* 8 p. m. EDT: Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music, a tribute to John Lennon that became a concert of prayer and healing for New York City to benefit the relief efforts, hosted by Kevin Spacey and featuring Dave Matthews, Moby, Stone Temple Pilots, Nelly Furtado, Shelby Lynne, Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, The Isley Brothers, Lou Reed, Marc Anthony, Natalie Merchant, Yolanda Adams, Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, is held at Radio City Music Hall and simultaneously broadcast live on the TNT and WB networks.

In the 1970s, Ono and Lennon became close to many radical leaders, including Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Michael X, John Sinclair ( for whom they organized a benefit after he was imprisoned ), Angela Davis, Kate Millett, and David Peel.

This act became the foundation of one of his most recognized performance pieces, the Yoko Ono Piano Drop and inspired artists like Nam June Paik.

Several years after Lennon's death however, in the late 1990s, McCartney and Ono became involved in a dispute over the credit order.

Ono no Michikaze served as an archetype for the Shōren-in school which later became the Oie style of calligraphy.

A century later, from 1969-71, the building became the home of John Lennon with his then new wife Yoko Ono, having been married on 20 March 1969 in Gibraltar.

Cox became a full-time caregiver for Kyoko, while both he and Ono continued with their art, collaborating as conceptual artists.

Having been rescued, she became a nun and secluded herself in Ono, at the western foot of Mount Hiei.

His first book, The Butterfly, is a fictionalized memoir of his brief affair with a young Yoko Ono, published before Ono became famous.

He also alleges that Lennon caused the death of an unborn baby he'd conceived with Yoko Ono during 1968, when he kicked the pregnant Ono in the belly during an argument.

In May 1968, while his wife Cynthia was on holiday in Greece, Lennon invited Ono to visit.

Ono and Lennon collaborated on many albums, beginning in 1968 when Lennon was still a Beatle, with Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, an album of experimental electronic music.

Prototypic for the artform later explicitly labeled " performance art ", were works of artists like Yoko Ono with her Wall piece for orchestra ( 1962 ); Carolee Schneemann with pieces like Meat Joy ( 1964 ); Wolf Vostell with his Happening YOU ( 1964 in New York ); Joseph Beuys with How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare ( 1965 ); Yayoi Kusama, with actions such as a naked flag-burning on the Brooklyn Bridge ( 1968 ) and Allan Kaprow in his many Happenings.

In 1968, John Lennon and his wife Cynthia Lennon separated due to John's affair with Yoko Ono.

It was active from October 1968 until June 1969, and only two albums were released on the label, one by Lennon and Ono ( Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions ) and one by Harrison ( Electronic Sound ).

One flyer in particular celebrated Valerie Solanas ' 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol and included a hit-list of: Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Richard Hamilton, Mario Amaya ( who was also shot by Solanas ), David Hockney, Mary Quant, Twiggy, Marianne Faithfull, and IT editor Barry Miles.

The remainder of the album was recorded on a cassette tape in their suite at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London during November 1968, where Ono would suffer the first of three miscarriages by the couple.

The album's front cover photo was taken while Ono was bedridden at Queen Charlotte's with Lennon by her side, while the back cover was a news photo of Lennon and Ono leaving Marylebone Police Station, after their arrest for hashish possession on 18 October 1968.

In 1968, John Lennon began his personal and artistic relationship with Yoko Ono by collaborating on the experimental album Two Virgins.

He opened an office in Caracas, Venezuela in 1956 and started working with architects Jose Tabacow and Haruyoshi Ono in 1968.

In a 1981 conversation with Hunter Davies, who had written a biography of The Beatles in 1968, McCartney responded to a Yoko Ono interview where she said McCartney had hurt Lennon more than anyone else, by saying, " No one ever goes on about the times John hurt me ... Could I have hurt him more than the person who ran down his mother in his car?

Influenced at his beginnings by Buñuel, Cocteau, the surrealists and by the Japanese cinema ( Seijun Suzuki, Ishirō Honda, Kōji Wakamatsu, Yoko Ono ), stunned by the Festival of the film expérimental of Knokke in 1967 and by May 1968, Roland Lethem wants to push the people to look at the things of which they say they are freed, it's to say to place them in front of their responsibilities.

The label was also responsible for issuing John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1968 album, Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, in the United States after Lennon's US distributor, Capitol Records, refused to carry it due to the front and back covers ' controversial nude photos of Lennon and Ono.

John Lennon retired from music to become a househusband caring for their child, until shortly before his murder in December 1980, which Ono witnessed at close range.

He is the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono and the younger half-brother of Julian Lennon.

The song was also written for his future wife Yoko Ono, whose first name, which literally means " child of the sea " in Japanese, is echoed in the lyric " Oceanchild, calls me.

During 1970 and 1971, Lennon and Ono began to visit the United States, first for Primal Therapy at Dr. Arthur Janov's Primal Institute in California, then for child custody hearings over Ono's daughter Kyoko Chan Cox, in Houston and New York City.

How do you do ?," Capp sardonically congratulated Lennon and Ono on their Two Virgins nude album cover: " I think that everybody owes it to the world to prove they have pubic hair.

However, the following year he married Pauline-Virginie Ono, and they moved to Paris.

While her parents approved of her college choice, they were dismayed at her lifestyle, and, according to Ono, chastised her for befriending people they considered to be " beneath " her.

According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.

Ono funded the construction and maintenance of the Strawberry Fields memorial in New York City's Central Park, across from where they lived and Lennon died.

Since returning to Japan in 1961, Yoko Ono had been recommending colleagues look Maciunas up if they moved to New York ; by the time she had returned, in early 1965, Hi Red Center, Shigeko Kubota, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi and Ay-O had all started to make work for Fluxus, often of a contemplative nature.

Not succeeding in their attempts to deter Nehemiah from rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, Sanballat and Tobiah resorted to stratagem, and pretending to wish a conference with him, they invited him to meet them at Ono.

For the third single from the album they released the 30-second-song Yoko Ono, which, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is the shortest single ever released ( with a videoclip )— another example of their sense of humour.

Their more prominent work includes " 4 My People " by Missy " Misdemeanor " Elliott, " Everyman … Everywoman …" by Yoko Ono, " Like I Love You " by Justin Timberlake, and " She Wants to Move " by N * E * R * D. Sophie Ellis-Bextor, as well as The Botz and Garold Marks, have stated they are fans and would like to collaborate with Basement Jaxx in the future.

Initially the band was not sure if they would include both of the less popular singles " Be My Yoko Ono " and " Alternative Girlfriend ".

* Geisha Girls or Bunny Girls — Led by Miyuki Ono, they helped contestants in several games and also helped Takeshi and his advisor in comedy skits.

In February 2010 in Oakland California, they performed onstage with Yoko Ono and Plastic Ono Band.

Later in 1972 they were billed as the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band and performed with Lennon and Ono on various TV shows, albums and concerts.

One week later, on September 6, they played live again with Lennon and Ono at the Jerry Lewis Telethon on TV, playing " Imagine ", " Now or Never " and " Give Peace A Chance ".

At this time, two scholars, Takamuko no Kuromaro and priest Min ( who had both accompanied Ono no Imoko in travels to Sui Dynasty China, where they stayed for more than a decade ), were assigned to the position of kuni no hakushi ( 国博士 ; National doctorate ).

Apparently they had planned to join up with Akitaro Ono, who had gone to London to wrestle for promoter William Bankier in London music halls.

In 2005 they performed at All Tomorrow's Parties, the avant-garde music festival curated by Vincent Gallo, and joined performance artist Yoko Ono on stage for her closing piece.

There are other versions, a couple acoustic, and one that features Yoko Ono adding her unique vocalisations ( as they did the song live ), but none of these served as the single.