I didn’t buy the book, but to my great surprise, it was my favorite discovery on that shelf. Ten minutes in, I was an enamored reader and an envious writer. Instead, after a few pages, I was smiling - really smiling, as I rarely do in bookstores. The title was Grapefruit and the author was Yoko Ono.Įveryone knows Yoko the artist, the musician, the icon, but Yoko the poet? Was this Celebrity Poetry, the kind of fluff actors and presidents churn out sometimes, as if on a drunken dare? I’m not from the generation that scorned Ono, but I’ll admit I was prepared to smirk. And I do.I FOUND IT on a shelf marked Contemporary Poetry, but was it either of those things? The subtitle was “A Book of Instruction and Drawings” it had been published in ’64, reprinted in ’70. And you’ve just got to respect that.’ So we did. “But looking back on it, you think, ‘The guy was totally in love with her. “We thought she was intrusive, because she used to sit in on the recording sessions, and we’d never had anything like that,” he said. On Saturday, November 27th, Yoko Ono took to Twitter to throw her support behind the documentary, through sharing the UPROXX article, “Beatles Fans Think ‘Get Back’ Dispels The Idea That Yoko Ono Broke The Band Up.”ĭuring a recent interview with Howard Stern on SiriusXM, Paul McCartney reflected on Ono and Lennon’s relationship. She never has opinions about the stuff they’re doing.” “She’s writing letters, she’s reading letters, she’s doing sewing, she’s doing painting, sometimes some artwork off to the side. But the thing with Yoko, though, that they have to say, is that she doesn’t impose herself,” he continued. “I can understand from George and Paul and Ringo’s point of view it’s, like, a little strange. Its a sentiment that Peter Jackson shares, during a recent appearance on 60 Minutes, the director said, “I have no issues with Yoko.” From the macanada Nation November 26, 2021 This was Yoko Ono when The Beatles were recording 🤣 #GetBack /EtbeE95QJw Yoko out here rollin’ joints & eating chicken cutlets while history is being made /k6jBPglHtl In light of the films premiere, Beatles fans have taken to social media to share their thoughts on the Yoko Ono lore.īiggest band in the world workshopping new songs together, Yoko reads the newspaper. During her time in the studio, she is mostly seen quitely reading the newspaper, checking her mail, and snacking. Yoko Ono is ultimately, a benign and harmless presence in the documentary. “‘They broke up ’cause Yoko sat on an amp’.” “It’s going to be such an incredibly comical thing in 50 years time,” McCartney jokes with Lennon and Ono during the film. The documentary also obliquely addresses the long-held break-up theory that Yoko Ono is to blame for the bands downfall. Assembled from 60 hours of footage shot by Lindsay-Hogg, Get Back is as much a documentary about the final days of The Beatles as it is a film about the making of a film. Jackon’s documentary reframes the recording of Let It Be in a more optimistic light.
None of the band showed face at the film’s premiere, with Ringo Starr famously objecting that it had “no joy.” Lindsay-Hogg’s documentary was a bit of a downer, a bleak look at the band on the knifes edge of breaking up. Until now, the only documentation of the Let It Be period was Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s accompanying eponymous documentary, released in concurrence with the album. Get Back is the first, extensive portrait of the era.
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