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It's bright, sleek, clean, overheated-Yoko likes to keep it semi-tropical-and, most important, convenient to the service entrance, which is how I come in.

Sat Nov 7, 2009 6:59am EST - Artist Yoko Ono performs in Venice June 6, 2009. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi NEW YORK - No one knows better than Yoko Ono how far celebrity activism has come in the last 40 years.

Even before she married John Lennon, even before she embarked on a career as an avant-garde and conceptual artist, Yoko Ono was under scrutiny, first by her teachers and peers, later by people of a different region as her family fled the fire-bombings of Tokyo.

For its 70th anniversary, Vipp has thought up a collaboration with some of the world's leading figures in fashion, art, and design to create one-of-a-kinds of the bin it is known for and auction them off to benefit Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS .

There is a story about John Lennon hearing the B-52s' 1978 song Rock Lobster at a disco in the Bahamas.

Choose Tuesday as your wash-away-the-blues day, with the Standard's pick of the most entertaining telly, film and sport on the box! Top TV ITV1, 9pm 7 Days on the Breadline Former Spice Girl Mel B, ex-rugby union player Austin Healey, fashion guru Trinny Woodall and actor Keith Allen experience vastly different lives as they head to neighbouring ...

Londona s art and design fairs closed last night with many dealers upbeat after achieving more sales than last year, even though buyers were taking their time and pressing for discounts.

Julian Lennon and James Scott Cook have recorded a digital single in memory of the girl who inspired Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Julian Lennon with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Artist Yoko Ono arrives at the 50th annual Grammy awards held at the Staples Center on February 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

'My role in society -- or any artist's or poet's role -- is to try and express what we all feel, not to tell people how to feel.

SPIN issued Yoko Ono's new album, Between My Head and the Sky , an impressive eight-out-of-ten-star review, calling it the "heaviest avant-pop from a 76-year-old mainstream pariah/underground innovator," which "picks up where hubby John left off with 1980's "Walking on Thin Ice." Wednesday, Ono and her son Sean Lennon dropped by The View to perform ...

Yoko Uno collaborated with her son, Sean Lennon, on her new album, Between My Head and the Sky.

Lightest Ono album ever? Probably. Heaviest avant-pop from a 76-year-old mainstream pariah/underground innovator? Hell, yeah! Son Sean Lennon, Tokyo art-rocker Cornelius, exa 'Cibo Matto keyboardist Yuka Honda, and some New York City jazz vets pick up where hubby John left off with 1980's "Walking on Thin Ice." The simpatico accompaniment means ...

Yoko Ono is a musician and performance-art pioneer. For her new album, Between My Head and the Sky, she has created a 21st-century version of the Plastic Ono Band, the group that she and John Lennon founded in 1969.

Yoko Ono was exposed to music early in her life and started performing at "happenings" of various avant-garde kinds in the '50s. She was an early follower of John Cage, figured into the post-Dada '60s art movement known as Fluxus, and started a fruitful relationship with John Lennon after meeting him at a gallery in London in 1966.

Caption: Yoko Ono Launch of 'Meat Free Monday' at Inn the Park, St James' Park London, England .... LENNON 'WOULD HAVE LOVED' THE BEATLES: ROCK BAND YOKO ONO has dismissed criticism of the new BEATLES Rock Band game, insisting her late husband JOHN LENNON "would have loved it". Fans of the Fab Four will be able to play along to 45 of their hits ...

A glamourous Ono mugs for the cameras in upstate New York last month. To talk about Yoko Ono is to talk about The Scream.

Japanese-American artist/singer Yoko Ono performs with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band at Royal Festival Hall in London on June 14, 2009.

She's put up with years of abuse from Beatles fans, yet Yoko Ono is a dignified keeper of her husband's legacy a ' and continues to surprise with creative works that her peers would never dream of No band-wrecker a John Lennon and Yoko Ono at home in 1969.

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