Yoko Ono

It became known as “The Church of Rock and Roll.” Rock and roll shows had never received the kind of attention to detail that Graham brought to the Fillmores. Notable acts to play the Fillmore East include Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the Allman Brothers Band, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Led Zeppelin. During this time, he also moved to the Carousel Ballroom. The original Fillmore Auditorium was starting to fall apart so he bought a new building and named it Fillmore…

of great figures in history are flashed on screen: Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alfred Hitchcock, Buckminster Fuller, Muhammed Ali, Ted Turner, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Bob Dylan, Jim Henson, Vincent Van Gogh, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Pablo Picasso, and others. In addition, after all the famous names displayed, the final person is a young and unidentified woman, then the commercial quickly fades to black, and the text “think different” fades to white. And so, two main shots…

Alistair Taylor who helped Paul by saying the opposite of what Paul said. The next song by Paul was Hey Jude this song was originally called Hey Jules and was for John’s son Julian because john and Cynthia were getting a divorce and john was dating Yoko Ono. The White Album was the eleventh album. Ob La Di Ob La Da was by the first song on the album by Paul. Blackbird was another song by Paul and he said it was about supporting the civil rights movement in the United States. Birthday was a song…

Over the course of this past summer I have had the opportunity to attend numerous live shows ranging from the traditional deep southern sounds of bluegrass, to the stylistic hard and raw sounds of rock and roll. Standing apart from all the rest, a new up and coming Indie Pop band, put on quite literally the greatest show I’ve ever seen. At that concert I experienced a feeling of true exhilaration. Nothing else can come close to the feeling right before they took stage, when the lights cut out,…

There were many major events in the Decade of the 1980s. One of them was the creation of Pacman. Pacman is an arcade game that was developed by Namco and created by video game designer, Toru Iwatani. The game released in Japan on May 22, 1980. The game was developed over the course of about a year, beginning in April 1979. Iwatani wanted to appeal a wider audience such as women instead of just men since very few games were played by women at all. Because of this, he added elements such as a…

Mikayla Pen Block D English 11 December 12, 2014 “I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.” Be yourself and ignore all opinion of others, the best thing you can do it be yourself. John Lennon was an inspirational singer and song-writer. He spoke about people being true to themselves. Positive vibes came from Lennon’s music and his…

During the Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet union escalated because of the political ideologies of democracy and communism. In the case of the Vietnam war the US government backed south vietnam ed by the nationalist Ngo Dinh Diem and the communist led north vietnam, two halves which claimed to be the rightful leaders. In the midst of the Vietnam war the Sixties became the essential period in both revolutionizing social norms and ending the Vietnam war. The…

The Beatles: Fine Tuning Britain “The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn 't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility” (Lennon). The empowering musical legend, John Lennon, recalls the sixties as a time of maturation and optimism for the world as a whole. Instead of fighting world wars, cowering in economic depression, or riding the wave of regularity, people began to express the values near and dear to…

Drawing inspiration/influence is a particularly tricky situation, because as artists we feel this overarching desire—nay, need—to leave a permanent and unique stain on the world. If that stain resembles too closely one that came before it, then where is the ingenuity in that? This being the case, it is impossible to make anything of merit without being at least subconsciously influenced. Only upon realizing this fact and embracing it is an artist able to fully and successfully utilize the arts…

Carolee Schneemann helps change the way women view their body, sensuality, and gender by empowering women to define who they are and not let the worn out views of the past impact their definition of themselves and what they're capable of. Carolee Schneemann, the oldest of three, was born in Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 12th, 1939. She started drawing at a young age. She was described as a “mad panthiest.” A panthiest is someone who believes that the universe is…