Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono, born 18 February 1933 in Tokyo, Japan, is an experimental musicia… Read Full Bio ↴Yoko Ono, born 18 February 1933 in Tokyo, Japan, is an experimental musician whose work stretches back more than half a century. Working with art group Fluxus throughout the 1960s, Ono was a pioneer in the burgeoning conceptual art movement which included work in sculpture, performance, filmmaking and music.
Few women in the history of rock & roll have stirred as much controversy as Yoko Ono. Although her romance with Lennon was hardly the only factor straining the relationships between the Beatles, she became a convenient scapegoat for the group's breakup and was repeatedly raked over the coals in the media for her influence over Lennon, both in his life and his music. Ono's own work as an artist and musician didn't mitigate the public's enmity toward her; to the average man on the street, her avant-garde conceptual art seemed bizarre and ridiculous, and her highly experimental rock & roll (which often spotlighted her primal vocals) was simply too abrasive to tolerate. That view wasn't necessarily universal, and in fact the merits of her work are still hotly debated.
Regardless of individual opinion, Ono has left a lasting legacy; she was an undeniably seminal figure in the history of performance art, and elements of her music prefigured the arty sides of punk and new wave (whether she was a direct influence is still debated, although The B-52's did admit to drawing from her early records). Moreover, between Lennon's assassination and the myriad drubbings she's taken in the press and public opinion, an alternate portrait of Ono as a strong, uncompromising survivor has emerged in more recent years.
Yoko was born into a wealthy family in Tokyo. Her childhood was somewhat lonely and isolated; her father, a banker and onetime classical pianist, was transferred to San Francisco a few weeks before she was born, and her socialite mother was often busy throwing elaborate parties. Yoko didn't meet her father until age two, when the whole family moved to San Francisco. However, they returned to Tokyo three years later to avoid the anti-Japanese backlash that was beginning in the United States in response to Japan's growing military expansionism. Ono was educated at the Gakushuin School, the most exclusive private school in Japan (the Emperor's sons were her classmates). She began classical piano lessons at a very young age, and later received vocal training in opera. In 1945, her mother took the family to the countryside in time to survive the massive Allied bombing of Tokyo. However, rich city dwellers were unwelcome, and the Ono children were often forced to beg for food.
After the war, Ono's father transferred to New York, and she moved to the U.S. in 1952, where she studied music at Sarah Lawrence College. During this time, she became enamored of classical avant-gardists like Schoenberg, Webern and especially Cage. She also began dating Juilliard student Toshi Ichiyanagi, who shared her interests and became her husband (over her family's objections) in 1956. The couple moved to Manhattan, and Ono made ends meet by teaching Japanese art and music in the public school system, among other sporadic jobs (she'd rejected her parents' wealth and the attendant lifestyle). The couple's Chambers Street loft soon became a hot spot in the nascent downtown art scene; Ono frequently staged "happenings" (sometimes in partnership with minimalist composer LaMonte Young) that featured music, poetry and other performance, and John Cage used the loft space to teach classes in experimental composition. During this period, Ono's art was largely conceptual, sometimes existing only in theory or imagination; she created a series of instructional pieces suggesting nonsensical activities, later published in book form as Grapefruit in 1964. Her first solo show was at George Maciunas' gallery in mid-1961; the same year, Ichiyanagi and Ono separated, with the former returning to Japan.
That November, Ono performed at the Carnegie Recital Hall (not the main hall), an event that featured a miked-up toilet flushing at various points throughout the show. It received negative reviews, however. With her parents' encouragement, Ono returned to Japan in March 1962, seeking a resolution to her marriage.
Once in Japan, Ono became lonely and depressed; not only was her marriage effectively over, but she received more negative reviews for her performances in conjunction with Cage. After an overdose of pills, she was committed to a mental institution and kept under extremely heavy sedation. Fortunately, she was rescued by Anthony Cox, a jazz musician, film producer and friend of Young who had traveled to Japan hoping to study calligraphy with her. Cox threatened to publicize the callous treatment Ono had received at the institution (her sedative dosage was abnormally high) and secured her release; the two became romantically involved, and when Ono became pregnant, she made her divorce from Ichiyanagi official and married Cox. Their daughter Kyoko was born in 1963, but Cox's sometime volatility put a strain on the relationship, and they separated in 1964. Cox returned to New York, and Ono followed a few months later, after which the couple reconciled.
Ono resumed her art career to considerable attention from the New York avant-garde community; by this time, George Maciunas had become the leader of an art movement dubbed Fluxus, whose philosophies were compatible with (and even influenced by) Ono's, prizing abstraction and audience interaction. Ono performed at the Carnegie Recital Hall for a second time in early 1965, and debuted her seminal "Cut Piece," in which audience members were invited to cut off pieces of her clothing with scissors. In September 1966, she traveled to England for an art symposium, and "Cut Piece" helped make her a sensation in the London art world. In November, she got her own exhibition at the famed Indica Gallery, which was ardently patronized by John Lennon. Lennon was impressed by her work, particularly a piece where the viewer was required to climb a ladder and hold up a magnifying glass to read a small inscription on the ceiling that said "Yes!" The two read each other's writings, and Lennon financed an exhibition in which Ono painted various everyday objects white and cut them in half. In the meantime, Ono and Cox had begun making experimental films, usually centered on the repetition of simple movements; their fourth effort, Bottoms, consisted of 365 close-ups of nude buttocks (the idea was to fill the screen with motion when the subjects walked). British film censors were scandalized, and Ono became an even more notorious public figure with "Wrapping Event," in which she wrapped the lion statues beneath Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square with white cloth and tied herself to one. She also sang in concert with pioneering free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman at the Royal Albert Hall. The avant-garde was becoming increasingly suspicious of her visibility, which only intensified when Ono and Lennon began having an affair that spring.
Fans of Lennon couldn't understand what he saw in Ono, but Lennon was an art student prior to falling in love with rock & roll and had long harbored an interest in avant-garde art. The difficulty with understanding Ono's art was that its impact came largely from her ideas; from putting new contextual frames around everyday objects, or asking her audience to complete an experience with their own imaginations. For example, most of Ono's pieces were white, so that the audience could imagine their own colors; even her so-called "Blue Room" was all-white (viewers were supposed to stay in the room until it turned blue). Her first musical composition, 1955's "Secret Piece," existed only in her mind (she was unable to transcribe the notes of a bird song effectively), and, in 1968, she announced a 13-day dance festival that would take place entirely in the imaginations of anyone who participated. In 1971, she took things a step further by presenting an imaginary art exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and filmed the spectators as the real works of art. As an artist, Ono dealt in concepts, not craft (i.e., practiced, developed technique and training in a specific medium). Her work wasn't what most people recognized as art, which was why many Beatles fans dismissed her as a talentless charlatan. Lennon, on the other hand, saw someone who could help him find a new direction.
Lennon and Ono's first musical collaboration was on the highly experimental Unfinished Music, No. 1: Two Virgins, which was recorded around the beginning of their affair and released toward the end of 1968. None of Lennon's fans knew what to make of any aspect of the album; not the odd snippets of noise, faint dialogue and sounds from the immediate environment, and not the fully nude photographs of the couple on the record jacket, taken from the front and rear. They were further dismayed with Lennon's participation in Ono's bizarre public events, such as appearing together in black plastic bags as a statement about judging by appearances. (Ono herself long suspected that fans' hostility was due to their discomfort seeing Lennon with a woman who was not only strong-willed, but of a different race.) After Ono's divorce from Cox, the couple married in Gibraltar on March 20, 1969, and took advantage of the publicity surrounding their honeymoon to hold "Bed-Ins for Peace" in Amsterdam and Montreal (the latter of which produced the single "Give Peace a Chance"). Cox was later able to gain custody of Kyoko, pointing to Lennon and Ono's drug intake, and disappeared with the child, whom Ono would not see again for 25 years.
The second Lennon/Ono album, Unfinished Music, No. 2: Life with the Lions, was released not long after their wedding; it spotlighted Ono's cathartic, wailing vocal improvisations, as well as addressing her first of several miscarriages. It was quickly followed by The Wedding Album, one side of which featured more Ono improv, the other of which consisted of nothing but the couple calling each other's names. Over the next few years, Lennon and Ono continued their peace activism and entered primal-scream therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov, which began to inform both of their individual careers. In 1970, they each recorded an album backed by the Plastic Ono Band; predictably, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band was the less structured, more avant-garde of the two. Ono followed it in 1971 with the double-LP Fly, which featured more conventionally structured songs as well as her typical experimentalism. In 1972 the Lennon/Ono protest-song album Sometime in New York City was released, and was roasted for the simplicity of its sentiments.
Ono returned in 1973 with two of her strongest solo statements, the brutally intense, explicitly feminist Feeling the Space and the more varied Approximately Infinite Universe, both of which featured less musical involvement from Lennon. Perhaps that was symptomatic of the problems the couple had been having; they split up for a year and a half toward the end of 1973, exhausted from their constant time together and their battles with U.S. immigration over Lennon's threatened deportation. Ono recorded a more accessible album, A Story, in 1974, but it was shelved and remained unavailable until 1997.
The couple got back together in early 1975, and Ono was finally able to bear a child, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, who was born on John's birthday, October 9. Lennon dropped out of show business for several years to raise his son and effectively become a househusband, while Ono took charge of his business affairs. Although she contributed some of her most accessible songs to his 1980 comeback album, Double Fantasy, she did not return to solo recording until after Lennon's assassination on December 8, 1980. The harrowing, grief-stricken Season of Glass was released the following year to highly complimentary reviews. Ono followed it in 1982 with the more hopeful, pop-oriented It's Alright (I See Rainbows), and had a minor success with the single "Never Say Goodbye." Released in 1985, Starpeace continued that optimistic trend, and teamed Ono with producer Bill Laswell and other downtown New York scenesters, but failed to connect as her previous two efforts had.
Ono gradually returned to visual art, creating installations and also exploring photography. Interest in her previous work led to several retrospectives over the course of the '90s, and in 1992 Rykodisc reissued her complete back catalog on CD, as well as the six-CD box set retrospective Onobox. In 1995, she recorded a new album for Capitol called Rising, which featured son Sean Lennon and recalled the harsh experimentalism of her early recordings. The same year, her musical play New York Rock debuted off-Broadway. In 2001 another new album, Blueprint for a Sunrise, arrived, updating the feminist tone of Feeling the Space while being somewhat more accessible. V2 reissued several of her albums once again in early 2007. Also during this year, she issued Yes, I'm a Witch. For this album, she assembled a number of previously released tracks and collaborated with artists such as Cat Power, The Flaming Lips, DJ Spooky, Jason Pierce, and many others. In 2009, Ono re-formed the Plastic Ono Band with Sean and added collaborators such as Yuka Honda from Cibo Matto and members of Cornelius; she released the album Between My Head and the Sky on Sean's Chimera imprint.
For Your Information :
Yoko Ono was married to Toshi Ichiyanagi (一柳慧) from 1956 to 1963.
Few women in the history of rock & roll have stirred as much controversy as Yoko Ono. Although her romance with Lennon was hardly the only factor straining the relationships between the Beatles, she became a convenient scapegoat for the group's breakup and was repeatedly raked over the coals in the media for her influence over Lennon, both in his life and his music. Ono's own work as an artist and musician didn't mitigate the public's enmity toward her; to the average man on the street, her avant-garde conceptual art seemed bizarre and ridiculous, and her highly experimental rock & roll (which often spotlighted her primal vocals) was simply too abrasive to tolerate. That view wasn't necessarily universal, and in fact the merits of her work are still hotly debated.
Regardless of individual opinion, Ono has left a lasting legacy; she was an undeniably seminal figure in the history of performance art, and elements of her music prefigured the arty sides of punk and new wave (whether she was a direct influence is still debated, although The B-52's did admit to drawing from her early records). Moreover, between Lennon's assassination and the myriad drubbings she's taken in the press and public opinion, an alternate portrait of Ono as a strong, uncompromising survivor has emerged in more recent years.
Yoko was born into a wealthy family in Tokyo. Her childhood was somewhat lonely and isolated; her father, a banker and onetime classical pianist, was transferred to San Francisco a few weeks before she was born, and her socialite mother was often busy throwing elaborate parties. Yoko didn't meet her father until age two, when the whole family moved to San Francisco. However, they returned to Tokyo three years later to avoid the anti-Japanese backlash that was beginning in the United States in response to Japan's growing military expansionism. Ono was educated at the Gakushuin School, the most exclusive private school in Japan (the Emperor's sons were her classmates). She began classical piano lessons at a very young age, and later received vocal training in opera. In 1945, her mother took the family to the countryside in time to survive the massive Allied bombing of Tokyo. However, rich city dwellers were unwelcome, and the Ono children were often forced to beg for food.
After the war, Ono's father transferred to New York, and she moved to the U.S. in 1952, where she studied music at Sarah Lawrence College. During this time, she became enamored of classical avant-gardists like Schoenberg, Webern and especially Cage. She also began dating Juilliard student Toshi Ichiyanagi, who shared her interests and became her husband (over her family's objections) in 1956. The couple moved to Manhattan, and Ono made ends meet by teaching Japanese art and music in the public school system, among other sporadic jobs (she'd rejected her parents' wealth and the attendant lifestyle). The couple's Chambers Street loft soon became a hot spot in the nascent downtown art scene; Ono frequently staged "happenings" (sometimes in partnership with minimalist composer LaMonte Young) that featured music, poetry and other performance, and John Cage used the loft space to teach classes in experimental composition. During this period, Ono's art was largely conceptual, sometimes existing only in theory or imagination; she created a series of instructional pieces suggesting nonsensical activities, later published in book form as Grapefruit in 1964. Her first solo show was at George Maciunas' gallery in mid-1961; the same year, Ichiyanagi and Ono separated, with the former returning to Japan.
That November, Ono performed at the Carnegie Recital Hall (not the main hall), an event that featured a miked-up toilet flushing at various points throughout the show. It received negative reviews, however. With her parents' encouragement, Ono returned to Japan in March 1962, seeking a resolution to her marriage.
Once in Japan, Ono became lonely and depressed; not only was her marriage effectively over, but she received more negative reviews for her performances in conjunction with Cage. After an overdose of pills, she was committed to a mental institution and kept under extremely heavy sedation. Fortunately, she was rescued by Anthony Cox, a jazz musician, film producer and friend of Young who had traveled to Japan hoping to study calligraphy with her. Cox threatened to publicize the callous treatment Ono had received at the institution (her sedative dosage was abnormally high) and secured her release; the two became romantically involved, and when Ono became pregnant, she made her divorce from Ichiyanagi official and married Cox. Their daughter Kyoko was born in 1963, but Cox's sometime volatility put a strain on the relationship, and they separated in 1964. Cox returned to New York, and Ono followed a few months later, after which the couple reconciled.
Ono resumed her art career to considerable attention from the New York avant-garde community; by this time, George Maciunas had become the leader of an art movement dubbed Fluxus, whose philosophies were compatible with (and even influenced by) Ono's, prizing abstraction and audience interaction. Ono performed at the Carnegie Recital Hall for a second time in early 1965, and debuted her seminal "Cut Piece," in which audience members were invited to cut off pieces of her clothing with scissors. In September 1966, she traveled to England for an art symposium, and "Cut Piece" helped make her a sensation in the London art world. In November, she got her own exhibition at the famed Indica Gallery, which was ardently patronized by John Lennon. Lennon was impressed by her work, particularly a piece where the viewer was required to climb a ladder and hold up a magnifying glass to read a small inscription on the ceiling that said "Yes!" The two read each other's writings, and Lennon financed an exhibition in which Ono painted various everyday objects white and cut them in half. In the meantime, Ono and Cox had begun making experimental films, usually centered on the repetition of simple movements; their fourth effort, Bottoms, consisted of 365 close-ups of nude buttocks (the idea was to fill the screen with motion when the subjects walked). British film censors were scandalized, and Ono became an even more notorious public figure with "Wrapping Event," in which she wrapped the lion statues beneath Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square with white cloth and tied herself to one. She also sang in concert with pioneering free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman at the Royal Albert Hall. The avant-garde was becoming increasingly suspicious of her visibility, which only intensified when Ono and Lennon began having an affair that spring.
Fans of Lennon couldn't understand what he saw in Ono, but Lennon was an art student prior to falling in love with rock & roll and had long harbored an interest in avant-garde art. The difficulty with understanding Ono's art was that its impact came largely from her ideas; from putting new contextual frames around everyday objects, or asking her audience to complete an experience with their own imaginations. For example, most of Ono's pieces were white, so that the audience could imagine their own colors; even her so-called "Blue Room" was all-white (viewers were supposed to stay in the room until it turned blue). Her first musical composition, 1955's "Secret Piece," existed only in her mind (she was unable to transcribe the notes of a bird song effectively), and, in 1968, she announced a 13-day dance festival that would take place entirely in the imaginations of anyone who participated. In 1971, she took things a step further by presenting an imaginary art exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and filmed the spectators as the real works of art. As an artist, Ono dealt in concepts, not craft (i.e., practiced, developed technique and training in a specific medium). Her work wasn't what most people recognized as art, which was why many Beatles fans dismissed her as a talentless charlatan. Lennon, on the other hand, saw someone who could help him find a new direction.
Lennon and Ono's first musical collaboration was on the highly experimental Unfinished Music, No. 1: Two Virgins, which was recorded around the beginning of their affair and released toward the end of 1968. None of Lennon's fans knew what to make of any aspect of the album; not the odd snippets of noise, faint dialogue and sounds from the immediate environment, and not the fully nude photographs of the couple on the record jacket, taken from the front and rear. They were further dismayed with Lennon's participation in Ono's bizarre public events, such as appearing together in black plastic bags as a statement about judging by appearances. (Ono herself long suspected that fans' hostility was due to their discomfort seeing Lennon with a woman who was not only strong-willed, but of a different race.) After Ono's divorce from Cox, the couple married in Gibraltar on March 20, 1969, and took advantage of the publicity surrounding their honeymoon to hold "Bed-Ins for Peace" in Amsterdam and Montreal (the latter of which produced the single "Give Peace a Chance"). Cox was later able to gain custody of Kyoko, pointing to Lennon and Ono's drug intake, and disappeared with the child, whom Ono would not see again for 25 years.
The second Lennon/Ono album, Unfinished Music, No. 2: Life with the Lions, was released not long after their wedding; it spotlighted Ono's cathartic, wailing vocal improvisations, as well as addressing her first of several miscarriages. It was quickly followed by The Wedding Album, one side of which featured more Ono improv, the other of which consisted of nothing but the couple calling each other's names. Over the next few years, Lennon and Ono continued their peace activism and entered primal-scream therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov, which began to inform both of their individual careers. In 1970, they each recorded an album backed by the Plastic Ono Band; predictably, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band was the less structured, more avant-garde of the two. Ono followed it in 1971 with the double-LP Fly, which featured more conventionally structured songs as well as her typical experimentalism. In 1972 the Lennon/Ono protest-song album Sometime in New York City was released, and was roasted for the simplicity of its sentiments.
Ono returned in 1973 with two of her strongest solo statements, the brutally intense, explicitly feminist Feeling the Space and the more varied Approximately Infinite Universe, both of which featured less musical involvement from Lennon. Perhaps that was symptomatic of the problems the couple had been having; they split up for a year and a half toward the end of 1973, exhausted from their constant time together and their battles with U.S. immigration over Lennon's threatened deportation. Ono recorded a more accessible album, A Story, in 1974, but it was shelved and remained unavailable until 1997.
The couple got back together in early 1975, and Ono was finally able to bear a child, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, who was born on John's birthday, October 9. Lennon dropped out of show business for several years to raise his son and effectively become a househusband, while Ono took charge of his business affairs. Although she contributed some of her most accessible songs to his 1980 comeback album, Double Fantasy, she did not return to solo recording until after Lennon's assassination on December 8, 1980. The harrowing, grief-stricken Season of Glass was released the following year to highly complimentary reviews. Ono followed it in 1982 with the more hopeful, pop-oriented It's Alright (I See Rainbows), and had a minor success with the single "Never Say Goodbye." Released in 1985, Starpeace continued that optimistic trend, and teamed Ono with producer Bill Laswell and other downtown New York scenesters, but failed to connect as her previous two efforts had.
Ono gradually returned to visual art, creating installations and also exploring photography. Interest in her previous work led to several retrospectives over the course of the '90s, and in 1992 Rykodisc reissued her complete back catalog on CD, as well as the six-CD box set retrospective Onobox. In 1995, she recorded a new album for Capitol called Rising, which featured son Sean Lennon and recalled the harsh experimentalism of her early recordings. The same year, her musical play New York Rock debuted off-Broadway. In 2001 another new album, Blueprint for a Sunrise, arrived, updating the feminist tone of Feeling the Space while being somewhat more accessible. V2 reissued several of her albums once again in early 2007. Also during this year, she issued Yes, I'm a Witch. For this album, she assembled a number of previously released tracks and collaborated with artists such as Cat Power, The Flaming Lips, DJ Spooky, Jason Pierce, and many others. In 2009, Ono re-formed the Plastic Ono Band with Sean and added collaborators such as Yuka Honda from Cibo Matto and members of Cornelius; she released the album Between My Head and the Sky on Sean's Chimera imprint.
For Your Information :
Yoko Ono was married to Toshi Ichiyanagi (一柳慧) from 1956 to 1963.
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'I Learned to Stutter'/Coffin Car Recorded live 3 june 1973 at the first international feminis…
1. Growing Pain I'm a battleship, frozen by my mothers anger Anchored in the…
8. Heartburn Stew I threw my woman power in a pot of stew And…
a story There was a girl who couldn't speak, Who couldn't speak her…
A Thousand Times Yes I said yes, I said yes, I said yes, I prayed…
Air Talk One, two, three, four, five, six. It's sad that air is…
Angela Angela, they put you in prison Angela, they shot down your…
Angry Young Woman Angry young woman on sunrise strip, Walking away to the new…
Approximately Infinite Universe In this approximately infinite universe, I know a girl who's…
Ask the Dragon Ask the dragon why she's crawling with eight legs And she…
Attica State What a waste of human power What a waste of human…
Beautiful Boys You're a beautiful boy With all your little toys Your eyes…
Born In A Prison We're born in a prison Raised in a prison Sent to a…
Borrowed Time When I was younger Living confusion and deep despair When …
Cape Clear In cape clear I saw a little girl crying. She said she…
Catman Catman, you're looking cool today, We say, catman, umm, cat…
Children Power Children power Children power Children power Children power …
Coffin Car Coffin car, she's riding a coffin car People watching her wi…
Death Of Samantha Two, one, two, three, four. People say I'm cool, Ya', I'm a…
Dogtown Okay The town's dawning, I'm the only one awake The streets…
Don Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry Don't worry, don't wor…
Don't Be Scared Don't be scared Don't be scared Don't be scared to love Bett…
Don't Count the Waves Don't count the waves, Don't count the waves. Don't count t…
Don't Worry Kyoko Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry Don't worry, don't wor…
Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow) Snow... Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry,…
Dont Be Scared Don't be scared Don't be scared Don't be scared to love Bett…
Dream Love Dream love, dream universe, dream come true. Dream power, d…
Even When You're Far Away I wonder why I could never hate you Even when you look…
Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him Every man has a woman who loves him Rain or shine…
Everyman Everywoman Everyman has a man who loves him Rain or shine or…
Everyman...Everywoman Everyman has a man who loves him Rain or shine or…
Extension 33 Living at the why, extension 33, Nothing to care or to…
Forgive Me My Love Forgive me, my love, For hiding my soul from you. It seems…
Give me Something The food is cold Your eyes are cold The window's cold The be…
Give Peace A Chance Two, one two three four Everybody's talking about Bagism, Sh…
Goodbye My Love Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, my love It's time to say goodbye …
Goodbye Sadness Goodbye, sadness, goodbye, goodbye, I don't need you anymore…
Greenfield Morning Greenfield morning I pushed an empty Baby carriage all over …
Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City Greenfield morning I pushed an empty Baby carriage all over…
Grow Old With Me Grow old along with me The best is yet to be When…
Growing Pain I'm a battleship, frozen by my mothers anger Anchored in the…
Happy Christmas SO THIS IS CHRISTMcS, cND WHcT HcVE YOU DONE cNOTHER YEcR…
Happy Xmas Happy christmas, kyoko. Happy christmas, julian. So this i…
Hard Times Are Over It's been very hard But it's getting easier now Hard times a…
Have You Seen A Horizon Lately Have you seen a horizon lately, If you have, watch it…
heartburn stew I threw my woman power in a pot of stew And…
Hell in Paradise This is hell in paradise We're all asleep or paralyzed Why a…
Hirake Open your box, Open your box, Open your trousers, Open your …
I Don't Know Why I don't know why, was getting so good with us, I…
I Don't Wanna Face It Say you're looking for a place to go Where nobody knows…
I Felt Like Smashing My Face In A Clear Glass Window All day long I felt like Smashing my face in a…
I Have A Woman Inside My Soul I have a woman inside my soul, Her eyes sombre and…
I Love All of Me I'm a shy girl, my mother calls me a flat…
I Love Earth I love you, earth, you are beautiful, I love the way…
I Love You Earth I love you Earth, you are beautiful, I love the way…
I See Rainbows Its getting cold around here People are living in fear Wh…
I Want My Love To Rest Tonight Sisters, don't blame my man too much, I know he's doing…
I Want You To Remember Me "A" I had to do it I had to do it I mustered…
I'll Always Be With You I just went to the corner To get some bread and…
I'm Alive It's me, I'm alive Am I?…
I'm Moving On Save your sweet talk For when you score Keep your Monday k…
I'm Stepping Out Woke up this morning, blues around my head No need to…
If Only I cut my finger when you left the room The wound…
Im Moving On Save your sweet talk For when you score Keep your Monday k…
Imagine Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below…
In Cape Clear In cape clear I saw a little girl crying. She said she…
Instant Karma! Three, four Instant Karma's gonna get you Gonna knock you r…
Is Winter Here To Stay Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...aahhh, aahhh... Aahhh-oohh, oh. Aahhh..…
it happened It happened at a time of my life when I…
It's Alright "mummy! mummy! mummy!" "uh-hmm? " "mummy!" "uh-hmm? " "mummy…
It's Been Very Hard Mm - ad lib It's been very hard, Oh, it's been very…
It's Gonna Rain It's gonna rain, it's gonna rain It's gonna rain like you've…
Jamrag Say please Please Please Say please We take turns conducting…
John Sinclair One, two, one, two, three, four It ain't fair, John Sinclai…
Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss me love Just one kiss, kiss will…
Kite Song I flew a kite, I held on tight to its…
Kurushi Kurushi Kurushi Kurushi Kurushi Aah, aah Aah, aah Kurushi …
Left Turn's The Right Turn Let your left foot lead you, Let your right head speak…
Let Me Count The Ways Let me count the ways how I love you It's like…
Let the Tears Dry Let the tears dry and bring back your smile, Hear the…
Listen The Snow Is Falling Listen, the snow is falling o'er town, Listen the snow is…
loneliness There're many things in life I can endure One such thing…
Looking Over From My Hotel Window Age 39, looking over from my hotel window, Blue dots and…
Men Men Men A one, two, three. J.o.h.n.n.y., God's little gift, cream a…
Midsummer New York Wake up in the morning, my hands cold in fear. And…
Mildred Mildred Mildred, Mildred, how I love you so, Remember the joke you…
Mind Train Dub-dub train passed through my mind, Dub-dub train passed …
Mindweaver He was a mindweaver, always on the phone Telling me all…
Mother of the Universe Our mother who art of the universe, Hallow be thy name. Thy…
Move On Fast Where d'you wanna spend eternity? Dreaming of liberty, Searc…
Mrs. Lennon Mrs. Lennon, o' Mrs. Lennon, Checking the sky to see if…
My Love Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, my love It's time to say goodbye …
My Man My man is the best in the world, He's got the…
Never Say Goodbye Never say goodbye, Never say goodbye, You say tomorrow's ano…
New York City Wake up in the morning, my hands cold in fear. And…
New York Woman It was getting dark in a snow-covered park I thought I…
No Bed For Beatle John No bed for Beatle John! Beatle John Lennon lost his hospital…
No No No No!! Let me take my scarf off, No, no, no, yes, yes,…
No One Can See Me Like You Do I see your face looking into the space, All tired and…
No, No, No No Let me take my scarf off No, no, no, yes, yes,…
Nobody Sees Me Like You I see your face looking into the space, All tired and…
Nobody Told Me Everybody's talking and no one says a word Everybody's maki…
Now Or Never Are we gonna keep pushing our children to drugs? Are we…
O One, two. O'oh, Central Park, O'oh, evening skyline, O'oh, …
O' Sanity It's only sane to be insane Psychotic builds a castle And ne…
O' Wind The body is the scar of your mind, The scar turns…
O'Oh One, two. O'oh, Central Park, O'oh, evening skyline, O'oh, …
O'Sanity It's only sane to be insane Psychotic builds a castle And ne…
O'Wind The body is the scar of your mind, The scar turns…
Open Your Box Open your box, Open your box, Open your trousers, Open yo…
Open Your Soul To Me Open your soul to me, Open your soul to me, Open your…
O’ Sanity It's only sane to be insane Psychotic builds a castle And ne…
Paper Shoes Paper... ...shoes... (etc.)…
Peter The Dealer We were waiting for peter, the dealer, He comes in the…
Potbelly Rocker Potbelly rocker holding his joker But don't know how to lay…
Rainbow Revelation Bless you for your anger, It's a sign of rising energy, Di…
Remeber Raven Aah! ooh! Aah! ooh! While you're busy trying to conjure dir…
Remember Love Remember love, remember love, Love is what it takes to sing …
remember raven Aah! ooh! Aah! ooh! While you're busy trying to conjure dir…
Revelations Bless you for your anger It's a sign of rising energy Bless…
Révélations Bless you for your anger, It's a sign of rising energy. (tra…
Rising Listen to your heart Respect your intuition Make your manife…
Run Run Run I was sitting in the field, feeling the grass. Counting the…
She Gets Down On Her Knees Ah-ah, ah-ah, Ah-ah, ah-ah. She gets down on her knees to t…
She Hits Back Doo, ooh, doo, ooh, doo, ooh, doo, ooh Doo, ooh, doo,…
Shiranakatta Shiranakatta, shiranakatta Shiranakatta, shiranakatta Tatta …
Silver Horse When I come in my dream to a house I've…
Sisters O sisters, O sisters, let’s stand up right now It’s never…
Sisters, O Sisters We lost our green land We lost our clean air We lost…
Sky People I stopped flying a long time ago, Thinking that's just for…
Sleepless Night Sleepless night The moon is bright All I'm asking for is Thr…
Song For John On a windy day, let's go on flying. There may be…
Soul Got Out Of The Box The soul got out of the box, The soul got out…
Spec Of Dust In the middle of the night, I'm lying in your bed. Thinking…
Starpeace "Calling earth! calling earth!" "Eh...who? " "Are you listen…
Story There was a girl who couldn't speak, Who couldn't speak her…
Story Of An Oak Tree I walked through the park and saw a young oak…
Straight Talk You say you're well and satisfied But your body tells me…
Talking to the Universe Hey, Yoko, imagine a grapefruit and squeeze it on me Ah You…
Teddy Bear Teddy bear I saw a little girl Crying She said she lost her…
Telephone Piece Hello, this is Yoko…
The King of the Zoo He was the king of the zoo, (king of the…
There's No Goodbye Made up my mind to say goodbye, Went to the park…
Tomorrow May Never Come Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh,…
Touch Me Will you touch me, will you touch me When my body?s…
Toy Boat I'm waiting for a boat to help me out of…
Turn of the Wheel Our love could never take a middle road, Our love is…
Turned the Corner I turned a corner It didn't seem that was wrong I was…
Waiting For The Sunrise Waiting for the sunrise, Waiting for the sunrise, Waiting fo…
wake up Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm, Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm. Wake up, wake …
Walking on Thin Ice Walking on thin ice I'm paying the price For throwing the di…
Walking on Thin Ice (Danny Tenaglia club mix) Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price For throwing the d…
Warzone Warzone Warzone We're living in a warzone It's a warzone Me…
We're All Water There may not be much difference Between Chairman Mao and Ri…
Well Two, three, four You know I love you, baby, please don't…
What a Bastard The World Is Early in the morning I feel my pillow, I listen to…
What A Mess If you keep hammering anti-abortion, We'll tell you no more …
What Did I Do I was looking for something in the closet, I was sure…
Whatever You Want One, two, three, four! Alright, alright Whatever gets you …
Where do we go from here Where do we go from here? Where do we go from…
Where Do We Go from Here? Where do we go from here? Where do we go from…
Why Why Why, why, why, why, why, why Why Why Why Why Why Why W…
Why Not Why? (etc.)…
Will I Touch, love, you Touch, love, you Will I miss the sky? …
Will You Touch Me Will you touch me, will you touch me When my body?s…
winter friend Once a friend told me of his experience, That he had…
Winter Song I know you now for a thousand years, Your body still…
Witch Shocktronica Intro Yes, I'm a witch Yes, I'm a witch I'm a witch I don't…
Woman of Salem 1692, six in the morning of June Sally Kegley, age thirty-fo…
Woman Power Woman Power! Woman Power! Two thousand years of male soc…
Wouldnit Wouldn't it be nice to be a heroine? Cool and slinky…
Yang Yang Yang yang holds on to a giant phone, Yang yangs soft…
Yangyang Yang yang holds on to a giant phone, Yang yangs soft…
Yellow Girl She tells her boat to stand by, She tells her car…
Yes Yes, I'm your angel I'll give you everything In my magic pow…
Yes I'm A Witch Yes, I'm a witch, I'm a bitch I don't care what…
Yes I'm Your Angel Yes, I'm your angel I'll give you everything In my magic pow…
You Its you and i, feeling good, Watching the sky turn to…
You and I Its you and i, feeling good, Watching the sky turn to…
You're The One Mountains may move, river may run But you make me be…
Your Hands Anatano te Konnani kereina Anatano te Yumenimade miru Your…