Yoko Ono says being blamed for Beatles breakup is like being accused of murder
Yoko Ono compares being blamed for The Beatles breakup to being accused of murder.
“Not being appreciated for 40 years or something … It feels like I was accused of something that I didn’t do, which
was breaking up The Beatles,” she tells Elvis Mitchell in Interview magazine. “That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong. It’s like you’re accused of murder and you’re in prison and you can’t get out. That’s why I finally came to the conclusion to use that big energy of hatred that was coming to me and turn it around into love.”
At 80, the aging performance artist seems to have more cachet than ever.
She has topped the Billboard dance club charts twice this year, has a new album with the Plastic Ono Band album, “Take Me to the Land of Hell,” and helps lead the Artists Against Fracking movement. She also has a new book, “Acorn.”
And the seeds of her past with her late husband John Lennon always seem to be sprouting up.
In 1968, Ono and Lennon planted a pair of acorns “for peace” at Coventry Cathedral. After their 1969 bed-ins, they sent acorns to heads of state around the world, hoping the recipients would plant the “living sculptures” as symbols of peace.
“A few months ago, somebody sent me some pictures of a beautiful tree that I would guess was maybe 300 years old... ,” Ono tells Mitchell. “And this guy said that when John and I talked about planting the acorns, he thought he’d do it, too, so he did it then, and the tree in the picture is actually not a very old tree. It’s about 45 years old, not 300. So I said, ‘You mean a tree gets like this in 45 years?’ In other words, the first acorns we tried to plant were stolen - you know, gone. But the concept is there. We planted the concept. So he grew the seeds within his garden. Isn’t that great?”
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Stop it you! It's nothing like being accused of being a murderer.