 13, 2022 On March 9, 1945, an armada of more than three hundred B-29s flew fifteen hundred miles [...]
Watch the film BED PEACE starring John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Message from Yoko Ono Dear Friends, In 1969, John and I were so naïve to think that doing the Bed-In would help change the world. Well, it might have. But at the time, we didn't know. It was good that we filmed it, though. The film is powerful now. What we said then could have [...]
Yoko Ono and Her Sixteen-Track Voice
Yoko is a delicate wind, racing around the world and trying to keep from disappearing altogether. But she's met her mountain, and while still working in lofty conceptual pieces she is holding on well to her kite string by Jonathan Cott, Rolling Stone (Article | Archive), 18 March 1971. In December, 1970, John Lennon and [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Give Peace A Chance – advertisement in Haaretz Newspapers, Friday 23 Nov 2012
Give Peace A Chance love, yoko
The Guardian: Yoko Ono: ‘I’m a good arranger – according to me’
Yoko Ono on curating next year's Meltdown festival on the Southbank, and life – and its guilty pleasures – at 80 by Miranda Sawyer, The Guardian I respect Lady Gaga a lot': Yoko Ono and Lady Gaga perform at the Orpheum theatre, Los Angeles, in October 2010. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images This week [...]
GOOD Spends International Day of Peace With Yoko Ono
Today marks the International Day of Peace. To celebrate, activist, artist, lover, and legend Yoko Ono has taken over Time Square, one of the most trafficked intersections in New York City to spread her message of world peace and nonviolent action. Ono's films entitled "Imagine Peace" will display this exact message in 24 difference languages. [...]
DuJour: Yoko Ono on her new Album, Art, and Sean Lennon
YOKO ONO ON HER NEW ALBUM, ART, AND SEAN LENNON 'Step to the future, if you like,' Ono tells DuJour By Adam Rathe, DuJour Just last week, Yoko Ono, the award-winning artist, accomplished musician, and cultural icon released YOKOKIMTHURSTON, a full-length album in collaboration with Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of the legendary rock band Sonic Youth. [...]
Forbes: Yoko Ono: I Feel Invisible
I recently asked Ono and Lennon a few more questions about the Invisible Flower book. The most surprising thing I learned was that Ono still feels as invisible as she did when she was 19. And she considers it something to covet. By Hannah Elliot, Forbes.
NPR On Point – Tom Ashbrook talks to Yoko Ono
Link to audio Yoko Ono became instantly, globally famous when she appeared at the side of John Lennon at the height of his fame with The Beatles. The Beatles, Lennon, were epically revered. Yoko Ono was something new. They were pop. She was Dada. A challengingly conceptual artist. With a personal history few knew [...]
Go YOKO by Polly Devlin, Vogue magazine
YOKO revisited: Author and conservationist Polly Devlin first met Yoko Ono with John Lennon on an assignment for this magazine in 1971. The two women were reunited on the eve of Ono's Serpentine Gallery exhibition, To the Light (June 19 to September 9, Serpentinegallery.org), in "Go Yoko". "We were both young women then and she's [...]