Shoreworld: Cut Pieces - A Tribute To Yoko Ono

Sunday, February 1, 2015

But truth be told, long before that assumption, Lennon was done with The Beatles anyhow. All the money and accolades in the world couldn’t have kept him in his shiny grey suit and pointy boots any longer than he was obligated to be as that entertainer. What Lennon saw in Ono was more about evolving into his existence rather than pitting her against the world as the reason for leaving the famous group, and he took to her with mind, body and soul.

To be fair, I can see what he might have been enamored with back then. Long before Ono met Lennon, she had a direction of her own invention. An avant garde innovator of the early era, Ono had a self-made scene. Rubbing elbows with John Cage and other luminaries (she was a member of the Fluxus movement of artists), Ono hosted countless series of raw and original visual happenings as far back as 1961.

A self-promoting apprentice of the bizarre, Ono forged her own radical brand as a pioneer of conceptual and performance art, going far against the grain and mesmerizing (or alienating) a denizen of New York City scenesters.

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zyrus

Created on: 2/4/2015 4:17 PM

Blasphomy

This is desecration and sad to no end. John only started to move away from the Beatles when scrambled yoko started putting things int his head so she could finally have control of him and his legacy by getting him to leave them and start his own career. As his wife, she would have complete and total control over it, which she has done. Keeping his own children from items and sentimental possessions from them. She was a greedy, fake who will milk it until they day she dies. Her own career was major flop so she rode on the coat tails of the great John Lennon.