Did Yoko do it?

[+ Lucky]

Today's Page Six column has Yoko Ono telling Paul McCartney to shut up about her. Despite the fact that he is older than me and has NO grey hair, I still think he's right on who broke up the Beatles. What do you think?

 

NY Post:

Zip it, Paul!

 

 

SCREECHY songstress Yoko Ono (above) wants Paul McCartney to "shut up" blaming her as the opportunist who broke up The Beatles. "If Paul says something about me, there's many people who will write to him saying, 'Good for you! You said it!' " she tells New York magazine. "There's a whole group of people who like to egg him on. If nobody were applauding, maybe Paul might shut up!"

[duke37]

This is funny on so many levels.

 

I think Yoko may have a point. I think it is nice myth that she "broke" up the Beatles. It's easier for casual fans to understand than what I believe which is really really bad financial advice and management. They were getting ripped off at such a record rate that it was easy to believe people who whispered in their ears about how "they" should handle their finances. I think it was Paul who first brought in independent financial advise. Moral of the story... Money fucks up everything.

 

Jeff

[Rick Munroe]

I'm a huge Yoko fan; I have all her albums, painful as they can be.

 

In my high school yearbook, I used a Yoko lyric as my personal quote: "We're all water from different rivers; someday we'll evaporate together." Words to live by (hey, I was 18).

[Guest Joey Ciccone]

>Moral of the story... Money fucks up everything.<

 

Yeah, but so do people. I think the Beatles were headed for disaster regardless of either Yoko's influence, or the introduction of financial advisors. Great creative collaborations have a historically short shelf life. I think McCartney would have eventually been Lennon's killer had Yoko not provided the wedge between them when she did. Those boys were ready to pop.

[Huey]

> I think it was Paul who first brought in

>independent financial advise.

 

Jeff, that is somewhat correct. He brought in his future father-n-law (Yes Linda's Father) to review the Beatles situation. About the same time John was lobbying the other Beatles to hire Allen Klein. At the time he was handling the Stones.

 

I feel that the death of the Beatles original manager, Brian Epstein, was more of the reason why they broke up. His death created many problems that they were unable to handle.

 

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[Huey]

>NY Post:

>Zip it, Paul!

>

>

>SCREECHY songstress Yoko Ono

 

I haven't seen the "screechy" tag related to her before. That is pretty funny and fits her singing perfectly

 

Did she break up the Beatles, probably not. She most likely was an encouraging voice and kept the "break up" fire buring strong.

 

I feel there were too many other factors happening, when she entered the picture, that probably led to the Beatles break up.

 

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[guyinsf]

I have several Yoko albums and consider myself a fan. I, in fact, have more Yoko music than music by any of the Beatles (individually). Her "Season of Glass" album is very powerful. "Walking On Thin Ice" is not only one of the best "dance" tunes from 1980, but the lyrics are quite interesting for a dance tune. Yoko frequently gets schmaltzy, but I love her peculiar way of describing the human experience.

[Rick Munroe]

>Her "Season of Glass" album is very powerful.

 

Yes, and the gunshots that open "No, No, No" are chilling. Have you ever see her film Fly, where the camera follows a housefly up-close as it explores a nude sleeping girl's body? I was riveted!

[+ Lucky]

RE: Yoko in San Francisco

 

(Stop where it starts talking about John Meyer, sorry.)

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Live-action Ono entertains crowd

 

Kenneth Baker Tuesday, June 25, 2002

 

 

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"Yes Yoko Ono" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art lacks one component: the artist herself.

 

So a full house discovered on Saturday afternoon when Ono spoke and performed in SFMOMA's auditorium live for the only time during the exhibit.

 

She began in dialogue with Paul Schimmel, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

 

Schimmel had featured her work in his 1998 "Out of Actions," a landmark international survey of the performance element in art from the late '40s to late '70s.

 

In what began as a plodding recap, he drew her out on the childhood roots of her work, and on the early '60s avant art and music scene.

 

But Ono is a magical stage presence -- beaming, lighthearted and intent -- even when retelling well-worn anecdotes.

 

She clarified some points of lore, such as the one about her having studied composition with John Cage at the New School for Social Research in 1960.

 

"John told all his friends about it and said 'you might as well come because no students will sign up,' " Ono recalled. "So I sat in on the class once or twice and that became the legend of me taking John Cage's composition class. That kind of thing happens to women artists a lot."

 

The conversation turned to Ono's radical 1965 performance "Cut Piece," documented on film by the Maysles brothers. In it she sits passively while audience members act on an invitation to cut away pieces of her clothing with scissors.

 

When Schimmel called for projection of the 8-minute film on a screen overhead, Ono jumped up from her chair, dived under a large piece of black fabric and beckoned Schimmel to follow.

 

As "Cut Piece," quietly grueling to watch, played above, Ono and Schimmel bobbed and twisted beneath the black shroud.

 

Soon clothing items were tossed out: Ono's white scarf and jacket, her black shirt and black boots, Schimmel's suit jacket, tie and belt.

 

The live action generated laughter out of keeping with "Cut Piece," as if Ono wanted to revise viewers' response to it, leaving its solemnity in the past.

 

Finally she re-emerged, barefoot, wearing only a black tank top and black pants.

 

The disheveled Schimmel reappeared a moment later, wearing more clothes than dignity. It was hard to tell whether he knew ahead of time what he was in for.

 

Ono then introduced her son, Sean Lennon, guitar in hand, and New York musician Zeena Parkins, who accompanied Ono on acoustic harp and an electric harp of her own invention, capable of startling sonic effects.

 

"Remember, time is a man-made concept," Ono said, to introduce the song "Mulberry."

 

"My mind tells me it's 2002, but my body sometimes thinks it's still in my mother's womb or eating mulberries when I was starving in Japan during the war or many other situations."

 

She then launched into an accompanied solo, writhing and reeling bodily, moaning, panting and soaring vocally.

 

A second number, the more conventional "Franklin Summer," was a plea for hope.

 

As she answered audience questions to end the event, assistants entwined the audience in blue string and handed out blue puzzle pieces to everyone. "Pieces of sky from Sept. 11," Ono said. "We should meet again in 10 years and put them together."

 

Ono said some things about how to advance peace but her humor, relaxation and openheartedness showed how to disarm a crowd.

 

A video of last Saturday's event will be screened at SFMOMA on July 13 and 26 and on Aug. 1. .

 

On July 18 at 7 p.m., Bay Area artists and musicians will perform Ono's "Sky Piece for Jesus Christ" (1965), following a lecture on her work by curatorial associate Clara Kim. For information: (415) 357-4000 or http://www.sfmoma. org. .

 

JOHN MEYER (1943-2002): The Bay Area lost a painter of international stature when John Meyer died suddenly last Wednesday, apparently of a heart attack. He was 58.

 

Practicing an austere and rigorous abstraction in the hometown of Bay Area Figuration, Meyer won a local audience for his work very slowly.

 

He had solo shows in San Francisco almost annually over the past 15 years and in 1990 received the SECA award and honorary exhibition, presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

 

But Meyer's work was better understood and frequently shown in Europe and he regularly spent time there.

 

In recent years, he made all black and all white paintings almost exclusively, often pairing them in diptychs.

 

Meyer preferred the laborious, outmoded medium of tempera because it achieved a surface definition and registration of light attainable in no other way.

 

He put almost as much work into fabricating his own wood supports as he did into painting on them.

 

"It cannot be adapted to vagueness," Meyer once wrote of tempera. The same was true of him.

 

Meyer is survived by a daughter, Anna, a recent medical school graduate, and a sister, Nancy Wolf.

 

A memorial service is being planned for late July and a memorial exhibition at a Bay Area museum is under discussion.

 

E-mail Kenneth Baker at [email protected].

 

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[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

Yoko in San Francisco, redux

 

While in San Francisco last week, I discovered the Museum of Modern Art was featuring a show of Yoko Ono's art and work, including multi-media. I was living in San Francisco when the museum was built but had never been to it in any of my recent trips. I met Devon during my stay and discussed with him wanting to go to the musuem and he expressed an interest in joining me. Unfortunately, as it was the last day I was in San Francisco, his schedule kept him from the show but he had told me a very funny story, also recounted in the San Francisco Weekly alternative paper, about Ms. Ono's performance at Club Universe, in front of hundreds of shirtless circuit boys.

 

The show itself was less interesting than I expected but I am glad I went. I found the Christain Marclay film, Video Quartet, oversized Robert Rauschenberg pieces which were featured in the Willem de Kooning exhibit next door to be more enrapturing.

 

YOKO @ MOMA - http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=72

 

 

Love is no substitute for sex.

[guyinsf]

No, I haven't seen "Fly." There is an exhibit of Yoko's artwork in San Francisco right now. It's gotten a fair amount of press, some positive and some negative. I need to make sure I see it for myself.

[Huey]

No matter your feelings about Yoko I would strongly suggest you see the exhibit.

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