{"id":3235,"date":"2011-08-09T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2011-08-09T11:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:00:35","slug":"yoko-ono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/yoko-ono\/","title":{"rendered":"YOKO ONO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"YOKO<\/h1>\n

YOKO ONO<\/h1>\n

After a lifetime of artistic adventures, a restless innovator finds a new home on the dance floor<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cNever!\u201d replies Yoko Ono when asked if she ever imagined she might someday become the toast of the dance floor\u2014but that\u2019s precisely what she has become. To a new generation of club kids who know little of her many decades of creating visual art, poetry, performance art and music\u2014or of her marriage and collaborations with late Beatle John Lennon\u2014the 77-year-old is a nightclub favorite who has enjoyed nine Top 10 hits on Billboard<\/em> magazine\u2019s Hot Dance Club chart over the last seven years. \u201cIt\u2019s like a new type of clothes,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was given to me and now I\u2019m wearing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like most of her dance hits, her latest chart-topper, \u201cWouldnit (I\u2019m a Star)\u201d is a new remix of a vintage Ono track. \u201cI think it\u2019s beautiful,\u201d says the Tokyo native. \u201cI never thought the dance field would be that creative artistically, but it\u2019s really amazing. It\u2019s fantastic. I really respect all the remixers.\u201d Her dance hits mark only the latest unexpected twist in a musical career that actually predates her relationship with Lennon\u2014reaching back to her early 1960s work with innovative composers like John Cage and Ornette Coleman. During the late 1960s and 1970s, often in collaboration with Lennon, she recorded a series of albums that were often dismissed in their day but later proved to be influential for many younger acts\u2014including the many remixers eager to reshape her sound for a new generation.<\/p>\n

Ono also continues to make albums in her more typical experimental rock context, including 2009\u2019s Between My Head and the Sky<\/em>. That album found her reconstituting the Plastic Ono Band label once employed as the moniker for the backing bands she shared with Lennon. The current lineup includes the couple\u2019s son, Sean Lennon, who served as producer and played a variety of instruments. Ono is perfectly pleased with the younger Lennon\u2019s choice to follow in his parents\u2019 musical footsteps. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have minded if he became an archeologist or something,\u201d says Ono, \u201cbut it\u2019s in his blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ono also remains busy celebrating the life of her late partner. Lennon would have turned 70 in 2010, and the landmark was recognized with new Ono-approved remasters of his solo album catalog. As to what\u2019s next for Ono herself, she looks forward to continuing to be productive. \u201cI have no idea what\u2019s next, but it will come to me,\u201d she says. \u201cYou\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YOKO ONO After a lifetime of artistic adventures, a restless innovator finds a new home on the dance floor \u201cNever!\u201d replies Yoko Ono when asked if she ever imagined she might someday become the toast of the dance floor\u2014but that\u2019s precisely what she has become. To a new generation of club kids who know little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1334,10156,2335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}