Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono Lennon (小野 洋子; born February 18, 1933) is a Tokyo-born Americann musician and artist.
She attended Jiyu-gakuen (自由学園), a music school, as a child, and later Sarah Lawrence College. In Japan, she first married the composer Toshi Ichiyanagi from 1956 to 1962. Then she married an American Christian fundamentalist film-maker, Tony Cox, from 28 November 1962 to 2 February 1969. They had a daughter, Kyoko Cox, whom Ono did not see after the divorce until 1998.
An early member of the Fluxus art movement, Ono is now best remembered for marrying, as her third husband, The Beatles' John Lennon. They met when John visited a preview of an exhibition of Yoko's. He was taken with her attitude shown by exhibits such as the telescope looking at the word 'Yes' on the ceiling, a block of wood with protruding nails to be hammered in, and a decomposing apple. In the late 1960s; they had one child together, Sean Taro Ono Lennon.
Ono is often accused by Beatles fans of breaking up the band; however, in a recent interview (Jay Leno 2003), she revealed the disappointment she felt by the breakup and how it impacted upon a life that she was used to. There are Lennon fans who, in addition, blame Yoko Ono for the experimental (and considered bizarre and somewhat unpopular) phase that Lennon explored in his solo work immediately following the band breakup. On the other hand, many Lennon fans consider, as Lennon consistently attested, that Ono had a profound and beneficial influence on his oeuvre.
Ono performed with Lennon on several of his albums, beginning with the 1968 "Two Virgins" and including those recorded under the name of the Plastic Ono Band. Ono also achieved moderate success as a musician in her own right. Many of her earlier songs retain the surreal quality of her art and films, however her later songs are more conventional. Quite a few of her songs have been covered by other prominent musicians, including Elvis Costello's cover of "Walking On Thin Ice".
Yoko Ono has allegedly had a bad relationship with Paul McCartney for some time in a dispute centred around the writing credits for many Beatles songs, traditionally credited to Lennon/McCartney.McCartney had wanted to change this to Paul McCartney and John Lennon for some songs, but she would not allow it. She had also wanted to remove the McCartney credit for "Give Peace a Chance".
She currently resides in New York City in the United States.
See also: Japanese American
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