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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...
Shortly before his death in 1980, Lennon recorded the unfinished tune--a slight hymn to deliverance, with the structure of his 1964 This Boy and the feel of his 1970 post-Beatles Love--on a low-fi home cassette, which Yoko Ono Lennon turned over to her husband's old chums. "It had hums, hisses and clicks that had to be removed," says pop maestro Jeff Lynne, formerly of Electric Light Orchestra, who produced this year's eerie session. "But that was the easy part. The hard part was getting the Beatles to play together along with him." Once they...
Little Richard and Yoko Ono, though few on rock's current A-list, made it to the ribbon-cutting ceremony today in Cleveland for the $92 million Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a six-story glass and steel pyramid that may actually be worth the investment. "It's a very important museum," says music critic Christopher John Farley. "It is a lot more than seeing Bruce Springsteen's junior college poetry. It documents the history of an American art form. It's a great looking building that really captures the spirit of the music." The museum opens Saturday...
Tens of thousands of people, appalled at the lack of goods and services, picked up their belongings and set out on foot for Osaka, 19 miles away. Yoko Kawaguchi, 28, dressed in fashionable clothes, pushed her daughter Aya, 14 months, around piles of cement and glass. ``We're going to my sister's house near Osaka,'' she said, pointing to her husband driving ahead of her on a motorcycle loaded with clothing. ``We're worried that our house might not survive another strong quake.'' An elderly man stayed put, sitting in front of his shattered house, holding a flask. ``Everything...