Yoko Ono Biography
Yoko Ono (小野 洋子; born February 18, 1933) is a Tokyo-born Americann musician and artist.
Biography
She attended Jiyu-gakuen (自由学園 "Learning Garden of Freedom"), a music school, as a child, and later Sarah Lawrence College. In Japan, she first married the composer Toshi Ichiyanagi from 1956 to 1962. Then she married an American Christian fundamentalist film-maker, Tony Cox, from 28 November 1962 to 2 February 1969. They had a daughter, Kyoko Cox, who Ono did not see after the divorce until 1998.
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An early member of the Fluxus art movement, Yoko Ono is now best remembered for
marrying, as her third husband,
The Beatles'
John Lennon
in the late 1960s; they had one child together, Sean Taro Ono Lennon.
Yoko Ono is often accused by Beatle fans of
breaking up the
band; however, in a recent interview (Jay Leno 2003), she revealed the
disappointment she felt by the breakup and how it impacted a life that she was
used to. There are Lennon fans who, in addition, blame Yoko Ono for the
experimental (and considered bizarre and somewhat unpopular) phase that Lennon
explored in his solo work immediately following the band breakup.
Yoko Ono performed with Lennon on several of his albums, beginning with the 1968
"Two Virgins" and including those recorded under the name of the Plastic Ono
Band. Ono also achieved moderate success as a musician in her own right. Quite a
few of her songs have been covered by other prominent musicians, including Elvis
Costello's cover of "Walking On Thin Ice".
Yoko Ono currently resides in New York City in the United States.
Discography
- Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (1968)
- Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions (1969)
- Wedding Album (1969)
- Live Peace In Toronto (1969)
- Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band (1970)
- Fly (1971)
- Sometime In New York City (1972)
- Approximately Infinite Universe (1973)
- Feeling The Space (1973)
- Welcome: The Many Sides Of Yoko Ono (1973)
- A Story (1974/97)
- Double Fantasy (1980)
- Season Of Glass (1981)
- It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982)
- Milk And Honey (1984)
- Every Man Has A Woman (1984)
- Starpeace (1985)
- Onobox (1992)
- Walking On Thin Ice (1992)
- Rising (1995)
- New York Rock (1995)
- Rising Mixes (1996)
- Blueprint For A Sunrise (2001)
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