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Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
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culture · Japanese artist and activist (born 1933) · peace activist · singer · composer · performance artist · painter · recording artist · film director · photographer · sculptor · conceptual artist · also Yoko Ono, Yōko Ono, Ono Yōko, Yoko Ono Lennon, Ono Yoko, Ono
Born 18 February 1933 · Q117012
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Season of Glass review @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi... Heard today, the album reveals itself not simply as an extraordinary document of grief, but as one of the clearest expressions of Yoko Ono’s lifelong artistic commitment to work that refuses comfort, certainty or easy resolution.
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE youtu.be/ZpoT_bzooO8 First released on July 4, 1969. Yoko: John was making the statement in a way that he was looking at the far, far future. I saw it in his eyes. He was saying, ‘OK this is what we’re going to do together.’ And we’re going to give peace a chance. To the world.
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Far Out Magazine: Yoko Ono announces re-release of 1982 album, ‘It’s Alright (I See Rainbows)’
Published video “Yoko Ono - Never Say Goodbye (2026 Remaster) dir: Peter Bogdanovich”.
“Season of Glass review @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi... Heard today, the album reveals itself not simply as an extraordinary document of grief, but as one of the clearest expressions of Yoko Ono’s lifelong artistic commitment to work that refuses comfort, certainty or easy resolution.”
The Guardian: ‘A frightening piece to perform’: can Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece still shock?
“GIVE PEACE A CHANCE youtu.be/ZpoT_bzooO8 First released on July 4, 1969. Yoko: John was making the statement in a way that he was looking at the far, far future. I saw it in his eyes. He was saying, ‘OK this is what we’re going to do together.’ And we’re going to give peace a chance. To the world.”
“INSTANT KARMA! (WE ALL SHINE ON) youtu.be/1ASSjVFvFqM?... John, Klaus Voormann (bass) and Alan White (drums) play 'Instant Karma!’ on BBC's Top Of The Pops, while Yoko performs, blindfolded by a sanitary towel, holding up boards in John's handwriting that say BREATHE, SMILE, PEACE, LOVE and HOPE.”
“HAPPY GLOBAL BEATLES DAY! John: They, whoever they are, don’t stand a chance, because they can’t beat love." Wishing fans around the world a very happy Global Beatles Day with love from Yoko and Sean.”
“How Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree installation in Los Angeles is helping people voice their hopes Wish Trees for Los Angeles invites people to jot down their hopes on paper tags and tie them to the trees, drawing as many as 800 a day www.scmp.com/lifestyle/tr...”
Yahoo: Yoko Ono's Retrospective Invites Viewers To Participate In Her Radical World
“FREE TIME She handed out hammers, screened films of body parts, and did a Q&A where every question was answered with a question. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv--... Yoko Ono takes over public television show Free Time for a strange and riveting hour with a live studio audience.”
Published video “Plastic Ono Band - 'Remember Love'”.
Published video “Plastic Ono Band - 'Remember Love' (out-take), 1 June 1969”.
“Yoko Ono Joins the Roster for Mérida’s First International Art Biennial yucatanmagazine.com/yoko-ono-joi...”
“ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO Don’t miss it on Sky Documentaries at 9pm, Thursday 28th May! Also available on the Sky Store: www.skystore.com/product/one-... Set in 1972 New York, explore John and Yoko's world as well as restored footage from John’s only post-Beatles concert. Set your reminders!”
“PLAY IT BY TRUST with YOKO ONO link.chess.com/computer/tbWFdS Play chess against Yoko Ono on chess.com and experience performing her artwork – "The white chess set is a sort of life situation because the chess pieces on both sides are white – you always have to be aware of which are your pieces."”
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Published video “WALKING ON THIN ICE”.
Published video “WISH TREE FOR YOKO ONO”.
Smithsonian Magazine: A Sweeping Yoko Ono Retrospective Aims to Make Music in Museumgoers’ Minds
Published video “Yoko Ono ‘Wish Tree’ in Full Bloom - NBC Nightly News, 7 Nov 2025”.
Published video “HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) Limited Edition 12" Zoetrope Vinyl 🐦”.
Released album “Power To The People (Live Jam)”.
Published video “WAR IS OVER! Children's book is out now”.
Released ep “Power To The People (New York City - The Elements Mixes)”.
Released album “Power to the People (New York City - studio Jam)”.
Released album “Power To The People (New York City - The Evolution Documentary)”.
Released album “Power to the People: An Exclusive MOJO Sampler”.
Released album “Power To The People (New York City - The Ultimate Mixes)”.
Released album “Power to the People (live at the One to One Concert - Afternoon & Evening Shows)”.
Published video “ESCAPE TO NUTOPIA Disc Two: 9 October | You are John Lennon. You are dreaming. #escapetonutopia”.
Published video “Imagine all the people living life in peace.”.
American Songwriter: Why Yoko Ono Has Remained the “Most Famous Unknown Artist” Despite Her Art World Influence
Released album “Selected Recordings From Grapefruit”.
Yahoo: Yoko Ono says she upgraded from ‘a bitch’ to ‘a witch’ after meeting John Lennon in new doc trailer
Deadline.com: John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Talk Show Hosts? Yes, It Happened In 1972 In A Landmark ‘Daytime Revolution’
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows John Lennon and Yoko Ono waiting for a maid to make their bed during their "Bed-In for Peace" honeymoon/protest at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel in 1969.” True.
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Snopes rated the claim “A meme shows the moment that John Lennon and Chuck Berry reacted to Yoko Ono "screeching into the microphone" during a 1972 appearance on "The Mike Douglas Show."” True.
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Released album “Let's Have a Dream (1974 One Step Festival Special Edition)”.
Released album “Warzone”.
Released album “Yes, I’m a Witch Too”.
Was named the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard magazine
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Snopes rated the claim “Yoko Ono confirmed that she had an affair with Hillary Clinton in the 1970s.” False.
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Released album “Milk and Honey Recording Sessions”.
Released album “Take Me to the Land of Hell”.
Released album “Birthday Bash at Volksbühne Berlin”.
Released album “YOKOKIMTHURSTON”.
Released album “Onomix”.
Festival, a 12-week UK-wide celebration featuring internationally renowned artists from Midsummer's Day (June 21) to the final day of the Paralympic Games on September 9
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Released ep “The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band”.
(her 78th birthday), Ono took out a full-page advert in the UK free newspaper Metro for "Imagine Peace 2011"
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Released ep “The Road of Hope”.
Released album “Double Fantasy / Stripped Down”.
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2010).
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Awarded Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award (2010).
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Was named the first "Global Autism Ambassador" by the Autism Speaks organization
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Sean organized a concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music called "We Are Plastic Ono Band", at which Yoko performed her music with Sean, Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Jim Keltner for the first time since the 1970s
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Released album “Double Fantasy Recording Sessions”.
Released album “Between My Head and the Sky”.
Released ep “Don’t Stop Me!”.
Went to the inauguration of the exhibition "Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John & Yoko" to mark the 40th anniversary of the Lennon-Ono Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, from May 26 to June 2, 196
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Ono recorded Between My Head and the Sky, which was her first album to be released as "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band" since 1973's Feeling the Space
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That "He was in French Indochina, which is Vietnam actually
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Performing a full set that mixed music and performance art
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Ono appeared on Larry King Live along with McCartney, Starr and Olivia Harrison
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Released album “Open Your Box”.
A deal was reached where extortion charges were dropped, and he pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny in the third degree, a felony, and was sentenced to the 60 days that he had already spent in jail
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Released album “Yes, I’m a Witch”.
“He was in French Indochina, which is Vietnam actually ... in Saigon. He was in a concentration camp.”
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One of Ono's bodyguards was arrested after he was allegedly taped trying to extort $2 million from her
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“Blueprint For A Reprise - Interview with Yoko Ono”
Awarded Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (2005).
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Released album “Night of the Half Moon”.
Ono flooded the city with two images on banners, bags, stickers, postcards, flyers, posters and badges: one of a woman's naked breast, the other of the same model's vulva
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Some DJs remixed other Ono songs for dance clubs
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Inaugurated a biennial $50,000 LennonOno Grant for Peace
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“I was very attracted to him. It was a really strange situation.”
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Ono joined the B-52's in New York for their 25th anniversary concerts; she came out for the encore and performed "Rock Lobster" with the band
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Released album “Double Fantasy - Working Version”.
Released album “Blueprint for a Sunrise”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Music Film (2000).
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Ono founded the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan, which housed over 130 pieces of Lennon and Beatles memorabilia from Ono's private collection
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Released ep “A Blueprint for the Sunrise”.
Released album “A Blueprint for the Sunrise (Live at Japan Society)”.
Released album “The Beatles Celebration”.
Released album “A Story”.
Rykodisc reissued Ono's catalog of solo recordings on CD, from Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band through Starpeace
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Released ep “Rising Mixes”.
Ono released Rising, a collaboration with her son Sean and his then-band, Ima
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Released album “Rising”.
Released album “New York Rock”.
Ono produced her own off-Broadway musical entitled New York Rock, which featured Broadway renditions of her songs
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Released album “Walking on Thin Ice”.
Released album “Onobox”.
And released the comprehensive six-disc box set Onobox
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Released ep “Happy Birthday, John”.
Ono collaborated with music consultant Jeff Pollack to honor what would have been Lennon's 50th birthday with a worldwide broadcast of "Imagine"
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Ono set out on a goodwill world tour for Starpeace, primarily visiting Eastern European countries
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Released album “Starpeace”.
Released album “Milk and Honey”.
A tribute album titled Every Man Has a Woman was released, featuring a selection of songs written by Ono performed by artists such as Elvis Costello, Roberta Flack, Eddie Money, Rosanne Cash, and Harry Nilsson
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Released album “Before Play August 1980”.
Released album “Heart Play: Unfinished Dialogue”.
Released album “It’s Alright (I See Rainbows)”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Double Fantasy (1981).
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Released album “Season of Glass”.
Released the album Season of Glass, which featured the striking cover photo of Lennon's bloody spectacles next to a half-filled glass of water, with a window overlooking Central Park in the background
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And received tepid initial reviews, with much of the criticism centering on the idealization of Lennon and Ono's marriage and supposed domestic bliss
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Released album “Double Fantasy”.
With the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with Lennon which was released three weeks before his murder, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year
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Released album “Feeling the Space”.
Released album “Approximately Infinite Universe”.
“I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.”
Ono recorded a single, "Joseijoi Banzai, Parts 1 and 2" with musicians billed as the Plastic Ono Band and Elephants Memory and released it only in Japan
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“I’m not that concerned about professional politicians. I always believe that we can change the world by grass-roots movements. It is a very important thing to do. It is the first time that I realized that I respect America so much because there are so many Americans trying to shift the axis of the world to peace.”
Released album “Some Time in New York City”.
Released album “Fly”.
While studying with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Mallorca, Spain, Ono's ex-husband Anthony Cox accused Ono of abducting their daughter Kyoko from the kindergarten
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Released album “Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band”.
Ono and Lennon lived together in London and then moved permanently to Manhattan to escape tabloid racism towards Ono
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As a companion piece to Lennon's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
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Released album “Wedding Album”.
Released album “Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With the Lions”.
Switching out Winston for Ono as a middle name
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Lennon and Ono were married at the registry office in Gibraltar and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam, campaigning with a week-long bed-in for peace
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And she married John Lennon later that same year
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When she married English musician John Lennon of the Beatles, with whom she would subsequently record as a duo in the Plastic Ono Band
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Forming the Plastic Ono Band with Lennon and producing a number of avant-garde music albums in the 1970s
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Lennon and Ono participated in the BBC documentary about The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, along with several other high-profile musicians
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A few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted
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Released album “Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins”.
Lennon and Ono began a personal and artistic relationship in which they decided to credit their future endeavours as work of the Plastic Ono Band
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As an idea for an art exhibition in Berlin but the Plastic Ono Band was first physically realized in 1968 as a multi-media machine maquette by John Lennon, also called The Plastic Ono Band
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At the Indica Gallery in London, where she was preparing Unfinished Paintings, her conceptual art exhibit about interactive painting and sculpture
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Because she had neglected to finalize her divorce from Ichiyanagi
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Ono married Anthony Cox, an American film producer and art promoter who had been instrumental in securing her release from the mental institution
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Ono had her first major public performance in a concert at the 258-seat Carnegie Recital Hall (smaller than the "Main Hall")
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Supporting herself through secretarial work and lessons in the traditional Japanese arts at the Japan Society
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Ono dropped out of Sarah Lawrence College feeling "asphyxiated by conservative teachers"
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And was accepted into the philosophy program of Gakushuin University as the first woman to enter the department
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Ono remained in Japan when her family moved to the United States and settled in Scarsdale, New York, an affluent town 25 miles (40 km) north of midtown Manhattan
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The family was transferred back to Japan, and Ono enrolled at Tokyo's elite Gakushūin (also known as the Peers School), one of the most exclusive schools in Japan
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Born 1933-02-18.
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To father Eisuke Ono (小野 英輔, Ono Eisuke) and mother Isoko Ono (小野 磯子, Ono Isoko) (1911–1999)
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INSTANT KARMA! (WE ALL SHINE ON) youtu.be/1ASSjVFvFqM?... John, Klaus Voormann (bass) and Alan White (drums) play 'Instant Karma!’ on BBC's Top Of The Pops, while Yoko performs, blindfolded by a sanitary towel, holding up boards in John's handwriting that say BREATHE, SMILE, PEACE, LOVE and HOPE.
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