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...devil took the first Beatle, and now God has taken another. When John Lennon was murdered in 1980, it was a sad anomaly, the impossible-to- predict act of a madman. The death of George Harrison, 58, of cancer in Los Angeles this week is something different. It's the sadly natural passing of a guiding spirit of the 60s and a prince of classic rock. "All Things Must Pass," was the title of Harrison's post-Beatles solo album in 1970. It could also be his epitaph...
...voice to work for his more-is-more orchestrations. Both for better and for worse, her vocals have become the icing on his sugary vanilla layer cake of strings, guitars, keyboards and marching-band drum fills. His adornments make some of Lynne's performances, like a cover of John Lennon's Mother, feel dipped in lead; and others, like the ballad Wall in Your Heart, in certified gold...
...Lighting Piece,” “Light a match and watch till it goes out” represented the vanguard of New York conceptual art before the term “conceptual” even existed. Well before her 1969 marriage to Lennon, perhaps the decade’s most memorable “event,” Ono had already been nominated “The High Priestess of the Happening” by the Liverpool Daily Post. Her collaborators and friends included John Cage and La Monte Young, along with other luminaries of the international avant...
...makes nature the object of wondrous contemplation, and the famous “Painting to Hammer a Nail” (1966), a white plaster-board which is only completed once the viewer has pounded in nails using an attached hammer. Ono is said to have fallen in love with Lennon when, at a 1966 exhibition, he asked her permission to add a nail to the work. She told him that a nail cost five shillings, to which Lennon responded by asking if he could hammer an imaginary nail into the surface...
Which leads us to Lennon (at least in his hirsute, post-Sargeant Pepper phase). Perhaps in an effort to avoid eclipsing Ono’s independent work, or perhaps because their collaborations are simply less interesting, the exhibition downplays Lennon and Ono’s joint projects, which began a couple of years before their marriage and lasted until Lennon’s death in 1980. However, the scraps provided are important historically and flesh out the political dimension of Ono’s career. Ono has said that her art is about the power of the imagination to change...