Yoko Ono

At 91 years old, Yoko Ono has this physical status:

Yoko Ono (Japanese) is a Japanese-American multimedia performer, singer, songwriter, and peace activist born in katakana; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese-American multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist.

Performance art, which she performs in both English and Japanese, as well as filmmaking, is also included in her portfolio.

She was married to English singer-songwriter John Lennon of the Beatles from 1969 to 1980. Ono grew up in Tokyo and spent several years in New York City.

She attended Gakushuin University but dropped out of her program after two years and moved to New York in 1953 to live with her family.

She spent some time at Sarah Lawrence College and then became involved in the Fluxus group in New York City's downtown arts scene, which also included the Fluxus group. She first saw Lennon at his own art exhibition in London in 1966, and the two became a couple in 1968 and married the following year.

Ono and Lennon's honeymoon in Amsterdam and Montreal in 1969 became a scene for public demonstrations against the Vietnam War.

Early life and family

Ono was born on February 18, 1933, in Tokyo City, to Isoko Ono (Toshi Ono) (1911-1999), a wealthy banker and former classical pianist. Zenjiro Yasuda, the Yasuda clan's affiliate, and zaibatsu were among Isoko's adoptive maternal grandparents. Eisuke came from a long line of samurai warrior-scholars. "Ocean child" is the kanji word in Yko (). Eisuke's mother, the Yokohama Specie Bank, had him moved to San Francisco, California, two weeks before Ono's birth. The rest of the family members arrived shortly after, with Ono's father meeting her father the first time when she was two years old. Keisuke, her younger brother, was born in December 1936.

Ono was admitted to Japan in 1937 and Ono joined Tokyo's elite Gakushin (also known as the Peers School), one of Japan's most prestigious schools. Ono was in fact learning piano lessons from the age of 4 to the age of 12 or 13. She and her mother, who was trained in shamisen, koto, otsuzumi, nagauta, nagauta, and reading Japanese musical scores, attended kabuki performances.

In 1940, the family immigrated to New York City. Eisuke was transferring from New York City to Hanoi over the next year, and the family's return to Japan was returned to Japan. Ono was enrolled in Keimei Gakuen, the Mitsui family's exclusive Christian primary school. She remained in Tokyo through World War II and the firebombing of March 9, 1945, when she was sheltered with other family members in a special bunker in Tokyo's Azabu district, away from the heavy bombing. Ono and her family accompanied her family to the Karuizawa mountain resort later that day.

Starvation was rampant in the aftermath of the Tokyo bombings; the Ono family was forced to eat food after pulling their possessions in a wheelbarrow. Ono said she acquired her "aggressive" attitude and a sense of "outsider" status during this time in her life. According to other accounts, her mother brought a large number of items to the countryside, where they were sold for food. Her mother converted a German-made sewing machine for 60 kilograms (130 lb) of rice to feed her family in one anecdote. During this period, Ono's father, who had been in Hanoi, was reported to be in a prisoner of war camp in China.

Ono told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!

"He was in French Indochina, which is actually Vietnam, in Saigon," the former emperor wrote on October 16, 2007. He was in a concentration camp."

Ono remained in Japan after her family immigrated to the United States and settled in Scarsdale, New York, an upscale town 25 miles (40 km) north of midtown Manhattan. Gakushushin was reopened and Ono was re-enrolled by April 1946. The school, which is located near the Tokyo Imperial Palace, had not been affected by the war, and Ono discovered herself a classmate of Prince Akihito, Japan's future emperor. She began singing lessons in lieder-singing at 14 years old.

Ono graduated from Gakushin University in 1951 and was admitted to Gakushuin University's philosophy program as the first female student to enroll in the department. However, she dropped out after two semesters.

Ono's family immigrated from New York in September 1952 and enrolled Sarah Lawrence College in nearby Sarah Lawrence College. Ono's parents supported her education but chastised her for befriending people who were not under her custody. Ono left college in 1956 to elope with Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, a leader in Tokyo's experimental community, before attending Juilliard.

Sarah Lawrence studied poetry with Alastair Reid, English literature with Kathryn Mansell, and music composition with André Singer Viennese. Ono has said that the twelve-tone composers Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg were among her heroes at this moment. "I was just fascinated with what they could do," she explained. "Well, look, there are people who are doing things like you do, and they're called avant-garde." Edgar Varèse, John Cage, and Henry Cowell introduced the singer to his work. Ono left college and moved to New York in 1957, supporting herself through clandestine Japanese arts classes at the Japan Society.

Ono has been credited to the Fluxus group, a loose alliance of Dada-inspired avant-garde artists that was established in the early 1960s by Lithuanian-American artist George Maciunas. Maciunas admired and enthusiastically promoted her art, and Ono celebrated her first solo exhibition at his AG Gallery in New York in 1961. Ono had been invited to Fluxus by the man informally, but she turned down because she wanted to remain independent. Nevertheless, she did collaborate with Maciunas, Charlotte Moorman, George Brecht, and Jackson Mac Low, among other members of the group.

Ono first encountered John Cage in Cage's experimental composition class, and the writer Dick Higgins was introduced to more of Cage's eccentric neo-Daism firsthand, as well as his New York City protégés Allan Kaprow, Brecht, Mac Low, Al Hansen, and poet Dick Higgins.

Ono, who began teaching at the New School in the summer of 1960, was determined to rent a space to exhibit her artwork as well as the work of other avant-garde artists in the area. She eventually found an inexpensive loft in downtown Manhattan at 112 Chambers Street and used the apartment as a recording and living space, as well as allowing composer La Monte Young to stage concerts in the loft. From December 1960 to June 1961, they were all held in a series of events; people such as Marcel Duchamp and Peggy Guggenheim attended the performances. Ono and Young were both thought to have been the primary curator of these performances, with Ono claiming to have been moved to a junior role by Young. Ono has only created work during the series.

Ono appeared in 1961, years before Lennon, for the first major public performance in a Carnegie Recital Hall (less than the "Main Hall"). This performance featured experimental music and performances.

Painting to Be Stepped On, a piece of canvas on the floor that became a finished work of sculpture as a result of footprint accrual, was on display in the Chambers Street series. Ono said that a work of art no longer needed to be mounted on a wall and inaccessible. At Macunias' AG Gallery in July 1961, she exhibited this exhibition and other instructional work. Cage was warned by Ono that after setting a painting on fire at one performance, she should treat the paper with flame retardant. She is responsible for the album cover art for Toshiro Mayuzumi's album Nirvana Symphony, which was released by Time Records in 1962.

Ono and Ichiyanagi married in 1962 after being apart for many years. Ono returned home to live with her parents and was briefly admitted to a Japanese mental hospital after suffering from chronic depression.

Ono married Anthony Cox, an American jazz musician, film director, and art promoter who had been instrumental in the institution's release on November 28, 1962. Ono's second marriage was postponed in 1963 because she had failed to announce her divorce from Ichiyanagi. Cox and Ono married again on June 6, 1963, after concluding that divorce. On August 8, 1963, she gave birth to their daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, just two months later.

The marriage fell apart quickly, but the Coxes remained together for the sake of their joint careers. They appeared at Sogetsu Hall in Tokyo, with Ono atop a piano played by John Cage. Soon, the couple and Kyoko returned to New York. Ono's parents were transferred to Cox in the early years of her marriage, but Cox continued to work full time, with Cox also handling her public affairs.

Ono performed her second appearance at the Carnegie Recital Hall in 1965, where she debuted Cut Piece. Ono traveled to London in September 1966 to visit artist and political activist Gustav Metzger's Destruction in the Art Symposium. She was the first female artist to attend her own exhibition, and only one of two was allowed to speak. During her performance of Music for the Mind at the Bluecoat Society of Arts in Liverpool, England, she premiered The Fog Machine.

Ono and Cox divorced on February 2, 1969, and John Lennon married John Lennon later that year. Cox and their eight-year-old daughter were arrested during a 1971 custody battle. Since successfully arguing that Ono was an unfit mother as a result of her drug use, he gained custody. Ono's ex-husband renamed Kyoko's name to "Ruth Holman" and raised the child in a group known as the Church of the Living Word (or "the Walk). Ono and Lennon have been looking for Kyoko for years, but to no avail. In 1998, she would finally see Kyoko.

Notations was Ono's first meeting with a Beatles fan while visiting Paul McCartney in London to purchase a Lennon–McCartney song book for a book John Cage was working on. McCartney refused to give her any of his manuscripts, but Lennon might be able to help her, although Lennon suggested that Lennon would comply. Ono was later given the original handwritten lyrics to "The Word" by Lennon.

Ono and Lennon first met in London on November 7, 1966, when she was preparing Unfinished Paintings, her experimental art display on interactive painting and sculpture. They were unveiled by gallery owner John Dunbar. Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting had a ladder painted white with a magnifying glass at the top. Lennon scaled the ladder, he glanced through the magnifying glass and realized that the word YES was written in miniature. He loved this exhibition because it was a positive message, but most conceptual art he encountered at the time was anti-everything.

Ono's Hammer a Nail, Lennon was also fascinated by the opportunity to hammer a nail into a wooden board painted white. Lennon wanted to smash a nail into the clean board but Ono prevented it. "Don't you know who this is?" Dunbar asked her.

He's a millionaire!

He might buy it." Ono pleaded not knowing of the Beatles (even though she had been planning to see Paul McCartney for a Beatle song score), but later settled on the terms that Lennon would pay her five shillings, to which Lennon replied, "I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in."

"I was really attracted to him," Ono said in a 2002 interview. It was a very strange situation. Ono began writing to Lennon, giving him her experimental works, and soon the two became friends. Lennon sponsored Ono's solo Half-A-Wind Exhibition at Lisson Gallery in London in September 1967. When Lennon's wife Cynthia asked for an explanation of why Ono was calling them at home, he told her that Ono was only attempting to find money for her "avant-garde bullshit."

Lennon wrote the song "Julia" in early 1968, just one of the Beatles on tour in India. "Ocean child calls me" refers to Ono's translation. Lennon welcomed Ono to visit in May 1968 while his wife was on holiday in Greece. They spent the night recording a series of avant-garde tape loops, later he said, they "made love at dawn." The recordings made by the two musicians during this session became their first joint album, Unfinished Music No. 4. Two Virgins, one in particular. Ono arrived home and enjoyed tea with Lennon, who simply said, "Oh, hi."

Lennon wrote and recorded "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," which contains sexual references to Ono on September 24 and 25, 1968. Ono became pregnant, but a male child was miscarriage of a male child on November 21, 1968, a few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted. Lennon and Ono appeared in the BBC documentary The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus, along with a number of other well-known musicians on December 12, 1968. Lennon performed his Beatles song "Yer Blues" toward the end of the set, with Ono rounding out the set's improvised vocal performance. Due to the death of Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones' founding member, only a few months after it was shot, the film would not be released until 1996.

Lennon and Ono, the Beatles' founders, organized and attended public demonstrations against the Vietnam War in the first two years. They collaborated on a series of avant-garde albums, beginning with Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, which prominently included an unretouched photo of the two artists nude on the front page, beginning in 1968. The couple contributed an experimental sound collage to The Beatles' self-titled "Revolution 9" in the same year, with Ono contributing additional vocals to "Birthday" and one lead vocal line on "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill," marking the only time in a Beatles album in which a woman sings lead vocals.

Lennon and Ono were married at the registry office in Gibraltar on March 20, 1969, and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam, campaigning for a week-long Bed-In for Peace. They had intended to enter the country but were refused admission. Instead, they held one at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, where they sang "Give Peace a Chance." Lennon later expressed regret for feeling "guilty enough to give McCartney credit as co-writer on my first solo, rather than delivering the story to Yoko, who had actually written it with me." The pair often combined advocacy and performance art, as in "bagism," the couple's first appearance at a Vienna press conference, where they mocked misogyny and stereotyping by wearing a bag over their entire bodies. This period in Lennon's song "The Ballad of John and Yoko" was more elaborate.

During the Amsterdam Bed In Press conference, Yoko earned a lot of skepticism in the Jewish community for saying, "If I were a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would approach him and become his girlfriend." He'll return to my way of thinking after ten days in bed. This world needs to be connected. Making love is a great way to connect." It was confirmed that some Nazis, including Nazi "First Lady" Magda Goebbels, had Jewish lovers at one time or another in their lives.

Lennon changed his name by deed poll on April 22, 1969, swapping Winston for Ono for Ono as a middle name. Though John Ono Lennon later used the word "nonnnon" in his biography, official records referred to him as John Winston Lennon because he was not allowed to revoke a name that had been given at birth. In southeast England, the couple settled at Tittenhurst Park in Sunninghill, Berkshire. Lennon, who was injured in a car crash, arranged for a king-size bed to be delivered to the recording studio as he worked on the Beatles' last recorded album, Abbey Road.

Lennon and Ono found it would be easier to form their own band to debut their newer, more representative work, rather than posting the Beatles' information. They formed the Plastic Ono Band, a term coined by Lennon after Ono's use of "plastic stands" for recording purposes. The name had previously been applied to a sound and light installation created by Ono that had been installed in the Apple press office. The installation featured four perspex columns, each representing a member of the Beatles, with one of them holding a tape recorder and amplifier, the third a record player and amplifier, and the third a loud speaker.

"Give Peace a Chance," Lennon's debut solo album "Remember Love") was the first release to be credited to the Plastic Ono Band in July 1969. "Cold Turkey" was followed in October by "Cold Turkey" (backed by Ono's "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for her Hand in the Snow)"). The singles were followed in December by the group's debut album, Live Peace in Toronto 1969, which had been broadcast live at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival Festival in September. This incarnation of the band also included guitarist Eric Clapton, bass player Klaus Voormann, and drummer Alan White. The first half of their results were based on rock-standards. Ono performed two original feedback-driven compositions, "Don't Worry Kyoko" and "John John," the entire second half of the live album's second half.

Ono's first solo album, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, was released in 1970 as a complement to Lennon's John Lennon's Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Both albums had companion covers: Ono's leaning on Lennon was a photograph of her leaning on Lennon, and Lennon's on Ono's Lennon's had a photo of him leaning on Ono. Her album featured raw, stifling vocals, which bore a similarity with nature's sounds (particularly those made by animals) and free jazz techniques used by wind and brass players. Ornette Coleman, other well-known free jazz performers, and Ringo Starr were among the performers. Some of the songs on the album were composed of wordless vocalizations, in a way that would influence Meredith Monk and other musical performers who have used screams and vocal noise instead of words. The album debuted at No. 1. On the US charts, 182 places at 182nd.

Ono joined Lennon on June 5, 1971, when he was invited to compete with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore (then the Filmore West). Fly, a double album, was released later this year. In addition to a number of Fluxus experiments, she investigated marginally more traditional psychedelic rock in it. She also received minor airplay with the ballad "Mrs. Lennon." Eric Clapton was on guitar on "Don't Worry, Kyoko" (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow) on the ode to Ono's missing daughter, which included Eric Clapton on guitar. Ono's ex-husband Anthony Cox accused Ono of abducting their daughter Kyoko from the kindergarten in 1971 while studying with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Majorca, Spain. They were ruled out of court cooperation, and the charges were dismissed. With Kyoko, Cox eventually moved away from Kyoko. Ono did not know her daughter until 1998. She wrote "Don't Worry Kyoko," which also appears on Lennon and Ono's album Live Peace in Toronto 1969, in addition to Fly. When yoko whispers, "Happy Christmas, Kyoko," followed by Lennon yelp, "Happy Christmas, Julian," Kyoko is also mentioned in the first line of "War Is Over)" when Yoko whispers "Happy Christmas, Kyoko." The album debuted at No. 1 in the United States. 4 in the United Kingdom, where its introduction was postponed until 1972, and the UK Singles Chart has periodically appeared. "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" started as a protest song during the Vietnam War and has since become a Christmas tune. We were in Madison Square Garden with Roberta Flack, Stevie Wonder, and Sha Na Na for physically impaired children in August, which WABC-TV's Geraldo Rivera reported.

Editor Colin W. Sargent of Portland, Maine, writes about interviewing Yoko while visiting Portland, Maine, in 2005. She recalled riding along the coast with Lennon and dreamed of buying a house in Maine. "In the car, we chatted excitedly." We were looking for a house on the sea... We did investigate the house! We continued heading north on the river until I couldn't remember the town's name. We went quite a ways up, actually, because it was so stunning."

Ono released "Josei Banzai, Parts 1 and 2" with musicians billed as the Plastic Ono Band and Elephants Memories in 1973, but only in Japan. She embraced feminism by mixing lyrics from Japanese war songs with pop beats, signaling a new direction.

Ono and Lennon met in London in 1970 and then migrated to Manhattan to avoid tabloid bigotry in Ono. Lennon's relationship became strained as a result of her daughter's separation from her father, and because of drug charges levied against him in England. Ono and Lennon developed their careers, and Lennon and Lennon lived between Los Angeles and New York with personal assistant May Pang; Ono had been granted permission to Lennon and Pang's union.

Lennon and Pang considered buying a house together in December 1974, but they refused to answer Ono's calls. Lennon decided to speak with Ono, who said to have found a cure for smoking within the next month. Lennon's return home or call Pang were unable to return home or call Pang after the meeting. Ono told Lennon that she was absent the next day because he was drained after a hypnotherapy session. Lennon was revived at a joint dental visit with Pang, and he was stupefied and confused to the point that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. His exile from Ono was over, but Ono would allow him to keep seeing her as his mistresses.

Sean Lennon, Ono and Lennon's uncle, was born on October 9, 1975, Lennon's 35th birthday. Following Sean's birth, Lennon and Ono took a break from music, with Lennon going from stay-at-home father to care for his infant son. Sean has followed in his parents' footsteps into music; he performs solo, collaborates with Ono, and formed a band called the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger.

While on vacation in Bermuda in early 1980, Lennon heard Lenne Lovich and the B-52's "Rock Lobster." The former reminded him of Ono's musical style, and he took this as a sign that the band had changed (the band had in fact been influenced by Ono).

On the evening of December 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono were at the Record Plant Studio and recording Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice." Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman, a Beatles supporter who had been stalking Lennon for two months, as they returned to the Dakota (their home in Manhattan). "Walking on Thin Ice (For John)" was released as a single less than a month ago and became Ono's first chart success, peaking at No. 1. The 58-year-old and the underground airplay is gaining a lot of attention.

Season of Glass, Lennon's striking cover photo, was included in the album, along with a window overlooking Central Park in the background. In April 2002, this photograph was sold at an auction in London for about $13,000. Ono said that the album was not dedicated to Lennon because "he would have been offended—he was one of us." Following Lennon's assassination, the album received high praise and represented the public's mood.

She first appeared on It's Alright in 1982. Ono was photographed in her wrap-around sunglasses, gazing toward the sun, while Lennon's ghost haunted her and their son. With the single "Never Say Goodbye," the album achieved minor chart success and airplay.

Ono's tribute album Every Man Has a Woman was released in 1984, containing a collection of songs written by artists such as Elvis Costello, Roberta Flack, Eddie Money, Rosanne Cash, and Harry Nilsson. Ono and Lennon's final album, Milk and Honey, was released in May as a collection of lennon recordings from the Double Fantasy sessions and recent Ono recordings later this year. It reached its high point at No. 66. In the United Kingdom and No. 3 are the only two. The 11 in the United States is also winning gold in both countries and Canada.

Ono funded the establishment and care of the Strawberry Fields memorial in Manhattan's Central Park, just across from the Dakota, which was the scene of the shooting and remains Ono's residence to this day. It was officially dedicated on October 9, 1985, which would have been his 45th birthday.

Ono's last album of the 1980s was Starpeace, a concept album she planned as an antidote to Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense system. On the front page, a warm, smiling Ono holds the Earth in her palm. Starpeace was Ono's most profitable non-Lennon venture. The single "Hell in Paradise" was a hit, peaking at No. 1 in the United Kingdom. 16 on the US dance charts and No. 1 on the top 40. The Billboard Hot 100 features 26 people, and the video, produced by Zbigniew Rybczyski, received major airplay on MTV and was named "Most Innovative Video" at the Billboard Music Video Awards in 1986.

Ono embarked on a goodwill world tour for Starpeace in 1986, mainly visiting Eastern European countries.

Ono and music producer Jeff Pollack in 1990 collaborated with music consultant Jeff Pollack to celebrate Lennon's 50th birthday with a worldwide broadcast of "Imagine." The simultaneous broadcast of over 1,000 stations in over 50 nations. Given the growing tensions in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Germany, Ono felt that the timing was perfect.

Following the introduction of Starpeace, Ono went on a musical hiatus before deciding on a Rykodisc in 1992 and releasing the Onobox, a six-disc box set. The box set featured remastered highlights from Ono's solo albums as well as previously unreleased information from the 1974 "lost weekend" sessions. Walking on Thin Ice, she also published a one-disc sampler of highlights from Onobox, titled Walking on Thin Ice. She sat down for an extended interview with music journalist Mark Kemp for a cover story in the alternative music publication Option last year. For a new generation of followers who are more accepting of Ono's music as a pioneer in pop and avant-garde transitions, the tale included a revisionist account.

Ono produced New York Rock, her own off-Broadway musical, which featured Broadway interpretations of her songs in 1994.

She began Rising, a family's collaboration with her son Sean and his then-band, Ima, in 1995. A world tour that travelled through Europe, Japan, and the United States inspired a rise. During the following year, she collaborated with a number of experimental rock artists for an EP titled Rising Mixes. Cibo Matto, Ween, Tricky, and Thurston Moore were among the guest remixers of Rising's songs.

Ono's Ono's catalog of solo recordings on CD was reissued by Rykodisc from the Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band to Starpeace in 1997. Ono and her engineer Rob Stevens personally mastered the recording, and various bonus tracks were released, including outtakes, demos, and live cuts. To celebrate John Lennon's life and his extensive artistic legacy, Ono and the BMI Foundation established an annual music competition for songwriters of contemporary musical genres in the same year. Talent young musicians in the United States have been granted more than $350,000 through the BMI Foundation's John Lennon Scholarship, making it one of the most coveted emerging songwriter awards.

She established the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan, which housed over 130 pieces of Lennon and Beatles memorabilia from Ono's private collection. In 2010, the museum closed.

Ono's feminist concept album Ono's feminist concept album The Sunset was released in 2001. Ono produced "Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music" at Radio City Music Hall, a month after the 9/11 attacks. It was hosted by actor Kevin Spacey and starring Lou Reed, Cyndi Lauper, and Nelly Furtado, and was broadcast on TNT and the WB.

Ono performed "Rock Lobster" with the B-52's in New York in 2002; she came out for the encore and performed "Rock Lobster" with the band. She appeared alongside Cherie Blair at the unveiling of a seven-foot statue of Lennon to mark Liverpool Airport's renaming of the airport to Liverpool John Lennon Airport in March 2002.

Any DJs remixed other Ono songs for dance clubs starting in 2003. In reaction to the "Oh, no!" response, she omitted her first name and became known simply as "ONO" for the remix project. Jokes that dogged her throughout her career. Ono's latest iterations of "Walking on Thin Ice," a hit DJ and dance artist remixed by top DJs and dancers including Pet Shop Boys, Orange Factory, Peter Rauhofer, and Danny Tenaglia, were huge success. Ono's Walking on Thin Ice (Remixes), a 2006 Ono's Walking on Thin Ice (Remixes), was rated number one on Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart, winning Ono her first No. 1 spot, gaining Ono her first no. 1 was struck. She would get a second no. "Everyman... Everybody" a reworking of her song "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" debuted on the same chart in November 2004, a reworking of her song "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" by a woman.

Ono flooded the city with two images from banners, bags, stickers, postcards, flyers, posters, and badges: one of a woman's naked breast, the other of the same model's vulva. During her stay in Lennon's city of birth, she was "astonished" by the city's revival. Julia Lennon's mother, Julia, who died as a child, was devoted to the work, titled My Mummy Was Beautiful. According to Ono, the task was supposed to be harmless, not surprising; she was attempting to imitate a baby's bathing experience, as well as those parts of the mother's body that were a child's introduction to humanity.

Ono appeared at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, as many of the other participants, she wore white to represent winter's snow. As an introduction to Peter Gabriel's appearance of "Imagine," she read a free verse poem calling for world peace.

On December 13, 2006, one of Ono's bodyguards was arrested after he was reportedly taped attempting to extort $2 million from her. The tapes revealed that he threatened to leak private conversations and photos. His bail was suspended and he pleaded not guilty to two counts of attempted grand larceny. On February 16, 2007, a plea was reached, and he pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny in the third degree, a criminal offense, and was sentenced to 60 days in prison. He was released to immigration authorities after reading an unapologetic tweet because he had already been found guilty of overstaying his business visa.

Ono released the album Yes, I'm a Witch, a collection of remixes and articles from her back catalog, including The Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Anohni, Porchnet Tree, and Peaches, as well as a limited edition of Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono. Yes, I'm a Witch was critically acclaimed. In April, a similar series of Ono dance remixes called Open Your Box was also released.

Ono appeared on Larry King Live, as well as McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Olivia Harrison. On July 14, 2007, she headlined the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, exhibiting a complete set of mixed music and performance art. Thurston Moore sang "Mulberry," a song about her time in the countryside after the Japanese disaster in World War II for the third time. She had previously performed the song with John and Sean. The Imagine Peace Tower on Viey Island, Iceland's commitment to peace and Lennon, was unveiled on October 9 of this year, with her, Sean, Ringo, and Olivia in attendance. It emits a vertical ray of light into the atmosphere every year from October 9 to December 8.

Ono returned to Liverpool for the 2008 Liverpool Biennial, where she unveiled Sky Ladders in the ruins of Church of St Luke (which was largely destroyed during World War II and now stands roofless as a memorial to those killed in the Liverpool Blitz). She returned to the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, two years later, on March 31, 2009. With the room where they had been in for more than 40 years, the hotel had been doing well. Emi was born to her daughter Kyoko in the year Ono became a grandmother.

There is no information on the Ono's current Dance/Club Play charts. In January 2008, 1 hits with "No No No No" and "Give Peace a Chance" the following August. Ono scored her fifth no. in June 2009, at the age of 76. "I'm Not Enough" was one of the top hits on the Dance/Club Play chart, with "I'm Not Getting Enough."

NGO Designers Against AIDS and H&M's second Fashion Against AIDS campaign and collection of HIV/AIDS information, as well as NGO Designers Against AIDS, and H&M, created a T-shirt in May 2009 with the slogan "Imagine Peace" depicted in 21 languages. Ono appeared onstage at Microsoft's E3 Expo press conference on June 1, 2009, with Olivia Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr to promote the Beatles: Rock Band video game, which was universally lauded by critics. Ono appeared on the Basement Jaxx album Scars, and on the single "Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)" he appeared. She became an honorary patron to Alder Hey Charity in the same year, and created "John Lennon: The New York City Years" for the NYC Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex. To depict Lennon's life in New York, the exhibition used music, photographs, and personal items. Spirit Foundation, a charitable foundation established and operated by Lennon and Ono, received a part of each ticket's cost.

Ono's debut as "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band" in 2009, she had written Between My Head and the Sky, her first album to be released as "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band" since 1973's Feeling the Space. Sean Lennon, Cornelius, and Yuka Honda were among the all-new Plastic Ono Band lineup. Sean organized "We Are Plastic Ono Band," a Brooklyn Academy of Music performance, in which Yoko performed her music with Sean, Clapton, Klaus Voormann, and Jim Keltner for the first time since the 1970s. Guests included Bette Midler, Paul Simon and his son Harper, and the Scissor Sisters, who performed her songs in their own style.

The Autism Speaks organization announced her on April 1, 2010, she was the first "Global Autism Ambassador" for the Autism Speaks group. She had made a piece for autism awareness a year before and allowed it to be auctioned in 67 parts to benefit the charity. RCRD LBL released "I'm Not Enough" for Junior Boys, a single that was on Blueprint ten years ago on a Sunrise. The song and "Wouldnit (I'm a Star)" appeared in September 14 and became No. 1 on Billboard's top Dance/Club songs of the year list at No. 1. No. 23 and No. 0 are both negative. According to the researchers, there were 50 percent.

Ono appeared with Ringo Starr at Radio City Music Hall in New York on July 7 in honor of Starr's 70th birthday, performing "With a Little Help from My Family" and "Give Peace a Chance." Cynthia and Julian were on the first day in New York City with them at the Morrison Hotel in September. On her website, she also posted a link to his website. Ono and the Plastic Ono Band performed at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on October 2, with special guest Lady Gaga, whom she greatly admires.

Ono's 78th birthday, on February 18, 2011 (her 78th birthday), ran a full-page advertisement in the UK free newspaper Metro for "Imagine Peace 2011" on February 18, 2011. It came in the form of an open letter urging people to consider, and desire for, peace. On March 27, in New York City, she and her son Sean performed a charity concert to help with the relief efforts for earthquake and tsunami-ravaged Japan. The cause, which raised a total of $33,000, was a success. "Move on Fast" became her sixth straight number one hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart and her eighth number-one hit overall this year. She also worked with The Flaming Lips on an EP titled The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band.

In July 2011, she traveled to Japan to help earthquake and tsunami victims and tourism. Ono gave a lecture and performance at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, in which she created "The Road of Hope" to help raise funds for the Rainbow House, a charity for the Orphanage of the Great East Japan earthquake. She has also been named for the eighth Hiroshima Art Prize for her contributions to art and peace, as well as her eighth Honorary Award.

A Ralphi Rosario mix of her 1995 album "Talking to the Universe" became her seventh consecutive No. in January 2012. 1 is ranked 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. She was named 20,000-euro ($26,400) in Austria in March of the same year. To the Light, her work was on view at the Serpentine Gallery in London from June 19 to September 9. It was held on September 9 in conjunction with the London 2012 Festival, a 12-week UK festival starring internationally renowned artists from Midsummer's Day (June 21) to the final day of the Paralympic Games. The album Yokokimthurston was also released in 2012, and it was a joint effort between Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. It was described as "focused and risk-taking" and "above the best" of the couple's experimental music by AllMusic, with Ono's voice describing it as "one-of-a-kind."

Ono was named a lifetime achievement award at the Dublin Biennial on June 29, 2012. On this (her second) trip to Ireland (the first was with John before they married), she visited the crypt of Irish leader Daniel O'Connell at Glasnevin Cemetery and D'n Laoghaire, where Irish people fled for England to escape the famine. Ono received the Rainer Hildebrandt Medal at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie Museum in February 2013 for their lifetime of work for peace and human rights. On the 50th anniversary of Lennon's death in 1980, she sent an anti-gun tweet with the Season of Glass photo of Lennon's bloodied glasses, noting that guns have killed more than 100,000 people since Lennon's death in 1980. In addition, she was also given a Congressional citation from the Philippines for her monetary assistance to the victims of typhoon Ondoy in 2009, as well as her contribution to disaster relief efforts after typhoon Ondoy's 2009 and the support of Filipino schoolchildren.

Yuka Honda, Cornelius, Hirotaka "Shimmy" Shimizu, mi-Jimbo, Mi-Uko Araki, Wilco's Yuko Araki, And Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock and Mike D's Ad-Rock and Mike D of the Beastie Boys appeared on LP Take Me to the Land of Hell in 2013. During Sioux's rendition of "Walking on Thin Ice" at the Double Fantasy show in June 2013, she curated the Meltdown festival in London, where she appeared two times with the Plastic Ono Band and the second on backing vocals. Ono's sequel to 1964's Grapefruit was published in Ono's sequel to 1964's Grapefruit, as well as another book of instruction-based 'action poems,' Acorn was released in July.

The press loved her online video for "Bad Dancer" from November 2013, which featured some of these celebrities. By the end of the year, she had been one of three artists with two songs in the Top 20 Dance/Club and had two top-one hits on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play Charts and was one of three teenagers with two songs in the Top 20 Dance/Club. Katy Perry, Robin Thicke, and her companion Lady Gaga are among the winners of the singles "Hold Me" (featuring Dave Audé) and "Walking on Thin Ice."

"Angel" was Ono's twelfth number one on the US Dance chart in 2014. The Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band performed live into 2015.

Manimal Vinyl's Yes, I'm a Witch Too, which includes remixes from Moby, Death Cab For Cutie, Sparks, and Miike Snow. Yes, I'm a Witch Too received critical acclaim, as has its predecessor, Yes. Ono was hospitalized on February 26, 2016, after suffering what seemed to be a potential stroke. It was later revealed that she was suffering with severe flu-like symptoms. Unfinished Music No. 2: On September 6, 2016, the Unfinished Canadian revealed that 11 of Ono's albums from 1968 to 1985 would be reissued. The Virgins are the stars of Starpeace, 1: Two Virgins, one in particular. Billboard Magazine named her 11th most influential dance club artist of all time in December 2016.

Ono launched Warzone, which featured new versions of previously released songs, including "Imagine." Yoko Ono was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire, according to The New York Times in June 25, 2019.

Ono had "withdrawn from public life," according to a piece for the New Yorker in November 2021, with her son Sean now serving as the public representative for the family's interests in the Beatles' company.

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Early career and motherhood

Ono married Anthony Cox, an American jazz musician, film director, and art promoter who had been instrumental in obtaining her freedom from the mental institution on November 28, 1962. Ono's second marriage was annulled on March 1, 1963 because she had failed to announce her divorce from Ichiyanagi. Cox and Ono married again on June 6, 1963, after deciding on the divorce. On August 8, 1963, she gave birth to their daughter Kyoko Chan Cox two months later.

The marriage fell apart quickly, but the Coxes stayed together for the sake of their joint careers. They appeared at Sogetsu Hall in Tokyo, with Ono reclining atop a piano performed by John Cage. With Kyoko, the two couples returned to New York shortly. Ono lost the majority of Kyoko's children to Cox in the early days of her marriage while still maintaining her art full-time, with Cox handling her media.

Ono appeared in 1965 at the Carnegie Recital Hall for the second time in which she premiered Cut Piece. Ono visited London in September 1966 to attend artist and political activist Gustav Metzger's Destruction in the Art Symposium. She was the first female artist selected to perform her own exhibitions, and only one of two people was allowed to speak. During her Concert of Music for the Mind at the Bluecoat Society of Arts in Liverpool, England in 1967, she premiered The Fog Machine.

Ono and Cox divorced on February 2, 1969, and she married John Lennon later that year. Cox and their eight-year-old daughter were arrested during a 1971 custody battle. He gained custody after successfully arguing that Ono was an unfit mother due to her drug use. Ono's ex-husband changed Kyoko's name to "Ruth Holman" and later raised the child in an association called "the Walking Word" (or "the Walk). For years, Ono and Lennon searched for Kyoko, but to no avail. In 1998, she would see Kyoko again.

Notations is Ono's first encounter with any member of the Beatles when she visited Paul McCartney in London to buy a Lennon–McCartney song book for a book John Cage was working on. McCartney was unable to give her any of his manuscripts, but Lennon promised to oblige. Ono's first handwritten lyrics were later added to "The Word" by Lennon.

Ono and Lennon first met in London on November 7, 1966, where they were preparing Unfinished Paintings, her first-hand exhibition of interactive painting and sculpture. They were unveiled by gallery owner John Dunbar. The ladder was painted white with a magnifying glass at the top of one piece, Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting. When Lennon scaled the ladder, he looked through the magnifying glass and discovered the word YES, which was written in miniature. He loved this exhibition as it was a positive message, but most concept art he encountered at the time was anti-everything.

Lennon was also intrigued by Ono's Hammer a Nail, where viewers were invited to hammer a nail into a white wooden board. Lennon had intended to hammer a nail into the clean board but Ono prevented him. "Don't you know who this is?" Dunbar asked her.

He's a millionaire!

It might be worth it." Ono denied knowing the Beatles (even as she went to see Paul McCartney's request for a Beatle song score), but lennon denied that Lennon would pay her five shillings, saying, "I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in."

"I was very attracted to him," Ono said in a 2002 interview. It was a strange situation." Ono began writing to Lennon, giving him her experimental artworks, and the two artists began corresponding shortly. Lennon sponsored Ono's solo Half-A-Wind Exhibition at Lisson Gallery in London in September 1967. When Lennon's wife Cynthia asked for an explanation of why Ono was telephoning them at home, he told her that Ono was only trying to find money for her "avant-garde bullshit."

Lennon wrote the song "Julia" in early 1968, while the Beatles were in India, and included a reference to Ono: "Ocean child calls me" refers to the translation of Yoko's Japanese spelling. Ono came to visit in May 1968, while his wife was on vacation in Greece. They spent the night recording a selection of avant-garde tape loops, after which, he said, they "made love at dawn." The recordings made by the two artists during this session became their first joint album, Unfinished Music No. 1, a musique concrete work. Two Virgins. Ono, Lennon's wife, returned home to find her bathrobe and sipping tea with Lennon, who simply said, "Oh, hi."

Lennon wrote and recorded "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," which has sexual references to Ono. Ono became pregnant, but a male child was miscarriage on November 21, 1968, just a few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted. Lennon and Ono, as well as several other well-known artists, appeared on the BBC documentary The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus on December 12, 1968. Lennon's masterpiece "Yer Blues" came to an end, with Ono rounding out the set's improvised vocal performance. Due to the death of The Rolling Stones' founding member Brian Jones a few months after it was shot, the film will not be released until 1996.

During the last two years of the Beatles, Lennon and Ono organized and attended public demonstrations against the Vietnam War. They collaborated on a number of avant-garde recordings, beginning with Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins, which prominently featured an unretouched photo of the two artists nude on the front page. The couple contributed an experimental sound collage to "Birthday" and one of the few occasions in a Beatles album in which a woman sings lead vocals.

Lennon and Ono were married at the registry office in Gibraltar on March 20, 1969, and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam, campaigning for a week-long Bed-In for Peace. In the United States, they planned another Bed-In, but were refused admission to the country. Instead, they held one at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, where they wrote "Give Peace a Chance." Lennon later confessed to being "guilty enough to write McCartney's first independent single rather than Yoko, who had actually written it with me." The pair often mixed advocacy and performance art, such as in "bagism," which was first introduced at a Vienna press conference, where they mocked misogyny and stereotyping by wearing a bag over their entire bodies. This period in Lennon's song "The Ballad of John and Yoko" was more detailed.

During the Amsterdam Bed In press conference, Yoko caused a lot of skepticism in the Jewish community for saying during the press conference that "If I were a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would approach him and become his girlfriend." He will return to my way of thinking after ten days in bed. This world needs to be interconnected. Making love is a great way of expressing," says the author. At one time in their lives, it was revealed that some Nazis, including Nazi "First Lady" Magda Goebbels, had Jewish lovers.

By a deed vote on April 22, 1969, Lennon renamed Winston for Ono, effectively ending it out Winston for Ono as a middle name. Although he used the word John Ono Lennon after that, official documents referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon because he was not allowed to erase a name given at birth. The couple lived at Tittenhurst Park in Sunninghill, Berkshire, southeast England. Lennon, a drummer on the Beatles' last recorded album, Abbey Road, was injured while Ono was injured in a car accident.

Lennon and Ono felt it would be easier to form their own band to unleash their newer, more representative work rather than just releasing the information as the Beatles. They formed the Plastic Ono Band, a term coined by Lennon following Ono's use of "plastic stands" for recording purposes. The name had previously been attached to a sound and light installation created by Ono and that had been installed in the Apple press office. The installation consisted of four perspex columns, each representing a member of the Beatles, with one of them holding a tape recorder and amplifier, the third a record player and amplifier, and the fourth a miniature light show and loud speaker.

"Give Peace a Chance," Lennon's first solo album "Remember Love") was the first to be credited to the Plastic Ono Band in July 1969. "Cold Turkey" was followed by "Mummy's Only Looking for her Hand in the Snow" in October. In December, the singles were followed by Live Peace in Toronto, the company's first album, which had been broadcast live at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival in September. This incarnation of the band also included guitarist Eric Clapton, bass player Klaus Voormann, and drummer Alan White. The first half of their results was based on rock solids. Ono performed two original feedback-driven compositions, "Don't Worry Kyoko" and "John John (Let's Hope For Peace), making up the entirety of the second half of the live album.

Ono's first solo album, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, was released in 1970 as a companion piece to Lennon's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Both albums were also published as companions: Ono's Lennon was a photo of her leaning on Lennon, and Lennon's a snapshot of him leaning on Ono. Her album featured raw, stringent vocals, whose sounds resembled those made by animals (especially those made by animals) and free jazz techniques used by wind and brass players. Ornette Coleman, several well-known free jazz musicians, and Ringo Starr were among the performers. Several songs on the album were composed of wordless vocalizations, in a way that might have influenced Meredith Monk and other musical performers who have used screaming and vocal noise instead of words. The album debuted at No. 1 on the charts. The United States charts rank 182nd.

Ono joined them when Lennon was invited to play with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore (then the Filmore West) on June 5, 1971. Fly, a double album, was released later this year. In it, she investigated marginally more traditional psychedelic rock, including "Midsummer New York" and "Mind Train," in addition to a number of Fluxus experiments. With the ballad "Mrs. Lennon," she also received minor airplay. The track "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Lookin the Snow)" was an ode to Ono's missing daughter, and it featured Eric Clapton on guitar. When Ono's ex-husband Anthony Cox was studying with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Majorca, Spain, the boy's name was removed from the kindergarten in 1971. They were arrested and prosecutors were not convicted of breaching the court deal, and the charges were dropped. Cox eventually migrated to Kyoko. Ono would not see her daughter until 1998. "Don't Worry Kyoko," she wrote during this period, which also appeared on Lennon and Ono's album Live Peace in Toronto, 1969, in place of Fly. When Yoko whispers "Happy Christmas, Kyoko," followed by Lennon yelp, "Happy Christmas, Julian," Kyoko is also mentioned in the first line of "War Is Over) when yoko cries, "Happy Christmas, Kyoko." The album debuted at No. 1. 4 in the United Kingdom, where its debut was postponed until 1972, has occasionally appeared on the UK Singles Chart. "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" started as a protest song about the Vietnam War, and has since become a Christmas favorite. The couple were joined by WABC-TV's Geraldo Rivera in August at a benefit in Madison Square Garden with Roberta Flack, Stevie Wonder, and Sha Na Na for mentally handicapped children.

Editor Colin W. Sargent of Portland, Maine, writes about interviewing Yoko while visiting Portland, Maine, in 2005. She related to driving along the coast with Lennon and had a dream of buying a house in Maine. In the car, we all argued excitedly. We were looking for a house on the sea... We did a look! We continued driving north along the river until I don't remember the town's name. Well, we went a long way up, actually, because it was so stunning."

Ono released "Josei Banzai, Parts 1 and 2" with musicians branded as the Plastic Ono Band and Elephants Memory in 1973, but only in Japan. She celebrated feminism by mixing lyrics inspired by Japanese war songs with Pop beats, signaling a new direction.

Ono and Lennon lived in London and then moved to Manhattan to avoid tabloid nationalism against Ono after the Beatles disbanded in 1970. Lennon's relationship became difficult as a result of her daughter's separation from her father, and because of drug charges levied against him in England. The couple were divorced in July 1973, with Ono pursuing her education and Lennon residing between Los Angeles and New York with personal assistant May Pang; Ono had been blessed with Lennon and Pang's union; Pang had been away from Los Angeles and New York with personal assistant May Pang; Ono had given Lennon's love to Lennon and Pang.

Lennon and Pang considered buying a house together in December 1974, but he refused to accept Ono's calls. Lennon decided to speak with Ono, who claimed to have found a cure for smoking next month. Lennon was unable to return home or call Pang at the time, and he did not want to return home or call Pang. Ono called Lennon the next day, but he was unable after a hypnotherapy session. Lennon returned to Pang two days later for a joint dental visit; he was stupefied and perplexed to the point that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. He told her that his separation from Ono was now over, but Ono would allow him to continue seeing her as his mistress.

Sean Lennon, Lennon's son, was born on October 9, 1975, Lennon's 35th birthday. Following Sean's birth, both Lennon and Ono took a break from music, with Lennon's move from staying at home fathers to care for his infant son. Sean has followed in his parents' footsteps into music; he performs alone, works with Ono, and formed the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger.

When on vacation in Bermuda in early 1980, Lennon heard Lene Lovich and the B-52's "Rock Lobster." The former alerted Ono's musical ability, implying that she had made it mainstream (the band had in fact been influenced by Ono).

On the evening of December 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono were at the Record Plant Studio recording Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice." Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman, a Beatles fan who had been stalking Lennon for two months, as they returned to the Dakota (their home in Manhattan). "Walking on Thin Ice (For John)" was launched as a single less than a month ago and became Ono's first chart hit, peaking at No. 1. The 58-and-a-Siders are getting a lot of underground airplay.

Season of Glass, Lennon's 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. This photograph was sold at an auction in London in April 2002 for about $13,000. Ono said in the liner notes to Season of Glass that the album was not dedicated to Lennon because "he would have been offended" — he was one of us." Following Lennon's assassination, the album received strong praise and represented the public's mood.

It's Alright, a 1982 release by the author. Ono was photographed in her wrap-around sunglasses, facing the sun, while Lennon's ghost hovers over her and their son. With the single "Never Say Goodbye," the album had minor chart success and airplay.

Every Man Has a Woman was released in 1984, a tribute album titled Every Man Has a Woman, including a collection of songs by Ono, including Elvis Costello, Roberta Flack, Eddie Money, Rosanne Cash, and Harry Nilsson. Ono and Lennon's last album, Milk and Honey, was released as a collection of unfinished Lennon recordings from the Double Fantasy sessions and recent Ono recordings later this year. It hit No. 1 in the world of No. 1st. There are 3 in the United Kingdom and No. No. In both countries as well as in Canada, 11 in the United States are winning gold in both countries and Canada.

Ono funded the construction and maintenance of the Strawberry Fields memorial in Manhattan's Central Park, just over the Dakota, which was the scene of the murder and remains Ono's residence to this day. It was officially unveiled on October 9, 1985, which would have been his 45th birthday.

Ono's last album of the 1980s was Starpeace, a concept album she created as an antidote to Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense system. On the front page, a warm, smiling Ono holds the Earth in the palm of her hand. Ono's most fruitful non-Lennon campaign was Starpeace. The single "Hell in Paradise" was a success, peaking at No. 58. 16 on the US dance charts and No. 88 at No. 18 and No. 16 on the top of the charts. The Billboard Hot 100 at number 26, and Zbigniew Rybczyski's film "Most Innovative Video" at Billboard Music Video Awards in 1986 earned major airplay on MTV and was named "Most Innovative Video" at Billboard Music Video Awards.

Ono began on a goodwill world tour for Starpeace in 1986, mainly visiting Eastern European countries.

Ono worked with music consultant Jeff Pollack in 1990 to celebrate Lennon's 50th birthday with a worldwide broadcast of "Imagine." In a simultaneous broadcast, over 1,000 stations in more than 50 countries participated. Ono found the timing to be optimal, considering the growing tensions in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Germany.

Following the launch of Starpeace, Ono went on hiatus until a brief six-disc box set Onobox was released in 1992. The box set contained remastered highlights from Ono's solo albums as well as previously unreleased content from the 1974 "lost weekend" sessions. Walking on Thin Ice is also a one-disc sampler of highlights from Onobox. She sat down for a long chat with musician journalist Mark Kemp for a feature story in alternative music magazine Option last year. The novel included a critical look at Ono's music for a new generation of followers who were more accepting of her role as a pioneer in the fusion of pop and avant-garde.

Ono produced New York Rock, her own off-Broadway musical, in 1994, which featured Broadway interpretations of her songs.

In 1995, she launched Rising, a tribute to her son Sean and his then-band, Ima. A world tour that took in Europe, Japan, and the United States began with rising. She performed alongside a number of alternative rock musicians on an EP called Rising Mixes in the following year. Cibo Matto, Ween, Tricky, and Thurston Moore were among the guest remixers of Rising material.

Ono's solo CD collection from Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band to Starpeace was reissued in 1997 by Rykodisc. Ono and her engineer Rob Stevens personally mastered the recording, and a number of bonus tracks were added, including outtakes, demos, and live cuts. To commemorate John Lennon's memory and his vast creative legacy, Ono and the BMI Foundation developed an annual music competition for songwriters of modern musical genres in the same year. Over $350,000 has been given by the BMI Foundation's John Lennon Scholarships to outstanding young musicians in the United States, making it one of the most coveted emerging songwriter awards.

She founded the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan, in 2000, which housed over 130 pieces of Lennon and Beatles memorabilia from Ono's private collection. In 2010, the museum closed.

In 2001, Ono's feminist concept album Blueprint for a Sunrise was released. At Radio City Music Hall, Ono arranged the performance "Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music" a month after the 9/11 attacks. It was hosted by actor Kevin Spacey, with Lou Reed, Cyndi Lauper, and Nelly Furtado as the host of September 11 relief efforts. TNT and the WB broadcast the programme on TNT and the WB.

Ono performed "Rock Lobster" with the band in New York in 2002, when she 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. She appeared alongside Cherie Blair at the unveiling of a seven-foot statue of Lennon in March 2002 to mark the airport's renaming of Liverpool Airport to Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

Starting in 2003, some DJs remixed Other Ono songs for dance clubs. In reaction to the "Oh, no" comment, she ostensibly used "ONO" for the remix project. Jokes that dogged her throughout her career. Ono's latest iterations of "Walking on Thin Ice" were a hit among top DJs and dancers including Pet Shop Boys, Orange Factory, Peter Rauhofer, and Danny Tenaglia. Ono's Walking on Thin Ice (Remixes), one of Billboard's Dance/Club Play charts, ranked number one in April 2003, earning Ono her first No. 1. 1 was struck. She'll have her second no. With "Everyman, Everybody," a reworking of her song "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him," it debuted on the same chart in November 2004.

Ono flooded the city with two images on banners, bags, stickers, postcards, flyers, posters, and badges, one of a woman's naked breast and the other of the same model's vulva. During her stay in Lennon's hometown, she was "astonished" by the city's revival. The work, titled My Mummy Was Beautiful, was dedicated to Lennon's mother, Julia, who died as a child. According to Ono, the task was supposed to be harmless, not shocking; she was attempting to imitate a baby's body looking up at its mother's body; those parts of the mother's body being a child's introduction to humanity.

Ono appeared at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, like many of the other participants, she wore white to represent the snow of winter. As an introduction to Peter Gabriel's performance of "Imagine," she read a free verse poem calling for world peace.

Ono released the album Yes, I'm a Witch in February 2007, a collection of remixes and covers from various artists' back catalogs, including The Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Anohni, Porphy, Porridge Tree, and Peaches, as well as a special edition of Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono. Yes, I'm a Witch, and I'm very much appreciated. In April, a similar collection of Ono dance remixes called Open Your Box was also released.

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