Ono has said that she and her family were forced to beg for food while pulling their belongings in a wheelbarrow ; and it was during this period in her life that Ono says she developed her " aggressive " attitude and understanding of " outsider " status when children taunted her and her brother, who were once well-to-do.

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.

Of Ono, McCartney stated: " I thought she was a cold woman.

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.

Buxton stated that the tracks include guest appearances by Yoko Ono, Santigold, Lightspeed Champion, and Yo!

In an interview in the January 2008 Issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono stated " Let's just say that that your magazine have reported in the past might find their way into the game as fan service.

Speaking in November, 1990, Ono stated, " Businessmen who aren't artists themselves wouldn't have the consideration Michael has.

Pitchfork Media's Jess Harvell stated, " On Orange Factory's ' Down and Dirty ' remix of ' Yang Yang ', Ono is vocodered into a Troutman-esque gremlin and blurred into an anonymous orgasmic sigh over a brutally functional garage bounce.

Farin Urlaub sings about a person that annoys him in several ways, stating that this person is " more annoying than Yoko Ono ", who is stated by many people being the cause of the Beatles ' break-up and is therefore disliked by Beatles fans.

The couple separated in 1973 and the two began living separate lives, Ono pursuing her career in New York and Lennon living in Los Angeles with personal assistant May Pang in a period commonly referred to as his " lost weekend.

On Valentine ’ s Day, February 14, 2003, on the eve of the Iraqi invasion by the Americans and the British, Ono heard about a romantic couple holding a love-in protest in their tiny bedroom in Addingham, West Yorkshire.

In 2010 a plaque to John Lennon was unveiled in Montagu Square, London, by Yoko Ono, at the house where the couple shot the cover of the album Two Virgins.

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.

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.

Yves Klein in France, and in New York City, Carolee Schneemann, Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman and Yoko Ono and in Germany Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell and Nam June Paik were pioneers of performance-based works of art.

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.

Many of the couple's later albums were released under the name the Plastic Ono Band.

On December 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono were in the studio working on Ono's song Walking on Thin Ice.

Ono and her engineer Rob Stevens personally remastered the audio, and various bonus tracks were added including outtakes, demos and live cuts.

John Lennon later gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to " The Word ", which were subsequently reproduced in Cage's book Notations published in 1969.

After Lennon's death, McCartney once again attempted to change the order to " McCartney – Lennon " for songs such as " Yesterday " that were solely or predominantly written by him, but Ono would not allow it, saying she felt this broke an agreement that the two had made while Lennon was still alive.

Within a year, plans for a new anthology, Fluxus 2, were in full swing to contain Flux films by John Cale and Yoko Ono ( with hand held projectors provided ), disrupted matchboxes and postcards by Ben Vautier, plastic food by Claes Oldenberg, FluxMedicine by Shigeko Kubota, and artworks made of rocks, ink stamps, outdated travel tickets, undoable puzzles and a machine to facilitate humming.

Among its early associates were Joseph Beuys, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, La Monte Young, Joseph Byrd, and Yoko Ono who explored media ranging from performance art to poetry to experimental music to film.

Lydon's vocals were more tuneless and incantatory than in the Sex Pistols, gesturing toward the avant-garde territory of such artists as Yoko Ono.

Liza Minnelli, Yoko Ono, and Cyndi Lauper were tapped to present at JFK Stadium, but due to scheduling conflicts the singers backed out.

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.

( Torontonians Barenaked Ladies were first by a few months, with 1991's " Be My Yoko Ono ".

In 1996 Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto were invited by Ono to remix the song " Talking to the Universe " for a Rising remix EP Rising Mixes.

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

were released, copyright issues with Yoko Ono led to the song " Don't Worry " being removed and replaced on future pressings by " Moon 83 ", a remixed version of the track " There's a Moon in the Sky ( Called the Moon )" from their debut album.

And there were some more: in 1970 for Harrison's All Things Must Pass triple album, two records that have orange apples and one with an Apple Jam jar ; in 1970 for Lennon's John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono's Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band black and white apple labels ; in 1972 for Ringo Starr's " Back Off Boogaloo " blue apples ; in 1975 for Starr's Blast from Your Past red apples.