Website Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and who is also known for her work in and filmmaking. She performs in both English and Japanese. She is also known for being the second wife and widow of singer-songwriter of. Ono grew up in and also spent several formative years in New York City. She studied at, but withdrew from her course after two years and moved to New York in 1953 to live with her family.

She spent some time at and then became involved in 's downtown artists scene, which included the group. She first met Lennon in 1966 at her own art exhibition in, and they became a couple in 1968 and wed the following year. With their performance in and in 1969, Ono and Lennon famously used their at the as a stage for public. She brought to the forefront in her music, influencing artists as diverse as the and. Ono achieved commercial and critical acclaim in 1980 with the chart-topping album, a collaboration with Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder.

Yoko Ono at a conference, 2007 Public appreciation of Ono's work has shifted over time and was helped by a at a branch in 1989 and the 1992 release of the six-disc. Retrospectives of her artwork have also been presented at the in in 2001, in, Germany, and the UK in 2008,, and,, in 2013 and in New York City in 2015. She received a for lifetime achievement from the in 2009 and the 2012 Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art. As Lennon's widow, Ono works to preserve his legacy. She funded in Manhattan's, the in, and the in, Japan (which closed in 2010). She has made significant philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace, Philippine and Japan disaster relief, and other causes. In 2012 Yoko Ono received the Dr.

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Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award endowed. The award is given annually in recognition of extraordinary, non-violent commitment to human rights. Ono continued her social activism when she inaugurated a biennial $50,000 in 2002. She also co-founded the group in 2012. She has a daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, from her marriage to Anthony Cox and a son,, from her marriage to Lennon. Ono collaborates musically with Sean. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Early life and family [ ] Ono was born on February 18, 1933, in, to Isoko Ono ( 小野 磯子, Ono Isoko) and Eisuke Ono ( 小野 英輔, Ono Eisuke), a wealthy banker and former classical pianist.

Isoko's father was ennobled in 1915. [ ] [ ] Isoko's maternal grandfather ( 安田 善次郎, Yasuda Zenjirō) was an affiliate of the and. Eisuke came from a long line of warrior-scholars. The translation of means 'ocean child'.

Two weeks before Yoko's birth, Eisuke was transferred to by his employer, the. The rest of the family followed soon after, with Yoko meeting Eisuke when she was two. Her younger brother Keisuke was born in December 1936. Yoko was enrolled in piano lessons from the age of 4. In 1937, the family was transferred back to Japan and Ono enrolled at Tokyo's elite (also known as the Peers School), one of the most exclusive schools in Japan. The family moved to in 1940.

The next year, Eisuke was transferred from New York City to, and the family returned to Japan. Ono was enrolled in Keimei Gakuen, an exclusive Christian primary school run by the family. She remained in Tokyo throughout and the great, during which she was sheltered with other family members in a special bunker in the district of Tokyo, far from the heavy bombing. Ono later went to the mountain resort with members of her family. Starvation was rampant in the destruction that followed the Tokyo bombings; Ono and her family were forced to beg for food while pulling their belongings with them in a wheelchair.

Ono said it was during this period in her life that she developed her 'aggressive' attitude and understanding of 'outsider' status when children—who were once well-to-do— taunted her and Keisuke. Other stories tell of her mother bringing a large number of goods with them to the countryside, where the goods were bartered for food. In one anecdote, her mother bartered a German-made sewing machine for 60 kilograms (130 lb) of rice in order to feed the family. During this time, Ono's father, who had been in Hanoi, was believed to be in a in. However, unbeknownst the them, he remained in the city.

Ono told of on October 16, 2007, that 'He was in, which is actually. He was in a concentration camp.' By April 1946, Gakushuin was reopened and Ono re-enrolled. The school, located near the, had not been damaged by the war, and Ono found herself a classmate of, the future emperor of Japan. She graduated in 1951 and was accepted into the philosophy program of as the first woman to enter the department.

However, she left the school after two semesters. New York City [ ] College and downtown beginnings [ ] After the war ended in 1945, Ono's family moved without her to the and settled in, an affluent town 25 miles north of mid-town Manhattan. When Ono later rejoined her family, she enrolled at nearby. While her parents approved of her college choice, Ono said that they disapproved of her lifestyle and chastised her for befriending people they felt were beneath her. In spite of her parents' disapproval, Ono loved meeting artists, poets, and others who represented the lifestyle to which she aspired. She visited galleries and art in the city; this whetted her desire to publicly display her own artistic endeavors. American avant-garde artist, composer, and musician was her first important contact in the New York art world; he helped Ono start her career by using her loft in as a performance space.

After Ono set a painting on fire at one performance, her mentor advised her to treat the paper with. Return to Japan, early career, and motherhood [ ] In 1956, Ono left college to with Japanese composer, a star in Tokyo's experimental community. After living apart for several years, they filed for divorce in 1962. Ono returned home to live with her parents and was suffering from when she was briefly placed into a Japanese. Later that year, on November 28, 1962, Ono married, an American jazz musician, film producer, and art promoter, who was instrumental in securing her release from the institution.

Ono's second marriage was on March 1, 1963, because she had neglected to finalize her divorce from Ichiyanagi. After finalizing the divorce, Cox and Ono married again on June 6, 1963. She gave birth to their daughter Kyoko Chan Cox two months later on August 8, 1963.

The marriage quickly fell apart, but the Coxes stayed together for the sake of their joint careers. They performed at Tokyo's Hall, with Ono lying atop a piano played by John Cage. Soon, the couple returned to New York with Kyoko. In the early years of the marriage, Ono left most of Kyoko's parenting to Cox while she pursued her art full-time.

Cox also managed her publicity. Ono and Cox divorced on February 2, 1969, and she married John Lennon later that same year. In the midst of a 1971 custody battle, Cox disappeared with her eight-year-old daughter.

He won custody of the child after successfully claiming that Ono was an unfit mother due to her drug use. Ono's ex-husband changed Kyoko's name to 'Ruth Holman' and subsequently raised the girl in an organization known as the (or 'the Walk'). Ono and Lennon searched for Kyoko for years, but to no avail.

She finally saw Kyoko again many years later in 1998. John Lennon [ ], a loose association of -inspired artists that developed in the early 1960s, was active in New York and Europe. Ono visited London to meet artist and political activist 's Destruction in Art Symposium in September 1966, as the only woman artist chosen to perform her own events and only one of two invited to speak. There are two versions of the story of how Lennon and Ono first met. According to the first account, on November 9, 1966 Lennon went to the in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner. Lennon was initially unimpressed with the exhibits he saw, including a pricey bag of nails, but one piece had a ladder with a spyglass at the top.

When he climbed the ladder, Lennon felt a little foolish, but he looked through the spyglass and saw the word 'YES' which he said meant he didn't walk out, as it was positive, whereas most concept art he encountered was 'anti' everything. Lennon and Ono in 1980, shortly before his murder Lennon was also intrigued by Ono's Hammer a Nail. Viewers hammered a nail into a wooden board, creating the art piece. Although the exhibition had not yet opened, Lennon wanted to hammer a nail into the clean board, but Ono stopped him. Dunbar asked her, 'Don't you know who this is? He's a millionaire! He might buy it.'

Ono supposedly had not heard of the, but relented on the condition that Lennon pay her five, to which Lennon replied, 'I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in.' Told a second version of the first meeting of Ono and Lennon. In 1965, Ono was in London and compiling original musical scores for a book entitled; John Cage was working on the book. McCartney declined to give her any of his own manuscripts but suggested that Lennon might oblige. Lennon did, giving Ono the original handwritten lyrics to '.' In a 2002 interview, she said, 'I was very attracted to him.

It was a really strange situation.' The two began corresponding and, in September 1967, Lennon sponsored Ono's solo show at in London.

When Lennon's wife asked for an explanation of why Ono was telephoning them at home, he told her that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her 'avant-garde bullshit.' In early 1968, while the Beatles were making their famous visit to India, Lennon wrote and included a reference to Ono: 'Ocean child calls me', referring to the translation of Yoko's Japanese spelling.

In May 1968, while his wife was on holiday in Greece, Lennon invited Ono to visit. They spent the night recording what would become the album, after which, he said, they 'made love at dawn'. When Lennon's wife returned home, she found Ono wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon, who simply said, 'Oh, hi.' On September 24 and 25, 1968, Lennon wrote and recorded ', which contains sexual references to Ono.

A few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted, Ono became pregnant, but she suffered the miscarriage of a male child on November 21, 1968. Bed-Ins and other early collaborations [ ]. Main articles:,,, and During the last two years that the Beatles performed, Lennon and Ono created and attended their own. On March 20, 1969, they were married at the registry office in and spent their honeymoon in, campaigning with a week-long. They planned another Bed-In in the US, but were denied entry to the country. They held one instead at the in, where they recorded '. Lennon later stated his regrets about feeling 'guilty enough to give credit as co-writer on my first independent single instead of giving it to Yoko, who had actually written it with me.'

The famous couple often combined advocacy with performance art, such as in ', first introduced during a Vienna press conference, where they prejudice and stereotyping by wearing a bag over their entire bodies. Lennon detailed this period in the Beatles' song '. Lennon changed his name by on April 22, 1969, switching out Winston for Ono as a middle name. Although he used the name John Ono Lennon thereafter, official documents referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon, since he was not permitted to revoke a name given at birth. The couple settled at at, in southeast England.

When Ono was injured in a car accident, Lennon arranged for a king-sized bed to be brought to the recording studio as he worked on the Beatles' last recorded album,. The two artists collaborated on many albums, beginning in 1968 when Lennon was still a Beatle, with, an album of experimental.

The same year, the couple contributed an experimental piece to called '. Also on The White Album, Ono contributed on ', and one line of lead vocals on '.' The latter marked the only occasion in a Beatles recording in which a woman sings lead vocals. The Plastic Ono Band [ ]. Lennon and Ono recording, at the, Montreal, 1969 Ono influenced Lennon to produce more 'autobiographical' output and, after ', they decided it would be better to form their own band rather than put the material out under the Beatles name.

In 1969, the Plastic Ono Band's first album,, was recorded during the festival. This first incarnation of the group also consisted of guitarist, bass player, and drummer. The first half of their performance consisted of rock standards. During the second half, Ono took to the microphone and performed an set along with the band, finishing with music that consisted mainly of, while she screamed and sang. First solo album and Fly [ ].

Main articles:,, and Ono released her first solo album,, in 1970 as a companion piece to Lennon's better-known. The two albums also had companion covers: Ono's featured a photo of her leaning on Lennon, and Lennon's a photo of him leaning on Ono. Her album included raw, harsh vocals, which bore a similarity with sounds in nature (especially those made by animals) and techniques used by wind and brass players. Performers included, other renowned performers, and.

Some songs on the album consisted of wordless vocalizations, in a style that would influence and other musical artists who have used screams and vocal noise in lieu of words. The album reached No. 182 on the US charts. When Lennon was invited to play with at the (then the Filmore West) on June 5, 1971, Ono joined them. Later that year, she released, a double album. In it, she explored slightly more conventional with tracks including 'Midsummer New York' and 'Mind Train', in addition to a number of Fluxus experiments. She also received minor airplay with the ballad '.

The track ' was an ode to Ono's missing daughter, and featured Eric Clapton on guitar. In the late 1960s, while studying with in, Spain, Ono's ex-husband Anthony Cox accused Ono of abducting their daughter Kyoko from his hotel. Accusations flew between the two, as well as the matter of custody. Cox eventually moved away with Kyoko; Ono would not see her daughter until 1998. It was during this time that she wrote 'Don't Worry Kyoko', which also appears on Lennon and Ono's album, in addition to Fly. Kyoko is also referenced in the first line of ' when Yoko whispers 'Happy Christmas, Kyoko', followed by Lennon whispering, 'Happy Christmas,.' The song reached No.

4 in the UK, where its release was delayed until 1972, and has periodically reemerged on the UK Singles Chart. Originally a, 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)' has since become a Christmas standard. That August the couple appeared together at a benefit in with,, and for mentally handicapped children organized by 's.

Separation from Lennon and reconciliation [ ] After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, Ono and Lennon lived together in London and then moved permanently to in order to escape tabloid racism towards Ono. Their relationship became strained because Lennon was facing the threat of deportation due to drug charges that had been filed against him in England, and also because of Ono's separation from her daughter. The couple separated in July 1973, with Ono pursuing her career and Lennon living between and New York with personal assistant; Ono had given her blessing to Lennon and Pang. By December 1974, Lennon and Pang considered buying a house together, and he refused to accept Ono's phone calls. The next month, Lennon agreed to meet with Ono, who claimed to have found a cure for smoking.

After the meeting, he failed to return home or call Pang. When Pang telephoned the next day, Ono told her that Lennon was unavailable, because he was exhausted after a hypnotherapy session. Two days later, Lennon reappeared at a joint dental appointment with Pang; he was stupefied and confused to such an extent that Pang believed he had been brainwashed.

He told her that his separation from Ono was now over, though Ono would allow him to continue seeing her as his mistress. Ono and Lennon's son,, was born on October 9, 1975, which was Lennon's 35th birthday.

John did not help relations with his first son when he described in 1980 as being part of the 'ninety percent of the people on this planet [who resulted from an unplanned pregnancy]' and that 'Sean is a planned child, and therein lies the difference.' He said, 'I don't love Julian any less as a child. He's still my son, whether he came from a bottle of whiskey or because they didn't have pills in those days.' John and Julian maintained a low profile for the next five years. Sean has followed in his parents' footsteps with a musical career, performing solo work, working with Ono, and forming a band,. Lennon's murder, tributes, and memorials [ ]. Main article: Following Sean's birth in 1975, Lennon took a hiatus from the music industry and became a to care for his infant son.

He resumed his songwriting career shortly before his December 1980, which Ono witnessed at close range. She stated that the couple was thinking about going out to dinner after spending several hours in a recording studio, but decided to return to their apartment instead, because Lennon wanted to see Sean before he was put to bed. Following the murder, Ono went into complete seclusion for an extended period. Main article: Ono's small book titled is another seminal piece of conceptual art. First published in 1964, the book reads as a set of instructions through which the work of art is completed-either literally or in the imagination of the viewer participant. One example is 'Hide and Seek Piece: Hide until everybody goes home.

Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.'

Grapefruit has been published several times, most widely distributed by in 1971, who reprinted it again in 2000., art critic for and, called Grapefruit 'one of the monuments of conceptual art of the early 1960's.' He noted that her conceptual approach was made more acceptable when white male artists like and came in and 'did virtually the same things' she did, and that her take also has a poetic and lyrical side that sets it apart from the work of other conceptual artists. Ono would enact many of the book's scenarios as performance pieces throughout her career, which formed the basis for her art exhibitions, including the highly publicized, This Is Not Here in 1971 at the in, that was nearly closed when it was besieged by excited Beatles fans, who broke several of the art pieces and flooded the toilets. It was her last major exhibition until 1989's retrospective at the Whitney. Nearly fifty years later in July 2013, she released a sequel to Grapefruit, another book of instructions, Acorn via. Experimental films, 1964–72 [ ] Ono was also an who made 16 short films between 1964 and 1972, gaining particular renown for a 1966 Fluxus film called simply No. 4, often referred to as Bottoms.

The five-and-a-half-minute film consists of a series of close-ups of human buttocks walking on a treadmill. The screen is divided into four almost equal sections by the elements of the and the.

The soundtrack consists of interviews with those who are being filmed, as well as those considering joining the project. In 1996, the watch manufacturing company produced a watch that commemorated this film. In March 2004, the, showed most of her films from this period in their exhibition The Rare Films of Yoko Ono. She also acted in an obscure in 1965, Satan's Bed.

Main article: Another example of Ono's participatory art was her Wish Tree project, in which a tree native to the installation site is installed. Her 1996 Wish Piece had the following instructions: Make a wish Write it down on a piece of paper Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree Ask your friends to do the same Keep wishing Until the branches are covered with wishes. Her Wish Tree installation in the of the, New York, established in July 2010, has attracted contributions from all over the world. Other installation locations include London; St. Louis;; San Francisco; the campus in; Japan; Venice; and Dublin. In 2014 Ono's Imagine Peace exhibit opened at the Bob Rauschenburg Gallery at in. Ono installed a billboard on in Fort Myers to promote the show and.

Imagine Peace Billboard Fort Myers, FL Photo by Dawn Iraci When the exhibit closed, wishes that had been placed on the installed Wish Trees were sent to the in and added to the millions of wishes already there. Arising [ ] In 2015, Ono created the piece Arising in Venice, Italy. As part of the exhibition Personal Structures, organised by Global Art Affairs, the installation was on view from June 1 through November 24, 2013, at the 's Palazzo Bembo. In this feminist work of art, female silicon bodies were burnt in the Venetian lagoon, evoking the imagary of mythical phoenixes. When asked for the resemblance between the naming of her record Rising and this piece, Ono responded: ' Rising was telling all people that it is time for us to rise and fight for our rights.

But in the process of fighting together, women are still being treated separately in an inhuman way. It weakens the power of men and women all together. I hope Arising will wake up Women Power, and make us, men and women, heal together.' Skylanding [ ] In October 2016, Ono unveiled her first permanent art installation in the; the collection is located in and promotes. Ono was inspired during a visit to the Garden of the Phoenix in 2013 and feels a connection to the city of. Recognition and retrospectives [ ]. Universal Music Group's & Yoko Ono at BMI, NYC, in 2004.

In 1997, Yoko Ono and the Foundation established an annual music competition program for songwriters of contemporary musical genres to honor John Lennon's memory and his large creative legacy. Over $350,000 has been given through BMI Foundation's John Lennon Scholarships to talented young musicians in the United States, making it one of the most respected awards for emerging songwriters. Public image [ ] For many years, Ono was frequently criticized by both the press and the public. She was blamed for the breakup of the Beatles and repeatedly criticized for her influence over Lennon and his music. Her experimental art was also not popularly accepted. The English press was particularly negative and prompted the couple's move to the US.

As late as December 1999, was calling her a 'no-talent charlatan', and in October 2013, the mother of tennis pro took over a Twitter handle entitled Destroying Yoko Ono on Twitter. Her name still connotes the figure of the evil female interloper to the mainstream., 's widow, has endlessly been compared to Ono for her supposed bothersome role in 's businesses and being blamed for Cobain's suicide.

When American singer was dating quarterback in 2007, the Simpson-Romo relationship was blamed for Romo's poor performances. In response, some Cowboys' fans gave her the moniker 'Yoko Romo'. In March 2015,, member of English girl group, was compared to Yoko Ono and criticised for being the supposed reason for 's departure from the British boy band, creating tension within the group and causing widespread controversy.

2000s [ ] A month after the, Ono organized the concert 'Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music'. Hosted by the actor and featuring, and, it raised money for September 11 relief efforts and aired on and. During the in 2004, Ono flooded the city with two images on banners, bags, stickers, postcards,, posters and badges: one of a woman's naked breast, the other of the same model's.

(During her stay in Lennon's city of birth, she said she was 'astounded' by the city's renaissance.) The piece, titled My Mummy Was Beautiful, was dedicated to Lennon's mother, Julia, who had died when he was a teenager. According to Ono, the work was meant to be innocent, not shocking; she was attempting to replicate the experience of a baby looking up at its mother's body, those parts of the mother's body being a child's introduction to humanity. Ono's residence since 1973 Ono performed at the for the in, Italy, Like many of the other performers during the ceremony, she wore white to symbolize the snow of winter.

She read a poem calling for world peace as an introduction to 's performance of. On December 13, 2006, one of Ono's bodyguards was arrested after he was allegedly taped trying to extort $2 million from her. The tapes revealed that he threatened to release private conversations and photographs. His bail was revoked, and he pleaded not guilty to two counts of attempted.

In February 16, 2007 a deal was reached where charges were dropped, and he pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny in the third degree, a, and was sentenced to the 60 days that he had already spent in jail. After reading an unapologetic statement, he was released to immigration officials because he had also been found guilty of overstaying his business visa. On June 26, 2007, Ono appeared on along with McCartney, Ringo Starr, and. She headlined the in Chicago on July 14, 2007, performing a full set that mixed music and performance art. She sang 'Mulberry,' a song about her time in the countryside after the Japanese collapse in World War II for only the third time ever, with Thurston Moore: She had previously performed the song with John and with Sean. On October 9 of that year, the Imagine Peace Tower on Viðey Island in Iceland, dedicated to peace and to Lennon, was turned on with her, Sean, Ringo, George Harrison's widow Olivia in attendance. Ono returned to Liverpool for the 2008 Liverpool Biennial, where she unveiled Sky Ladders in the ruins of (which was largely destroyed during World War II and now stands roofless as a memorial to those killed in the ).

Two years later, on March 31, 2009, she went to the inauguration of the exhibition 'Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John & Yoko' to mark the 40th anniversary of the Lennon-Ono Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, from May 26 to June 2, 1969. (The hotel has been doing steady business with the room they stayed in for over 40 years.) That year she became a grandmother, when Emi was born to Kyoko. In May 2009, she designed a T-shirt for the second Fashion Against AIDS campaign and collection of HIV/AIDS awareness, NGO Designers Against AIDS, and, with the statement 'Imagine Peace' depicted in 21 languages. Ono appeared onstage at Microsoft's June 1, 2009, press conference with Olivia Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr to promote the video game, which was universally praised by critics. Ono appeared on the Basement Jaxx album, featuring on the single 'Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)'.

Yoko Ono appears at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards in spring of 2011 On February 16, 2010, Ono revived an early Plastic Ono Band lineup with Eric Clapton and special guests that included and. On April 1 of that year, she was named the first 'Global Autism Ambassador' by the organization. She had created an artwork the year before for and allowed it to be auctioned off in 67 parts to benefit the organization. Ono appeared with Ringo Starr on July 7 at New York's in celebration of Starr's 70th birthday, performing and 'Give Peace a Chance'. On September 16, she and Sean attended the opening of 's photo exhibition at the Morrison Hotel in New York City, appearing for the first time photos with Cynthia and Julian. She also promoted his work on her website. On October 2, Ono and the Plastic Ono Band performed at the in Los Angeles, with special guest, whom she deeply admires.

On February 18, 2011, her 78th birthday, Ono took out a full page advert in the UK free newspaper for 'Imagine Peace 2011'. It took the form of an open letter, inviting people to think of, and wish for, peace. With son Sean, she held a benefit concert to aid in the relief efforts for on March 27 in New York City. The effort raised a total of $33,000. In July 2011, she visited Japan to support earthquake and tsunami victims and tourism to the country.

During her visit, Ono gave a lecture and performance entitled 'The Road of Hope' at Tokyo's, during which she painted a large calligraphy piece entitled 'Dream' to help raise funds for construction of the Rainbow House, an institution for the orphans of the Great East Japan earthquake. She also collected the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize for her contributions to art and for peace, that she was awarded the year prior. In January 2012, a mix of her 1995 song became her seventh consecutive No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

In March of the same year, she was awarded the 20,000-euro ($26,400) Prize in Austria. From June 19 to September 9, her work To the Light was exhibited at the in London. It was held in conjunction with the, a 12-week UK-wide celebration featuring internationally renowned artists from (June 21) to the final day of the on September 9. On June 29, 2012, Ono received a lifetime achievement award at the Dublin Biennial. During this (her second) trip to Ireland (the first was with John before they married), she visited the crypt of Irish leader at and, from where Irish departed for England to escape the famine.

In February 2013, Ono accepted the Rainer Hildebrandt Medal at Berlin's, awarded to her and Lennon for their lifetime of work for peace and human rights. The next month, she tweeted an anti-gun message with the Season of Glass image of Lennon's bloodied glasses on what would have been her and Lennon's 44th anniversary, noting that more than 1 million people have been killed by guns since Lennon's death in 1980. She was also given a Congressional citation from the Philippines for her monetary aid to the victims of.

She also donated to disaster relief efforts after in 2009, and she assists Filipino schoolchildren. In June 2013, she curated the festival in London, where she played two concerts, one with the Plastic Ono Band, and the second on backing vocals during 's rendition of 'Walking on Thin Ice' at the Double Fantasy show. In July, OR Books published Ono's to 1964's Grapefruit, another book of instruction-based 'action poems' this time entitled, Acorn. In 2009 she became an honorary patron to. On February 26, 2016, Ono was hospitalized after suffering what was rumored to be a possible stroke. It was later announced that she was experiencing extreme symptoms of.

On September 6, 2016, announced that they would be re-issuing 11 of Yoko Ono's albums from 1968 to 1985; Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins through Starpeace. Political activism and social media [ ]. Main articles:,, and Ono has been an for peace and human rights since the 1960s. After their wedding, she and Lennon held a 'Bed-In for Peace' in their honeymoon suite at the Amsterdam in March 1969, where the pair of newlyweds in pajamas invited visitors and members of the press, eager to talk about and promote. Another Bed-In two months later at the Queen Elizabeth in Montreal resulted in the recording of their first single, ', a top-20 hit for the newly christened Plastic Ono Band. Other performance/demonstrations with John included 'bagism,' iterations with John of the Bag Pieces she introduced in the early 1960s, which encouraged a disregard for physical appearance in judging others.

In December 1969, the two continued spread their message of peace with billboards in 12 major world cities reading 'WAR IS OVER! If You Want It - Happy Christmas from John & Yoko.' In the 1970s, Ono and Lennon became close to many radical, leaders, including,,,, (for whose rally in Michigan they flew to sing Lennon's song 'Free John Sinclair' that effectively released the poet from prison),, and street musician. Friend and Sexual Politics author has said Ono inspired her activism. Ono and Lennon appeared on, taking over hosting duties for a week. Ono spoke at length about the evils of racism and. She remained outspoken in her support of feminism, and openly bitter about the racism she had experienced from rock fans, especially in the UK.

Her reception within the UK media was not much better. Fable 3 Dlc Pc Скачать. For example, an article of the period was titled 'John Rennon's Excrusive Gloupie' and featured an unflattering cartoon. After the in 1999, Ono paid for billboards to be put up in New York City and Los Angeles that bore the image of Lennon's blood-splashed spectacles. Early in 2002 she paid about £150,000 ($213,375) for a billboard in with a line from Lennon's 'Imagine': 'Imagine all the people living life in peace.'

Later the same year, she inaugurated a peace award, the, by giving $50,000 (£31,900) in prize money originally to artists living 'in regions of conflict'. The award is given out every two years in conjunction with the lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower, and was first given to Israeli and Palestinian artists. Its program has since expanded to include writers, such as and, activists such as and, organizations such as New York's, even an entire country (Iceland). On Valentine's Day 2003, which was the eve of the, Ono heard about a couple, Andrew and Christine Gale, who were holding a love-in protest in their tiny bedroom in. She phoned them and said, 'It's good to speak to you. We're supporting you.

We're all sisters together.' The couple said that songs like 'Give Peace a Chance' and 'Imagine' inspired their protest. In 2004, Ono remade her song 'Everyman. To support, releasing remixes that included 'Every Man Has a Man Who Loves Him' and 'Every Woman Has a Woman Who Loves Her'.

In August 2011, she made the documentary film about the Bed-Ins Bed Peace available for free on YouTube, and as part of her website 'Imagine Peace'. In January 2013, the 79-year-old Ono, along with Sean Lennon and, took to rural Pennsylvania in a bus under the banner of the Artists Against Fracking group she and Sean created with in August 2012 to protest against. Other group members include and. Ono promotes her art and shares inspirational messages and images through a robust and active Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook presence. In April 2014 her Twitter followers reached 4.69 million, while her Instagram followers exceeded 99,000. Her tweets are short instructional poems, comments on media and politics, and notes about performances.

Relationship with the Beatles [ ]. Main article: Lennon and Ono were injured in a car accident in June 1969, partway through recording. According to journalist, a bed with a microphone was then installed in the studio so that Ono could make artistic comments about the album. Miles thought Ono's continual presence in the studio during the latter part of the Beatles' career put strain on Lennon's relationship with the other band members. Verbally assaulted her after she took one of his chocolate digestive biscuits without asking. The English press dubbed her 'the woman who broke up the Beatles', but Ono has stated that the Beatles broke up themselves without any direct involvement from her, adding 'I don't think I could have tried even to break them up.'

In an interview with, Lennon explicitly denied that Ono broke up The Beatles and even Harrison said during an interview with Cavett that the Beatles had problems long before Ono came onto the scene. While the Beatles were together, every song written by Lennon or McCartney was credited as regardless of whether the song was a or written solely by one of the two (except for those appearing on their first album, Please Please Me, which originally credited the songs to McCartney–Lennon). In 1976, McCartney released a live album called, which credited the five Beatles tracks as P. Lennon compositions, but neither Lennon nor Ono objected.

After Lennon's death, however, McCartney again attempted to change the order to McCartney–Lennon for songs that were solely or predominantly written by him, such as ',' but Ono would not allow it, saying she felt this broke an agreement that the two had made while Lennon was still alive, and the surviving Beatle argued that such an agreement never existed. A spokesman for Ono said McCartney was making 'an attempt to rewrite history'. In a Rolling Stone interview in 1987, Ono pointed out McCartney's place in the process of the disintegration of the band. On the 1998 John Lennon anthology,, the composer credit of 'Give Peace a Chance' was changed to 'John Lennon' from its original composing credit of 'Lennon–McCartney.'

Although the song was written by Lennon during his tenure with the Beatles, it was both written and recorded without the help of the band, and released as Lennon's first independent single under the 'Plastic Ono Band' moniker. Lennon subsequently expressed regret that he had not given co-writing credit to Ono instead, who actually helped him write the song. In 2002, McCartney released another live album, Back in the U.S. Live 2002, and the 19 Beatles songs included are described as 'composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon', which reignited the debate over credits with Ono.

Her spokesperson Elliott Mintz called it 'an attempt to rewrite history.' , but nevertheless, Ono did not sue. In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's ' and ', with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean to create the song 'Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue', which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the.

Of Ono, McCartney stated: 'I thought she was a cold woman. I think that's wrong. She's just the opposite. I think she's just more determined than most people to be herself.' Two years later, however, Ono publicly compared Lennon to, while McCartney, she said, more closely resembled his less-talented rival.

This remark infuriated McCartney's wife, who was dying from breast cancer at the time, and when Linda died less than a year later, McCartney did not invite Ono to his wife's memorial service in. Accepting an award at the 2005, Ono mentioned that Lennon had once felt insecure about his songwriting. She had responded, 'You're a good songwriter. It's not June with spoon that you write.

You're a good singer, and most musicians are probably a little bit nervous about covering your songs.' In an October 2010 interview, Ono spoke about Lennon's 'lost weekend' and her subsequent reconciliation with him.

She credited McCartney with helping save her marriage to John. 'I want the world to know that it was a very touching thing that [Paul] did for John.' While visiting with Ono in March 1974, McCartney, on leaving, asked '[W]hat will make you come back to John?' McCartney subsequently passed her response to Lennon while visiting him in Los Angeles. 'John often said he didn't understand why Paul did this for us, but he did.' In 2012, McCartney revealed that he did not blame Ono for the breakup of the Beatles and credited Ono with inspiring much of Lennon's post-Beatles work.

Relationship with Julian Lennon [ ]. Main article: Ono had a difficult relationship with her stepson, but the relationship has improved over the years. He has expressed disappointment at her handling of Lennon's estate, and at the difference between his upbringing and Sean's, adding, 'when Dad gave up music for a couple of years to be with Sean, why couldn't he do that with me?' More egregiously, however, Julian was left out of his father's will, and he battled Ono in court for years, settling in 1996 for an unspecified amount that the papers reported was 'believed to' be in the area of £20 million, which Julian has denied. He has admitted that he is his 'mother's boy', which Ono has cited as the reason why she was never able to get close to him: 'Julian and I tried to be friends. Of course, if he's too friendly with me, then I think that it hurts his other relatives.

He was very loyal to his mother. That was the first thing that was in his mind.' Nevertheless, she and Sean attended the opening of Julian's photo exhibition at the Morrison Hotel in New York City in 2010, appearing for the first time for photos with Cynthia and Julian.

She also promoted the exhibition on her website, and Julian and Sean are close. In popular culture [ ] Canadian rock band ' debut single was ',' first released in 1990 and later appearing on their 1992 album. The lyrics are 'a shy entreaty to a potential girlfriend, caged in terms that self-deflatingly compare himself to one of pop music's foremost geniuses.'

It also has a 'sarcastic imitation of Yoko Ono's unique vocal style in the bridge'. In 2000, American folk singer recorded a song titled 'I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono.' Bryan Wawzenek of the website Ultimate Classic Rock described the song as 'us[ing] John and Yoko as a starting point for exploring love, and particularly, love between artists.' The British band mentioned Ono in their song 'New York Morning' from their 2014 album ('Oh, my giddy aunt, New York can talk / It's the modern Rome and folk are nice to Yoko').

In response Ono posted an open letter to the band on her website, thanking them and reflecting on her and Lennon's relationship with the city. In 's song ', and rap, 'Beat is for /Beat is for Yoko Ono!' The post-punk rock band named themselves after a song from Ono's 1972 album. Discography [ ] Albums [ ] Year Album US chart peak Notes 1970 182 1971 199 1973 193 1973 - 19 98 1985 - 1996 - 1997 - 2001 - 2009 - 2012 - 2013 - Albums with John Lennon [ ] Year Album US chart peak 1968 124 1969 174 1 48 1980 1 1984 11 Compilations, soundtrack albums and EPs [ ] • (1992) • (1992) • (1994) (Original cast recording) • A Blueprint for the Sunrise (2000) (3-track EP included with YES YOKO ONO book) • (2009) Remix albums [ ] • (1996) • (2007) • (2007) • Onomix (2012) • (2016) Tribute albums [ ] • (1984) • Mrs.