IMAGINE PEACE

Apple & EMI to release ltd edition BEATLES Stereo USB apple

2009-11-03T23:15:27Z

Following the September 9 (9-9-09) debut of The Beatles’ digitally re-mastered catalogue on CD, Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music are pleased to announce the worldwide release of a limited edition of only 30,000 Beatles Stereo USB apples on December 7 (December 8 in North America). The exquisitely crafted, apple-shaped USB drive is loaded with the [...]

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE profits United Nations Peacebuilding Fund

2009-11-03T23:51:42Z

Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Julian Lennon partner with EMI Music and Sony/ATV Music publishing to donate net proceeds from Plastic Ono Band’s “Give Peace A Chance” 40th anniversary digital single to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund. Commemorative Digital Single Launches Today, Exclusively on iTunes, here. New York, NY – November 3, 2009 – To celebrate the [...]

America by Yoko Ono for NYLON Magazine

2009-11-04T22:39:41Z

NYLON Magazine recently asked people to write about an experience they have had in America. This was one of mine… love, yoko One beautiful spring, sometime in the ’70s, John and I decided to go cross-country from New York to the Gold Coast (as we called San Francisco). We kept driving on the straightest road that went on [...]

My memory of Stefan Wolpe by Yoko Ono

2009-11-04T23:14:09Z

I met Stefan Wolpe in the late 50’s when he lived in his upper Westside apartment with Hilda, his beautiful partner. Stefan and Hilda often invited me to their home for tea. (I was also invited for dinners, too, but there, I must say, Hilda was not a very professional cook!) I loved the intellectual, [...]

Imagine all the people.. in Prague

2009-11-06T15:46:04Z

The World March for Peace and Nonviolence. Prague – November 3, 2009. Thousands of people have gathered in Prague’s Wenceslas Square to participate in the biggest event in the country organized as part of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence: Harlem Gospel & SuperStar singing Imagine. It was the last and the biggest event that concluded [...]

Yoko Ono, forever a force for peace (The Japan Times)

2009-11-06T21:26:42Z

photo by Charlotte Kemp & Sean Lennon ©2009 Yoko Ono Yoko Ono, forever a force for peace Artist, musician, Lennon’s widow — a lifetime of trying circumstances has ‘prepared’ her By DAVID F. HOENIGMAN, Special to The Japan Times Even before she married John Lennon, even before she embarked on a career as an avant-garde and conceptual artist, Yoko Ono [...]

Imagine There’s No Hunger: HUNGERTHON 2009

2009-11-07T02:27:19Z

Bracelets, Pins, T-Shirts & music available at www.hungerthonstore.com In 1971, John Lennon expressed his vision of hope, peace and a world free of poverty through his powerful song “Imagine”. Decades later, his lyrics continue to influence and inspire. Lennon’s mission lives on as his wife, artist and musician Yoko Ono Lennon has joined Hard Rock International for IMAGINE THERE’S [...]

Theatre Within’s 29th Annual John Lennon Tribute in NYC

2009-11-07T02:31:31Z

It began just down the street from the Dakota, in Billie Holiday’s old music studio, which was then home to Theatre Within, an experimental theater workshop. A small group of performing artists and their friends were drawn together by John Lennon’s senseless murder. An emotional evening of song, dance and theater, that first gathering was [...]

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band ‘Waiting For The D Train’ on Jimmy Fallon [video]

2009-11-08T22:03:24Z

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band perform 'Waiting For The D Train' from the new album 'Between My Head And The Sky'. Yoko Ono: vocals, Sean Lennon: guitar, Mark Ronson: bass, Homer Steinweiss: drums.

Yoko Ono in a minute (Sunday Times)

2009-11-09T00:34:32Z

by Alice Fisher, Sunday Times SA. When I think of Japan I think of food. I miss the Japanese spirit, the culture and civilisation that we had and lost. Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body’s cells have been replaced, you’re meant to experience that seven-year itch. John and I [...]