![]() She is witty, good-humoured and revealing as she skips through what her husband once called their “scrapbook of madness”. It’s early in the morning, it’s already baking hot, but Yoko is, as usual, welcoming and direct. Yoko is in Venice for the Biennale festival of contemporary art, where she is exhibiting. She has had no cosmetic surgery, but looks like a woman in her fifties – trim, energetic, her short, dark hair glowing with a reddish hue and her black top, with its colourful, butterfly patterns, plunging in a V at the front to reveal a daring cleavage. She has recently thrown herself into a new life of late nights and live performances in dance clubs around the world. He was like very explosive, and I’m the one who’s, like, ‘Take it in’. I think that we expressed it differently. “We were just real people, we had our arguments and all that as well. Has the idea of ‘John and Yoko’ become idealised over the years? It was just a man and a woman getting together. “I think that’s really good, but also with John and I just getting together – it could happen to anybody. “Some people immediately feel like, ‘How dare she? Oh, now, well, she must be doing something, some trick there…’ But the majority of people feel really good because they now think that when they’re 70, they don’t have to worry about it. Characteristically, she chose the latter – and when the hit single came along only a couple of months after she blew out the candles, she was suddenly happy to celebrate her age and see it as a reassurance to others. She approached the milestone birthday on February 18 wondering whether she should keep a low profile, knowing that someone would inevitably work out the dates, or make a stand and announce it. Yoko is 70, and she recently enjoyed her first No 1 single, with the remixed “Walking On Thin Ice” having topped the Billboard dance chart. It definitely was a magical thing that happened in my life.” It’s the loss of the world to not know that miracles could happen. ![]() ![]() “Maybe in history, a lot of beautiful miracles that happened have been chipped so much that you don’t know about it. “Truth hurts some people – there was a lot of chip-chip and trying to make it sound like it was really something that didn’t happen. Why has their snapshot of togetherness endured through the years? Some 34 years later, Yoko Ono is sitting in a hotel suite on the edge of the Grand Canal in Venice, sipping chilled water and telling Uncut about that love about being half of the most famous couple in rock history. He declares: “The love that the two of them have for each other extends itself to all humanity. John and Yoko: unpredictable, inseparable, crusading, controversial, confrontational, naïve, spontaneous, optimistic, well-meaning, misunderstood – and, to some, downright annoying.īut not to Toronto rabbi Abraham Feinberg, a vocal supporter of their peace effort. John intercedes on his behalf, mellowing, chuckling that, “We asked him here.” He cuts her dead with a patronising chuckle and remarks to John: “I can see why you want peace… God knows, you can’t have very much, from my own observation, but anyway…”īy this time, John would clearly love to knock him out, but instead endures another flurry of insults before an outraged Derek Taylor, The Beatles’ publicist, asks Capp to leave the room. Yoko attempts a conversation with Capp: “I’d like to ask you what you said about Joan Baez…” “We don’t want them to do it at Berkeley! We are telling them to protest some other way! If they’d stayed in bed at Berkeley, they wouldn’t have got killed!” John’s eyes focus angrily on his detractor.
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