Word: yoko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ANDY WARHOL, who struck out boldly into the high and far-off hinterlands of tedium to develop its commercial possibilities as entertainment in the name of avant-garde and to create himself in his own image. JOHN and YOKO ONO LENNON, who have collaborated in making over the No. 1 Beatle from a witty and light-hearted songwriter into a salvation-dispensing preacher for peace and porn...
...charged the gallery with showing indecent pictures. By the time the case was tossed out of court, there had been enough publicity to satisfy the most ambitious press agent. Crowds flocked in to see John's line drawings of himself making love to his Japanese wife Yoko Ono. Sold: 296 sets of 14 lithos, for a total artist's commission...
Shot 15 months ago, mostly in and around the Apple recording studios, the film concentrates heavily on Paul McCartney, so much so that the billing might be changed to "Let It Be, starring Paul McCartney and some other Beatles." There are flashes of John dancing with his wife Yoko Ono, and George and Ringo picking out Octopus Garden on guitar and piano, but most of the good footage belongs to Paul. He is the one who seems to be running the recording sessions, and he is surely the one who gets to sing-mostly in lingering closeups-all the great...
...STILL, Yoko is acknowledged as a wit, and we must acknowledge what it is that makes her great. (1) Originally, she was, like you and me, a nobody. But she happened to realize early what you and I are realizing now: something, you know, about how the world's freaky, and feed-your-head, and expand-your-mind, and you-too-can-be-creative, and just-get-stoned-enough-and-you'll-be-stoned-all-the-time. (2) In 1963, the year Kennedy died, the Beatles burst on the scene. We thought they were going to be just another rock...
When John and Yoko met over Eurasia, they attempted to knell the death of rational thought. Our small minds are fearful of forfeiting that thinking, because we are the proletariat and are still so much at the mercy of the world that we wish to continue thinking in its terms. When told to change our heads, instead we insist on worrving about our bread. The Beatles and Yoko are into something that only a fool won't envy, but somehow the Stones are closer to recognizing the realities which box all but a lucky few. Before concluding that you like...