Yoko Ono

On December 8, 1980 John Lennon was shot directly across from Strawberry Fields, by the Dakota building where he and his wife lived. In John Lennon 's memory, Yoko Ono, Lennon’s wife decided to create a memorial in his honor. She wanted to commemorate John Lennon as a rock legend and a peace activist, so Ono created the John Lennon memorial in Strawberry Fields, Central park. John Lennon’s memorial is an effective memorial because of its background, location, design, my individual experience, and people’s opinions. John Lennon is known as a world-famous musician, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England on October 9, 1940 and was raised by his Aunt Mimi. In the 1960’s, John Lennon, Paul McCartney,…

While the identity was largely debatable in avant-garde theatre, performance artists always presented themselves and claimed their own identity by usually working alone. No character was involved in performance art, and thus performance artists had never been actors. Yoko Ono, for example, performed Cut Piece (1964-66), which is considered “a commentary on identity,” where she asked audience to cut her cloth to test how far and aggressive people could become as it is described as “[T]he…

Love and peace seem like the most two stodgy words for artist. In today’s world, there are only a few artists who can convey love and peace directly from their artworks. Yoko Ono is one of them. She is a multimedia artist, Avant-Guard artist, singer, and she is also known for her work in music and filmmaking. However, some people think her works are too simple and easy to understand, some people think her works are not creative at all and even cannot be called art. Yoko thinks she is not an…

Yoko Ono, born in Tokyo in 1933, was very artistic from a young age. She had always shown interests in art and music yet was never supported by her parents. Her father believed that since he failed at becoming a musician, instead becoming a very successful banker, that Yoko herself would also fail, while her mother deemed her “handsome, yet not pretty” to the point where Yoko felt she could not live up to either of her parents’ expectations. Her father's job in banking led to Yoko being…

He and Ono got married three years after they met (on March 20th 1969), and three years after he had divorced from his first wife, Cynthia . John and Ono’s first act together as a couple was in Amsterdam on their honeymoon, where they help Bed-In’s for peace . At these Bed-In’s for peace, John and Ono would primarily advocate for world peace and other controversial topics such as ending war . In December of that same year, John launched 12 billboards in largely populated cities all around the…

This was just before his band had their first big hit. John met his second wife, Yoko Ono while still married to Cynthia. John’s relationship with Yoko was the reason his marriage ended with Cynthia in 1968. Around a year later, John and Yoko were married on March 20, 1969, in Spain. John was so in love he gave himself the middle name Ono (Talevski, 2015). John and Yoko made New York their home in 1971. They got an apartment in the Dakota building. In 1975, John and Yoko had a son named…

his recordings as of late, utilizing a studio at his L.A. home and tapping artist buddies at whatever point they drop by to visit. As such, his songwriting accomplices incorporate Lukather, lyricist maker Glen Ballard, Dave Stewart and Van Dyke Parks. A couple days after Saturday's birthday occasion in Hollywood, Starr will make a beeline for Las Vegas for a tenth commemoration festivity of the Cirque du Soleil show "Adoration," which has been equipped with new mechanical components and some…

was commonly used by John, Paul, George, and Ringo. It had an “[immense] effect on the Beatles songwriting and recording” (“Beatles and Drugs”). The first released song to mention acid was “Day Tripper,” but “over time its influence resulted in less explicit and more abstract references to acid” (“Beatles and Drugs”). The song most commonly associated with The Beatles use of LSD is “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” However, the group denied the title was a reference to acid and claimed it was…

LIFE AFTER THE BEATLES After the breakup of The Beatles, Lennon expected to feel free and liberated but felt the opposite. Lennon, with the encouragement of Yoko Ono, turned to “primal scream therapy,” where he relived traumatic moments of his childhood and relieved the tension that built up through screaming and crying. Lennon later said, “I’m not bitter anymore . . . I meditate and I cry” (Corbin 99). Lennon and Yoko Ono had a falling out in 1973, when she forced Lennon to move out. Lennon…

creative album. Songs like “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” rumored to have been made while the group was experiencing with drugs. Lennon and the group denied these claims. Harrison was strongly interested in Indian religion; therefore he convinced the band to visit the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Bangor, Wales, in 1967 (“Beatles.”). It was in Wales that the band heard of their manager, Epstein’s, accidental overdose. Cynthia and Lennon divorced in 1968, and Lennon remarried the next year, to…