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'I felt I was on trial for murdering the Beatles': Yoko says.....
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Posted on 12/02/2013 8:22:47 PM PST by Morgana

FULL TITLE: 'I felt I was on trial for murdering the Beatles': Yoko says fans wrongly convicted her for 40 years

Yoko Ono has told how being blamed for The Beatles’ split made her feel like she was on trial for murder.

She said: ‘It feels like I was accused of something that I didn’t do, which was breaking up The Beatles. It’s like you’re accused of murder and you’re in prison and you can’t get out.’

Since the Fab Four broke up in 1970, Miss Ono has been blamed by many fans for their demise because she was in a relationship with John Lennon.

The couple moved to New York a year later so they could work more closely on the burgeoning peace movement. Lennon was shot dead in 1981.

In an interview with a US magazine, Ono reflected on the years since the band broke and added the allegation left her feeling that she ‘wasn’t valued by people’ and that the only way to cope was to take the hatred directed at her and ‘turn it around into love’.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: artrock; avantgarde; beatlemania; beatles; johnlennon; ohno; spinaltapmoment; thebeatles; yokoono
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To: Slings and Arrows

Hmmm...why did that make me think of poor Chekov?


81 posted on 12/03/2013 1:48:18 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Heh, funny comment there. As conservatives, we care about making money but we want to produce quality as well.

Liberals care about making money too, but if someone like Miley Cyrus or Yoko Ono make money by being frauds and preying off the stupidity and ignorance of their fellow liberals, that is even sweeter for them!


82 posted on 12/03/2013 1:52:00 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: Morgana

Here’s Yoko ruining a duet by John Lennon and Chuck Berry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9kgu71d81U


83 posted on 12/03/2013 1:53:08 PM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: dmz

Hate it..


84 posted on 12/03/2013 2:37:41 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: dmz
Ringo = the luckiest man in rock and roll.

George was awfully nice to lend him "It Don't Come Easy", the best solo Beatle song of all.

85 posted on 12/03/2013 2:40:42 PM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
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To: dmz
Says the guy who has obviously never given a good listen to Exile on Main Street.

Hard to beat the four albums starting with Beggar's Banquet and ending with Exile.

86 posted on 12/03/2013 2:43:10 PM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
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To: Maceman; SortaBichy
Yoko Ono is the punchline to that old riddle......:

"What's yellow, ugly, and sleeps alone?"

87 posted on 12/03/2013 2:45:04 PM PST by ErnBatavia (The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure)
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To: capydick

Mark David Chapman won’t go to Hell for killing John Lennon, he’s going to Hell for not killing Yoko.


88 posted on 12/03/2013 2:45:34 PM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
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To: rlmorel

Better watch out for dain bramage.


89 posted on 12/03/2013 2:58:03 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: rlmorel

The lizard looks like Ricardo Montalban?


90 posted on 12/03/2013 2:59:35 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: lee martell

I’ll give him his due on this: Abbey Road, side 2.

“Maybe I’m Amazed” isn’t a bad song, either. Fine for classic rock radio fare.

I just always thought he was the least interesting of the four. I wish there’d been more George, less Paul.


91 posted on 12/03/2013 9:24:38 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (If you don't stand up, you don't stand a chance.)
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To: dmz

I don’t think I know any of Ringo’s solo stuff. I was just referring to the settled science of Paul sucking.

The Wilburys were a cool project. Probably the most impressive “supergroup” ever put together.


92 posted on 12/03/2013 9:42:05 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (If you don't stand up, you don't stand a chance.)
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