Word: ono
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...quiz on the Beatles, six Brazilian tourists were told to get back home by immigration officials at London's Heathrow Airport. The tourists said they were headed for a tribute to the Fab Four in Liverpool, but missed simple questions about the band; they were unable to identify Yoko Ono and claimed wrongly that Ringo Starr was dead. So officials refused entry. The tourists blamed their poor showing on fatigue, youth and a preference for Brazilian music...
...that remixes Yoko Ono's music, Walking on Thin Ice, has topped the dance-club play chart [MUSIC, May 26]. I'm ashamed to admit that, like many other Beatles fans, I hated Yoko until the day John Lennon was shot. It was only after his tragic death, upon seeing the film Imagine, that I realized just how deep and genuine their love for each other was. I don't think the world knew how to embrace true soul mates. John's love for Yoko was naked and raw, and we turned away out of ignorance. We were unhappy that...
...Orange Factory remix led to the Walking on Thin Ice remixes, which have the advantage of using Ono's best source material. Unlike recent Cher and Madonna dance tracks, which play up the robotic inauthenticity of the vocals for camp value, the Ice DJs seem to have genuine affection for Ono's dramatic howls. The Danny Tenaglia Walked Across the Lake Mix cleverly elongates her abstract vocal--"I gave you my knife, you gave me my life/Like a gush of wind in my hair"--until Ono sounds every bit like the grieving widow she is. The Pet Shop Boys' Radio...
...Ono's songbook is a museum basement of scattered treasures (she is trained in classical Japanese vocal techniques) and trash (she is also the world's most infamous banshee). Ono has long needed a curator, and in 2001 she gave a New Jersey duo called Orange Factory approval to go through her material and remix the 1970 innuendo-filled Open Your Box. "I'm a very difficult person," says Ono, "but when I heard it, I just thought it was beautiful. I cried...
...popularity of the Ice remixes has made Ono a performer in demand again. She's done a few club shows--usually singing from the DJ booth over an instrumental track--and doesn't attempt to hide her pleasure at her unexpected relevance. "I think it's a message," she says. "When I first came out there was a lot of xenophobia and suspicion because I was an Oriental woman standing with John. It scared people, and I understood that in some way. Now I'm 70, and people could say 'She's old' and be intolerant, but they haven...