John Lennon and Yoko Ono had their hair cut short in 1970 for an auction to benefit the Black Power organization in the UK Image: Bob Dear/AP/picture alliance Distant relations with children Ono and Lennon's relationship at times came across as an art production, including the "bed-ins" for peace in a hotel bed and the eighteen-month "Lost Weekend" period, a marital time-out that Ono ordered. A year later, Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles. John's relatiuonship with Ono had played a part in his decision, he said at the time.ĭecades later in a TV interview with David Frost, McCartney conceded that Yoko Ono's constant presence at the band's studio recordings was not the reason for the breakup. But he did not deny in retrospect that he and the two other Beatles eyed Ono with suspicion. Encouraged by Lennon, Ono is said to have interfered in the recording process. Two years later, they started having an affair, and Ono accompanied Lennon to the studio for the recording of the Beatles' "White Album" - breaking an agreement not to bring along female partners. Yoko Ono met John Lennon at one of her exhibitions in London in 1966. Yoko Ono has a wide range of influences from French Dada artist Marcel Duchamp to experimental composer John Cage - who she met in New York through Cage's student and Ono's first husband, Toshi Ichiyanagi.īut when Ono developed a high-pitched, screeching singing style - a feature of the Plastic Ono Band formed with John Lennon - she drew the ire of the music press, and the public. Yoko Ono and John Lennon stage a "bed-in" for peace in 1969 Image: Getty Images/Central Press Her most famous film from the period is 1966's "Four," which shows the naked buttocks of people drawn from the London intellectual scene as the subject passes the camera on a moving walkway. Ono's artistic inspiration came partly through her involvement in the Fluxus movement in New York, including "Flux Film" avant-garde filmmaking. It was a daring piece of participatory art that was soon echoed in the work of conceptual artist, Marina Abramovic. One of her best-known early performances is 1964's "Cut Piece," in which the artist sat passively on stage in her best suit and allowed the audience to cut off her clothes with scissors. The daughter of a wealthy Tokyo family, Ono moved to the US as a young woman and became part of New York's artistic avant-garde in the early 1960s. Yoko Ono's life has been indelibly tied to her third husband, John Lennon, and to his band the Beatles after many blamed her for the Fab Four's break-up.īut Yoko Ono has always been her own person, and has stamped her own distinctive mark on art and music for over 60 years.
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