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Yoko Ono Makes Old Song Gay Friendly
Yahoo! News ^ | July 8, 2004 | David Bauder

Posted on 07/08/2004 3:33:58 PM PDT by MississippiMalcontent

Yoko Ono has joined the chorus in support of gay marriage by recording "Every Man Has a Man Who Loves Him," a gay-friendly version of a song she wrote nearly a quarter-century ago.

The song "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him," included on her last album with John Lennon before he was killed in 1980, was also retooled into another version: "Every Woman Has a Woman Who Loves Her."

It's both a political statement and a tribute to an audience that has improbably made her a hit act in the dance clubs at age 71.

"I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed," she said. "I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married."

Ono recently performed "Every Man Has a Man Who Loves Him" at a gay pride rally in New York and the song is moving up Billboard magazine's dance club charts.

One of her gay friends told her that his mother had invoked the title of Ono's old song — "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" — in an attempt to steer him toward heterosexuality, she said.

Ono, whose avant-garde music was often ridiculed by fans of Lennon and the Beatles, said that's given her a connection to the gay and lesbian community.

"I'm an outsider in many ways," she said in an interview at her home in Manhattan's Dakota building, "and I think that's what they tune into."

A spokesman for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in New York said any gesture of support from a public figure is appreciated.

"If it were Britney Spears doing this would it have a larger connection? Sure," said Ector Simpson, the gay center's director of cultural programs. "Does it have some value? Yes."

Ono had some minor hits on the club scene in the early 1980s with "Walking on Thin Ice" and "Kiss Kiss Kiss." But in recent years she has successfully opened her back catalogue to the dance scene's hottest producers and remixers.

"Hell in Paradise," a remix of a song she originally recorded in 1986, is No. 5 on this week's dance music chart in Billboard magazine.

Asked if this success gives her some feeling of vindication, Ono replies — only half-jokingly — that "I thought I would get it 30 years ago."

"When you make a song, you don't think it's going to be a dud," she said. "You don't think it's going to be thrown in a trash can, which my records literally were initially."

Lennon's widow doesn't release her music now under the name Yoko Ono. Rather, the act is simply billed "ONO."

"I thought that there would be people who would warm up to `ONO' — not that old image of Ono and Lennon," she said. "It's great. It's almost like I'm reborn."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beatles; celebrity; celebritygod; culturewar; follywood; hollywood; hollywoodsvalues; homosexualbehavior; lesbian; mockinggod; music; popculture; romans1; vicenotgay; vicenotvirtue; yokoono
Nothing more than a desperate stab at publicity.
1 posted on 07/08/2004 3:33:59 PM PDT by MississippiMalcontent
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To: MississippiMalcontent

She not only broke up the beatles but she's making her own sucky songs suckier.


2 posted on 07/08/2004 3:38:30 PM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (You are the gayest thing since gay came to gaytown.)
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To: MississippiMalcontent
Yoko Ono is living proof that John Lennon had an inferiority complex, when it came to women. I mean that broad is u-g-l-y !
3 posted on 07/08/2004 3:45:09 PM PDT by G.Mason (A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
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To: MississippiMalcontent; All
Has everyone noticed that picture of the bimbette riding the scooter above the #1 post?

That's a hoot!

4 posted on 07/08/2004 3:47:53 PM PDT by G.Mason (A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
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To: MississippiMalcontent

5 posted on 07/08/2004 3:49:23 PM PDT by Main Street (Stuck in traffic.)
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To: MississippiMalcontent
Yoko Ono = "BIG WASTE OF TIME".

Sings like a cat in a wood chipper.

6 posted on 07/08/2004 3:50:02 PM PDT by JOE6PAK (I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.)
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To: MississippiMalcontent
"... the act is simply billed "ONO."

And when people hear them play they say "OH NO!!!"

7 posted on 07/08/2004 3:55:10 PM PDT by koolaidsmile
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To: MississippiMalcontent

Yoko ... all we are saying is give peace (& quiet) a chance.


8 posted on 07/08/2004 4:17:36 PM PDT by Flashman_at_the_charge (A proud member of the self-preservation society)
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

She not only broke up the beatles but she's making her own sucky songs suckier.

...and the last time I heard anything by her they did suck MAJORLY !


9 posted on 07/08/2004 4:21:49 PM PDT by sawmill trash (NADER !!! NADER !!! NADER !!! NADER !!! NADER !!! NADER !!! NADER !!! NADER !!!)
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To: MississippiMalcontent
Every man has a sheep who loves him:

10 posted on 07/08/2004 4:43:18 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: MississippiMalcontent
Isn't that special!!

I've always believed that Lennon was such a dope and doper that Yoko knew the relationship would end at sometime, so she hired a hit man to take him out while they were still married. Yoko is now worth very, very big bucks. What happened to the killer? Still in jail?

11 posted on 07/08/2004 4:47:52 PM PDT by Tacis (,)
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To: jwfiv

Pics in post 5 - today is a good day.


12 posted on 07/08/2004 4:50:20 PM PDT by Serb5150 (God Bless Ronald Reagan.)
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To: Serb5150

The Silky Pony wearing that beret is a scream ... )


13 posted on 07/08/2004 5:17:08 PM PDT by jwfiv
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To: Tacis
I've always believed that Lennon was such a dope and doper that Yoko knew the relationship would end at sometime, so she hired a hit man to take him out while they were still married.

My guess is that he sobered up, took a look at what he was waking up next to, and hired that bozo to shoot him dead.

14 posted on 07/08/2004 6:02:24 PM PDT by Ignatz (Genuine Tiajunna stuned beebers! Only $9.95 plus S&H......)
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To: MississippiMalcontent
Ono, whose avant-garde music was often ridiculed by fans of Lennon and the Beatles people who aren't deaf,
15 posted on 07/08/2004 6:05:57 PM PDT by Sloth (We cannot defeat foreign enemies of the Constitution if we yield to the domestic ones.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Hey,That's just like my dogaperam!


17 posted on 07/08/2004 6:14:48 PM PDT by Boazo (OFF WITH MOORES HEAD)
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To: sawmill trash

wait a minute, those were songs?


18 posted on 07/09/2004 7:23:48 AM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (And the pain was enough to make A shy, bald, buddhist reflect And plan a mass murderI)
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To: Flashman_at_the_charge
all we are saying is give peace (& quiet) a chance.

Yoko intends to make that one gay-friendly, too: "All we are saying is give man-boy love a chance..."

19 posted on 07/09/2004 7:26:54 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: MississippiMalcontent

Yea, Yoko's songs were always great hits. Sheesh, she broke up the Beatles and now breaks up tradition.


20 posted on 07/09/2004 7:28:27 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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