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Oh, Yoko!

Abigail Devoe
Aug 15
1 min read

She's a witch, she's a bitch, she don't care what you say.

Black and white photo of dark-haired woman seated on stage in state of undress, covering herself. A pair of scissors lays on wood floor — Pictured: Yoko Ono performing *Cut Piece* at Carnegie Hall, New York (photographed by Minoru Niizuma, 1965)

"You see, when all that hate energy was focused on me, it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in, it will help you. If you believe it is going to kill you, it will kill you." - Yoko Ono

“The average rating of our podcast is too high,” we lamented. “Let’s incite a mob of one-star reviews just for covering Yoko Ono!” We giggled, as we rubbed our little hands together like flies.

Season 2 of the Dolls Pod is going down screaming, or whatever you call those distinct vocal stylings. You know her name, but do you know her story before the Fab Four? The fifth episode of our Beatle Girl miniseries is here, focusing primarily on Yoko Ono’s life and art before meeting “JOOOOOHN!”

Black and white photo of woman in black with long dark hair sitting on ladder in white room — Pictured: Yoko Ono with *Ceiling Painting, Yes Painting*, at her *Half-a-Wind* installation at the Lisson Gallery (photographed by Clay Perry, 1967)

If you hate Yoko, you will hate this episode. If you love Yoko, you will hate this episode.

Featuring music by Miles Davis, John Cage, The Beatles, and John Lennon & Yoko Ono 🌊

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1 Comment

mdorman

Sep 01

Hi, Abigail! I very much enjoyed the episodes on Yoko--in fact, the episodes on all the women associated with the Beatles, as well as a Cass Elliot and several others. And Vinyl Monday.

I was curious about your comment near the beginning of this episode about not using anything from Mark Lewisohn: I interpreted the tone of your comment to suggest that you found him a poor source.

I've only read "All These Years", which certainly presents itself as objective and definitive, but ends well before John meets Yoko. I guess I'm wondering if there are biases on display in his other work that it would be helpful to be aware of when reading him, or do you have factua…

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