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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
What You Missed: Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono and Rolling Stone contributor Anthony DeCurtis
Photo credit: Joyce Culver

The Upper East Side Informer blog gives the lowdown on last night’s Yoko Ono talk:

I understood a bit more having seen her up there on the stage tonight. She was captivating just sitting there. And, the way she talked was somewhat whimsical, at times breathless.

She mentioned her childhood spent at an impasse between two worlds, the West where kids would throw rocks at her, and Japan where boys would taunt her on the way to school and where the she “fell in love with the sky” that looked so beautiful. My roots, said Yoko, are definitely in Asia. Though she knew the vernacular of New York City’s Avant Garde, said Ono, she was always firm in laying claim to her Japanese roots and their influence on her art.

Of she and her husband John Lennon, “we were both rebels” she said, describing their meeting as “magical.” And before the skeptics (I admit it, myself included) could cast this off as dramatic, [Anthony] DeCurtis was off reminding you that to this day she has remained in the same apartment building where Lennon was shot, The Dakota.

Why?, he asked her, because “that is where John and I created a home for our son, Sean,” she said. When actions speak, you listen. She never remarried. She never moved from their home. If not magic, than what?

Read more here and check out the remaining June talks at the Y.



Comments Reader Comments

Kite and I, named our new born son Imagine after Yoko’s lyrics.

On Monday the 18th i was delivering the same message in a paradigm shift letter to dearest Hillary Clinton.

I became aware of the 92Y’s event of the 18th only today the 21st.

Please let me have dearest Yoko’s email or ways to contact her.

Thank you with unconditional love.

By George Wu at June 21, 2007, 11:55am


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