Word: yoko
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Road, in which Paul McCartney alternates verses of cooing falsetto and rapacious shout (he's Smokey Robinson; no, he's Howlin' Wolf). John, Paul and George Harrison harmonize on a beautiful a capella Because. Lennon, high on his new love, intones, "Yoko o no-no, Yoko o no-yes during a rough sketch for Happiness Is a Warm Gun. He does a Yokoized What's the New Mary Jane, a previously unreleased number with Lewis Carroll-like lyrics and avant-garde inventiveness. But there's also an urgent I'm So Tired, still one of Lennon's most potent songs...
...unpolished gems from the band's last two years together. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, on video and CD, is a long-lost 1968 concert that Mick Jagger & Co. shared with the Who, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull and--guess who--John Lennon and his bride Yoko Ono. The Fab Four and Their Satanic Majesties--together again for the first time...
...Lennon, backed by Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, rips into Yer Blues. Yoko, in one of her first rock gigs, wails like an abused hyena. And the Stones play a six-pack of their standards, including a pulverizing Sympathy for the Devil...
Indeed, Leary's recent guest list is both eclectic and electric: Yoko Ono, goddaughter Winona Ryder, former Mama Michelle Phillips, dolphin researcher John Lilly, onetime Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro, the widow of Aldous Huxley, the members of the industrial-metal group Ministry, and Ram Dass, who used to be Leary's old Harvard bud Richard Alpert. Oh, yes, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins just dropped by and dropped off a tape of Dead Man Walking. "It's a little hectic up here," says Leary's personal assistant, a young woman with magenta-streaked hair, Technicolorfully tattooed legs...
UNLIKE, SAY, THE BEATLES, YOKO ONO DOESN'T have much of a market for her old outtakes--so John Lennon's widow just has to keep producing new material and fresh performances. Last week in New York City, backed by Ima, her son Sean Ono Lennon's alternative-rock trio, she appeared at the Knitting Factory, a trendy performance space that often showcases culty bands. The set, featuring songs from her latest CD, Rising, was deliberately abrasive, her wailing voice (which evoked Eastern devotional music) propelled by Ima's churning, mid-tempo guitar rock (Lennon's guitar work was blunt...