Word: ono
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PROBABLY NOT FAIR to knock other people's marriages. Yoko Ono helped John Lennon to find himself. John is helping Yoko to find herself, too. But in finding themselves, either John or Yoko should have realized that Yoko can't sing. The double album Approximately Infinite Universe must set some record for discordant self-indulgence...
...problem's not so much the ideology behind Ono's songs. Her statement on "The Feminization of Society," which appears inside the record jacket, is an intelligent, if not too original or subtle statement of her political position. But she doesn't sing the statement. Therein lies the difference...
...lyrics are instructive in an ironic way. They prove that good politics does not necessarily equal good music. What Ono hasn't learned is that an honest verbal expression of self does not constitute art unless the writer is honestly artistic. The words must capture a mood, an image, an idea with feeling to which others may grab hold to drift along with the song. How can you get excited about a lyric like...
...course, if a verse like this last one, without subtlety, originality or lyricism were sung with feeling to a stirring melody, who would notice the emptiness of the poetry? Paul and Linda almost got away with it for two albums. But Ono has trouble when she tries to carry a tune. Her voice tends to struggle, drop it, and break...
FRIDAY: John Lennon and Yoko Ono The Lennons host Stevie Wonder, Sha Na Na, and Roberta Flack in an all-star performance from Madison Square Garden. Ch. 5. 10 p.m. Color. 60 min. SATURDAY--Viva Maria Brigitte Bardot and Jeonne Moreau play Maria I and Marin II, two strip-tease dancers caught up in a Central American revolution in this 1965 Louis Malle directed French slapstick. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color. 2hrs .15min...