Yoko Ono: Last News

John Lennon first met Yoko Ono - who turns 90-years-old today, Saturday, February 18, 2023 - in 1966 when they bumped into one another at a gallery in London, England. Throughout the following two years, The Beatles star spent more and more time with the Japanese artist and became secretly infatuated with her. Eventually, their relationship became romantic, and it all came to a head when Lennon invited her to his house while his wife, Cynthia Lennon, was on holiday.

Yoko Ono has launched a ‘wish tree’ website to mark her 90th birthday.Yoko turns 90 on February 18 and to celebrate, her son, Sean Ono Lennon has made a virtual ‘Wish Tree’ where people all over the world can post their wishes online and (in association with One Tree Planted) plant real trees in Yoko’s honour.Yoko first came up with the idea of ‘Wish Trees’ in 1996 and since its inception, Yoko has collected nearly two million wishes from more than 200 physical installations of the Wish Tree in over 35 countries.The new website, which you can view here, now allows virtual wishes to be posted online on an interactive Wish Tree.In her original instruction for the Wish Tree Yoko wrote:Make a wish Write it down on a piece of paper Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree. Ask your friend to do the same.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show. Titled Daytime Revolution, the documentary was authorised by Ono and Lennon’s son, Sean, and will include archival footage from each of the five episodes co-hosted by the famous couple in 1972. Daytime Revolution was directed by Erik Nelson, and will feature interviews with surviving guests who were interviewed by Lennon and Ono on The Mike Douglas Show, as well as behind-the-scenes stories of the pair’s week-long stint.According to Variety, production has wrapped on Daytime Revolution, with its producers currently seeking a distributor.Across their five-episode run on The Mike Douglas Show, Lennon and Ono discussed then-controversial topics like environmental conservation and police brutality, and interviewed activists like Black Panther chairman Bobby Seale, and lecturer and attorney Ralph Nader.Speaking of Daytime Revolution, Nelson said: “It’s become a cliche that Woodstock was the defining moment of the counterculture, [but] when I watched these broadcasts in their entirety, I realized that, in reality, this week in 1972, when Lennon and Ono essentially hijacked the airwaves and presented the best minds and dreams of their generation to the widest possible mass audience… was as far as the counterculture would ever get.”A release date for Daytime Revolution has not yet been announced.

Addie Morfoot Contributor Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon have authorized “Daytime Revolution,” a documentary about the week John Lennon and Ono co-hosted “The Mike Douglas Show” in early 1972, a few months after the release of their single “Happy Christmas (War Is Over).” The Shout! Studios, Creative Differences, and CBS Media Ventures feature docu uses archival footage from each of the five 70-minute shows as well as interviews with six surviving guests, including Ralph Nader, to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the unprecedented week. While Ono and her son did not participate on camera, the duo approved and creatively consulted on the project. Directed by Erik Nelson, the 108-minute docu recently wrapped production and is looking for a distributor as Ono prepares to celebrate her 90th birthday Feb. 18. “It’s become a cliche that Woodstock was the defining moment of the counterculture,” Nelson says, but “when I watched these broadcasts in their entirety, I realized that, in reality, this week in 1972, when John Lennon and Yoko Ono essentially hijacked the airwaves and presented the best minds and dreams of their generation to the widest possible mass audience of what was then called ‘Middle America,’ was as far as the counterculture would ever get. Not just music but a prescient blueprint for the future we now live in.”

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 Mark Chapman, 67, killed The Beatles star John Lennon back in 1980 and was sentenced to a prison term of 20 years to life.The murderer has since admitted he “knew it was wrong” to shoot the star but that he had “wanted the fame” too much at the time to walk away.Mark shot the legendary musician as he walked into the archway of his apartment building at The Dakota in New York City on December 8, 1980.Following a murder that shocked the world, Chapman's legal team planned to argue an insanity defense based on the testimony of mental health experts who said that he was in a delusional psychotic state.However, Chapman told his lawyers that he wanted to plead guilty based on what he had decided was the will of God. Since becoming eligible for parole, he has applied for it 12 times but has always been denied.Chapman has since told a parole board he knew it was wrong to kill the Beatle, but that he was seeking fame and had “evil in his heart”. A transcript released by New York officials on Monday under a freedom of information request detailed exactly what he said before the board denied him parole for a 12th time, Sky News reports. During his parole hearing, Chapman said he had a "selfish disregard for human life of global consequence".He also said his decision to kill Lennon was "my big answer to everything. I wasn't going to be a nobody anymore".He continued: "I am not going to blame anything else or anybody else for bringing me there."I knew what I was doing, and I knew it was evil.

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Scott Weiland’s previously unreleased cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’ has been shared online. Check it out below.The rendition, which comes three decades after Weiland’s band Stone Temple Pilots released their debut album ‘Core’, will also be part of Weiland’s expanded version of his 2011 album ‘The Most Wonderful Time of the Year’ – set for release ON November 4.The expanded edition of the album will also include four bonus tracks not included on the original, which will accompany Weiland’s covers of ‘White Christmas’, ‘Silent Night’ and ‘Winter Wonderland’.‘The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Deluxe Edition’ will come pressed onto variously vinyl variants all sharing a Christmas theme including red and green vinyl.

John Lennon signed on day of his murder in 1980 is going on auction.The late Beatle‘s signature is displayed on a legal document that is up for auction through Gotta Have Rock and Roll tomorrow (October 4). You can view it here.The typed letter lists three people to whom Lennon gave his proxy to vote at an annual meeting for the Beatles corporations that was happening nine days later in London.It was signed by Lennon on December 8, 1980, hours before he was shot and killed by Mark Chapman outside his New York City apartment block.The document is expected to fetch between $30,000 (£26,366) and $50,000 (£43,943).Incidentally, Lennon also put his signature on another item that same day.

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John Lennon‘s killer Mark Chapman has been denied parole for the 12th time, it has been confirmed.Chapman, 67, fatally shot Lennon at the entrance to the Beatles icon’s New York City apartment in December 1980. The musician and Yoko Ono were returning to the Upper West Side building following a recording session.

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Julian Lennon — firstborn son of John — is only 2 years old.That’s because the singer-songwriter — who was actually born John Charles Julian Lennon to the late Beatles legend and his first wife Cynthia Lennon — legally changed his name to Julian Charles John Lennon in 2020.“I’d always take an issue with that, because I’d always been known as Julian — first and foremost to my mum,” Lennon, 59, told The Post. “And I used to get a lot of crap for [being named John] at airport security.

Elton John and the Rolling Stones have paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II. The royal, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, passed away at her Balmoral residence in Scotland with her family by her side on Thursday afternoon. She was 96.

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John Lennon’s son Julian was shocked by his father being brought “back to life” during Sir Paul McCartney’s shows. Lennon has been digitally ‘resurrected’ using video and artificial intelligence to perform duets with Sir Paul, including one of the 1969 track ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’ at the singer’s Glastonbury headline slot this year. The stunt was masterminded by The Beatles documentary ‘Get Back’ filmmaker Peter Jackson, who used “machine learning technology” to isolate Lennon's vocals from old recordings and arrange them into a copy of a live performance.

John Lennon to former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney is up for auction, and bidding is in the five-figure range.The three-page letter — which is typewritten and also includes hand-written notes scrawled in the margins — was drafted in 1971 by an incensed Lennon in response to an interview McCartney did with the magazine .The current bid for the auction lot, which has seven bidders as of Sunday, is currently at $33,000, with 11 days left before it concludes.In the interview with, McCartney shared his thoughts on Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the iconic band's world-shaking split.Lennon's sprawling and self-annotated missive is addressed to McCartney, and to as well, asking that they give him equal space in their publication. The letter came just a few days after the interview was published, and appears that the minutiae regarding the details of the band's dissolution had not truly been resolved or addressed.The letter goes into specifics regarding the payout of royalties, while also airing personal grievances that Lennon had with McCartney — including McCartney's dismissive interpretation of Lennon's hit song «Imagine,» which McCartney apparently said wasn't intended to be political.«It’s ‘Working Class [Hero]’ with sugar on it for conservatives like yourself,” Lennon wrote.

John Lennon once wrote to his estranged Beatles bandmate, Paul McCartney, has been sent to auction.The letter came as a response to McCartney’s interview in the November 20, 1971 issue of Melody Maker, which among other topics, saw him wax lyrical on the relationship between Lennon and his widow, Yoko Ono, and the dissolution of The Beatles’ business partnership. Typewritten and inscribed with notes scrawled in pen, the letter runs for three pages and is addressed to “Paul, Linda, et all the wee McCartneys”.In it, Lennon riffed on the minutiae of The Beatles’ royalty-sharing arrangement, implying that he disagreed with the way McCartney was compensated directly from royalties that should have belonged to their self-run label, Apple Records. Lennon also took aim at McCartney’s understanding of his songs, snapping back at McCartney’s opinion that 1971’s ‘Imagine’ wasn’t intended to be political: “It’s ‘working class here’ with sugar on it for conservatives like yourself,” he wrote.

Peter Jackson’s mesmerizing Disney+ documentary The Beatles: Get Back was supposed to be a six-hour immersion into the recording of Let It Be and the last live concert by rock music’s most famous band before they split up and headed toward solo careers.

An angry letter that John Lennon wrote to Paul McCartney in the wake of the breakup of The Beatles is going up for auction.