Posted on 07/05/2020 3:43:44 PM PDT by be-baw
Three years ago, when the National Music Publishers’ Association presented Yoko Ono with their Centennial Song Award, Sean Lennon pushed his mother onto the stage at Cipriani 42nd Street in a wheelchair — shocking some who didn’t realize the formidable avant-garde artist was incapacitated.
But in her signature shades, black leather jacket and white Panama hat, the widow of John Lennon didn’t seem to miss a beat when she began a short acceptance speech by addressing the elephant in the room.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you,” she said, clutching the award in one hand and a microphone in the other as Sean whispered to her about what was going on. “I’ve learned so much from having this illness. I’m thankful I went through that.”
While it’s not clear what “illness” she was referring to, Ono, now 87, is still ailing, requires round-the-clock care and rarely leaves her sprawling apartment in The Dakota, a source close to her staff told The Post. In photos taken at rare public appearances — including a women’s march in Columbus Circle last year and at a commemoration of John in Liverpool in May 2018 — Ono is confined to a wheelchair, or walks with great difficulty using a cane, often leaning on a caregiver or Sean for support.
She has also been selling off some real-estate assets in recent years
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That’s actually a catchy little tune. From the Double Fantasy album.
He seems to actually be able to think in a rationale way
Really shocked given his parents
I miss not seeing him on late night TV stand-up routines, but YT has plenty of his old stuff to see. Maybe he retired?
Same with Sam Kinison, ever since he died in that wreck.
She’ll always have her music
That’s surprising.
No hard feelings, get well.
But you did kill the Beatles.
And don’t get me started on the nude album cover!
The Beatles were original and innocent at first. All of their music was great. Their downfall was LSD.
Lennon was a cockey punk who “blew his mind” and ended up picking groupie “artist” And no talent Yoko.
All these years she’s been a liberal nut job. Before the 2016 election she thought she would help Hillary Clinton and Yoko went on camera bragging how she had a lesbian thing with Hillary. That’s how crazy.
Crazy like a fox. She got all of John’s money. I’ll never forget her first album with the cut of a toilet flushing.
I don’t wish her ill health but I could care about her. She sure doesn’t care about anyone but herself.
one of my favs: Yoko Ono and John Zorn: Improvisation, Live in The Greene Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJl06nxPub8
she won a Grammy for this: VOICE PIECE FOR SOPRANO & WISH TREE at MoMA, Summer 2010 by yoko ono
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GMHl7bmlzw
In the summer of 1966, Ron Nasty was widely quoted by saying that the Rutles were bigger than God. He went on to say that God had never gotten a hit record.
In response to this, many fans burnt their albums, many more burnt their fingers trying to burn their albums. Album sales skyrocketed, as people began to buy the albums, simply to burn them.
It would later turn out that it was all a great misunderstanding. Nasty, whilst talking to a slightly deaf journalist, stated that the Rutles were bigger than Rod Stewart, who would not be big for another eight years.
And...Lennon was a quintessential “wise ass.” You could not take very seriously what he was saying in those early days.
They once did a song called “Woman is the N-—— of the World”.
Oops, Cancel Time!
“You know if that guy had only aimed a
little to the left..he’d be a hero!”
—Judy Tenuta
Book about George Martin mentioned
John had some close calls.In the 60s
he was stoned on heroin and almost fell
off a roof.Yoko joked that “heroin is
how we get our exercise.”
John was also a poor driver and had
poor vision; crashed car in Scotland
and that may have caused Yoko’s
miscarraige.
Just read one of his books to see what a wise ass he was. I still can’t read those things without laughing so hard I’m crying.
I like to mention this— from National
Lampoon’s _fictional_ Letters FROM The
Editors, after John’s death:
Dear sirs:
Imagine no possessions? What a terrible,
terrible thought.
Yoko Ono
New York City
I stole it from an old National Lampoon (when they were funny) routine. They were talking about Mamie Eisenhower as one of those people that had long been forgotten but were still alive.
Sorta like Yoko (not Yono, finger slip!) is today.
One might say Yoko Ono is screeching to a stop.
John’s first wife Cynthia was dumped by him.She returned from a trip to find John and Yoko sitting on the floor, Yoko weating Cyn’s bathrobe.
“Oh, hi,” said John.
Cynthia was staying at the home of Ringo’s ex wife Maureen Cox.She heard Maureen scream.She gave Cyn the phone.
It was Ringo, devastated. “Cyn, I’m so,
so sorry. John’s dead.”
Cyn offered to come over to the Dakota to
console Yoko. Yoko told her, no.
Yoko: “It’s not like we’re old school
chums or anything.”
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