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Long before she met John Lennon, in 1966, Ono had been part of the group of New York musicians and artists who would call themselves Fluxus, pioneers of conceptual and performance art. For her 1964 Cut Piece, Ono sat onstage at Carnegie Hall while audience members came up one by one to scissor off pieces of her clothes. Her "instruction paintings" of 1961 were just typed directives like WATCH THE SUN UNTIL IT BECOMES SQUARE...
Martin also cleared up a number of rumors about the band and the album. Martin said the title of the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," often thought to be about the drug LSD, was inspired by a painting created by John Lennon's young son Julian. The painting depicted Julian's classmate Lucy literally in the sky with diamonds...
...Beatles Anthology, a coffee table-size volume of text and photos, is the big one. The saga of the group is told primarily in the alternating voices of McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr. Their magical mystery tour is related in straight-ahead chronological order: Lennon growing up on Penny Lane (yes, that's really where he lived for a time); John and Paul meeting as teens and later hooking up with Harrison and then Starr; the early days of the band in Hamburg, Germany; and the making of each one of their albums. There are some interesting tidbits and stories...
...Beatles Anthology is billed as the Beatles' own "permanent written record." Essentially, it is an attempt by the surviving Beatles--Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr--and John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono to write the story of the band before somebody else writes it for them...
...already enough Beatles-related books out there to fill the Albert Hall, and in the next few weeks several more are arriving. They include YES Yoko Ono (Abrams; 352 pages; $60) by Alexandra Munroe with Jon Hendricks, a survey, complete with a CD by Ono and her son Sean Lennon; Paul McCartney Paintings (Bulfinch; 146 pages; $50), which features the cute Beatle's artwork; and In My Life by Debbie Geller (St. Martin's; 208 pages; $24.95), a biography of Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager...