Word: ono
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...separate paths and their company, Apple, just went bad at the core. Brown was a Beatles businessman-executive director of their management company, NEMS Enterprises, and director of Apple-but he was also part of the Beatles family. He served as best man at the Lennon-Ono wedding and rated a mention in Lennon's rocking celebration of that event, The Ballad of John and Yoko. Throughout The Love You Make, Brown studiously keeps himself in the background, while the Beatles are pushed forward into the glare of revisionist celebrity. The book is like a police lineup...
...about Lennon and the politics of the 1960s. "Then one day 26 lbs. of material arrived: the entire Immigration Service file." Heavily censored, the FBI's records, as well as the hefty Immigration documents, told quite a story: details of widespread Government surveillance of Lennon and his wife Ono, especially in the months before the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami...
...readers of the Enquirer and its ilk may err in guessing which of the following stories comes from the spoof and which from the "real" tabloids: - The Chinese Communist government is sabotaging the U.S.-by spreading herpes. - John Lennon speaks daily from beyond the grave to his widow Yoko Ono...
...their credit, the editors recognize and emphasize the influence on Lennon of his second wife, Yoko Ono. Most Beatles fans, convinced Ono spurred the group's split, resented and even hated her. And they found her music--often comprised of screams, bizarre sounds and unconventional rhythms--impossible to digest. But all Ono did was make Lennon realize he couldn't be a Beatles forever and gradually save him from an environment of drugs and depravation...
...first time in years, John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, 49, was photographed with ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 39, and Wife Linda, 39. The rendezvous took place over a pricey meal (asparagus and fettuccine with wild mushrooms) at Manhattan's ultra-chic Le Cirque restaurant, and may have been nothing more than "simply a friendly lunch," as a McCartney business aide insisted. The McCartneys and Ono were not the coziest of friends when the group was still together, so the event took on the significance of an unscheduled summit meeting. According to eyewitnesses, the diners chatted amiably enough...