Yoko Ono (1933)
YOKO ONO (Tokyo 1933)
Ono was part of the Fluxus art movement, but was best known for her third marriage to Beatles member John Lennon in the late 1960s. In March 1969, shortly after their marriage, Lennon and Ono held their peaceful Bed-In protest at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam. Their son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, was born in 1975.
Ono was sometimes accused by pop journalists of driving The Beatles apart, but she expressed in interviews how disappointed she felt when the band broke up. In August 2010, it was announced that Ono continues to oppose the distribution of The Beatles' songs via the digital platform iTunes. Ono did not give a clear explanation for this. She just said, "There's just an element that we're not very happy about, as people. We are holding out".
Ono had modest success as a musician with her own Plastic Ono Band. Her 1970 debut album 'Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band' is described as avant-garde. It was recorded by the same team of musicians and producers and at the same time as Lennon's first solo album 'John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band'. The two covers are almost identical. She also collaborated with Yo La Tengo.
She still lives today in the Dakota Building in New York that she and John Lennon occupied since April 1973. She provided the funds for the construction and maintenance of the Strawberry Fields memorial in Central Park opposite, and performed the unveiling of the memorial on October 9, 1985, which should have been Lennon's 45th birthday.
In 2000, she founded the John Lennon Museum in the Japanese city of Saitama in the metropolitan area of Tokyo, where her roots lie.
Ono occasionally still performs as a performance artist. On July 14, 2007, she headlined the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago accompanied by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore on guitar.
In 2009 she received the Golden Lion of the Venice Bienale for her entire oeuvre and in 2012 the Oskar-Kokoschka Prize for Visual Arts in Austria, where the jury also paid tribute to her persistent social commitment.
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