Posted on 07/05/2020 3:43:44 PM PDT by be-baw
Three years ago, when the National Music Publishers’ Association presented Yoko Ono with their Centennial Song Award, Sean Lennon pushed his mother onto the stage at Cipriani 42nd Street in a wheelchair — shocking some who didn’t realize the formidable avant-garde artist was incapacitated.
But in her signature shades, black leather jacket and white Panama hat, the widow of John Lennon didn’t seem to miss a beat when she began a short acceptance speech by addressing the elephant in the room.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you,” she said, clutching the award in one hand and a microphone in the other as Sean whispered to her about what was going on. “I’ve learned so much from having this illness. I’m thankful I went through that.”
While it’s not clear what “illness” she was referring to, Ono, now 87, is still ailing, requires round-the-clock care and rarely leaves her sprawling apartment in The Dakota, a source close to her staff told The Post. In photos taken at rare public appearances — including a women’s march in Columbus Circle last year and at a commemoration of John in Liverpool in May 2018 — Ono is confined to a wheelchair, or walks with great difficulty using a cane, often leaning on a caregiver or Sean for support.
She has also been selling off some real-estate assets in recent years
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Perhaps America’s answer to the Beatles was the flaming groovies
I guess that’s why they’re legends and I’m not. If that was the cacaphony of praise I was receiving, I’d continue to play and sing, but not worry too much in the moment if it was coming out as well as I’d hoped.
George was a Harrison of a...
liela liked him...
Yep - I had my mental prejudices until I saw a documentary about the both of them with many candid shots/conversations...changed my whole mind about her....and him.
She died of Coronavirus in 3, 2, 1.......
Many people did but I was listening to the local FM station and they were playing his songs and that is how I found out.
They were serious about their music, too, and by the time they finally went into the studio, they were in their mid-twenties, tired of teeny boppers and the screaming. I have read that they had fun in 1964 with all of the hysteria, but after that it became tedious and a terrible weight.
No kidding.
Even I was suspicious of the media after that “Bigger than Jesus’ flap. and I think I was only 11 at the time.
I heard about the burning records, and I asked what it was all about- when I read what he actually said I realized he was talking about how bad it was that more people knew about The Beatles than Jesus- and I thought that was actually a good statement- and I wondered why were people being so dumb.
As for Yoko- I think The Beatles were growing their own ways before she came along- they just hated him bringing her to work with him, and even more pissed when she tried contributing suggestions. It was just one of those things.
The Beatles were not perfect, but their music was.
On an unrelated note, just watched a video of him lighting the Empire State Building blue in honor of what would have been his dad's 80th birthday.
I couldn't frankly believe it. I thought I was watching Andy Kaufman. Same voice, even looks a little bit like him.
The Simulation is undoubtedly reusing some software once again ... with a wink to Scott Adams ...;>)
Burning those plastic LPs was not the most efficient way to dispose of the records, (lots of thick black smoke) but I understand they were making a public statement of rejection. Taking boxes full of discs to the City Dump wouldn’t have the same impact.
Still alive.
(I’m reviewing my own comment history.)
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