Ono has stated that the couple were thinking about going out to dinner ( after spending several hours in a recording studio ), but were returning to their apartment instead, because John wanted to see Sean before he was put to bed.

In addition to conceptual art, Ono has also created participatory art, including her 1996 project entitled " Wish Tree " in Japan.

During her career, Ono has collaborated with a diverse group of artists and musicians including John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Cornelius ( Keigo Oyamada, Naoki Shimizu and Yoko Araki ), Frank Zappa, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, Jim Keltner, Earl Slick, Peaches, John Cage, David Tudor, George Maciunas, Ornette Coleman, Charlotte Moorman, George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, Jonas Mekas, Fred DeAsis, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Yo La Tengo, and Andy Warhol ( in 1987 Ono was one of the speakers at Warhol's funeral ).

As a dance music artist, Ono has worked with re-mixers / producers such as Basement Jaxx, Pet Shop Boys, Cat Power, Bill Kates, Tricky, Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Nick Vernier Band, Cibo Matto, Billy Martin, DJ Spooky, Apples In Stereo, Damien Price, The Flaming Lips, DJ Chernobyl, Bimbo Jones, DJ Dan, Craig Armstrong, Jorge Artajo, Shuji Nabara, and Konrad Behr, among others.

Since the 1960s, Ono has been an activist for peace and human rights.

Notable artists he has provided remixes for include Mariah Carey, t. A. T. u., Pet Shop Boys, Tina Turner, New Order, Depeche Mode, Filter, Yoko Ono, Seal, The Killers, Blaqk Audio and Amanda Lear.

Another song featured on the album was " 20 Years in the Dakota ", which discussed Yoko Ono's struggles as John Lennon's wife, a position which Love herself has been frequently compared to, due to the perception that Ono drew Lennon away from The Beatles and that Love drew Cobain away from Nirvana.

She has also done performance art utilizing insects ( Madagascar hissing cockroaches, bees ) crawling across her body ( references to the Yoko Ono film Fly ).

Chapman recalls having listened to Lennon's John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band albums in the weeks before the murder and has stated: " I would listen to this music and I would get angry at him, for saying that he didn't believe in God ... and that he didn't believe in the Beatles.

Other artists with whom she has recorded with over the years include: David Johansen, Yoko Ono, Cameo, Talking Heads ( 3 albums ), Garland Jeffreys, Dan Hartman, Afrika Bambaata ( performing a duet of " Giving Him Something He Can Feel " with Boy George ), Canadian band Rough Trade, Curtis Hairston, and Graham Parker on the hit single, " Soul Christmas.

According to Ono Masatoshi, gusuku has various meanings, depending on dialects of Yaeyame, including a partition of a mansion and stone walls surrounding an agricultural field.

Since 2002, the Japanese conductor Kazushi Ono has served as music director.

Russell Simins has produced, remixed and performed with numerous bands including Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Honeymoon Killers, Crowbar Massage, Cibo Matto, Grapevine, Ween, Luscious Jackson, Yoko Ono, Money Mark, Fred Schneider, Duran Duran, Asian Dub Foundation, Stereolab, Tom Waits, The Pierces, Tandy, Spalding Rockwell, The Morning Pages, Little Barrie, Jena Malone, Tiny Masters of Today and Harper Simon.

Prior to February 1, 2005 Kuguno was an independent town in the district of Ono, but has since merged with the City of Takayama.

Walls and Bridges has a variety of musical stylings and many of the lyrics make it clear that Lennon both enjoyed his new-found freedom and also missed Ono.

He has played drums, percussion, and bass in Plastic Ono Band several times.

He is also a Beatles fan and has been known to liken his group of friends to them, accusing Jackie of " breaking up the band " with her romantic entanglements with Kelso and Hyde ( calling her Yoko, in reference to Yoko Ono ).

Ono began managing the couple's finances in the 1970s with a string of successful investments and has managed to consistently keep John Lennon in the top five highest earning dead celebrities since his murder in 1980.

She has also appeared on tribute albums to Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, The Band, Tammy Wynette, Doc Pomus, Laura Nyro, Yoko Ono, John Hiatt and Jimi Hendrix.

Kikuchi played for the Shimizu S-Pulse junior youth team and Shimizu Commercial High School, which has a strong soccer tradition with players such as Shinji Ono among its alumni.

It has been said that, in addition to the obvious reference mentioned above, the " Warm Gun " could also be due to Lennon's sexual desire for Yoko Ono and also to his well-documented problems with heroin at the time of the recording of the White Album ( in this case, the gun being a loaded syringe, although Lennon claimed to have snorted, rather than injected, heroin during the time that he used the drug ).

After an unsuccessful appeal to Ono and the John Lennon Estate and the Dear Yoko petition campaign, Choukri decided to focus his efforts on less legally-volatile content and the website has since been a hub for discussion, detailed discographies, letters, articles, fan artwork and poetry and many other types of content.

" When Lennon's wife returned home, she found Ono wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon who simply said, " Oh, hi.

In 2005, Ono said, " People like to picture Paul and me in a boxing ring, feuding all the time, otherwise it's not exciting or interesting for them.

In 1997, Ono compared Lennon to Mozart while McCartney, she said, more closely resembled his less-talented rival Salieri.

In 1969, in the UK, in the course of being interviewed by a Nova magazine reporter, artist Yoko Ono said, "... woman is the nigger of the world "; three years later, her husband, John Lennon, published the song " Woman is the Nigger of the World " ( 1972 )— about the virtually universal exploitation of woman – which was socially and politically controversial to US sensibilities.

The famous Heian period waka poet, Ono no Komachi, is said to have been born in Yuzawa City, Ogachi Town, located in the southeast of the prefecture.

Yoko Ono said in 2008 that if Lennon were alive he probably would have reconciled with the Maharishi.

" On July 27, 2010, in advance of Chapman's scheduled sixth parole hearing, Ono said that she would again oppose parole for Chapman stating that her safety and that of John's sons would be at risk, as would Chapman's.

Ono explained that she and Lennon were not getting along, had been arguing and were growing apart, and said that Lennon would start seeing other women.

Ono ignored Pang's protests and said that she would arrange everything.

Lennon and Pang were also planning on visiting Paul and Linda McCartney in New Orleans in February 1975, where Wings were recording the Venus and Mars album, but Lennon reconciled with Ono the day before the planned visit, after Ono said she had a new cure for Lennon's smoking habit.

When Ono objected to McCartney's request for the reversed credit to be used for the song " Yesterday ", McCartney said that he and Lennon had agreed in the past that the credits could be reversed, if either of them wanted to, on any future releases.

" Ono said of the occasion: " It was all settled before then, I just used that occasion to hand over the tapes personally to Paul.

" Paul knew that people were being nasty to John, and he just wanted to make it well for him ," said Ono.

Concerning Lennon's supposed bisexuality, Ono herself is found to have said in a 1981 interview that she considered Lennon a " closet fag ," and she further revealed that he liked her because she looked " like a bloke in drag ".

McCartney spoke about the offer at a press conference in April, 1990, explaining that Ono " actually said ' I think we can get it for 5.

" I recall what the late Tui Nayau said at his last Lau Provincial Council meeting on Ono, Lau, in October 2000: ' There can be no reconciliation or peace until the coup investigations are completed and the rule of law is upheld '", she said.

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?

Lennon said that the fantasy girl in the song's lyric was an archetype he had been searching for his entire life (" There is no such thing as the girl — she was a dream ") and finally found in Yoko Ono.

Ono said that " there's not much connection between the manga and the movie.