Ono, Yōko, 1933-
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Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in 1952 to join her family. She became involved with New York City's downtown artists scene in the early 1960s, which included the Fluxus group, and became well known in 1969 when she married English musician John Lennon of the Beatles, with whom she would subsequently record as a duo. The couple used their honeymoon as a stage for public protests against the Vietnam War. She and Lennon remained married until he was murdered in front of the couple's apartment building, the Dakota, on 8 December 1980. Together they had one son, Sean, who later also became a musician.
Ono began a career in popular music in 1969, forming the Plastic Ono Band with Lennon and producing a number of avant-garde music albums in the 1970s. She achieved commercial and critical success in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. To date, she has had twelve number one singles on the US Dance charts, and in 2016 was named the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard magazine Many musicians have paid tribute to Ono as an artist in her own right and as a muse and icon, including Elvis Costello,[3][failed verification] the B-52's, Sonic Youth and Meredith Monk.
Archival Resources
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| referencedIn | Red Hot Organization Archive, 1989-2004 | Fales Library & Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | Warner Bros. production slides [graphic], 1979-1991 | The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division. | |
| referencedIn | Kohn, Diana,. New York Clippings on the Death of John Lennon, 1980-1981 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives | |
| referencedIn | Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. | Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives | |
| creatorOf | Ono, Yōko. Artist file. | Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Perlis, Vivian. Video collection : [oral history], 1955-1991 (inclusive). | Yale University Library | |
| creatorOf | Jean Brown papers, 1916-1995 | Getty Research Institute | |
| referencedIn | The Virgil Thomson Papers, 1804-1990 (inclusive) | Irving S. Gilmore Music Library | |
| referencedIn | Jimmy De Sana Papers, Bulk, 1977-1990, 1954-1997 | Fales Library & Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | Wole Soyinka papers, 1966-1996. | Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University | |
| referencedIn | Judson Memorial Church Archive, 1838-1995 | Fales Library & Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | Gore Vidal papers, 1850-2020 (inclusive), 1936-2008 (bulk) | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Allen Ginsberg papers | Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library | |
| referencedIn | Peskin, Laura,. Laura Peskin Collection, 1969-1993, undated. | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives | |
| creatorOf | ONO, YOKO. Franklin Furnace artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. | Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) | |
| creatorOf | Brecht, George. Flux year box 2 [art original]. | New York Public Library System, NYPL | |
| referencedIn | Kimball, Gayle. Scrapbook of feminist art postcards, 1977-1985. | Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives | |
| referencedIn | [Postcard collection]. | Northwestern University | |
| referencedIn | East West Research Files, 1967-1989 | University of California, Berkeley. The Ethnic Studies Library. | |
| creatorOf | Tudor, David, 1926-1996. David Tudor papers, 1884-1998 (bulk 1940-1996) | Getty Research Institute | |
| creatorOf | Snyder, Ellsworth. Ellsworth Snyder collection of Fluxus multiples and ephemera, 1958-1987. | New York Public Library System, NYPL | |
| referencedIn | Macoska, Janet, photographer,. Newspaper Clippings on the Death of John Lennon, 1980-1981 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives | |
| referencedIn | Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990) | Library of Congress. Music Division | |
| referencedIn | Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994 | Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives | |
| referencedIn | Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983. R. Buckminster Fuller collection, 1930-1979, bulk 1965-1969. | Arizona State University Libraries | |
| referencedIn | David Tudor papers, 1884-1998 (bulk 1940-1996) | Getty Research Institute | |
| referencedIn | The Virgil Thomson Papers | Yale University, Music Library | |
| creatorOf | Blakeston, Oswell, 1907-1985. Papers, 1927-1985. | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |
| referencedIn | Jimmy De Sana Papers, Bulk, 1977-1990, 1954-1997 | Fales Library & Special Collections | |
| creatorOf | Feinberg, Abraham L. Papers, 1914-1990. | The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives | |
| creatorOf | Ono, Yōko, 1933-. [Yōko Ono : International Art & Artists File]. | Libraries Australia | |
| referencedIn | Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001 | Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives | |
| referencedIn | Ono, Yoko, 1933- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. | Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library | |
| Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998. Dick Higgins Collection, 1958-2002 | UMBC, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery | ||
| creatorOf | Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998. Dick Higgins Collection, 1958-2002 | UMBC, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery | |
| creatorOf | Ono, Yōko. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. | Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) | |
| referencedIn | Oswell Blakeston Papers TXRC95-A128., 1927-1985 | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |
| creatorOf | Rosenboom, David. Brain music for John and Yoko / David Rosenboom. | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
Bibliographic and Digital Archival Resources
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| referencedIn | Oral history interview with Alison Knowles | Archives of American Art |
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| associatedWith | Blakeston, Oswell, 1907-1985 | person |
| associatedWith | Blakeston, Oswell, 1907-1985. | person |
| associatedWith | Brown, Jean, 1911- | person |
| associatedWith | Communist Party of the United States of America. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | De Sana, Jimmy | person |
| associatedWith | East West newspaper | person |
| associatedWith | Feinberg, Abraham L. | person |
| associatedWith | Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983. | person |
| associatedWith | Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 | person |
| associatedWith | Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. | person |
| associatedWith | Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. | person |
| associatedWith | Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998. | person |
| associatedWith | Judson Memorial Church (New York, N.Y.). | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Kimball, Gayle. | person |
| associatedWith | Knowles, Alison, 1933- | person |
| associatedWith | Red Hot Organization. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Rosenboom, David. | person |
| associatedWith | Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995 | person |
| associatedWith | Snyder, Ellsworth. | person |
| correspondedWith | Soyinka, Wole. | person |
| associatedWith | Thomson, Virgil, 1896- | person |
| associatedWith | Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. | person |
| associatedWith | Tudor, David, 1926-1996 | person |
| associatedWith | Tudor, David, 1926-1996. | person |
| associatedWith | Vidal, Gore, 1925- | person |
| associatedWith | Warner Bros | corporateBody |
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