Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono Flies High
Yoko Ono is everywhere: in dance clubs, in art galleries and even on the spine of an indie rock album.
Her music -- thanks to remixes by the Pet Shop Boys, Danny Tenaglia, Felix Da Housecat, Orange Factory and others -- is turning on the ears, and feet, of a new generation. Ono recently watched a crowd in a New York club dancing to her music, and she requested a mike so she could add some live orgasmic moans to the track's recorded ones -- not something the average seventy-year-old does at 3 a.m.

In the last week, Ono has debuted two more remixes, "Will I" and "Fly," as well as a DVD of rare and unseen footage of late husband John Lennon she compiled. And her artistic life is currently as frenetic as her musical life. One exhibit, "Odyssey of a Cockroach," is on at New York's Deitch Projects; and she recently approved a musical based on Lennon's songs that will be coming to Broadway. Last month, after nearly forty years, Ono recreated "Cut Piece" in Paris. She sat on a chair onstage at the Ranelagh Theater as each of the 200 members of the audience cut off her clothes until she was in her lingerie.

And when the California rock band Beulah wanted the title of their new album to denote love, change and artistry, they came up with Yoko.

When you first did "Cut Piece" thirty-seven years ago, it was considered very cutting edge.

In those days I was expressing my emotional turbulence and anger, and I was communicating just with a small group of people -- mostly artists and intellectuals. And now it's anybody. It's a wider audience. I did it with love for the world and you and me. If you can carry some feeling of love for each other, that's very important.

Isn't love the hardest emotion to draw out of a stranger?

No, I don't think so. I think it's the easiest emotion. Life is so beautiful that it's hard not to love it.

What inspires you?

I really don't know. I get inspired by anything. Newton found an incredible thing from a drop of an apple.

In some lights art is viewed as passive, but you've long worked for peace, a physical job, because you must persuade governments, persuade people and change philosophies.

Well, how do you persuade people? I mean, you can go in front of the White House and just kind of bang the doors and say, "You better do what I'm telling you to do." Or you could be writing something in the newspaper. There are many ways of doing it, and I'm not using just one way. Art is an expression and that is a way to communicate the importance of the idea of world peace.

Beulah singer Miles Kurosky said, "Yoko had to be the title since the record is about love, my growth as an artist, and the changes I've been going through as a human being. I wanted to make a more mature, confident and daring artistic statement. The word 'Yoko' says it all: change, progress and risk."

He's very eloquent. I really blessed Beulah, because they're going back to being real. Beulah are starting to do something on a different level. It's very close to the kind of writing that was done in the Sixties. It's good, and it's coming back.

When "Open Your Box" came out in the U.K. in 1971, it was banned. Now, it's a huge dance hit.

I'm very thankful that that happened within my lifetime. I'm experiencing it with a sense of wonderment.

What do you think the difference is?

The main difference is the usual difference: step by step we're getting wiser, all of us together.

What were you thinking when you heard the first remixes of your music?

When I first heard "Open Your Box" by Orange Factory, I just started crying. It was so beautiful that somebody understood my work so well.

Why do you think the dance genre is so open to your music?

It comes naturally to me. I'm one person who's really mad about dancing. I love it.

Some of your music -- "Open Your Box" and "Yang Yang" for example -- is very sexual and some it is very graphic. Do you think people are more open to that now?

Definitely. It's to celebrate life. Life is sex, and sex is love.

P.J. GACH
Rolling Stone (October 29, 2003)

Life is sex, sex is love and sex is nothing to do with Yoko Ono. With dancing Yoko especially.

You mean John and Yoko never had sex? How did she have Sean? By way of the Holy Spirit?

I mean I would never have sex with Yoko if I were a man. But Sean was born anyway, thanks to Lennon.

Oko's declaration of sex as life itself sounds comical taking into consideration her miserable appearance and personality as well; and that reflects her inferiority complex which she tries to hide behind a simulated sophistication and a crude talant for making hollow statements look prophetic.

Yoko in Paris (Autumn 2003)
http://www.a-i-u.net/yo_hello.html

She's just a witch! I think she has made a great contribution to the breakdown of The Beatles. And noone will dissuade me!!!!

JPMcC's last words are actually reflect the truth.
Еле-еле выжал из себя что-то на дурном инглише. Правила форума давайте не будет забывать и писать по-русски.

Yoko In The Sky With Diamonds
Assume Vivid Astro Focus
http://www.a-i-u.net/

Музыка у неё ужасная совершенно!!! Рисует прикольно... А в общем - обалденная чувиха!

В этой теме - соблюдаются ВСЕ правила форума! Напоминаю еще раз!

Ничего гениального в ней нет,а энергии у нее хватит еще на много дел.
Мне нравилась только одна песенка в ее исполнении Who has see the wind

Моё ощущение такое, что те люди которые критикуют Йоку с её творчеством не знакомы и в их коллекции её дисков не наблюдается. А вот хотелось услышать мнение Критиков у которых в личной коллекции есть хотябы больше пяти её сольников, чтобы мнение выдвинутое ими было подкреплено реальным знанием творчества.

И ещё, друзья знаите почему я не критикую Барри Манилова? Отвечаю, с творчеством его не знаком.

У меня несколько противоречивое отношение к Йоко. С одной стороны, она мне всегда казалась жуткой авантюристкой, с другой - нельзя не признать её своеобразный талант. Пусть не всем и не всегда её работы близки и понятны, но ведь на вкус и цвет товарища нет...
P.S. А я тут на днях видела перчатки с надписью YOKO. На мой вопрос, имеет ли Ono к ним какое-либо отношение, продавец(парень лет 20) спросил:"А кто такая Йоко Оно?"

2 Клим: полностью поддерживаю

Мое предыдущее сообщение убрали, потому что там было не очень цензурное выражение в отношении Йоко. Значит, напишу цензурно. Тема называется "Yoko Ono", а не "Творчество Йоко Оно", поэтому тут можно писать не только о ее творчестве, но и о отношенни к ней как к личности. Так вот, мое отношение ОЧЕНЬ негативное, по-моему она оказывала плохое влияние на Джона и ускорила распад Битлз. Художницей она была так себе, очень и очень посредственной ( вот в живописи я разбираюсь! )Плюс наставляла Леннона рога! Как же к ней после этого относиться?

Ну и как я и предполагал, по творчеству конкретного сказать нечего, вот тогда и переходят на личности.
JPMcC: Лазить в чужую личную жизнь дело неблагодарное и неблагородное.

К тому же со свечкой никто из нас не стоял
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