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Yoko Ono: Nobody Sees Me like You Do (1981)

...Lost Without You – but to hear him do Yoko Ono's Nobody Sees Me Like You Do in concert...

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Yoko Ono: Plastic Ono Band (1970)

...it deserves, such is the antipathy to Yoko Ono that she can do no right.” He also noted... .... Elsewhere has interviews, reviews and other Yoko Ono articles starting here. . These Essential...

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YOKO ONO: Back with the blueprint (2001) and re-disc-covered (2007)

...John Lennon album launch, a journalist asked Yoko Ono why she hadn't released an album of her own in... ...And certainly few calling for more. The Yoko Ono: Plastic Ono Band of 1970 -- her equally... ...Blueprint for a Sunrise. It's unmistakably Yoko Ono and that's a big dividing line.Her feminist... ...on I Remember Everything.So that's the new Yoko Ono album: referenced in her past,... ...you? That there seemed no great call for it? Yoko Ono, Yes, I'm a Witch (2007) This album was... ...side as the artists might like to think, but Yoko Ono -- who was 74 in February -- still has that...

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YOKO ONO REISSUED (2017): Back on plastic, Ono bands

...the producer Bill Laswell – who recorded Yoko Ono's album Starpeace of '85 said to me she... ...doesn't even rate a mention in Jerry Hopkins' Yoko Ono: A Biography of '87. That said, it was -- in... ...in greater depth here. But that was it for Yoko Ono as a solo artists for seven years when she... ...on sale again". There are interviews with Yoko Ono in Elsewhere's vast archive as well as reviews...

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YOKO ONO: TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL, CONSIDERED (2013): As ever, Yoko is as Yoko does

...idiosyncratic, as brilliant as it is bonkers, Yoko Ono's 2013 album Take Me to The Land of Hell (with... ...visceral, sensual and astonishing Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band album in '70. It has long... ...Rolling Stone observed, “Guesting on a Yoko Ono LP has become like getting cast in a Woody... ...Take Me to The Land of Hell the singular Yoko Ono didn't resile from being exactly who she...

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YOKO ONO: FEELING THE SPACE, CONSIDERED (1973): Singing on the feminist frontline

...aside Yoko Ono's contributions to the silly audio-verite and... ...Take all of them them out of the picture and Yoko Ono's actual solo career began with a pair of... ...albums, the lacerating Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (long an Essential Elsewhere... ...of Glass) in concert. These days, at 86, Yoko Ono is still a practicing visual and conceptual...

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YOKO ONO INTERVIEWED (1992): The yin and yang of Yoko

...ridiculed, misunderstood and misrepresented as Yoko Ono. As her husband of 12 years John Lennon once... ...critics, rock musicians and music journalists. Yoko Ono: The Reassessment? Now that’s an... ...he plays little part. The Onobox re-presents Yoko Ono, not the wife of a famous man, and that was... ...like to walk … but that is it.” Yoko Ono -- polite, quiet, charming, shrewd and...

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YOKO ONO: BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY, CONSIDERED (2009): And Yoko got the band to play

...Yoko Ono released her artistically packaged Onobox in... ...cast albums, and those with Lennon), by 2009 Yoko Ono had released twice as many solo albums as her... ...a few of those as competition. So, as always Yoko Ono was -- and remains -- a challenge and the... ...close to that alarmingly spirited original Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band album, or the more recent... ...(more likely a remix EP) could be okay. Still, Yoko Ono remained one of a kind and, at 76 when this...

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YOKO ONO INTERVIEWED, THE TOURING LENNON ART EXHIBITION (1997) In his own draw

...scream of anguish and an orgasmic howl -- Yoko Ono’s remarkably quiet speaking voice,... ...in the course of a wide-ranging conversation Yoko Ono laughs a lot -- which will further surprise... ...just want to relax a bit.” And suddenly Yoko Ono -- for most of us frozen in images now 30... .... There is a considerable amount about Yoko Ono at Elsewhere including interviews, album...

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YOKO ONO: THE REMIX ALBUMS, CONSIDERED (1996 – 2016): Offering her art to others

...in popular culture at the side of John Lennon, Yoko Ono was certainly entitled to release an album... ...absent. When Yes I'm a Witch Too came out Yoko Ono said in an interview that she “would... ...– with an open mind – decanting Yoko Ono, remixed. . You can hear Rising Mixes on... .... Elsewhere has a number of articles about Yoko Ono's albums here and there are also interviews...

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YOKO ONO INTERVIEWED (2008): Art for art'$ $ake

...like a cyclone, John Lennon said of his wife Yoko Ono, “everyone knows who she is, but nobody...

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WE ALL SHINE ON; JOHN, YOKO & ME by ELLIOT MINTZ

...spent many hundreds of hours talking with Yoko Ono and John Lennon – on the phone, in...

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Yoko Ono: Imagine (2018)

...it be said straight off, there is a lot of Yoko Ono that Elsewhere plays (in private of course)...

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Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon: Running the Risk (2012)

...collaborations released this week. For more on Yoko Ono at Elsewhere -- including interviews, reviews...

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Yoko Ono: Yes, I'm a Witch (Astral Weeks) BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2007

...side as the artists might like to think, but Yoko Ono - now in her mid 70s - still has that capacity...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . YOKO ONO: The noises from within

...it came in ours -- Critic Jim Mullen, 1992 Yoko Ono was always an easy target. Conceptual artists... .... . . just have a quick quip at the ready. Yoko Ono even had the surname for it. And when she... ...and it was her debut album in ‘69, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, which was without precedent.... ...and after John Lennon. Back in ‘73 Yoko Ono warned on Yes, I’m a Witch, only now... ...are interviews, reviews and other overviews of Yoko Ono's work at Elsewhere starting here. For other...

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YOKO ONO by LAURIE ANDERSON, ERIKO OSAKA and THIERRY RASPAIL

...the time of this writing Yoko Ono is a week short of her 92nd birthday, no... ...this rather pricey monograph is to reinstate Yoko Ono the creative artist in the minds of readers it... ...comments and the weight of evidence. When Yoko Ono dies we might remember what John Lennon once... ...what she does”. This is what she did. . YOKO ONO by LAURIE ANDERSON, ERIKO OSAKA and THIERRY... ...Phaidon $90 . There is more on Yoko Ono , including album reviews and interviews at...

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GUEST WRITER MADELINE BOCARO sees Yoko Ono go jazz in New York City

...is truly The Summer of Yoko in New York City. Yoko Ono One Woman Show at The Museum of Modern Art is... ...In a small film theater adjoining MoMA, Yoko Ono went jazz. Each concert began with a set of... ...this comes her true art. The Plastic Ono Band: Yoko Ono Denardo Coleman, drums Erik Friedlander, cello... ...The David Bowie Story (McGraw Hill, 1986), Yoko Ono (MacMillan & Co., 1987), The Wild One... ...appeared at Elsewhere, here. For more on Yoko Ono at Elsewhere including interviews go here....

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YOKO ONO, REVISITED AND RESPECTED (2022): Octogenerian great-grandmother of avant-indie kids

...applauded knew who had written the song: Yoko Ono. Although she remains reviled by some older... ...her primal screaming and orgasmic wails on the Yoko Ono: Plastic Ono Band album of 1970 were hard... ...on her 89th birthday. Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono wisely avoids attempting to engage with... ...archetypal psychedelic pop to Mrs Lennon.O Yoko Ono has been a singular, often divisive, figure in... ...Marlon Williams . . . Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono is available digitally, in CD and limited...

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YOKO ONO INTERVIEWED, THE LENNON ANTHOLOGY BOX SET (2003): And Lennon's on sale again. . .

...scrutiny at all, there’s an expectation Yoko Ono will be miserable in interviews. After all,... ...at seeing his drawing on silk ties. So Yoko Ono is on the line, laughing, chatty and candid...

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FleaBITE: The Jungle is Jumping (Border)

...I swear I've referenced Spike Milligan, Yoko Ono, Mary Poppins and reggae when writing about...

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THE BEATLES: HEAR AND NOW; LIVE IN THE STUDIO 24/1/69 (2018): Wired for the sounds of silence

...on a bitterly cold day – with Yoko Ono in attendance – Emerick, who had quit...

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THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2020: THE EDITOR'S PICKS

...with references in reviews to strange gospel, Yoko Ono, experimentalists like David Byrne and Tom Ze,...

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Wendyhouse: Puddlekopf (digital outlets)

...with a helium-sucking vocal which sounds like Yoko Ono processed into The Goon Show. We're probably...

Music at Elsewhere: music/11360/wendyhouse-puddlekopf-digital-outlets/

BIG STAR REISSUED AND REVERED (1992): The Great Lost American Pop Band - found!

...spectacular oddities like a six-CD set of Yoko Ono -- put out Third/Sister Lovers (released three...

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Elsewhere Art . . . The Beatles' Whiter Album

...Gillian Martin and more remix versions by Yoko Ono, on one of which she strips out all the vocals...

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Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: Last Dance (ECM/Ode)

...association with Coleman he also played with Yoko Ono, Jan Garbarek, Ringo Starr, Beck, John...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/6467/keith-jarrett-and-charlie-haden-last-dance-ecm-ode/

Big Thief: UFOF (4AD/Rhythmethod)

...(the eerie From could be the non-screaming Yoko Ono at her childlike and shapeshifting best) or...

Music at Elsewhere: music/8939/big-thief-ufof-4ad-rhythmethod/

JOHN LENNON, REMASTERED AND RECONSIDERED (2010):

...release Milk and Honey pulled together by Yoko Ono from tapes for that proposed companion-piece... ...expect from a Lennon reissue mid-wifed by Yoko Ono, is it? Or is...

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SALVADOR DALI, HIS MUSEUM IN FIGUERES: The Disneyland of the disturbed

...70s he was being feted by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Sonny and Cher, the Warhol crew, and others...

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SEB ROCHFORD OF POLAR BEAR INTERVIEWED (2010): Always give a job to a busy man

...his friendship with Sean Lennon appeared with Yoko Ono as part of her band put together by Keigo... ...wants." He pays a generous complement to Yoko Ono: "I didn't really know anything about her...

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FRANK ZAPPA (1940-93) REMEMBERED 15 YEARS ON: Straight and Bizarre

...described as more difficult to deal with than Yoko Ono when it comes to her advancing her...

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Pere Ubu: Why I Hate Women (Glitterhouse)

...vocals can be as appealing to some people as Yoko Ono's screaming. From the confrontational album...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/1020/pere-ubu-why-i-hate-women-glitterhouse/

Various artists: Nowhere Boy soundtrack (Sony)

...Lennon demo of Mother right at the end which Yoko Ono passed on by way of regal approval of the...

Music at Elsewhere: music/2996/various-artists-nowhere-boy-soundtrack-sony/

THE BRITISH COUNTERCULTURES, ARCHIVED (2020): Shall we go to the pub or the protest?

...marches and more. Somewhere in there are Yoko Ono's art pieces, Pink Floyd, Maoists, Vanessa...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . KLAUS NOMI: Twinkle twinkle little star . . .

...Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons), Yoko Ono and other people clearly not "rock"...

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ORNETTE COLEMAN: Notes for the programme, International Festival of the Arts, Wellington NZ 2008

...Lunch in 1991. In the 60s he improvised with Yoko Ono, played with the Gunther Schuller Orchestra...

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Marlon Williams: Live at the Auckland Town Hall (digital outlets)

...on, yet also added an unexpected treatment of Yoko Ono's Nobody Sees Me Like You Do and Barry Gibb's...

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KARIN KROG CONSIDERED (2015): A rare voice from the north

...Maiden Voyage (with Jan Garbarek) is closer to Yoko Ono than anyone on the jazz spectrum. She can also...

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Various Artists: Take Me to the River; A Southern Soul Story 1961 - 1977 (2009 compilation)

...2009 at the Mojo Honours List celebrations, Yoko Ono and Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top flashed peace...

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ORNETTE COLEMAN, DAVE BRUBECK AND ME: A Song For Guy

...avant-garde singer and Fluxus artist Yoko Ono, and performed at the White House for Jimmy...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/352/ornette-coleman-dave-brubeck-and-me-a-song-for-guy/

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, REMASTERED AND REISSUED (2014): All they had to do was act naturally

...which showed a band of four individuals (and Yoko Ono) pulling itself apart. It is a natural coda to...

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LENNON REMEMBERED, AND REMIXED (2020): Does he still shine on?

...up, more over money and management than over Yoko Ono's permanent presence, Ringo Starr was...

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TARANAKI WOMAD 2015; THE ARTISTS' LINE-UP

...Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, The National and Yoko Ono. A sound both ancient and utterly new,...

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John Lennon: I'm Losing You (1980)

The remastered Lennon catalogue (released on the anniversary of what would have been his 70th birthday in 2010) naturally allowed a reconsideration of some of his material. (See essay here.) This song

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The Gin Blossoms: Memphis in the meantime

...from my suggestions (Ornette Coleman and Yoko Ono in New York, a gig by Black Grape etc). I knew...

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Josephine Foster: Domestic Sphere (Fire/digital outlets)

...called Further Outwhere. The music there make Yoko Ono and the Shaggs positively top 40 contenders....

Music at Elsewhere: music/10665/josephine-foster-domestic-sphere-fire-digital-outlets/

Paul McCartney: Twenty Flight Rock (1974)

...Games, there is an interview with Lennon and Yoko Ono at the time. In it Lennon says what he misses...

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Theo Bleckmann: Elegy (ECM/Ode)

...and out there on the perimeter . . . like Yoko Ono and Pere Ubu used to be. But, to these ears,...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/7869/theo-bleckmann-elegy-ecm-ode/

GETTING BACK MORE BEATLES (2023): Peter Jackson's video for Now and Then

...for him. During his separation from his wife Yoko Ono his companion, lover and the enormously...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/10917/getting-back-more-beatles-2023-peter-jacksons-video-for-now-and-then/

PAUL McCARTNEY'S OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY REVIEWED (1997): Still can't buy the love?

...was that schism -- Lennon wired on heroin and Yoko Ono, McCartney still the team leader wanting to...

Writing at Elsewhere: writingelsewhere/500/paul-mccartneys-official-biography-reviewed-1997-still-cant-buy-the-love/

LENNON AND HARRISON; GUITARS GENTLY WEEP (DV1/Southbound DVD)

...the Concert for Bangladesh a few years ago), Yoko Ono (about a year after Lennon's murder perhaps),...

Film at Elsewhere: film/3253/lennon-and-harrison-guitars-gently-weep-dv1-southbound-dvd/

THE BEATLES . THE WHITE ALBUM REISSUED AND REMIXED (2017): A pale shade of whiter

...also a double vinyl version of the album which Yoko Ono -- the acclaimed Japanese artist/musician and...

Absurd Elsewhere: absurdelsewhere/7992/the-beatles-the-white-album-reissued-and-remixed-2017-a-pale-shade-of-whiter/

ROBERT FRIPP 1977 – 1981: (2020): Half a decade of hard work while in retirement

...a landscape of chunky grooves in the manner of Yoko Ono, and Haaden Two which follows is a downbeat...

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LIVING THE BEATLES LEGEND by KENNETH WOMACK

...there is a hero in this story it is surely Yoko Ono . . . in 1988 she accomplished what agents,...

Writing at Elsewhere: writingelsewhere/11025/living-the-beatles-legend-by-kenneth-womack/

CoCo Rosie: The Adventures of Ghost Horse and Stillborn (Rhythmethod)

...a more reigned in Bjork and more melodic Yoko Ono; childlike charm and yet some dense...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/1238/coco-rosie-the-adventures-of-ghost-horse-and-stillborn-rhythmethod/

Father John Misty: I Love You, Honeybear (SubPop/Rhythmethod)

...a 21st century computer-literate update of Yoko Ono's instructions in her Grapefruit book:...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6810/father-john-misty-i-love-you-honeybear-subpop-rhythmethod/

RINGO ON RECORD IN THE SEVENTIES (2021): The rise and fall of a Starr

...potential. John Lennon – with Yoko Ono – released a few avant-garde (and...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/9840/ringo-on-record-in-the-seventies-2021-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-starr/

THE BEATLES' LET IT BE NAKED REVIEWED (2003): Get back . . . at Phil

...or DVD) between McCartney and Harrison, and Yoko Ono's presence beside Lennon made the other three...

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Public Enemy: It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)

...should you be in doubt. But so was Yoko Ono for the sake of rhyme, whatever that meant,...

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Tanya Tagaq: Tongues (Six Shooter/digital outlets)

...in the same breath as Bjork, Meredith Monk and Yoko Ono. Here she steps well past traditional...

Music at Elsewhere: music/10360/tanya-tagaq-tongues-six-shooter-digital-outlets/

GUEST WRITER MADELINE BOCARO hears classic Bowie celebrated just days before his death

...The David Bowie Story (McGraw Hill, 1986), Yoko Ono (MacMillan & Co., 1987), The Wild One...

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ORNETTE COLEMAN, INTERVIEWED (1996): The gentle genial genius in conversation

...for Jimmy Carter in 77 and has worked with Yoko Ono. Yet for a man whose work has encompassed...

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Bill Elliot and the Elastic Oz Band: God Save Us (1971)

The problem with political songs is that so often they are merely sloganeering and headlines. Fine print and nuance can't make it into a three minute song. Still, there's nothing quite like a chant su

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Brute Force: The King of Fuh (1969)

...finest recordings. There were also albums by Yoko Ono (stunning and years ahead of their time, but...

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/5596/brute-force-the-king-of-fuh-1969/

JACKIE, a film by PABLO LARRAIN (Universal DVD/BluRay)

...not think much of her – she, as did Yoko Ono and millions of other unnamed women, saw her...

Film at Elsewhere: film/8003/jackie-a-film-by-pablo-larrain-universal-dvd-bluray/

Norah Jones: Visions (Blue Note/digital outlets)

...to say that those who wail and rail against Yoko Ono's music have barely heard a note of it. Okay,...

Music at Elsewhere: music/11083/norah-jones-visions-blue-note-digital-outlets/

Devendra Banhart: Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (XL)

...with Anglofolk legend Bert Jansch and Yoko Ono, and this new album features Chris Robinson...

Music at Elsewhere: music/1368/devendra-banhart-smokey-rolls-down-thunder-canyon-xl/

The Flaming Lips: Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (Warners)

...they have also collaborated with the likes of Yoko Ono, Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Tame Impala, Kei$ha, Jim...

Music at Elsewhere: music/5065/the-flaming-lips-flaming-lips-and-heady-fwends-warners/

Various Artists: Nippon Girls 2 (Big Beat/Border)

...at a couple of points she doesn't sound like Yoko Ono, when Yoko was actually singing her political...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6821/various-artists-nippon-girls-2-big-beat-border/

Josephine Foster: Faithful Fairy Harmony (Fire/Southbound)

...and times this to be as challenging as Yoko Ono in her childlike ballad mode. Others may find...

Music at Elsewhere: music/8676/josephine-foster-faithful-fairy-harmony-fire-southbound/

THE BEATLES; THEIR LOST LAST ALBUM DISCOVERED (2019): And in another end

...Beatles stuff” . Harrison also invites Yoko Ono, who has been silently listening throughout,... ...And it is surprising, not the least because Yoko Ono is credited on the front cover as well as a...

Absurd Elsewhere: absurdelsewhere/9097/the-beatles-their-lost-last-album-discovered-2019-and-in-another-end/

Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic/digital outlets)

...I Want You to Love Me (which has a coda of Yoko Ono-like vocalisation) and sometimes there's a...

Music at Elsewhere: music/9393/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-epic-digital-outlets/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE INNOVATORS' QUESTIONNAIRE: Julianna Barwick

...with Philip Glass, the Flaming Lips, Yoko Ono and others, written for dance, recorded in...

The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/8964/the-famous-elsewhere-innovators-questionnaire-julianna-barwick/

ORNETTE COLEMAN AND THE NAKED LUNCH SOUNDTRACK (1991): Something else, again

...In the past three decades he has played with Yoko Ono (heard on her Plastic Ono Band album but not...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2301/ornette-coleman-and-the-naked-lunch-soundtrack-1991-something-else-again/

Sean Lennon: Friendly Fire (Capitol)

You have to sympathise with the Lennon kids: Julian was skewered for sounding too much like his Dad (and people like Karl Wallinger of World Party weren't taken to task on the same charge?), and Sean

Music at Elsewhere: music/1069/sean-lennon-friendly-fire-capitol/

Public Image Limited; Death Disco (1979)

...too far removed from John Lennon's work on Yoko Ono's Walking on Thin Ice of the same year. From a...

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/3641/public-image-limited-death-disco-1979/

Jarrett, Haden, Motian: Hamburg '72 (ECM/Ode)

...he performed with (great jazz musicians to Yoko Ono and Ringo Starr), his political position (he...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/6727/jarrett-haden-motian-hamburg-72-ecm-ode/

DANCING BETWEEN THE NOTES by JOHN FENTON

...And his Zen And The Art Of is as much like a Yoko Ono Fluxus-period poem as a Zen refection...

Writing at Elsewhere: writingelsewhere/8554/dancing-between-the-notes-by-john-fenton/

WHO ARE THE PLASTIC ONO BAND? edited by SIMON HILTON

...1970, John Lennon and Yoko Ono simultaneously released albums which were... ...as John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. The Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band album however –... ...a Chance, then into some imagined future with Yoko Ono and the band jamming for almost 20 minutes. It... ...number of articles about, and interviews with, Yoko Ono about her own work and that of John Lennon...

Writing at Elsewhere: writingelsewhere/9785/who-are-the-plastic-ono-band-edited-by-simon-hilton/

ORNETTE COLEMAN, LOVE REVOLUTION 1968: The Italian job

...later he was at the Royal Albert Hall with Yoko Ono in screaming mode. Coleman, now 76, has played...

Tagged with: miles davis | ornette coleman | yoko ono |

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/421/ornette-coleman-love-revolution-1968-the-italian-job/

BUDDY HOLLY REMEMBERED 50 YEARS ON: His life, his wife, his legacy

...relation to a Walk of Fame in Lubbock. As with Yoko Ono, she has framed herself as the keeper of the...

Tagged with: buddy holly | elvis presley | the beatles |

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/2190/buddy-holly-remembered-50-years-on-his-life-his-wife-his-legacy/

THE BEATLES: THE WHITE ALBUM REMASTERED AND EXPANDED (2018): You say it's its birthday?

...in the expanded version (see below). However Yoko Ono now sat alongside Lennon to the chagrin of the... ...wrote I'm So Tired (which alludes to Yoko Ono back in Britain whom he had become infatuated...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/8633/the-beatles-the-white-album-remastered-and-expanded-2018-you-say-its-its-birthday/

GUEST WRITER MADELINE BOCARO sees Patti Smith in NYC acknowledging her classic album Horses 40 years on

...The David Bowie Story (McGraw Hill, 1986), Yoko Ono (MacMillan & Co., 1987), The Wild One...

Other Voices, Other Rooms: othervoicesotherrooms/7248/guest-writer-madeline-bocaro-sees-patti-smith-in-nyc-acknowledging-her-classic-album-horses-40-years-on/

John and Jackie: Little Girl (1958)

...Summer's Love to Love You Baby (1975) through Yoko Ono's moan-groan-screaming in the late...

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/4883/john-and-jackie-little-girl-1958/

Lee Scratch Perry: Rainford (On U through Border)

...dub treatments and something which sounds like Yoko Ono suffering a dreadful bout of constipation and...

Reggae at Elsewhere: reggae/8960/lee-scratch-perry-rainford-on-u-through-border/

THE STROKES (2001): The future, the past or just passing through?

...is awake 25 hours a day and at any moment Yoko Ono will give you a wave while you’re buying...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/3147/the-strokes-2001-the-future-the-past-or-just-passing-through/

TARANAKI WOMAD CONSIDERED (2017): Another Womarathon of world music

...Madame Van-Anh Vo at one point screaming like Yoko Ono. It was brilliant. This was not really the...

Live reviews + concert photos: livereviews/7895/taranaki-womad-considered-2017-another-womarathon-of-world-music/

Carter/Wilner/Toure/Ughi: New York United (577 Records/Southbound)

...has recorded with Yo La Tengo, Peter Kowald, Yoko Ono and dozens of others. Another discovery. . New...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/9411/carter-wilner-toure-ughi-new-york-united-577-records-southbound/

NOW THEN, IT'S THE BEATLES AGAIN? (2023): Then and now, Now And Then

...point: a new Beatles' song Free As a Bird. Yoko Ono had given McCartney some of Lennon's late...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/10918/now-then-its-the-beatles-again-2023-then-and-now-now-and-then/

David Peel and the Lower East Side: Up Against The Wall (1968)

...he caught the eye and ears of John Lennon and Yoko Ono who had moved to the city and Lennon -- full...

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/3760/david-peel-and-the-lower-east-side-up-against-the-wall-1968/

GUEST WRITER MADELINE BOCARO revisits Sparks' classic album Kimono My House on its 40th anniversary

...The David Bowie Story (McGraw Hill, 1986), Yoko Ono (MacMillan & Co., 1987), The Wild One...

Other Voices, Other Rooms: othervoicesotherrooms/6806/guest-writer-madeline-bocaro-revisits-sparks-classic-album-kimono-my-house-on-its-40th-anniversary/

JOHN LENNON, IMAGINE EXPANDED (2018): Just gimme some truth . . . and more

...Lennon's emotional dependency on his wife Yoko Ono. How Do You Sleep? would be just another angry...

Music at Elsewhere: music/8610/john-lennon-imagine-expanded-2018-just-gimme-some-truth-and-more/

JOHN LENNON, PLASTIC ONO BAND, REMIXED AND EXPANDED (2021): The dream may be over, but it begins again

...and overdubs. The Plastic Ono Band album (and Yoko Ono's companion volume) was a remarkable and...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/9829/john-lennon-plastic-ono-band-remixed-and-expanded-2021-the-dream-may-be-over-but-it-begins-again/

PHIL SPECTOR'S RISE AND FALL . . . AND FALL AGAIN (2003): The high and low life

...from sporadic work such as the Ramones and Yoko Ono's post-Lennon Season of Glass - and somewhat...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/432/phil-spectors-rise-and-fall-and-fall-again-2003-the-high-and-low-life/

MID-YEAR REPORT, THE TOP 20 OF (2022): The taste of Elsewhere

.... Various Artists: Ocean Child, The Songs of Yoko Ono We said: Yoko Ono has been a singular, often...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/10343/mid-year-report-the-top-20-of-2022-the-taste-of-elsewhere/

THE BEATLES' GET BACK BOOK (2021): The words around the music

...tension between McCartney and Lennon, Yoko Ono is ever-present and seems to be imposing... ...and unhappiness. Ringo rarely smiles, Yoko Ono is a strange and seemingly unwelcome presence....

Tagged with: let it be | the beatles | the beatles anthology in print | the beatles remastered |

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/10068/the-beatles-get-back-book-2021-the-words-around-the-music/

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