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Yoko Ono

What Would You Ask Yoko?

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Next week, Kurt will be speaking to musician, artist, and all-around icon Yoko Ono — she has a new album coming out, “Between My Head and the Sky,” on which she collaborated on with her son Sean Lennon. Ono’s work (and life) has raised controversy as well as inspired praise. From her participation in the […]

Yoko Ono

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The Return of Yoko Ono

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Sean Lennon

The ballad of Sean and Yoko

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Peace, love, lyrics and loot

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Yoko Ono on Disaster and Hope in Japan

Yoko Ono Lennon experienced the devastation of WWII on Japan. Since then, she’s moved to the United States and worked as an artist and musician. She speaks strongly about pain, love, and her reverence for planet Earth. In the wake of Japan’s quake and tsunami, she has been thinking of her home country and contributing […]

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Bonus Track: “The Sun is Down”

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From the Plastic Ono Band’s new album Between My Head and the Sky (Chimera Music).

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Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono tells Kurt Andersen what it’s like to be embraced by a whole new generation of musicians and fans.

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John Lennon Quotes and Memories from Reporter Tom Brook

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Thirty years ago today, music sensation John Lennon was shot and killed outside the Dakota building where he lived with his wife, Yoko Ono, in New York City. Radio reporter Tom Brook was the first British reporter on the scene. He explains his memory of that day and how Lennon’s legacy continues to live on. […]

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Peace, love, lyrics and loot

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Today, Christie’s auctions a memento from John Lennon: his scrawled lyrics for ?Give Peace a Chance.? Lennon gave the page to then-16-year-old Gail Renard in 1969 after she and a friend climbed up a fire escape to see him and Yoko Ono during their Montreal ?bed-in.?

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