YOKO ONO : THEN AND NOW

Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.

Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in 1953 with her family. She became involved with New York City's downtown artists scene in the early 1960s, which included the Fluxus group, and became well known in 1969 when she married English musician John Lennon of the Beatles. The couple used their honeymoon as a stage for public protests against the Vietnam War. She and Lennon remained married until he was murdered in front of the couple's apartment building, the Dakota, on 8 December 1980. Together they had one son, Sean, who later also became a musician.

Ono began a career in popular music in 1969, forming the Plastic Ono Band with Lennon and producing a number of avant-garde music albums in the 1970s. She achieved commercial and critical acclaim in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. To date, she has had twelve number one singles on the US Dance charts, and in 2016 was named the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard magazine. Many musicians have paid tribute to Ono as an artist in her own right and as a muse and icon, including Elvis Costello, the B-52's, Sonic Youth and Meredith Monk.

As Lennon's widow, Ono works to preserve his legacy. She funded the Strawberry Fields memorial in Manhattan's Central Park, the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, and the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan (which closed in 2010). She has made significant philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace, disaster relief in Japan and the Philippines, and other such causes. In 2002, she inaugurated a biennial $50,000 LennonOno Grant for Peace. In 2012, she received the Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award and co-founded the group Artists Against Fracking.

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[vinogs]

She came from a very well-off family. His great-grandfather was the founder of “Bank of Tokyo”, and was then the richest person in Japan.

[petervarone]

This song has never got old even though we have.

[aliciabravo]

Yoko sos la mejor!! Me encanta la cancion q te hizo John !!❤🥰😘💜💙❤💖

[jumadiakhir]

It remind me that everyone of us will be getting older and older
nothing last forever in this world
All we need is just peace and love for the rest of our lifetime
Thanks for the song which is one of the most beautiful song ever

[theo]

An artist no one know until she met John.

[irenilles]

La più bella canzone per la ☮️
Dobbiamo ricordarci sempre, che la guerra fa male a tutti !!!!

[julietagaringalao]

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. For John Lennon, Yoko is the most beautiful woman on earth.

[dannyds]

John Lennon is a legend who never died in our hearts! Much Love 🌹✞🇺🇸

[robertallan]

Only a genius can understand and love Yoko.

[butchdugan]

I’m going to go listen to my favorite Yoko Ono songs now!

[jennifermay]

Let's all stop blaming persons and be thankful we had the Beatles in our lives!! Peace and Love!

[darcidc]

Infelizmente o tempo passa para todos, famosos ou anônimos todos nós seremos um dia velhinhos. Envelhecer é um processo natural que nos torna mais pacientes e sábios.

[pixiedust]

Yoko is an amazing lady, I'm happy she found her soul mate. What a tragic ending to their love story, I can't imagine how horrific that was for her because I was distraught and I was just a fan 😢

[rosaliap]

SHE IS A JAPANESE ❤❤❤
HERE IN JAPAN 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵

SOGOI DESU

[neidemaria]

Admiro e respeto demais Yoko como artista e por tudo que fez por John e teve que enfrentar seus opositores com dignidade. Amo Yoko!

[striderQED]

She was a great artist, and she made I man I love very happy.

[ginabumbalough]

We are still sad still and we miss him very much and we wonder what we beautiful music we are doing without now.I was wondering if you are doing well. I'm a artist and my wall are drawing if him and his friend Paul. Shaun looks like him.

[ljudmilaprokopets]

Йоко и Джон были похожи. Я любила их обоих. Помню тот печальный день.
Хочу чтоб не было войны
И чтоб все люди были равны.

[zeliamotamota]

ESSA MÚSICA 🎵 É INCRÍVEL PARABÉNS 😍😍😍😍😍😍💯

[IngridSaybe]

My respect. For caring about our wishes and dreams. Most important for always standing in favor of the Peace. Your words on the telephone still have impact today. There are some who care about nude a lot more than war.
Art are expressions. I love the interview with the famous entrepeneur. You taught John how to film, he used three in his first film. You are both icons in modern time. So sad people committed wrong acts due to sickness or under drug influence. I imagine how beautiful it was to you to listen Woman sang by your man.
Gosh! His feelings were heavenly. Our world is into chaos. When it would have been so different.
Hope my message gets to you. Someday i leave a dream in a tree!