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Ono and her
Ono brought feminism to the forefront in her music which prefigured New Wave music and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.
In 1937, her father was transferred back to Japan and Ono was enrolled at Tokyo's Gakushuin ( also known as the Peers School ), one of the most exclusive schools in Japan.
After the bombing, Ono went to the Karuizawa mountain resort with members of her family.
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.
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.
La Monte Young, her first important contact in the New York art world, helped Ono start her career by using her Chambers Street loft in Tribeca as a performance space.
At one performance, Ono set a painting on fire ; fortunately John Cage had advised her to treat the paper with flame retardant.
Ono had neglected to finalize her divorce from Ichiyanagi, so their marriage was annulled on March 1, 1963, and Cox and Ono married again on June 6.

Ono and support
In 2004, Ono remade her song " Everyman ... Everywoman ..." to support same-sex marriage, releasing remixes that included " Every Man Has a Man Who Loves Him " and " Every Woman Has a Woman Who Loves Her.
Vliet spoke badly of Lennon after getting no response when he sent a telegram of support to him and wife Yoko Ono during their 1969 " Bed – In for peace ".
Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo playing in Battery Park ( New York ) | Battery Park, New York City, July 4, 2005Yo La Tengo collaborated with Yoko Ono on the 2003 charity album Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch in support of the Harvey Milk High School.
Nevertheless, Emperor Yang was probably more interested in obtaining Japan's support in his campaigns against Goguryeo than in matters of decorum, and despite the insult, he sent his own envoy, Pei Shiqing ( 裴世清 ), back to Japan with Ono.

Ono and bitter
After she divorced Cox on February 2, 1969, Ono and Cox engaged in a bitter legal battle for custody of Kyoko, which resulted in Ono's being awarded full custody.

Ono and about
Ono wrote a song about her daughter, " Don't Worry Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow )," which appears on Lennon and Ono's album Live Peace In Toronto 1969 and her album Fly.
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.
They appeared on The Mike Douglas Show and took over hosting duties for a week, during which Ono spoke at length about the evils of racism and sexism.
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.
Accepting an award at the 2005 Q Awards, Ono mentioned that Lennon had once felt insecure about his songwriting, and asked her why other musicians " always cover Paul's songs, and never mine ".
In the book, she describes learning about Ono's control over John ( who referred to Ono as " mother ") in the period in the mid-1970s when Ono chose May Pang to be John's companion.
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.
Lennon claimed in 1980 that " there's some underlying thing about Yoko in there ", claiming that McCartney looked at Yoko Ono in the studio every time he sang " Get back to where you once belonged.
" Archaeologist Ono Masatoshi raised concern about the naïve application of the Okinawan gusuku-as-fortifications framework and urged that scholars should not turn a blind eye to the diversified nature of archaeological sites with stone walls in these islands.
In June 1973, as Lennon was about to record Mind Games, Ono decided that she and Lennon should separate.
Ōkuma residents had scattered to about 20 evacuation centers located in the cities of Tamura and Kōriyama and the towns of Miharu and Ono, and by April 30 approximately 1, 800 residents had expressed the desire to also move to Aizuwakamatsu.
Neither Lennon nor Yoko Ono publicly " voiced a word of disapproval about it ".
Lennon wrote the song about his love for Yoko Ono.
This category contains articles about albums released by Yoko Ono.
Singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, whose friendship with Lennon peaked during his 1974 separation from Ono, told Rolling Stone that Goldman " got me drunk " while interviewing him, probing Nilsson for " dirt " about Lennon, and Nilsson would not cooperate.
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.
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?
Also on the Get Back bootlegs, Harrison can be heard having a conversation with Lennon and Yoko Ono about possibly doing a solo album of his unused songs, in order to " preserve this, the Beatle bit, more ".
The contributions were entirely individual and Lennon made disparaging remarks about his band mates ' apparent disdain for Ono.
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.

Ono and she
In spite of this, Ono loved meeting artists, poets and others who represented the " bohemian " freedom she longed for herself.
In the early years of this marriage, Ono left most of Kyoko's parenting to Cox while she pursued her art full-time and Tony managed publicity.
Afterwards, the bitterness between the parents lessened slightly and Ono publicly announced in People Magazine that she would no longer seek out the now-adult Kyoko, but still wished to make contact with her.
" When Lennon's wife returned home, she found Ono wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon who simply said, " Oh, hi.
Ono later printed an open letter to Kyoko saying how she missed her, but that she would cease her attempts to find her.
Maciunas invited Ono to join the Fluxus group, but she declined because she wanted to remain an independent artist.
Ono had previously performed the song once with John Lennon and once with Sean Lennon and told the audience of thousands that she will never perform it again.
Ono returned to Liverpool for the 2008 Liverpool Biennial, where she unveiled " Sky Ladders " in the ruins of Church of St Luke, Liverpool ( which was largely destroyed during World War II and now stands roofless as a memorial to those killed in the Liverpool Blitz ).
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.
Of Ono, McCartney stated: " I thought she was a cold woman.
In 1997, Ono compared Lennon to Mozart while McCartney, she said, more closely resembled his less-talented rival Salieri.
When she died less than a year later, McCartney pointedly did not invite Ono to a New York memorial service for her.
" Ono later issued a statement claiming she did not mean any offense, as her comment was an attempt to console her husband, not attack McCartney ; she went on to insist that she respected McCartney and that it was the press who had taken her comments out of context.

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