Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Julian Lennon have partnered with EMI Music and Sony/ATV Music Publishing to release a 40th anniversary digital single of the Plastic Ono Band's historic recording of Give Peace a Chance. Proceeds from the sales go to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF). The single became available today on iTunes and will be offered through the end of the year.Ono commented,...
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MUSIC NEWS - From Fluxus and performance-art pioneer and Two Virgins to chart-topping dance-music heroine (inspiring punk rock along the way!), Yoko Ono has been an innovative and influential force on music and art, while simultaneously campaigning for peace on the world's stage. At 76 years, Yoko continues to kick butt -- and has now released her new, BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY, (
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John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has revealed life is "not easy" for women who are associated with The Beatles.Speaking to Sky News she said: "I think all the wives did suffer, and I think quietly suffer. Suffer but endured, I would actually say."Referring to Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills' recent divorce settlement, she said she "felt sorry" for Sir Paul.Ono, 75, added that Mills needed to "...
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Yoko Ono celebrated her 75th birthday last night with musicians ranging from David Byrne to the Strokes. Ono organized the party with her John Lennon spawn, Sean Lennon, and hosted about 150 people at NYC's Joe's Pub. Ono performed a handful of tunes from the stage, including 'Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow).' Members of the B-52s, as well as her son accompanie.
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By DENISE LAVOIE BOSTON (AP) - They are rare, intimate images of John Lennon just before the breakup of the Beatles: He's hunched over a piano writing songs, smoking pot, joking about putting LSD in President Nixon's tea. Almost four decades after the footage was shot at Lennon's estate in England, his widow is in court, fighting to keep the images private. World Wide Video LLC, a Lawrence, Mass.-
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Yoko Ono will christen a light tower dubbed the "Imagine Peace Tower" in Iceland on October 9, on what would have been John Lennon's 67th birthday.The tower is a beam of light emanating from a giant wishing well which features the words "imagine peace" in 24 languages, reports the Associated Press. It will be lit every year from October 9 (Lennon's birthday) to December 8, the anniversary of hi...
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Yoko Ono will headline the second day of the Pitchfork Festival this July.More additions to the festival's lineup include Califone, The Sea & Cake, The Twilight Sad, Nomo, The William Parker Quartet and Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra.That makes the weekend look like this :Friday, July 13:Sonic Youth perform Daydream NationGZA/Genius performs Liquid SwordsSlint perform SpiderlandSaturday...
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John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York City apartment after deciding he wanted to return home to see his son rather than go out for dinner, Yoko Ono said according to Yahoo."We were returning from the studio, and I said: 'Should we go and have dinner before we go home?' and John was saying, 'No, lets go home because I want to see Sean before he goes to sleep.' And it was like he w...
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Last week, Alex Rigopulos, CEO of Harmonix who is making The Beatles: Rock Band, was quoted about Yoko Ono issuing comments about the game's design at the last minute. He was quoted by a number of sources as saying "We were like, 'Oh, gee. Thanks.' It would have been nice to know that six months ago, but yes, 'Thank you very much'."Rogopulous and Senior Vice President Paul DeGooyer seem to ha...
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Yoko Ono Twitter premiered her new Basement Jaxx song a couple of weeks ago. I somehow missed it, but luckily Yoko is all over this Twitter thing and posted another link today. The track features some interesting Jaxx electronics, and classic, non-conventional Yoko Ono vocals. It starts automatically at the Imagine Peace blog. I won’t [...]
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The Plastic Ono Band have a new EP, Don't Stop Me!, that will be released tomorrow through iTunes as an exclusive. The EP is a precursor to the full length album, Between My Head and the Sky, which will be released in September. Both are through Chimera Music.The group, who has always had a rotating lineup, currently consists of Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Cornelius and Yuka Honda of Cibo Mato ...
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Yoko Ono and former Clash band member, Paul Simonon are only a few of the artists who have designed postcards for the Royal College Of Art's annual RCA Secret Exhibition . The annual exhibition place postcards thought the gallery and rules state that the artist's name must not be visible from the front.The identity of the postcard designer is only revealed when the postcard is purchased.The ...
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Britain's Mojo Magazine presented their annual Mojo Awards on Thursday night in London.Yoko Ono was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Host Phil Alexander (chief editor of Mojo), said "She may have been married to one of the most famous men in the world, but she also helped change music as we know it in her own right, first, by introducing avant-garde sensibilities to her husband but, j
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